"EVERY STORY IS THE SAME" Breaks Down the Hero's Journey in Everything You Love

Here is your weekly video to combat the It’s Friday and I Want to Go Home doldrums. “Every Story is the Same” is by YouTuber Will Schoder, and essentially covers Dan Harmon’s interpretation/distillation of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces. I think there are some critical weaknesses in Campbell’s analysis — he didn’t always understand the myths he was analyzing — but his ideas are so widely accepted and adaptable that they can be applied to pretty much anything coming out of Hollywood these days. Campbell’s influence also shows in the way we explain real life. This is an excellent video, and well worth the 15 minutes it takes to watch.