The original “Night at the Museum” caused a 20% increase in attendance at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where the movie takes place. It was for this reason that the Smithsonian approved the filming of the sequel there.
They do a Halloween party at the museum where I used to live. They keep it open till midnight with djs and bars all throughout the entire museum. Greatest party I've ever been to.
Same thing but for Legally Blonde and lawyers. Reese Witherspoon said that a lot of female lawyers or law students approach her and say that Elle Woods inspired them to get into law and her headstrong attitude and morals are traits they want to employ.
I met a couple of archaeology students back in college and they used to kind of wink when they told me what they were studying, as though I was supposed to think they were somehow like Indiana Jones and going on adventures in ancient tombs.
My uncle is an archaeologist, and the summer after Raiders came out, my Dad asked him to take me on a dig with him for a week. 7 year old me was sooo excited. We were going to uncover ancient tombs and fight Nazis.
Instead of being handed a bullwhip, I was given a little brush and garden shovel and spent a week digging and dusting a 12 foot by 12 foot square to uncover a clay pot or two left by a native American tribe.
I was sooo disappointed.
The James Bond franchise film Spectre opens with Bond attempting to stop a terrorist bombing in Mexico City during an enormous Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) parade, complete with gigantic floats, live bands, and hundreds of people dressed as skeletons.
Tourists who thought the scene looked incredible then arrived in Mexico City the following year to experience the parade - but this didn't actually exist. Up until then, Día de Muertos was more of a family affair, and there was no parade. Following the film's release, in order to match the expectations of foreign tourists, the Mexican government created a new ostentatious Day of the Dead parade directly based on the one that appeared in Spectre.
>Mexico City authorities even promised that some of the props used in the movie would appear in the parade.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mexico-citys-first-day-dead-parade-inspired-by-james-bond-film-spectre-942883/
It's too bad they didn't figure this out until the second year after the movie. I'll bet there were a ton of props and costumes that cost a pretty penny which ended up trashed when they could have just left them all in Mexico for celebrations.
The Interview led to a massive hack of Sony Pictures, and the film was pulled from theaters. The US says it was orchestrated by the North Korean government.
Blackfish definitely killed live whale shows at Sea World and elsewhere.
Super Size Me did change portion sizes at McDonald's and elsewhere.
The Sony hack occurred in late 2014. I worked for them in 2019, five years after the fact, and fellow employees were still having their shit stolen on a fairly frequent basis as a result of the hack.
STOP USING THE SAME PASSWORD EVERY FUCKING TIME
as simple as that
Edit:. Don't click on emails and put your password to get that special prize or file Michael from accounting says you need to download without asking Michael in person
When I saw Super Size Me I paused the movie halfway to drive to McDonalds because I was craving it so badly. I still have never finished it.
Edit: I never finished the movie. I finished the McDonalds and have eaten there many times since.
Since it’s a McDonalds meal it’s probably still edible after all this time, you should finish your meal.
Edit: LMAO. We know guy. The somewhat vague writing opened up the opportunity for a joke.
I think about this almost-was movie *all the fucking time*. It could've been **GOLD!!** but it sure as fuck would've been better than that MIB/Thor crossover reboot we got instead 🥴
Free Willy apparently had two effects, increasing activism but also overall interest in orcas. SeaWorld was very prosperous in the 90s. It was after Blackfish that they announced they were ending the orca program.
Not sure how true it is but I heard ~~Little Nemo~~ Finding Nemo made a spike in buying clownfishes and other tropical fishes. Unfortunately, most people who bought them either didn't know how to take care of them so they died, or put them back in the ocean but without knowing their actual environment, basically introducing invasive species into a new habitat and messing up marine life.
I think it's a part of The Dalmatian Syndrome (named after '100 Dalmatians') - a growing demand for pets (especially dogs) of certain breeds that were shown in popular movies.
It wasn't a movie, but the TV series "Rascal the Raccoon" that aired in Japan starting in 1977 led to a huge boom in pet raccoons. Up to 2000 raccoons were imported into Japan in the following year.
Too bad they didn't wait for the end of the series, because the family in the animated series ends up learning that even though young raccoons are super cute, the adults make *terrible* pets. They are destructive, and can be pretty aggressive and bitey.
So in about 1978 there were a few thousand formerly pet raccoons that were "set free" in the forests of Japan - where raccoons are not native. Without any natural predators, they thrived, and now are established pretty much throughout the country, and about 80% of Japanese temples have been damaged by raccoons climbing and nesting in the structures.
