Trivia: Lara tells Terry that she will take "four minutes" with Chen Lo. The fight sequence between her and Chen Lo ends almost exactly four minutes later.
Trivia: The tribe at the end of the film was actually a real tribe, not actors.
Trivia: A man actually doubles for Angelina Jolie during the "squirrel suit" jump sequence - he is one of the two inventors of the suit, the other doubling for Gerard Butler.
Trivia: Director Jan De Bont was not allowed on the Luna temple set because he had recently injured his knee. The wet floor of the set posed a slip-and-fall hazard, so he directed the scene off the set.
Answer: As the movie sets out, that is the "Sunday school" version of the story. Within the movie, the legend is based on an artifact that not only bestowed life upon the earth but also slew all who opened it with horrible disease, gaining a reputation for containing the essences of both "good" and "evil."
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