Walking to work one morning after Campbell’s death, I stopped before a neighborhood video store that was showing scenes from George Lucas’ Star Wars on a monitor in the window. I stood there thinking of the time Campbell and I had watched the movie together at Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California. Lucas and Campbell had become good friends after the filmmaker, acknowledging a debt to Campbell’s work, invited the scholar to view the Star Wars trilogy. Campbell reveled in the ancient themes and motifs of mythology unfolding on the wide screen in powerful contemporary images.
