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* AnAesop: Building sites are not playgrounds
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* TooDumbToLive: Ronald's ignorance to the hazards present at building sites gets him killed in all sorts of cruel and unusual ways.
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* TooDumbToLive: Ronald's ignorance to the hazards present at building sites gets him killed in all sorts of cruel and unusual and/or humiliating ways.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Apaches}}''. As stated in the main description, it's pretty much that same film transplanted into an urban setting. Like ''Apaches'', it ends with a list of names of children killed in real-life accidents within the previous year.
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* AdultFear: Inevitable, as the purpose of the film was to show the dangers of children playing recklessly in or around building sites.
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''Building Sites Bite'' is a 1978 British public information film written and directed by David Hughes and produced by Maggie Evans. The film was created to teach children about the dangers of playing near building sites, and was regularly screened in schools throughout the UK in the late 1970s and beyond. Because of its similar production values and subject matter, it is often compared to ''Film/TheFinishingLine'' and ''Film/{{Apaches}}'', and can be regarded as an urban version of the latter.
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''Building Sites Bite'' is a 1978 British public information film produced by the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive and the Mighty Movie Company for British schools to warn children about the dangers of playing on building sites. The film was written and directed by David Hughes and produced by Maggie Evans. The film Evans.
It was created to teach children about the dangers of playing near building sites, and was regularly screened in schools throughout the UK in the late 1970s and beyond. Because of its similar production values and subject matter, it is often compared to ''Film/TheFinishingLine'' and ''Film/{{Apaches}}'', and can be regarded as an urban version of the latter.
It was created to teach children about the dangers of playing near building sites, and was regularly screened in schools throughout the UK in the late 1970s and beyond. Because of its similar production values and subject matter, it is often compared to ''Film/TheFinishingLine'' and ''Film/{{Apaches}}'', and can be regarded as an urban version of the latter.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Ronald at the start of the film. Despite his claims to know everything about building construction, he is totally oblivious to any of the potential dangers. In the end, though, [[HeelRealization he realises that it's too risky]] and decides not to pursue a career in the field.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Ronald at the start of the film. Despite his claims to know everything about building construction, he is totally oblivious to any of the potential dangers. In [[spoiler:In the end, though, [[HeelRealization he realises that it's too risky]] and decides not to pursue a career in the field.]]
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''Building Sites Bite'' is a 1978 British public information film written and directed by David Hughes and produced by Maggie Evans. The film was created to teach children about the dangers of playing near building sites, and was regularly screened in schools throughout the UK in the late 1970s and beyond. Because of its similar production values and subject matter, it is often compared to ''Film/TheFinishingLine'' and ''Film/{{Apaches}}'', and can be regarded as an urban version of the latter.
The film focuses on Ronald, a young boy who aspires to become a builder or surveyor when he grows up. His cousins Paul and Jane decide to test his KnowNothingKnowItAll attitude by teleporting him to a building site and challenging him to find his dog and get out without injuring or killing himself. Needless to say, in every test the lad ignores all the danger signs and gets himself killed in all kinds of horrifying and/or {{undignified|Death}} ways.
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!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdultFear: Inevitable, as the purpose of the film was to show the dangers of children playing recklessly in or around building sites.
* AnimalReactionShot: Every time Ronald dies, the film cuts to his dog whimpering.
* CreepyChild: Whenever Ronald dies, Paul and Jane just stand there watching, completely unfazed.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In order, Ronald is killed by being {{buried alive}} in a trench collapse, electrocuted in a condemned building, run over by an earthmoving vehicle, breaking his skull against a metal retaining wall after falling off a pipe, crushed to death by a falling pile of bricks, and drowning in an abandoned quarry.
* DeathIsCheap: Every time he fails one of his cousins' tests, Ronald is immediately revived and brought back to the teleportation room uninjured.
* DeathOfAChild: A case where the same child dies multiple times throughout the film, each time in a different way.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: Jane and Paul's expression whenever Ronald dies or is about to die.
* DiesWideOpen: When Ronald is electrocuted, the camera zooms in on his scorched body, dead on the floor of the building, his eyes wide open.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: Each time Ronald is about to die, the sound of a human heartbeat plays to warn sensitive viewers.
* ImagineSpot: [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that all the deaths were imagined by Ronald, hence his cousins not being fazed by any of it, and he decides not to go into the construction industry.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Ronald at the start of the film. Despite his claims to know everything about building construction, he is totally oblivious to any of the potential dangers. In the end, though, [[HeelRealization he realises that it's too risky]] and decides not to pursue a career in the field.
* PreciousPuppy: One that Ronald is tasked with rescuing in each of his cousins' tests. Needless to say, he fails miserably every time.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Apaches}}''. As stated in the main description, it's pretty much that same film transplanted into an urban setting. Like ''Apaches'', it ends with a list of names of children killed in real-life accidents within the previous year.
* TooDumbToLive: Ronald's ignorance to the hazards present at building sites gets him killed in all sorts of cruel and unusual ways.
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The film focuses on Ronald, a young boy who aspires to become a builder or surveyor when he grows up. His cousins Paul and Jane decide to test his KnowNothingKnowItAll attitude by teleporting him to a building site and challenging him to find his dog and get out without injuring or killing himself. Needless to say, in every test the lad ignores all the danger signs and gets himself killed in all kinds of horrifying and/or {{undignified|Death}} ways.
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!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdultFear: Inevitable, as the purpose of the film was to show the dangers of children playing recklessly in or around building sites.
* AnimalReactionShot: Every time Ronald dies, the film cuts to his dog whimpering.
* CreepyChild: Whenever Ronald dies, Paul and Jane just stand there watching, completely unfazed.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In order, Ronald is killed by being {{buried alive}} in a trench collapse, electrocuted in a condemned building, run over by an earthmoving vehicle, breaking his skull against a metal retaining wall after falling off a pipe, crushed to death by a falling pile of bricks, and drowning in an abandoned quarry.
* DeathIsCheap: Every time he fails one of his cousins' tests, Ronald is immediately revived and brought back to the teleportation room uninjured.
* DeathOfAChild: A case where the same child dies multiple times throughout the film, each time in a different way.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: Jane and Paul's expression whenever Ronald dies or is about to die.
* DiesWideOpen: When Ronald is electrocuted, the camera zooms in on his scorched body, dead on the floor of the building, his eyes wide open.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: Each time Ronald is about to die, the sound of a human heartbeat plays to warn sensitive viewers.
* ImagineSpot: [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that all the deaths were imagined by Ronald, hence his cousins not being fazed by any of it, and he decides not to go into the construction industry.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Ronald at the start of the film. Despite his claims to know everything about building construction, he is totally oblivious to any of the potential dangers. In the end, though, [[HeelRealization he realises that it's too risky]] and decides not to pursue a career in the field.
* PreciousPuppy: One that Ronald is tasked with rescuing in each of his cousins' tests. Needless to say, he fails miserably every time.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Apaches}}''. As stated in the main description, it's pretty much that same film transplanted into an urban setting. Like ''Apaches'', it ends with a list of names of children killed in real-life accidents within the previous year.
* TooDumbToLive: Ronald's ignorance to the hazards present at building sites gets him killed in all sorts of cruel and unusual ways.
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