[quote]I [George Lucas] came to the conclusion after American Graffiti that what's valuable for me is to set standards, not to show people the world the way it is... around the period of this realization... it came to me that there really was no modern use of mythology... The Western was possibly the last generically American fairy tale, telling us about our values. And once the Western disappeared, nothing has ever taken its place. In literature we were going off into science fiction... so that's when I started doing more strenuous research on fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, and I started reading Joe's books. Before that I hadn't read any of Joe's books... It was very eerie because in reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces I began to realize that my first draft of Star Wars was following classic motifs...so I modified my next draft [of Star Wars] according to what I'd been learning about classical motifs and made it a little bit more consistent...I went on to read 'The Masks of God' and many other books, George Lucas in Joseph Campbell, A Fire in The Mind, by Larsen and Larsen, 2002[/quote]
It is sad that so many fanboys have been taught to rage against art setting classical standards, Joseph Campbell, and George Lucas. Note how George Lucas did not scream "giant walls of text!" at Campbell's books, but instead he reveled in reading them. Many storyless fanboys arrogantly consider themselves superior narrative designers to both Campbell and Lucas. They see the fact that Luke and Hans do not hire and kill innocent women as a glaring design flaw in Star Wars' narrative. Imagine if they spent as much time reading Aristotle and Joseph Campbell as hiring and killing Hookers, and ranting against the Gold 45 Revolver Technologies, making up fictional prior art.
Aristotle told us the secret to exalting videogames:
"Genuine happiness lies in action that leads to virtue, since this alone provides true value and not just amusement. –Aristotle "
All of these quotes are being included and fatured in my 800-page The Legend of The Gold 45 Revolver: The Hero's Journey in Arts Entrepreneurship & Technology. I hope that the book might serve and exalt the industry.
I fully understand that teh industry will rage and scream against my classical precepts for a few years to come, as the best way to rise up through the ranks of today's dying, soulless industry is to boast about how many hookers and innocent women you have killed and how many books you have debauched and deconstructed, high-fiving everyone after killing innocent civilians in an airport, and calling it "Story!" Lolz! Lolz! ROTFLMAO!!
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