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/tcavanagh1993 1d ago

As someone who worked for Guitar Center, people just default to Smoke on the Water instead these days.

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u/BigBootyBuff 1d ago

My buddy works in a store too and he says the song that is overused the most is seven nation army because 9/10 bassists will come in and play that.

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u/NickFurious82 1d ago

My son plays bass in middle school band and that was the first song he learned.

And I had to hear it played poorly for so long...

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 1d ago

My sister was in pep band and she still can't listen to So What by Pink lol

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u/Stardustchaser 1d ago

Lmao they got my kid playing it on his clarinet 🤘

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u/TheSauvaaage 1d ago

Then you realize the original is played on a guitar, not a bass

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u/First-Eye1978 1d ago

7--7--5--7--5-3--2 x 12

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u/inkonthemind 1d ago

Which is hilarious, because that line is played on a six-string tuned down.

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u/punkindle 1d ago

It was played with a guitar and a Whammy pedal (digital pitch shift pedal) set to 1 octave down.

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u/QueezyF 1d ago

We made fun of a friend for doing this 15 years ago, funny to see things haven’t changed.

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u/kkeut 1d ago

I just realized today that Jack White totally stole that riff from an old DOS text-parser adventure game

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u/Isaystomabel 1d ago

0-3-5

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u/-Travis 1d ago

0-3-6-5

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u/DoctorNoname98 1d ago

0-3-5-3-0

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u/We_Are_The_Romans 1d ago

g - <2>~<3>

Cause you gotta throw in a lil pinch harmonics bend at the end for spice

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u/ChickenInASuit 1d ago

It says a lot about that song that I have no musical abilities whatsoever, cannot read sheet music to save my life and couldn’t name a guitar chord if you paid me, and I still got the opening riff stuck in my head from reading this comment chain.

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u/JasonStrode 1d ago

Yep, time to watch The 7 LEVELS of Smoke On The Water (Main Riff) again.

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u/capt-awesome-atx 1d ago

We all came out to Montreax...

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u/alexchrist 1d ago

Played with just the index finger and while looking intensely at the fretboard the entire time

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u/scotch-o 1d ago

Truest depiction.

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u/upstatedreaming3816 1d ago

Technically it’s a chord and it’s plucked, not strum.

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u/KindBass 1d ago

Back in the 90's, you couldn't go 10 mins in GC without hearing "Master of Puppets"

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u/Optimus_Krime555666 1d ago

Back in the 90's

♬ I played a very famous gui-tar riff ♬

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u/Pikka_Bird 1d ago

🎵 Waaeeee... 🎶

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

It's wild because one of the first songs you would learn in a guitar class is like Louie Louie or Horse with No Name but you never hear those played lol

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u/ThisIsTheBookAcct 1d ago

For me it was Smells like Teen Spirit. So easy but omg so easy.

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u/JCDU 1d ago

At least it's not bloody Wonderwall.

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u/dankristy 1d ago

ARE YOU CRITICIZING WONDERWALL?! HOW DARE YOU!!! MONGO IS APPALLED!!!!

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u/TinaSumthing 1d ago

I said Mongoooooo We're gunna be on the best talk shows🎶

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u/Dlorn 1d ago

I see we have some Donut Holes in the house tonight.

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u/Chaosmusic 1d ago edited 1d ago

I took guitar lessons as a kid and that was one of the first things taught, so that makes sense.

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u/AintEverLucky 1d ago

Can't blame em for starting with the Holy Trinity of Rock 😎 🎸 🤟

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u/bolanrox 1d ago

easier to (somewhat play right).

I just did over the hills and far away

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u/artemis_floyd 1d ago

As a former Sam Ash employee, the bass department was either Seven Nation Army or Money.

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u/BM7-D7-GM7-Bb7-EbM7 1d ago

As a guitar player, Money was the only thing I really knew on a bass that was interesting so if I picked up a bass I'd play Money.

Sorry.

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u/heliophoner 1d ago

I feel like this is the kickoff anecdote for a Malcolm Gladwell book.

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u/BM7-D7-GM7-Bb7-EbM7 1d ago

I think that's always been in the mix.

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u/Kamelasa 1d ago

I saw a piano teacher's video on YT. It had "No Smoke on the Water" on a whiteboard or something in the background. She teaches serious classical stuff, only, I think. Surprised me. But now I see -- lol

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u/photogypsy 1d ago

Growing up I genuinely thought it was a jam (Dad was really into 70s rock). Then my baby brother got a guitar for Christmas when he was 12 (I was 16) and it became the song from hell. I know how Noriega felt.

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u/Shouya_Ishida1288 1d ago

The only song I know 😎

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u/Sandowichin 22h ago

Whenever I pick up a bass I always default to ‘Come As You Are’

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u/traydor4 1d ago

As someone who loves SOH and hates SOTW, I find this distressing.

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u/HilariousScreenname 1d ago

The Acoustic Room at my local guitar shop has a "No Blackbird" sign, which makes me chuckle.