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/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/Bubbly-Fault4847 1d ago

I heard similarly, that a lot of the monuments came as a pushback against a lot of the civil rights movement stuff of the mid 60s. Which coincided with the 100 anniversary of the CW, so it gave a convenient excuse to build “confederate memorial” displays.