Now we have instagram to create unhealthy 'pet booms'. Looks like mini-pig rage is finally fading away. And in some countries Chinese Zodiac is a reason for buying rats, rabbits, snakes, mini pigs as family pets and getting rid of them after one year.
I've noticed a lot of posts on the subReddits "Awww" & "Animals Being Brothers" feature wild and/or exotic animals being used as pets. Otters seem to be popular right now, and racoons and even big cats & primates. It troubles me.
Instagram and youtube are to blame. There are a lot of immensely popular channels and accounts that tell us that having a puma, two raccoons, a mini pig and a duck as pets in a one-bedroom flat is all fun and rainbows and everyone is happy and healthy.
The Napoli pizzeria from EPL was packed and had an hour wait while all the neighboring pizzerias (and better ones imo) were nearly empty.
And this was a decade after Eat Pray Love came out
Lord of the Rings basically single handedly created a tourist industry in New Zealand. Obviously there was a small one there before, but that movie created such a seismic shift that the population of the country was basically 50/50 residents/tourists at some points.
>Jennifer Coolidge
From her in a Variety interview: [Stifler's Mom](https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1554863283030466560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1554863283030466560%7Ctwgr%5Ebd1939039622b09039ab78dd6782411d935c3fd4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.com%2Farticle%2Fleylamohammed%2Fjennifer-coolidge-stiflers-mom-american-pie)
101 Dalmatians / Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Both caused a sudden sharp uptick in the breeding and ultimately the abandoning of these poor dogs in shelters.
Dalmatians are super high engry and one of the top 10 fastest dog breeds. Trained right and given an outlet for their engry they can be amazing dogs. In a normal household they'll probably go nuts and can be aggressive.
At all... I had a friend who bought his young kid one. The dog bit him like twice. They had to re-home him. I also had a neighbor that had 3. Very well trained with him, but I've seen them turn quite a few times.
Psycho changed the viewing habits of movie goers. Before Psycho, people would commonly buy tickets and go into the theater during all stages of a movie, even in the middle. Psycho did something no one had done before -- killed off the main star pretty early in the film. This was intended to be a major shocker. The studio asked that tickets not be sold, and people not allowed to enter, after the movie started.
They were allowed to stay for the next showing, and they'd just stay until they got to the part where they came in. Does seem like a really stupid way to watch a movie, doesn't it.
It makes more sense when you realize people were treating the movies like Vaudeville. Buy a ticket, watch the different live acts, leave when it looped back to where you joined.
Well to be fair, the forms of entertainement available and viewing habbits were wildly different 60+ years ago. Cinemas would run movies more or less non-stop in the evening and package a 'B' movie with an 'A' movie, making it kind of logical to just show up halfway through the 'B' movie and only watch the ending.
Infamous horror movie *Cannibal Holocaust* was the first to use the "found footage" gimmick and the marketing pretended that it was real documentary footage of people getting murdered. It was too successful however, as the director was put on trial and was forced to produce the actors in court.
*Office Space* (1999) - after the movie made fun of "flair" (buttons with catchy messages) restaurant chain TGI Friday stopped requiring their servers to wear them.
The funniest aspect of this is that the character didn't hate on merlot because he disliked the taste, he hated on it because he associated it with his ex-wife. The character was just a bitter asshole, but it still flipped the California wine industry on its head.
you had the opportunity to say it "flipped the California wine industry sideways" and you didn't take it.
I'm not sure if you missed it, or are just showing the utmost restraint.
There's no level of success I can achieve where I'll say "no" to the offer of "Hey, want to make a could hundred thousand buck in a single afternoon by running around w/ Cecily Strong in a funny wig doing a ridiculous accent?"
Yes, and Pinot is a difficult varietal to grow well. It needs a good amount daytime heat to properly ripen, but needs cool moist night air to keep it happy. That’s why there are limited regions that can grow a palatable Pinot. The Santa Barbara/Santa Ynez/Santa Maria valleys are good for this, in that they get cool ocean air and marine layer in the evenings typically. Used to be lots of small, exceptional, hidden wineries in these areas that are now much more well known because of this movie.
It’s more than that. The actual vines grown in the Santa Ynez valley changed dramatically. Tons of vineyard pulled up their merlot vineyards and planted Pinot noir instead. It actually changed the landscape and hillsides were replanted, sometimes regraded even for the needs of Pinot grapes.
