Jungle Cruise’s society is based on London’s real-life historical Royal Society, a scientific institution that conducted research and education around the globe, which also didn’t accept women as members until 1945. While the specific explorers association is fabricated for Jungle Cruise, these types of society were very real at the time, and some like it even exist today. Lily faces discrimination for her adventurous lifestyle throughout the movie, most obviously with men making fun of her for wearing pants when women were expected to wear dresses. Lily has to make her younger brother MacGregor the spokesperson for her speeches because Jungle Cruise's Association won’t let a woman take the floor, immediately taking audiences back to the overly misogynistic regulations of the WWI era. Jungle Cruise’s Royal Society of explorers, or “The Association,” is shown to be a chauvinistic group of middle-aged white British men who don’t take well to a woman’s opinion or outsiders. In European mythology, the tree of life is associated with the elixir of life that can provide eternal youth or a cure to all diseases, which in Jungle Cruise’s case would be the Tears of the Moon’s petals. The same tree is based on wider real-world religious and spiritual mythology, an archetypal “tree of life” that in many philosophies provides immortality, fertility, and healing. The Tree of Life, as Tears of the Moon was called before Jungle Cruise was released, is based on Disney’s Animal Kingdom tree of the same name, though it doesn’t come with the magical powers from Jungle Cruise at the theme park. ![]() Once the arrowhead is broken in half, it reveals a pink gem that once placed in the tree, causes all of the magical petals to bloom under the blood moon. Once at the Tree of Life, Frank and Lily discover a twist to the arrowhead’s puzzling clues - the arrowhead isn’t an arrow at all, it’s a heart. The film’s mythology states that the tree can only be found with an ancient arrowhead, which found its way to The Association in London, where Lily steals the item and embarks on her adventure.
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