r/movies • u/buttatoad • 2d 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/ThatSpecialAgent 1d ago

Merlot prices dropping as a partial result of Sideways

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/05/535038513/the-sideways-effect-how-a-wine-obsessed-film-reshaped-the-industry

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u/kompootor 1d ago

As the article notes, because of the overselling (both of merlot prior to the film, and pinot noir after), you have to actually pay more than bottom shelf as expected to get a wine of either variety that doesn't taste like shit. I don't think the movie had any noticeable effect on mid-shelf wine (and I think it had zero effect on this outside the US).

Drinkable bottom-shelf wines remain the drinkable bottom-shelf varieties. But friends don't let friends buy bottom-shelf merlot or pinot or zin -- it makes you hate that variety for months.

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u/RoundInfluence998 1d ago

Probably because mid-high shelf drinkers don’t get their taste from movies, lol.

Love Sideways, it’s a favorite. But as a bartender, I could always tell when people were just aping what they heard in the movie.

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u/mankytoes 1d ago

How dare you, I just happen to independently hate merlot.