> I mean, the plot follows the Campbellian "Hero with 1000 faces" storyline to a T. That's a pretty funny thing to say since the whole point of *The Hero with a Thousand Faces* is that all these hero stories have elements in common. Lucas was just explicitly using that book as a source. What's far more obvious is a big chunk of *A New Hope* was cribbed from EE "Doc" Smith's book *Triplanetary* (where the Darth Vader character is named "Roger"...which is far less impressive). I've heard that Kurosawa's movie *The Hidden Fortress* has a lot of the same plot, too.