What I understood on binary oppositions in teen films is that it isnt hard to indicate them in the films. Binary opposition means when either two characters or anyother object or species in the the film has a direct opposite to it. They are usually found in mise en scene, editing, sound and camera work in the films. One of the films we watched as a group and analysed to find the binary oppositions was Romio and Juliet, one good example of binary opposition in thia film is the main gangs capulets and montigues. The way mise en scene presents the binory opposition is really easy to indicate because the montigues are dressed in smart clothes in direct opposition the capulets are dressed in funky, coloured clothes. This is one of the many examples on binary opposition in teen films.
Another example of binay opposition in teen films is in the film 'ten things I hate about you', at the beginning of the film the cheerleaders arive at the traffic lights in a normal ordinary car unlike the emo girl who arives in a bangedbup pick up truck listening to rock. These are good examples of binary oppositions in editing and mese en scene in this teen film. The use of binary oppostion in these particular filmsm is to separate the characters in the filmnin the sence of what charcter ia opposite and different to any other charcter in the film. Amd this is a way how producers do the division in characteristics In teen films and any other film.
Another film I saw that had good use of binary oppositions in it to show the opposites of characters was "21 jump street". This film is a very good example because at the introduction we are automatically introduced with the geek/wannabe and the jocknof the college. The geek/wannabe comes in to college looking like a rapper and has a strainge reaction by the schools perfect girl and the jock with his long hair and baseball jacket just comes in by insualting the wannabe and this is a direct binary opposition in this typen of teen film.
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