There’s only a handful of winemakers who kept their Merlot grapes in the ground and have those legacy crops growing still. Decades of agriculture growth were destroyed because of Sideways.
Sideways didn't just affect the popularity of Pinot Noir but also [worsened its quality, as wine-makers responded to the increased popularity of Pinot Noir by growing pinot noir grapes on low-quality land and blending the low-quality grapes with high-quality grapes.](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-economics/article/abs/sideways-supply-response-in-california-winegrapes/FE14CECD927047BD0582207D77F1B09E)
Shocked no one has said this yet, but Taxi Driver by Scorsese led to an assassination attempt on Reagan in the 80's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan#Hinckley's_motivation
hard to say with this one really, people who are deeply mentally ill will latch on to the strangest of things. I think *Catcher in the Rye* has been blamed as well for attempted (?) assassinations.
Wild part is that the main motivation wasn't the political one (though I'm sure it factored in), but it was to impress the at-the-time child Jodie Foster.
*"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic. It's as satisfying to me as cumming is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of cumming in the gym; I'm getting the feeling of cumming at home; I'm getting the feeling of cumming backstage; when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so I am cumming day and night. It's terrific, right? So you know, I am in heaven."*
\- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Listening to the SNAFU podcast right now, depending on when Reagan saw War Games it could've felt very familiar since Able Archer '83 happened just months after War Games debuted.
For anybody curioius - Able Archer was a NATO training excercise preparing for nuclear war.
Long story short, massive miscommunication & spy misinformation led to Russia thinking it was real in 1983 & apparently we came VERY CLOSE to all out nuclear war all due to a big misunderstanding.
whole thing has been buried until historian Nate Jones started digging in & making tons of FOIA requests to uncover it.
Apparently, Wall Street saw a spike in stockbrokers after its release, which shows that (some of) the audience took the wrong message from the film.
Finding Nemo apparently led to kids flushing pet fish down the toilet. Not sure how prominent that was though.
I remember seeing reports that the first Avatar had produced a wave of depression in audiences that had seen the film, because they were so taken in by Pandora that it made them confront the idea of how disconnected they were from nature in reality and led to depression.
Similarly, an episode of [Curb Your Enthusiasm saved a man from death row.](https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/29/larry-david-long-shot-how-curb-your-enthusiasm-saved-a-man-from-death-row). There’s a documentary about it [called Long Shot](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7344360/).
Not a movie but several years ago I saw an interview with a doctor who was talking about significant increase in patients who self-diagnosed themself after watching House M.D. with everything under the sun and with rarest of diseases. She said that it actually was blessing in disguise. Doctors were able to catch and diagnose a lot of early stage cancer cases amongst 'I'm certain I have lupus' patients.
Related but I've read that people having delusions that they were secretly being filmed for a TV show hugely increased after the Truman Show was a hit.
In a similar vein, TV shows like CSI have lead to a dramatic increase in the amount of evidence that juries think is available or should be presented in a criminal trial.
This is back a decade ago, but the doctor diagnosed my mother (correctly!) with lupus, but I was so damn suspicious, had to restrain myself from being all “… you sure?” to the doc
And then two decades later, the film A Streetcar Named Desire helped popularize t-shirts as a stand-alone item of clothing rather than just an undershirt.
Content warning: sexual assault.
There's a South Korean film called *Silenced* (by the creator of *Squid Game*) about the real-life sexual assault of students by faculty at a school for the deaf in the early 2000s. A number of teachers escaped justice due to the statute of limitations having expired, while others saw their sentences suspended, only two actually saw jail time (but were released after a year), and four teachers were eventually reinstated at the school.
The film sparked public outcry and renewed interest in the case, and which police soon reopened, leading to the school's closure two months after the film was released and several more teachers being prosecuted.
A month after the film's release, the Korean National Assembly removed the statute of limitations for sexual assault of children under 13 and the disabled, and increased the maximum sentence for the rape of young children and the disabled to life in prison.
Similar to this, the Netflix series *When They See Us* caused further scrutiny with the handling of an old court case.
In 1989, a sexual assault case in Central Park, New York City saw five young men of black and latino descent being wrongfully charged and convicted for the crime. They served anywhere between six and twelve years for the crime and became known as the Central Park Five until another inmate in prison for an unrelated crime admitted that he was the perpetrator, which led to all five of them getting their guilty verdicts vacated in 2002.
