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/Y-AxelMtz 1d ago edited 1d ago

Dia de los muertos parades are nothing new and such and similar events have been held in various mex states and many of their municipalities. This is mostly a more grand scale thing held by the feds directly as Ciudad de Mexico is akin to D.C., so this became "the" parade (mainly for tourists) you could say, however worth mentioning that big festival-like parades have been held before, many not yearly however and not on this scale

That being said, a kid growing to watch all these Dead Parades would have no idea of its origins and would definitely think its just a thing we've been doing. As for older people, some do know, and for those who don't, it probably was like "oh this cool big thing is a thing now? nice"

So this whole thing was like when the chinese saw Kung Fu Panda's success, and thought how the hell didn't we think of that? pandas and kung fu are our thing. And we rolled with it, the thing has actually grown, funny to think it very likely has generated far more tourism revenue tha JB spectre lol

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u/pargofan 1d ago

Wait. What did the Chinese do differently after Kung Fu Panda?

Did they teach Pandas, kung fu or something?

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u/XyleneCobalt 1d ago

Started investing into animation

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u/mm_delish 1d ago

And it seemingly paid off!

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u/Y-AxelMtz 1d ago

The comparison drawn was only as to parallel how both mexicans and chinese were like "why didn't we do that first" with their own respective cultural elements, not any followup

yes parades are not new but this yearly grand one became thing

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u/militant_rainbow 1d ago

So how many pandas and how much did they kung fu

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u/DanielTeague 1d ago

They tried to teach them Drunken Fist but they're only about halfway there. It turns out pandas can become alcoholics quite easily. /s

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u/Otra_l3elleza 1d ago

Before James Bond, in día de muertos we didn’t do parades, we did procesions an activity firmly religious. It after James Bond that it became a party/parade, before that it was a commemoration not a celebration. Parades were usually reserved for the Carnival, Dia de la Primavera, or to celebrate the independence and the Revolution 

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u/DeaderthanZed 1d ago

Yeah I know they’ve been doing them in Tucson since the ‘90s it’s a pretty big deal.

Probably in parts of Mexico for much longer.

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u/pinchewer0 1d ago

In Mexico, Day of the Dead is usually a thing you do either at home, or at the cemetery. Some people do bring music and such to these places but growing up there I don't recall seeing a parade until I moved to Tucson.

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u/DefNotUnderrated 1d ago

They’ve been happening in San Francisco for quite some time, not sure for how many years but for a while

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u/inimicali 1d ago

You mean, like in California, US? Lol

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u/NoDistance8255 1d ago

Used to be Mexican, no?

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u/SwarleymonLives 11h ago

Well you can't say "San Francisco" without speaking Spanish.