Claude Levi Strauss is a French anthropologist, who has come up with a theory known as "binary opposites", which entails that the majority of the films we watch contain "binary oppositions" to help audiences understand the narrative and to create more conflict/excitement, it also helps to thicken the plot and introduce contrast. For example, Claude was trying to portray the fact how in a horror film it could potentially be humans against the supernatural, in a superhero film, that there could be good against the evil. Although this is what Claude has told, sometimes the image of the binary opposite may not be as clear to some people, for example, people may have a different opinion on a superhero, in which they believe to be a bad character, while others may see it as a good character, and since everyone has there own perspective, it changes the way in which the characters are actually meant to be.  

 

From this task, I have learnt about Claude Levi Strauss's theory of binary opposition and this is useful because I can transfer my knowledge into both practical and academic applications such as in my film production