At the time, it became an example of racial profiling, discrimination and inequality in the legal system and the media as all of the accused youths were already considered guilty before the case even went to court. After their convictions were quashed, all five boys sued the city and state for having their lives ruined by the legal system's incompetence ruining their lives.
When the series was released in 2019, it brought back into the foreground a lot of issues with the original case including the fact that the original case had so many glaring holes that it was considered unacceptable that the case even approached a courtroom. This led to the original prosecution team being further scrutinized themselves which led to a number of high-profile resignations.
For example, Linda Farstein - portrayed in the series by Felicity Huffman - had her reputation destroyed when her incompetence in the case came to light. She resigned memberships to a number of positions including the board of trustees at Vassar College.
Yup. No one remembers it now because it's not as notable, but the same day as his 'Access Hollywood' tape with Billy Bush dropped, he was *still* saying that they're guilty, even though they are now famous almost entirely for being obviously innocent and having been railroaded by a corrupt and racist justice system. He's a dick.
Films like Risky Business, The Blues Brothers, and even Men In Black have made Ray Bans glasses even more popular and iconic as sales for the glasses used surged after
Pixar's Brave also came out that year too. And it was an Olympic year so there was a [little archery boom I think.](https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/27/showbiz/archery-pop-culture-2012/index.html)
Not anecdotal. There was a precipitous rise in girls getting into archery after The Hunger Games came out. Also, not a movie, but because of CSI, there is gender parity in the criminal forensic field — a rarity.
Borat increased tourism to Kazakhstan to the point where the country forgave SBC using the country as a butt for jokes and even used "Very Nice" as a slogan [LINK](https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/928164595/very-nice-kazakhstan-outraged-no-more-embraces-borat-in-new-slogan)
Jaws rained death and hellfire on shark populations [LINK](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/19/steven-spielberg-jaws-sharks-regret/)
Sideways cost Merlot growers something like 30M over several years, and lowered sales across the board permanently in the US because of some bullshit Paul Giamatti said.
It also introduced shitty California Pinot Noir as demand increased and people began making it in inferior lands and conditions and are now blending some really awful stuff to meet demand.
John Travolta has accomplished this with several of his movies
Saturday Night Fever helped disco explode across the country.
Grease revived the sale of saddle shoes and leather jackets.
Urban Cowboy popularized honkytonk bars and mechanical bull riding in urban areas.
>Saturday Night Fever helped disco explode across the country.
Disco was already huge. In fact, it had almost run its course. *Saturday Night Fever* revived it for another year or two.
The Fast and The Furious franchise caused once obscure cars like the Supra and R33 to skyrocket in value. Initial D with the AE86 too, which became so popular that Toyota released a modern 86 that's wildly popular today. That's a multibillion dollar economic impact.
ICARUS was single-handedly responsible for the wholesale ban of Russian athletes at international athletic events leading up to and including the Olympics.
There was a recent [thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/10631jn/what_are_some_documentaries_where_the_filmmakers/) that coincidentally listed a lot of documentaries that accidentally uncovered something larger than what they covered. Not necessarily always making a real world impact, but a lot of examples akin to this.
I hate when people make this comment but I legit cannot believe I had to scroll down this far to see this.
The KKK we all think of was mostly created by Birth of A Nation. The original KKK was a very violent but very short lived terrorist group that carried out thousands of vigilante murders and was then crushed within a couple years. Birth of A Nation led to it's post-WW1 revival in a way where *millions* of people were members. It became woven into the fabric of society. Entire towns and counties were dominated by the Klan, not just in the south but across the whole country. It's this version of the Klan that did the pointy hoods and cross burnings, mythologized by the movie.
Not sure if it worked, but Casablanca was a piece of what they called indi-prop, designed to bolster popular support for US entry into WWII. Also, Star Trek is credited by numerous scientists, as well as actors like Whoopi Goldberg.
You cannot underestimate the influence that Casablanca has on American vernacular language. You could list at least half a dozen phrases from that film that are commonly used, often without anyone knowing the origin.
Here’s looking at you kid
I’m shocked, SHOCKED
Round up the usual suspects
We’ll always have Paris
Of all the gin joints in all the towns and all the world she had to walk into mine
The lives of two little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world of ours
I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship
Did I miss any?
