task 2 - Binary opposition

Binary opposition

A binary opposition is the conflicts between two different things in a film and this creates the narrative for the film. The person that came up with this is Levi Strauss and he said, “All drama is conflict.”

Levi Strauss was a French academe that was looking at Structuralism and he studied philosophy and this gave him a look on the world and he looked Structural anthropology when it came to Weston cultures and that is how he came into film and tv drama.

Western

Cowboy and Indians- These are the classics that are different in the old Weston films.

East and west - these are when the different places where these reveler lived.

Gun and bow and arrow-this is old verses new.

Civilisation and nature-

Law and freedom

Car and horse

Train and wagon

Homes and tepee

 Sheaf and chief

SCI-FI

Good and evil

Humans and aliens

Other plants and earth

Advanced and inferior

Westland’s and cities

Robots and humans

Blood and slime

Underdog and top dog

Future pasty

Old and new

Light and dark

These are some of the oppositions for Sci-Fi and this is heavily linked to westerns as they have a very similar concept as there is a also an enemy that doesn’t look like hero. when looking at the film battle ships there is a lot off this binary oppositions such as old and new as there is a battle ship from the second world war and it is against this massive alien space ship. then there is the people that are old as well. there is also rockets against cannons and this was the difference in weaponry.