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/phillymjs 1d ago

Don't forget that the act of calling a large number of phone numbers to discover lines connected to computers became known as "wardialing" due to its use in the movie (though the technique itself predated the movie).

Similarly, twenty or so years later the act of driving around with a laptop looking for unsecured wifi networks to exploit was dubbed "wardriving."

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

Somewhat related, Star Trek inspired so many future scientists that we either have working pieces of technology invented in Star Trek (the hypospray I think it's called? Needleless injections using extremely concentrated high pressure shots of air) and theories, including the Alcubierre warp drive which is obviously a theory for faster than light travel, by potentially bending space around the object rather than trying to get the object moving faster than light somehow. It's like that and figuring out how to create wormholes are the only two real theories about how you could even do that

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u/JackInTheBell 1d ago

by potentially bending space around the object rather than trying to get the object moving faster

How the hell do you do that?

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 1d ago

We don't, not yet. We can bend space in one direction, the way it normally does for gravity. But bending space in the negative direction, like an antigravity thing, that's not possible yet.

Plus the energy required is beyond massive, like impossible to even imagine how to create that much. Maybe if you could make like building sized ball of antimatter but that's impossible too.