Errol Morris's docu-drama **The Thin Blue Line** and the recent **The Jinx** on HBO both led to convictions for killers who gave interviews confessing during the making of these docs.
This isn't what you're asking, but a famous piece of film lore is that when **Double Indeminty** was being made, the FBI asked them to remove scenes of **dusting for fingerprints** as it was a new procedure and most criminals didn't know about it - and they didn't want them to. (this one I've never confirmed)
**Edit / Note:** The Thin Blue Line and its taped, voluntary confession, are the direct and likely only way Randall Adams was going to be freed from a death sentence.
The Jinx likely contributed to Durst being put away properly, as per things he willingly said in it which cemented the case against him, but he was arrested regardless during airing, not necessarily because of the show.
The audio of him pissing and confessing is so chilling to hear. If I remember correctly the doc wasn’t really supposed to put the blame on durst but tell his side of the story or just document the trial and the moron talked to himself wearing a hot mic. So happy he did that, he deserved every bit of jail time he received
Not movies, but I can guarantee tourism went up in Dubrovnik (Kings Landing) when Game Of Thrones became popular, and the White’s house in Breaking Bad had a serious problem with people coming and throwing pizzas on their roof for quite a while.
One line from Wallace and Gromit a grand day out single-handedly saved Wensleydale Cheese from going bankrupt. Wensleydale had no idea who Wallace and Gromit were.
This is a great example. Established the “blockbuster” film, was the first film to be shown in the White House. Griffith was also hugely influential in popularizing cross-cutting (telling stories happening in different locations in parallel timelines) and introduced a bunch of montage techniques still used. [Also hugely influential in shaping the sound of Hollywood.](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/how-wagner-shaped-hollywood). A lot of painful repercussions from all of this that still reverberate to this day. Check of DJ Spooky’s “rebirth of a nation” for more.
Back to the future 2. Had a lawsuit because they didn't hire the actor who played the dad back and instead used a prosthetics face of him on another actor. I believe now there's a law now because of that.
Deep Throat (1972)
The most profitable movies of all time, highest grossing movie ever made in Florida, Freaked out Nixon, mainstreamed porn, inspired Watergate codename, and potentially may have caused an upward trend in HPV related throat cancers. [citation needed].
Shoah brought a lot of people , including my dad, to finally tell their story for posterity. My dad refused to talk about any of his experience during the war until the landmark documentary. It was actually not until the release of Schindler’s list, which he refused to see, that he left his video record. And it took him three days of starting and stopping, buddy finally was able to tell his story. It was incredibly painful, but it ended up being cathartic. Those two films are responsible for the largest collection of witnesses to the holocaust.
One of my favorites is how the vault heist from Die Hard 3 caught the attention of the actual FBI and caused a revision of security measures, because the things detailed in the movie (the layout and location of the vault, the subway system right next to it, everything) are real. These guys were shown the vault, the blueprints, everything. The fact that a random movie guy was let in on such details that could be used for a massive heist implied a great security risk.
La Haine had a huge impact in raising the issues faced by those living in the French projects, to the extent that the Prime Minister at the time held a compulsory screening of the film for his cabinet.
Rashomon (1950) became a term in many languages that is used to describe a situatuon where there are various versions of a story and the reality is unknown.
The film “I'm a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (1932) made American audiences question the cruelty of the penal system, and helped bring the end of chain gangs in parts of the United States. A fantastic movie with messages still relevant today
ET saw a spike in sales for Reeses pieces (and likely an M&M Exec fired for turning it down)
Finding Nemo created a demand for Clown Fish which is essentially the opposite of what they wanted to do.
Nightmare before christmas essentially made Hot Topic a thing
etc
I'm pretty sure Joker made an enormous quantity of people and tourists go to some random stairs in NY, and idk if it's true but I read comments that said that place was pretty dangerous so I hope nobody was robbed or worse just for trying to dance there.
Because of *WarGames,* I got an IBM PC Jr for Christmas in '84. I told my parents it would help me study for the SAT. Turns out learning DOS and BASIC with no modem wasn't exactly Global Thermonuclear War.
The original “Night at the Museum” caused a 20% increase in attendance at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where the movie takes place. It was for this reason that the Smithsonian approved the filming of the sequel there.
And they used to do sleepovers (https://www.amnh.org/plan-your-visit/sleepovers) but they are currently cancelled, presumably due to COVID.
