Word: monomyth
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...despite the pyrotechnics, for Miller story is all. Ever since he sent Mel Gibson's disillusioned police officer Max Rockatansky down a Geelong highway in 1978, the former emergency-room doctor has claimed the mythological writings of Joseph Campbell as his cinematic touchstone. "The composite hero of the monomyth is a personage of exceptional gifts," wrote Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. "Frequently he is honored by his society, frequently unrecognized or disdained." From misfit Max, to a piglet who thinks he's a sheep, and a penguin who can't express himself through song, only dance...
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