Art imitates life? Learn from the movies???

[BTDT]

Twister. Some real footage and some "reel" footage.

 

[KubotaSteve]

I remember a Mel Gibson movie with Sissy Spacek called The River. It was truly awful, just a series of misfortunes befalling a struggling farm family in Tennessee. I seem to remember Spacek working under some peice of farm equipment that was portrayed as ominous and dangerous. Seems like she got her hand caught in it or something.

I remember that movie, I think. Mel had gone to the city to get a job to keep the farm (he was a scab employee while union was on strike). Sissy was under a piece of machinery that had a chain on it and when she did something it lurched forward and caught her arm between the gear and chain. Lucky for her, a bull was in the field and she hit it in the head with an adjustable wrench and the bull ran into the machine knocking her arm loose. Don't recall what happened in the movie.

One movie I remember a tractor in was "Blue Chips". It was a movie about a college coach trying to get recruits and the alumni was giving different recruits different things. Shaquile O'neal was in it and they gave him a Mercedes to drive. There was some farm boy from Iowa and they gave his parents a brand new tractor, a rather large brand new one (seems like it was a John Deere).

 

[N80]

Flashing forward in time, and kinda along the same lines... I have noticed that when some of the latest country music stars or WWF "wrassler" types, (how can a country music star NOT have a horse farm), when interviewed for TV you can expect a tractor to be somewhere in the interview. Usually a shot or two of them driving it around...in between shots of corralling and riding horses. Funny you never see any crops or tilled land...

Bret Favre has an ad in which he is driving a tractor. There is an Army ad that shows a big Case (I think) with treads.

Back in the 70's there was a movie about the band, Led Zeppelin. Apparently the drummer, John 'Bonzo' Bonhom, fancied himself a country squire after he made enough money to buy the Queen. In the movie he is seen riding a tractor on his estate.

Some years later he went on a typical binge, choked on vomit and died.

 

[Egon]

I can recall a time when a hockey players first signing bonus went to buy a new tractor for the farm. He went on to become a very good good player.

Another good hockey player used to pitch hay bales on his farm during the summer to keep in shape.

Then there were a trio of brothers that when on to farming after the NHL career was over.

 

[Volfandt]

An old Ford NAA hauling a cultivator cruising down the road steals a scene in the classic, The Giant Gila Monster

And who can forget the classic Bobcat vs the T Rex in Carnosaur

 

[Rara Avis]

A Field of Dreams....nice JD2640...

 

[RobS]

A Field of Dreams....nice JD2640...

Speaking of "Field of Dreams", I just read in the paper last night that it has closed. We visited it many years ago in Dyersville, IA but I guess money ran out to keep it up.