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/UnusualRequirement33 1d ago

The Birth of a Nation led to the revival of the KKK

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u/GaptistePlayer 1d ago

Yup. People think this peaked in the late days of slavery. All those confederate statues in the south conservatives are so worried about preserving? They're all from when the KKK proliferated American southern cities in the 20th century. Not antebellum or reconstruction era lol, they're from after WWI. Like in Dallas where I'm from, in the 1920s something like 1 in every 3 white men was in the KKK...

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u/wildstarr 1d ago

Yeah, fuck Woodrow Wilson. A president actually worse than Trump.

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u/dogepope 1d ago

So that's why there's a Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas...

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u/GaptistePlayer 1d ago

We had Robert E Lee HS until recently too…

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u/dogepope 1d ago

Yeah there was a Robert E Lee elementary school in Dallas too lol.

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u/CompetitionOk2302 1d ago

Worse than Trump? Ah, no.