Pandora's Box
A sealed vessel of ancient sorrows that turns a single moment of curiosity into an eternal winter.
Pandora's box is an object from ancient legends that supposedly contains a deadly plague (the companion to the origin of life itself). In the film, it is hidden in the mysterious Cradle of Life and can only be found with a magical sphere that serves as a map. The box floats in a pool of highly corrosive black acid inside a labyrinth made of a strange crystalline substance where normal laws of physics do not apply.
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Lore & Background
The box, hidden in the mysterious Cradle of Life, can only be found with a magical sphere that serves as a map. Inside the Cradle, a labyrinth made of a strange crystalline substance where normal laws of physics do not apply, the box floats in a pool of highly corrosive black acid (linking back to one of the myths about Pandora's box). Dr. Jonathan Reiss, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and business magnate turned misanthropic bioweapons dealer, plans to unleash the plague, saving only those people he deems worthy. Lara Croft ultimately replaces the box in the pool and leaves it there.
Reader's Guide
Pandora's box functions within the narrative of the film as the central MacGuffin. It is an object from ancient legends that supposedly contains a deadly plague (the companion to the origin of life itself). The box is hidden in the mysterious Cradle of Life and can only be found with a magical sphere that serves as a map. Dr. Jonathan Reiss, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and business magnate turned misanthropic bioweapons dealer, seeks the box to unleash the plague, saving only those people he deems worthy. Lara Croft ultimately retrieves the box from the Cradle of Life, but after killing Reiss and then Terry Sheridan (who wanted the box for himself), she replaces the box in the pool of highly corrosive black acid and leaves it there, preventing the plague from being unleashed.
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