Pompeii (film)

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Movie
German title Pompeii
Original title Pompeii
Country of production Canada , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Paul WS Anderson
script Janet Scott Batchler ,
Lee Batchler ,
Michael Robert Johnson
production Jeremy Bolt ,
Paul WS Anderson,
Robert Kulzer ,
Don Carmody ,
Martin Moszkowicz
music Clinton Shorter
camera Glen MacPherson
cut Michele Conroy
occupation

Pompeii is a Canadian-German disaster film by Paul WS Anderson from 2014. Embedded in a fictional love story, the film currently reconstructs the events surrounding the destruction of the Roman city of Pompeii by the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in 79 AD of Emperor Titus .

The film, shot in 3D , was released in German-speaking cinemas on February 27, 2014.

action

Northern Britain, 62 AD: The Roman tribune Corvus and his soldiers attack an insurgent Celtic village and kill all the inhabitants. Only little Milo survives because he pretends to be dead. A little later, Milo is picked up by slave traders. 17 years later: Milo lives as an enslaved gladiator in a gladiator school in Londinium . There he catches the eye of Graecus, a trader for gladiator slaves. Graecus has Milo and other gladiators brought to Pompeii to the local gladiator school. On the way there, the group is overtaken by a carriage in which Cassia, daughter of Severus, the head of the city of Pompeii, is sitting on her return journey from Rome. One of the draft horses falls, breaks a leg and is in great pain. Milo is unbound and relieves the horse from its suffering by breaking his neck. Cassia is astonished to note the gladiator's sympathy.

In the gladiator school, Milo shares the cell with the African Atticus, Pompeii's best gladiator, who is to be released after his next victory, with Milo as his opponent. The night before the fight, Atticus, Milo and other gladiators are brought to Severus' villa, where they are put on display as part of a festival and are at the service of Roman matrons . At the festival there is a dispute between Cassia and Corvus, who has meanwhile risen to senator and is currently in Pompeii. Corvus wants to marry Cassia, but she refuses. The harbingers of the beginning volcanic eruption make Cassia's favorite horse so nervous that she orders Milo to calm it down. After he succeeds, Cassia mounts the horse with him. They ride away, pursued by soldiers of the senator. To protect Cassia, Milo surrenders. Only Cassia's intercession dissuades Corvus from having Milo killed immediately. Instead, he is whipped and taken back to the gladiator school.

The next day, Corvus' victory in the "battle" against the Celtic people to which Milo belonged is recreated in the arena in honor of the senator. Milo and Atticus are on the same side as "Celts" with some other gladiators and are the only survivors to emerge victorious from the fight against overwhelming odds. Outraged that the "Celts" have won, Corvus wants to have the gladiators killed, but Cassia averts this by promising him the marriage. Corvus has Cassia brought to her family's villa by soldiers and locked up there.

Now Vesuvius erupts , accompanied by strong earthquakes and a hail of rocks . The stands of the arena collapse and kill many spectators. Panic breaks out across the city and Atticus and Milo escape. They arrange to meet at the port because Atticus wants to leave the city by sea. Milo rushes to the villa to save Cassia. He brings her back to the arena to get a horse. Atticus now escapes a tsunami at the port that destroys all ships and floods parts of the city. Senator Corvus, who survived the collapse of the arena, seizes Cassia, chains her to his team of four and drives away with her. Milo and Atticus defeat Corvus' bodyguard, which Corvus has put on them. While Milo chases after the senator on horseback, Atticus has to face Proculus, the leader of Corvus' bodyguard. Atticus, already mortally wounded, defeats Proculus. But now a pyroclastic cloud is racing down the slopes of Vesuvius, reaching Pompeii and destroying everything on its way.

Corvus, meanwhile, flees the forces of nature with Cassia in his chariot across Pompeii. The car falls and Cassia, who recently had been able to loosen her chains, is thrown out of the car. Milo reaches the scene of the accident and attacks Corvus. He can disarm the senator, chains him to the chariot and rides away with Cassia. Corvus is killed by the glowing cloud.

