https://ancientrome.org/tags/pompeii-film/ Recent content in Pompeii Film on Ancient Rome Hugo en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/pompeii-2014-when-disaster-meets-romance/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/pompeii-2014-when-disaster-meets-romance/ <p>Paul W.S. Anderson&rsquo;s Pompeii is not a film about the eruption of Vesuvius. It is a film about a slave-turned-gladiator and a merchant&rsquo;s daughter whose love is thwarted by a corrupt Roman senator, and the eruption of Vesuvius happens to provide the third act. The volcano is plot device rather than subject. This is a reasonable choice for a commercial action film built on a historical catastrophe; it is not the choice that a serious engagement with Pompeii&rsquo;s destruction would have made.</p>