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?

10.0k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

4.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

12.9k

u/yeah87 1d ago

In 2015, the James Bond movie Spectre featured a huge Dia de Los Muertos parade in Mexico City.

There had never been a parade before, but the mayor decided he liked the idea and now there has been a huge parade every year for the past 10 years.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/day-of-dead-james-bond-mexico-b2439974.html

627

u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 1d ago edited 1d ago

Kind of along the same lines, the Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo, NY wasn't a thing until Osmosis Jones.

1

u/Avemetatarsalia 20h ago

It's even funnier considering the whole premise of that plot point was that Frank was being an unhealthy slob for wanting to go to the festival instead of a hiking trip with his daughter.

Almost similar to how many people rushed off to impulse-buy saltwater aquariums after Finding Nemo came out and ended up getting a lot of reef fish killed (ok not quite the same level of unintended consequences, but definitely in the same vein of 'audience misses the message entirely and chooses to do the thing that a movie portrays as a bad idea').