Claude Lévi-Strauss
Was a French anthropologist and ethnologist and has been called "the father of modern anthropology. His theory was about films being based around two opposites for example cowboys vs indians and the good vs the bad and Claude belived that narratives are aranged around the conflict of binary opposites.
Examples of Binary opposites.- Good vs Evil
- Black vs White
- Boy vs Girl
- Peace vs War Civilised vs Savage
- Democaracy vs Dictatorship
- First world vs Third World
- Domestic vs Foreign/Alien
- Articulate vs Inarticulate
- Young vs Old
- Man vs Nature
Basically Lévi - Strauss's theory is that the conflict is based around the binary opposites and that the binary opposites are the central climax of a narrative structure.
A film in which this would apply to is: Avatar
Avatar is an example of Binary opposites because not only is it Good vs Evil it is also Technology vs Native because there are the marines/commandos vs the Navi only there native planet and this is what the film is based around, the conflict between the two opposites.
From doing this research I have learnt that a lot of films in which we watch the plots are based around two opposites fighting against each other.
From doing this research I have learnt that a lot of films in which we watch the plots are based around two opposites fighting against each other.
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