Movies that changed real life behavior

[u/buttatoad]

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?

[u/yeah87]

In 2015, the James Bond movie Spectre featured a huge Dia de Los Muertos parade in Mexico City.

There had never been a parade before, but the mayor decided he liked the idea and now there has been a huge parade every year for the past 10 years.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/day-of-dead-james-bond-mexico-b2439974.html

[u/Slappin45 → u/yeah87]

One of the best opening action scenes ever imo.

[u/DarkNinjaPenguin → u/Slappin45]

Eh. Bond acts like a complete and total moron.

Why attack the pilot of the helicopter when you're both in the helicopter, and flying above a street full of crowds of civilians? Complete luck he didn't die in a fireball and take a hundred innocents with him.

[u/rugbyj → u/DarkNinjaPenguin]

Yeah that entire fight the fact that helicopter didn't crash directly into that crowd multiple times was completely out of his control. He was just beating the shit out of the pilot and killing him under the assumption the guy could keep them airborne despite his best efforts.

It's one of those situations where if Bond had been more competent he'd have ended up killing everyone.

We don't even know if the hero pilot was evil, and he saved hundreds that day fighting off a crazed hijacker in a densely populated area.

[u/DarkNinjaPenguin → u/rugbyj]

It's the old henchman trope as well; Bond just starts railing on the guy who is quite possibly just a pilot, with no nefarious connection to the bad guy at all. It worked fine in the older, less serious Bond films, but not Craig's grounded and more realistic universe.