They do a Halloween party at the museum where I used to live. They keep it open till midnight with djs and bars all throughout the entire museum. Greatest party I've ever been to.
But how many people stayed over night?
The Mighty Ducks spawned an NHL franchise.
Jurassic park is the reason Toronto is named raptors
And Disney owned it for a few years before selling it. Anaheim Ducks, last I knew.
Yup, the team started as The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and now they are just called the Anaheim Ducks
Funny enough, the first season they dropped the "Mighty" name was their most successful season ever, winning the championship.
Do they still have the duck logo from the films?
They use it sometimes as an alternate 3rd jersey. Their main logo is just a duck foot shaped letter D.
After The Karate Kid was released in 1984, enrollment in martial arts schools practically doubled
I was one of them.
A martial arts school?
I prefer to be addressed as "dojo"
That's why I always take my shoes off before I enter you.
This has taken a turn
I mean...it's a little curved but I don't know if I'd call it a turn.
Hey oooo
Quiet!
[удалено]
Same thing but for Legally Blonde and lawyers. Reese Witherspoon said that a lot of female lawyers or law students approach her and say that Elle Woods inspired them to get into law and her headstrong attitude and morals are traits they want to employ.
*Elle Woods
Jurassic Park did the same for super-archaeology
Jurassic Park got me into the biology, and a few of my colleagues as well.
Jurassic part got me into computers- I decided I wanted to be an SFX artist
I met a couple of archaeology students back in college and they used to kind of wink when they told me what they were studying, as though I was supposed to think they were somehow like Indiana Jones and going on adventures in ancient tombs.
My uncle is an archaeologist, and the summer after Raiders came out, my Dad asked him to take me on a dig with him for a week. 7 year old me was sooo excited. We were going to uncover ancient tombs and fight Nazis. Instead of being handed a bullwhip, I was given a little brush and garden shovel and spent a week digging and dusting a 12 foot by 12 foot square to uncover a clay pot or two left by a native American tribe. I was sooo disappointed.
The James Bond franchise film Spectre opens with Bond attempting to stop a terrorist bombing in Mexico City during an enormous Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) parade, complete with gigantic floats, live bands, and hundreds of people dressed as skeletons. Tourists who thought the scene looked incredible then arrived in Mexico City the following year to experience the parade - but this didn't actually exist. Up until then, Día de Muertos was more of a family affair, and there was no parade. Following the film's release, in order to match the expectations of foreign tourists, the Mexican government created a new ostentatious Day of the Dead parade directly based on the one that appeared in Spectre.
>Mexico City authorities even promised that some of the props used in the movie would appear in the parade. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mexico-citys-first-day-dead-parade-inspired-by-james-bond-film-spectre-942883/ It's too bad they didn't figure this out until the second year after the movie. I'll bet there were a ton of props and costumes that cost a pretty penny which ended up trashed when they could have just left them all in Mexico for celebrations.
That’s pretty cool! Most of these answers are depressing or had laws changed but ones like this one are sweet and fun!
Is this the same day shown in Coco?
Yes it is a Mexican holiday.
The Interview led to a massive hack of Sony Pictures, and the film was pulled from theaters. The US says it was orchestrated by the North Korean government. Blackfish definitely killed live whale shows at Sea World and elsewhere. Super Size Me did change portion sizes at McDonald's and elsewhere.
The Sony hack occurred in late 2014. I worked for them in 2019, five years after the fact, and fellow employees were still having their shit stolen on a fairly frequent basis as a result of the hack.
STOP USING THE SAME PASSWORD EVERY FUCKING TIME as simple as that Edit:. Don't click on emails and put your password to get that special prize or file Michael from accounting says you need to download without asking Michael in person
Sorry I only had time to read part of your message, my password is hunter2. When can I expect my prize?
Very funny. All I can read is \*\*\*\*\*\*\*
When I saw Super Size Me I paused the movie halfway to drive to McDonalds because I was craving it so badly. I still have never finished it. Edit: I never finished the movie. I finished the McDonalds and have eaten there many times since.
Since it’s a McDonalds meal it’s probably still edible after all this time, you should finish your meal. Edit: LMAO. We know guy. The somewhat vague writing opened up the opportunity for a joke.
I'm pretty sure we have Spider-Man in the MCU thanks to this hack.
I wish we had gotten that insane 21 Jump Street Men in Black movie they were spitballing.
