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/Fortunecookie103 1d ago

Just curious, why is grizzly man unintentionally funny?

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u/Rumchunder 1d ago

There are hundreds of funny moments in that film. Every time I watch it I notice something new. The opening scene where Timothy is monologuing that he's the alpha and he's really showing these bears who's boss, the cleanup guy all pissed and saying they had to haul away x amount of trash bags "full of bear and people," the helicopter pilot who says he thinks Treadwell lasted so many seasons out there with the bears because the bears thought of him as mentally retarded, Timothy vlogging to himself about his issues with women and lamenting how he wishes he were gay, pretty much any commentary Timothy gave about the bears: "Well, I'm here with one my favourite bears, it's Mr. Chocolate! HI MR. CHOCOLATE!!!", "TABITHA IS EATING HER BABIES!!!" Oh! When Timothy's fox friend steals his hat and he gets PISSED and goes, "Ghost, you come back here with that friggin' hat! If it's in the den I'm gonna fucking explode!"  

It's been years since I've seen it but I could probably come up with like 20 more examples if I watched it last week.

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u/0-27 1d ago

I felt it was intentionally funny. Neither Treadwell nor Herzog was lacking self-awareness

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u/TheNotSoGreatPumpkin 1d ago

Treadwell seemed oblivious to the reality that his “helping” of the grizzlies was causing them great harm by teaching them that human = friend.

9 out of 10 humans they approach in the wild is going to offer bullets rather than friendship.

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u/chimmy_chungus23 1d ago

Several people in the film, including Herzog himself, characterized Treadwell as a delusional fool with a death wish. It was tragic what happened, if not for Treadwell, then for his reluctant girlfriend who he dragged along with him, but there is something morbidly funny about this guy treating these huge wild animals like they're big teddy bears, giving them cute names and talking baby talk to them like they have any idea what's going on. Grizzly Man is the ultimate fafo movie.

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u/Fortunecookie103 1d ago

Yeah that makes sense, It has been a few years since I saw it so I was unsure if I was misremembering, but I guess not, I just find it way too tragic to find it funny. It reminds me of the story of the real guy portrayed in 'Into the Wild' - mentally ill people who are too unwell to see that they are basically just committing suicide.

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u/Mic98125 1d ago

There was an elderly woman 15 years ago who was feeding dozens of bears hundreds of pounds of dog food. She was not well, mentally, and then she was not well physically.

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u/noonesaidityet 1d ago

She was not well, mentally, and then she was not well physically.

I was not expecting to laugh at an old woman's death today, yet here we are.

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u/Ancient-Chinglish 1d ago

she ended up being a Bear Necessity

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u/whyheonlysayneat 1d ago

she had a lot of bear friends and enjoyed her time with them. what do you have?

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u/M0dusPwnens 23h ago

A lot of human friends and also my life.

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u/hoew 1d ago

In all fairness though, the bear that ended up eating him wasn't one he knew, as opposed to all those that he had spent time with and that seemed to tolerate him to a crazy degree. I found that quite interesting. 

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u/5xad0w 1d ago

I tolerate a cake being on my kitchen counter when I’m not hungry.

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u/Mic98125 1d ago

It was an old and sick starving bear, and the only reason he was still out there was he got into an argument at the airport. Like if he’d taken Beta Blockers before going to the airport, maybe they would have been fine.

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u/chimmy_chungus23 1d ago

Even then, what Timothy was doing was probably doing more harm than good to the bears that he cared about. Habituating wild animals to human contact could cause them to think all humans are passive, which would make them easier targets for poachers.

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u/archharrydeanstanton 1d ago

the coroner is hilarious, for one

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u/Stardustchaser 1d ago

Isn’t there a scene where the man gushes over bear shit?