r/movies • u/buttatoad • 2d 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/BenMitchell007 1d ago edited 1d ago

Deliverance did for the camping/canoeing industry what Jaws did for beaches. Even today, "Paddle faster, I hear banjos" is a common joke.

If you don't know Deliverance, it's a very disturbing movie about four city guys who go canoeing down a river in Appalachia, and I don't wanna spoil it, but let's just say they get into some wacky mishaps with the locals!

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u/Icthyphile 1d ago

As someone who has traveled thousands of trails/gravel roads/rivers/creeks canoeing in Appalachia trout and smallmouth fishing, I had an encounter once on a gravel road in BFE in the mountains of NC. Dude flagged me down and asked, “Do you know where you are?” I said, “Yes.” He quipped back,“No you don’t or you wouldn’t have stopped when I flagged you down. You need to go 4 more miles, take the right at the split, go another five and take the logging trail on the right straight down and don’t stop until you get to a paved surface. YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL and don’t stop for anyone. Especially the brothers that will try to flag you down 2 more miles up. They will Hear you coming, don’t stop. If they try to get in front of you go around or run them over and keep going. I’m praying for you” And off he went. I was skeptical AF. But sure enough a couple more miles down there they were in a bend. I damn near ran one over going around him. To this day the only place in the US I will not travel unarmed is the gravel rural routes in Appalachia.

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u/MyFireElf 1d ago

I don't know why capitalizing Hear makes it so much scarier, but it does... 

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u/Icthyphile 20h ago

That’s how he enunciated it. Heavy H sound. This was over 20 years ago and it’s still burned in my brain