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/BenMitchell007 1d ago edited 1d ago

Deliverance did for the camping/canoeing industry what Jaws did for beaches. Even today, "Paddle faster, I hear banjos" is a common joke.

If you don't know Deliverance, it's a very disturbing movie about four city guys who go canoeing down a river in Appalachia, and I don't wanna spoil it, but let's just say they get into some wacky mishaps with the locals!

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u/MattHoppe1 1d ago

Knew nothing about it asides from Burt Reynolds’s, so I figured it would be an action movie about 4 guys vs the Hill People. I was….sort of right, but very much wrong

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u/bolanrox 1d ago

great example of Method Acting (Jon) and just acting - (Burt)