Film Theory: Claude Levi-Strauss's Binary Opposition

An important piece of film theory, especially when looking at horror cinema is Claude Levi-Strauss’s theory of Binary Opposition, a piece of ‘westernized thought’ Binary Opposition states that there are a’ pair of terms or concepts that are theoretical opposites.’ and therefore one cannot be there without another. For example, without innocent villagers, there would be no horrible werewolf. Therefore when creating our film we must take into account creating a clear representative of ‘good’ and ‘evil’, because if our representatives of one, or both, are weak the lack of clarity could cause confusion.