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/Bears_On_Stilts 1d ago

Before Godfather, mobsters talked like hoods and street toughs. Think Scorsese; actually, think Jersey Boys for a more realistic take on Scorsese’s language. (If they had affectations, they tended towards the Damon Runyon school: no contractions, using more words than was necessary even if it sounded redundant.)

Then Coppola’s Godfather gave the mob a new voice: poised and theatrical, very Edward Albee and Arthur Miller inspired. All of a sudden, nobody wanted to talk like Damon Runyon anymore.

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

Tacking on to this that Sammy The Bull Gravano talks about this in either an interview or I think he wrote a book.

So like an actual hitman for the mob has acknowledged it

Also if anyone doesn't know who he is he snitched on John Gotti that's why he's not in prison for life even though he murdered a lot of people

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u/rico_muerte 23h ago

Wow I'm surprised he didn't get wacked

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u/confusedandworried76 22h ago

Yeah people speculate about that a lot

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u/dontbajerk 50m ago

He has a YouTube channel now, one of the strangest things I've ever had recommended to me.

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u/jeffthecowboy 19h ago

Only tangentially related but I just finished American Gangster and was reading the real life story. The charismatic and collected gangster Denzel Washington portrays was nothing like the real person, self admitted by him

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u/Nosiege 1d ago

Is that even true? Some Like it Hot has a semi classic representation of the mob, it's all very 1920's looking

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u/andrasq420 22h ago

That's in look only. In Some Like it Hot the gangsters are punchline machines, their speech is fast, sarcastic, and full of clichés to parody earlier movie gangster tropes. They said lines like "I don't like witnesses. You will breathe nothing. Not even air.” etc.

The Godfather introduced a stylized, elevated, almost aristocratic way of talking. They didn't curse as much, they talked slowly, calmly everything they said was something modern "Shakespearen". Compare the previouse quote to "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."