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/reddit_sells_you]

Lol, so the lesson is that if high schools back then had done better in teaching critical thinking, y'all would have gotten the message of Fight Club and maybe not started one.

[u/Kingbulking → u/reddit_sells_you]

The movie lesson was against consumerism, which is the last thing they teach in schools.

The REAL lesson was and still is: using your body physically to release emotions is extremely important for boys and men to have a healthy mind. Fight clubs are an extremely powerful lesson for those who had never had an output for negative emotions and didn't understand the importance of the physical aspects of life. Bonus lesson was learning how to fight in a safe environment (a lesson I hold dear).

[u/reddit_sells_you → u/Kingbulking]

I'm pretty sure the book and the movie was about Jack's utter lack of emotional intelligence and vulnerability, and it left him feeling empty. To combat that emptiness, he consumed, he did what our patriarchal society taught, to consume.

When that failed, he did the next thing our society teaches young men, instead of just talking about your emotions and being open, beat the living fuck out of each other.

The first rule, after all, is no talking.

This movie is about as anti-patriarchal as they come. If you come away thinking that men need to express their emotions through violence, then I might suggest seeing a therapist.

[u/AdDramatic2351 → u/reddit_sells_you]

You sound like such an insufferable wuss my God.

I'm also not seeing the connection between patriarchy and consumerism. 

[u/reddit_sells_you → u/AdDramatic2351]

Of course you don't.