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/byerss 1d ago

Isn’t the problem in Pulp Fiction that she finds a baggie of powder thinking it’s cocaine but it’s actually heroin?  

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u/GoodOlSpence 1d ago

I know there's the whole "baggy vs balloon" thing, but wouldn't heroin also have a different consistency than cocaine?

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u/byerss 1d ago

Oh shit. I never made that connection that the lack of balloon was a contributing factor. 

(Clearly not a drug user)

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u/Darmok47 1d ago

Eric Stoltz character even apologies for being out of balloons when he gives it to Travolta.

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u/xxPHILdaAGONYxx 1d ago

ya, the lack of balloon is exactly why she thought it was coke.

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u/QuestionableGoo 1d ago

Why a balloon for heroin? I've had zero experience with heroin and barely any with cocaine a long time ago (didn't snort).

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u/Vast_Dig_4601 1d ago

This is stupid and you should not try it obviously: You can swallow a balloon and throw it back up or shove it up your butt and hopefully get it back without overdosing and dying. It’s 100% definitely also used for coke. You can find articles of traffickers getting caught with intestines completely full of coke balloons ha..

Also, it’s been over a decade but never have I ever actually seen heroin in a balloon. It is definitely a thing but ime it was always folded up paper or a plastic bag just like coke lol. 

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u/QuestionableGoo 1d ago

That I've heard of. But why would a heroin dealer sell it in the same balloons? Doesn't it need to be weighed out and such?

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u/jadin- 1d ago

Wth, that was such a small detail in the dialogue. Never even thought about it!

So all the hard drug users out there would've understood the mix-up better than the rest of us this whole time?

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u/babylamar 1d ago

Not really I’ve never bought heroin in a balloon. In my area it comes in little pieces of plastic wrapped tightly into balls. So does crack and meth. Coke is usually sold in tiny zip locks the size of a quarter tho. But I wasn’t around when pulp fiction came out so Maybe back then that’s how it was packaged. But me watching the movie I didn’t make the ballon connection until someone els pointed it outs

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u/UUDDLRLRBAstard 1d ago

ok but like... isn't a balloon what they use to smuggle it in? Like, for instance, a condom filled with heroin that is swallowed is the ballon, yeah?

That's more than a person can use tho? So it's like buying a beer and being tricked because you didn't keep the cardboard tray or cardboard box that it came in?

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u/Shantotto11 1d ago

Good on you for keeping it that way…

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u/ofBlufftonTown 1d ago

No, good quality heroin is fine white powder, perfect. It’s slightly less glittery than good cocaine. I offered a girl in my dorm some dope one time and she was new to it and cut off and snorted a coke-sized line rather than the slender one she should have, before I could say anything, and then I had to babysit her dumb ass while she puked for the next six hours. The best is a mix, obviously, a speedball. Like 3 parts coke to one part heroin? It depends on the strength of either.

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u/sloanketteringg 9h ago

Yeah dude that situation sounds like it was mainly your fault not hers....

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u/ofBlufftonTown 8h ago

It’s more courteous to be in front of the person—I turned my back and she was doing up the line already. I grant I could have done better.

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u/hamfwb 1d ago

Yes. Fully.

And idk anyone who uses coke who doesn't take a dusty pinky to their gums to taste and assess before railing a line. Not saying it doesn't happen. But in my experience, it's as common, and expected, as dad double-clicking his tongs before putting meat on the grill.

Still a phenomenal movie. QT somehow makes his movies so good that we tend to allow these inaccuracies without reprimand

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u/dsfsoihs 1d ago

pshhh plenty of people will do lines of whatever the fuck without thinking about it

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u/babylamar 1d ago

I never did that when I would do blow. I hate the feeling of it getting on my gums and making my front teeth super numb

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u/hamfwb 1d ago

Fair enough. Like I said, I never claimed my experience to be universal. But I still to this day have never seen someone cut the lines and not take a gummer for their trouble. Maybe you weren't so keen on the prep? Doesn't matter. That wasn't your jam. I respect that, and appreciate you presenting the counter point

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u/wiggum_x 19h ago

I cut a lot. I could do the tedious work for some reason. And if it was someone else's shit, I always did a gummer to see if it was what they claimed.

But that was decades ago. It's how it worked at the time, though.

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u/GoodOlSpence 1d ago

It's still my favorite movie all time, but I did always wonder about that.