The hero’s journey became my road map to creating riveting characters and centering them in universally resonant stories, films that transcend language, age, race, religion, culture, nationality, education, economic status. Joseph Campbell/ Christopher Vogler had codified the story elements of universal struggle, transformation, and rebirth as one’s greatest self—to me, this was cinematic gold, and the key to global human wish-fulfillment. The movie star represents the warrior in the life-or-death battle against the brutality of the human condition. It is the path of the caterpillar becoming a
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