Meta - narrative = associated objects
In the opening of Reign of Fire, the audience is subjected to a flock of pigeons with a boy standing alone in between them. The meta - narrative creates a 'super story', where by the audience begings to make assumptions and associations between the opening sequence and the main narrative. The pigeons signify London and the typical 'London working day', for many people, which can be associated with Trafalgar square. When the protagonist is seen walking through the cuty, the idea of him travelling underground connotates the boy is going from real life into a mystery destination, therefore leaving the viewer puzzled into what is going to happen next. When the boy is underground, the viewer may feel as if he is blocked off from all his normal surroundings and is therefore destined for trouble. When the boy is underground he comes across a fire- breathing dragon and in order to get out he needs to get above the ground. The 'dragon' symbolises old myths and fairytales such as Sleeping Beauty and The Sword of the Stone.
Myth and established/exhausted genre -> great example -> Western
e.g. Is horror dead?
Western is the first ever genre e.g. The Great Train Robbery 1904
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