The horse shies away from the city and throws Milo and Cassia off. Milo urges Cassia to ride on alone, as both are too heavy for the horse together. Cassia, however, prefers to stay with Milo. A few moments later, the glowing cloud races over them. The film ends with a glance at the cast of the lovers' corpses preserved in the tuff .

Background information

Although the plot of the film in Italy plays he was still March to July 2013, the Cinespace Film Studios in Canadian Toronto rotated. It was co-produced by Constantin Film , which is why Pompeii is also considered a German film.

The film shows the fall of Pompeii and is based on the information provided by Pliny . The city model used is based on excavation results and LIDAR images. The amphitheater is correctly represented with awnings, as evidenced by Roman coin images. Otherwise it sometimes does not adhere to historical facts and contains numerous anachronisms . While brawls between Pompeans and the residents of the neighboring town of Nuceria are documented (which led to a ten-year ban on gladiator games), Pompeii had been around since 80 BC BC Roman colony . There has been no evidence of anti-Roman sentiment since the alliance war. In contrast to his successor Domitian , Emperor Titus has not been prosecuted for libel or high treason . A large tsunami that threw ships ashore has not been proven in Pompeii.

Numerous imprints of bodies trapped in the rock, such as those from the final scene of the film, have come down to us from Pompeii.

synchronization

Soundtrack

The title Like Lovers Do by the German pop singer Madeline Juno is part of the soundtrack of the film. The song was composed by Madeline Juno and Dave Roth . The song was released on February 28, 2014. In the music video for Like Lovers Do film scenes from Pompeii can be seen.

Reviews

The film scores poorly in the reviews because of its superficial content and lack of originality in the implementation of the well-known material:

serienjunkies.de writes “ Pompeii packs the downfall of the city with a bit of a wannabe gladiator and a Romeo and Juliet story between the slave and the wealthy daughter of the rich urban planner. Sometimes it works well, sometimes not so well. Before it comes to the disaster film portion of the film, the viewers get to see a sandal film , a revenge story and a love story that seems a little trying. "

In the Stuttgarter Zeitung it is said “The plot stumbles on afternoon TV soap level, the actors taken from the type box are given sentences like 'I missed you so much!' or 'Unfortunate!' expected. The latter can be underlined, and because the director probably suspects that himself, he takes refuge in action and routinely instigates one gladiator fight after the other. "

The Münchner Abendzeitung criticizes “The film seems like an involuntary parody in terms of content and dialogues ('My parents are dead. I'll get the horses'), everything is psychologically extremely simple. But one has seldom seen Roman cities and villas so vividly. "

The assessment by Die Zeit is as follows: “So today the next version comes to the cinema, contemporary in 3D, of course, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) as a heroic slave in the fight against the beautiful class enemy (Emily Browning) and all of them Survive in the hail of fire. Surrounded by greed for profit, greed and vanity, the common lovers play their disastrous dramaturgy and again it shows: There are many ways to Armageddon , but all are similarly signposted. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Pompeii . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 142 987 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Pompeii . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Lava Bombs and Tsunamis! How Accurate Is 'Pompeii' Movie? In: livescience.com. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
  4. ^ Geoffrey Giller: Hollywood's Pompeii Gets History Mostly Right, but Takes Some Geologic Artistic License [Video]. In: scientificamerican.com. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
  5. ^ Adam Arndt: Pompeii - film review. In: Serienjunkies.de . February 26, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ "Pompeii" film review: Einstürzende Altbauten - Stuttgarter Zeitung. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
  7. ↑ New in the cinema: "Pompeii" in 3D by Paul WS Anderson in the AZ review. In: Abendzeitung-muenchen.de. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Jan Friday: "Pompeii 3D": The desire for catastrophic films. In: Zeit Online. February 26, 2014, accessed August 22, 2016 .