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Andrew Rilstone: 9. Reward:
Christopher Vogler's the Writer's Journey uses Hero With a Thousand Faces as a template for Hollywood scriptwriting and has been taken seriously by a lot of people who should know better. He writes:
In his study of world hero myths Campbell discovered that they are all basically the same story - retold endlessly in

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I think you can force almost anything into this "monomyth", but that doesn't mean it really fits. I can't think of an example of a Hollywood film that doesn't fit (mostly because I don't really know what's Hollywood and what's not, exactly, but also because it's way too late at night to actually be thinking), but I'm sure there's got to be more than one.