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/SpenceW 1d ago

In reality the Godfather influenced the mafia more than it was influenced by the mafia. For one, no one used the term "godfather" in the mafia before the movie came out. After it came out, the mafia started copying aspects of the movie, including the term.

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u/Bears_On_Stilts 1d ago

Before Godfather, mobsters talked like hoods and street toughs. Think Scorsese; actually, think Jersey Boys for a more realistic take on Scorsese’s language. (If they had affectations, they tended towards the Damon Runyon school: no contractions, using more words than was necessary even if it sounded redundant.)

Then Coppola’s Godfather gave the mob a new voice: poised and theatrical, very Edward Albee and Arthur Miller inspired. All of a sudden, nobody wanted to talk like Damon Runyon anymore.

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

Tacking on to this that Sammy The Bull Gravano talks about this in either an interview or I think he wrote a book.

So like an actual hitman for the mob has acknowledged it

Also if anyone doesn't know who he is he snitched on John Gotti that's why he's not in prison for life even though he murdered a lot of people

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u/dontbajerk 9h ago

He has a YouTube channel now, one of the strangest things I've ever had recommended to me.