Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT In 2014 Paul W.S. Anderson, best known for the Resident Evil movies, directed the historic disaster film Pompeii, and while it gets a lot of right about the Roman city frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, it gets some things wrong.
8 True: The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius Pompeii doesn't have Vesuvius erupting out of nowhere, but includes the earthquakes and tremors that shook the city in the days leading up to the big event. When it finally erupted, it blasted a thunderous cloud of debris into the air that was 20 km high, and ensuing pyroclastic flow waves even taller than that blanketed the streets with speeds of 700km an hour.
6 True: The Stages Of The Eruption From Earthquakes To Pyroclastic Flows According to Live Science, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius happened in stages, and despite the fact that Pompeii hurries through other aspects of the movie such as its love story and revenge subplot, it takes its time to show these stages in detail. In addition to the earthquakes that precede the eruption, the film shows the main explosion as well as the pyroclastic flow waves that turned it into a full 24-hour event.
4 True: Shocked Citizens Of Pompeii Fleeing The City One of the most chilling aspects of visiting the real Pompeii is seeing all the citizens frozen in various positions; some as though they were completely surprised by the eruption, some performing mundane tasks in their homes, some still asleep in their beds, and many in the grip of agony and fear.