'The Crazies (2010)' in relation to the 4 narrative theories

I have already explained the four narrative theories when relating them to 'Halloween' so I will only be relating these theories to The Crazies and giving a conclusion on how these theories relate to it.

Tzvetan Todorov
The story in The Crazies follows this theory better than in Halloween as we find out during the film more about how this equilibrium was disrupted.  However it still isn't set out in the traditional Hollywood style narrative.  We see at the start that there is an equilibrium and the equilibrium is disrupted.  This escalates until eventually the army is there, testing everyone and then going to blow the town up.  We get a clue rather close to the start that the plane in the river is somehow poisoning the water however we are not confirmed on this until near the end where the Intelligence Officer tells them that it was a biological weapon.  Being typical of the horror genre the movie also ends without a happy ending where the satellite that scans them as contaminated with the virus as thy enter into the new city restoring and not restoring the equilibrium at the same time.  They survive but they're going to become crazy and possibly contaminate another town/city.

Vladimir Propp
I will relate the characters from The Crazies as best as I can to the 8 character roles that Propp summarizes based off his the folk tales he has heard.  The hero in The Crazies would arguably be David and his wife Judy,  they are both the survivors at the end and are strong willed saving each other throughout the film.  The villain would be the government and the crazies.  We see in the barn scene that the army is just following orders and is trying to prevent and more people from being harmed.  However the government are the ones that caused the people to turn into the crazies basically killing them.  The crazies themselves are villains due to the fact that they will murder anyone that isn't crazy on sight, they have lost all reasoning and will kill.  The donor would be David as the gun is what gives him the edge over the crazies.  The helper is Deputy Russell who saves Davids life on a number of occasions and sacrifices himself when he knows he's gone to save David and Judy, the heroes.  The princess is Judy as she is the lady that David is determined to save, he goes out of his way risking himself to save her.  The princesses father is David as he gives himself the reward of going back to a normal life with his wife to live in peace.  The dispatcher again is David, with the whole town becoming crazy he decides himself to go on the quest to escape the town.  There is not really any false hero throughout the story and even though Russell has a moment where he almost kills the heroes, he realities he's not healthy and sacrifices himself before becoming a false hero.

Claude Levi-Strauss
I will note a few binary oppositions and note them.  Being a horror film many of these generally relate to horror movies or sub-genres of horror movies.

• Sanity vs Insanity
• Good vs Evil
• Night vs Day
• Healthy vs Unhealthy
• Safety vs Danger
• Love vs Hate

The Crazies doesn't seem to have as much similar binary oppositions compared to more conventional horror movies like Halloween and it is harder to find these binary oppositions because of this.

Bordwell and Thompson 
During the movie of The Crazies we see the plot, however there is also a story behind this plot that we figure out for ourselves as the story progresses on.  We piece this puzzle together as we go through the movie and think outside the plot to other things like character lives.  When we see Peggy Hamill telling David about how Rory was a drunk we then picture Rory's life and connect to it more and learn more about the characters.  That scene then leads on the David thinking on the moment when he shot Rory and think on to about David as a character and his morals, we see that a bit of guilt was inside of him because maybe Rory wasn't going to shoot.  Did David have a past memory where a similar situation occurred?  We will never know because that is not in the plot.  Within the plot we also get an idea of some of the story, we find out that the plane was carrying a biological weapon and then we can look at the events that led up to that event in space and time.

Conclusion
In conclusion The Crazies has a similar narrative to horror films in general and relates to the narrative theories to a limited extent.  However due to the sub-genre of the horror film, there are some differances present for example some of the binary opposites.