영화 <아바타> 의 이항 대립 구조 = Binary Opposition Structure of Film <Avatar>

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Since the boom of the Matrix series, the film <Avatar> was a huge hit throughout the world. An introduction of hi-techs such as emotion capture, 3D, Real 3D, IMAX has surpassed the limits of filmmaking and also has changed the perception of film audience from simply watching to experiencing. There has been a vast criticism over the advanced technology and the cliched film synopses. And one of the criticisms pointed out that the film was simply a collection of cliched scenes, such as good-versus-evil context. Despite the cliched scenario, the beauty of this movie is that it exp ressed the goos-versus-evil contrast using various methods and codes. Desire, behavior, environment, communication, world view are the six contrapositions codes that appear by binary opposition called contraposed notions of real-versus-virtual, group-versus-individual, settlement-versus-float, entropy-versus-negentropy, christianity-versus -indigenous religion, and occident-versus-orient. Exploring the binary oppositions in the film, <Avatar>, this study will discover the entertaining elements of this film in detail. A contraposition is an element explaining one side mostly and backing up the other side. It follows the good and the evil and follows how the two extremes are being detangled and then get rearranged back in order with in a singly society. The storyline of film <Avatar> is intriguing by the fact that it vividly depicts the clash between nature and civilization and additionally depicts the human mind through binary opposition.

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