Although Azeem is actually standing up on top of an object that places him above the other men, the imagery, which does not include the actors' feet, portrays a paradigm about superiority that is an important part of the mythic story being told here. Analyses of Medieval Muslim medicine , engineering , optics , and chemistry presented in the film show that it's at least reasonable to propose a Muslim character such as Azeem would have been familiar with such innovations. Films are one of the primary ways in which contemporary myths are told. Myths express a culture's paradigms , those assumptions about reality that a culture holds to be True.
Many filmmakers unconsciously express their culture's paradigms in the stories they tell.
In those cases, the audience and the film's creators both subconsciously assume that the film's mythic elements are actually True, so they go unchallenged as well as unnoticed. In the ancient mythic story, the hero Robin Hood is banished because Right Rule has been usurped from Richard Lionheart by his brother Prince John. Thrown out of civilization into the forest, Robin does not become uncivilized, however. He therefore manages to hold the forces of evil at bay until King Richard returns to restore Right Rule. Robin Hood then returns to his place of honor as Robin, Earl of Huntingdon, now newly burnished with glory.