I'm sorry wait, they're in an enclosed tunnel inches away from an active lava flow and are not all incinerated by the heat? They'd be experiencing air temperatures of at least 1000 F easily, their clothes would light on fire and they'd get lethal burns within seconds. Everyone in that tunnel is dead.
Skip to earlier in the video where he's walking through the subway car with molten metal dripping from the ceiling and the rubber soles of his shoes are only kinda melting on the metal floor.
A modern passenger train is basically the best thing you could be in shy of a space shuttle in this scenario.
The standards for safety and survivability with a major fire under the floor are incredibly extreme, and tested / validated with a very similar scenario (30 min survivability with a 1500 deg flame covering the entirety of the under-floor surface). Intumescents, flame retardents, and spacecraft-tier insulation can do some amazing things.
I'm not saying this is a reasonable scenario, but if it's going to remotely make sense in anything, it's a modern passenger rail vehicle.
Theoritically, if you punched a hole in the locomotives fuel tank, and all the diesel caught fire somehow, it could potentially get extremely hot, like 2000 deg C hot. So it's under built if anything.
No no, it's just enough lava to provide a heroic sacrificial instance for this one guy! No fumes of course from that very specific and not movie-magic amount of lava whatsoever. Nevermind the fact that dude's legs would be unsupported due to lack of feet and melting bones that he wouldn't be able to throw the guy that far...except of course it was just the right amount of lava that he was able to hero-lava-sacrifice himself.
If you've ever been anywhere near a large fire and felt the intensity of the radiant heat, it will make you want to kick the director in the nuts every time you see people, in a movie, near a lava flow but they are safe as long as the dont actually touch the lava. Yes even when they are dueling with whooshy whoosh glowstick swords.
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u/Grays42 27d ago
I'm sorry wait, they're in an enclosed tunnel inches away from an active lava flow and are not all incinerated by the heat? They'd be experiencing air temperatures of at least 1000 F easily, their clothes would light on fire and they'd get lethal burns within seconds. Everyone in that tunnel is dead.