due to the time of the release of this film. In the rapid Chinese economic growth that begun in the 1980's, there was some not-so-favorite believes that comes with it, such as get-rich-quick, and artifact smuggling was one of result. The controversy surrounding this film was the problem of artifact smuggling/stealing was a problem getting worse and worse at the time, and many feared that the romanticized version of such behavior would encourage the crime because people often ignore the positive intend of the movie and only concentrate on the glory of get-rich-quickly via illegal means that the movie actually denounces.
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