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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MythandLore" data-source="post: 80669" data-attributes="member: 180">The agriculture industry accounted for 780 deaths and 130,000 disabling injuries in 2000. Agriculture workers had the second highest death rate among the major industry divisions.Construction workers had the highest number of deaths among major industry groups with 1,220 deaths and 470,000 disabling injuries.Whenever you work with large machines or uneven terrain you are in very real danger.Forestry, fishing, landscape and horticultural services, mining, and the oil and gas extraction industry are also bad as far as deaths/injurys go for the same reasons.Big killers are like on-the-job falls and electrocution.Lots of disabling injuries and deaths are from common falls just off ladders or slipping on a wet/loose surface.And a slip is as easy as a little sand on concrete and poof, someone dies.I know several people with career ending injuries from falls (broken backs from from ladders - amazingly I know 3 people with the same thing that happend).Machine failer is very dangerous, it doesn't take a spike in a tree to to break a saw blade or snap a chain on a saw, many other things can go wrong.People get run over by trackers, trees can knock over other trees that in turn hit people, all kinds of really bad stuff.Anyway, as some of you know, Hollywood is in Southern California, so movies are made from that point of veiw.Action movies follow this, as someone said before they go with Cliche bad guys, why?Because this is what the movie industry sees as bad guys.Terrorists, Para-millitary groups, Dictators, Drug Lords, International Theives, these make good simple action movie bad guys.People will pay a lot of money to see these guys beat up by the "hero".When you get into the more realistic, it's harder to make it good vs. bad.As far as eco-peeps, anti-abortion peeps, etc are very touchy subjects in Hollywood, because there are a lot of people belonging to diffrent "movements" in Hollywood.So they wont want their ideas shown in a bad way, if it is, it's not in a general action flick, it's in a drama at that point.Movies like "the Patriot", "Unforgiven", "Saving Privite Ryan" aren't considered action moives by Hollywood, they are "Epic Dramas".Action Moives are the "Die Hards", "Rush Hours", even the "Indiana Jones's" it's easy to see who the bad guy is in these kinds of movies, "Look there's a Nazi, he's got to be the bad guy".You got to keep the Genre in perspective, to Hollywood "Gladiator" and "Braveheart" were Dramas not an action movies.Action Movies don't get very many Acadmey Awards.Even "LotR" is trying to pin itself as a "Epic Drama", not a Action/Adventure movie.Movies like "Exit Wounds" (not a bad movie) and "Lara Croft - Tomb Raider" and "Fifth Element" are action."12 Monkeys" and "Heat" aren't (to Hollywood).Now...Did anyone see in todays Daily Variety, MGM is doing a "Remake of Seven Samurai" a "contemporary retelling".OH LORDY LORDY! Is anyone else worried about this???</blockquote>

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