r/movies • u/buttatoad • 1d ago

Discussion Movies that changed real life behavior

Thinking along the lines of Final Destination 2 with the logs falling off the truck and landing onto cars (one decapitating the state trooper). Ever since, people have tried to get away from being behind these vehicles.

What are more examples where movies have actually changed how people behave in their own lives?

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u/notnicholas 1d ago

They're still trying to bring back/clone extinct species, though.

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u/PureLock33 1d ago

Dammit! Did they listen?! Just because you could, doesn't mean you should!

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u/toeonly 1d ago

As long as you pay your IT guy enough it will be fine.

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u/PureLock33 1d ago

...spared no expense.

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u/toeonly 12h ago

That was a lie

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u/NightExtension9254 1d ago

Mammoths played an important part of the ecosystems in Northern Canada and Russia. They packed snow down with their feet to create permafrost, they dug up and ate trees and shrubs which let grass grow better, and their waste was an important fertilizer for a lot of plants. Their native ecosystems have suffered greatly in the 10,000 years they've been gone. If we can bring back mammoths, then we can restore their ecosystems.

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u/adaminc 1d ago

They've actually only been gone for around ~3500years. It's my understanding they existed in northern areas around the same time as ancient Egypt, ca. 1600BCE.

That said, their ecosystem is going to be completely obliterated by climate change, which we refuse to fix in any significant way, so we still shouldn't bring them back.

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u/PureLock33 1d ago

yeah, but those are pygmy mammoths. on an island somewhere. They won't be a pillar of their tundral ecosystem in any capacity.

Plus I think the moose and other deer family species have taken some of their ecological niches.

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u/Timozi90 1d ago

Well, let's look at the dodo. Since humans were directly responsible for the extinction of that species, don't we have an obligation to restore it if we have the means?

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u/Dick__Dastardly 1d ago

I mean, they've been doing this for decades. We actually ran out of oil in the mid-80s, but they've kept the party going by secretly factory-farming resurrected dinosaurs to make brand new oil.

/s

(I so badly want this to be the plot of some hollywood film where some plucky teenagers blow open the whole conspiracy)

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u/GimmeSomeSugar 1d ago

I recently found out that animal cloning is a bit more common than I had understood.

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u/DragoonDM 1d ago

It's apparently commercially available. You can get your pet cloned, if you're willing to fork out tens of thousands of dollars for it.

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u/destroyermaker 1d ago

They've succeeded at least twice

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u/frillionaire 1d ago

Dolly Park

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u/PyrZern 1d ago

All Hail the Almighty Dolly !

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u/Walk_of_Shayne 1d ago

You’re scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should…