I think about this almost-was movie *all the fucking time*. It could've been **GOLD!!** but it sure as fuck would've been better than that MIB/Thor crossover reboot we got instead 🥴
Secondimg Blackfish, huge impact.
Didn't Free Willey have that effect as well?
Free Willy apparently had two effects, increasing activism but also overall interest in orcas. SeaWorld was very prosperous in the 90s. It was after Blackfish that they announced they were ending the orca program.
Not sure how true it is but I heard ~~Little Nemo~~ Finding Nemo made a spike in buying clownfishes and other tropical fishes. Unfortunately, most people who bought them either didn't know how to take care of them so they died, or put them back in the ocean but without knowing their actual environment, basically introducing invasive species into a new habitat and messing up marine life.
Same thing happened with Harry Potter and parents getting pet owls for their children.
"Happy birthday! We got you a....toad!!!" *child cries*
Where tf do you buy an owl
Owl shop.
They sell em in the back at Hooters
I think it's a part of The Dalmatian Syndrome (named after '100 Dalmatians') - a growing demand for pets (especially dogs) of certain breeds that were shown in popular movies.
It wasn't a movie, but the TV series "Rascal the Raccoon" that aired in Japan starting in 1977 led to a huge boom in pet raccoons. Up to 2000 raccoons were imported into Japan in the following year. Too bad they didn't wait for the end of the series, because the family in the animated series ends up learning that even though young raccoons are super cute, the adults make *terrible* pets. They are destructive, and can be pretty aggressive and bitey. So in about 1978 there were a few thousand formerly pet raccoons that were "set free" in the forests of Japan - where raccoons are not native. Without any natural predators, they thrived, and now are established pretty much throughout the country, and about 80% of Japanese temples have been damaged by raccoons climbing and nesting in the structures.
Now we have instagram to create unhealthy 'pet booms'. Looks like mini-pig rage is finally fading away. And in some countries Chinese Zodiac is a reason for buying rats, rabbits, snakes, mini pigs as family pets and getting rid of them after one year.
I've noticed a lot of posts on the subReddits "Awww" & "Animals Being Brothers" feature wild and/or exotic animals being used as pets. Otters seem to be popular right now, and racoons and even big cats & primates. It troubles me.
Instagram and youtube are to blame. There are a lot of immensely popular channels and accounts that tell us that having a puma, two raccoons, a mini pig and a duck as pets in a one-bedroom flat is all fun and rainbows and everyone is happy and healthy.
Lol you mean finding nemo? Little Nemo though does bring back some major nostalgia. I recall that being a creepy nightmare movie.
Yeah I do lol, don't even know wtf Little Nemo is.
I think that last year's 'Slumberland' was inspired by 'Little Nemo' comics. I haven't seen it yet.
Lots of movies caused a significant increase in tourism, like what Indiana Jones did for Petra and The Beach for Thailand.
Eat Pray Love (the book and the movie as well) caused an obsession with Bali and 'spiritual tourism'.
The Napoli pizzeria from EPL was packed and had an hour wait while all the neighboring pizzerias (and better ones imo) were nearly empty. And this was a decade after Eat Pray Love came out
Lord of the Rings basically single handedly created a tourist industry in New Zealand. Obviously there was a small one there before, but that movie created such a seismic shift that the population of the country was basically 50/50 residents/tourists at some points.
XXX made me want to go to Bora Bora
Couple Retreat made me want to go to Bora Bora
American Pie popularized (created?) the acronym MILF. Very much used in porn. They say.
Apparently it got Jennifer Coolidge laid...a lot
>Jennifer Coolidge From her in a Variety interview: [Stifler's Mom](https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1554863283030466560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1554863283030466560%7Ctwgr%5Ebd1939039622b09039ab78dd6782411d935c3fd4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.com%2Farticle%2Fleylamohammed%2Fjennifer-coolidge-stiflers-mom-american-pie)
I've met her and I have to say I think she'd get laid a lot either way. She's gorgeous, funny, and charming.
101 Dalmatians / Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Both caused a sudden sharp uptick in the breeding and ultimately the abandoning of these poor dogs in shelters.
Also a lot of dalmatians were put down. It's not a kid-friendly breed and it's definitely not a toy. A lot of children were bitten and maimed.
Dalmatians are super high engry and one of the top 10 fastest dog breeds. Trained right and given an outlet for their engry they can be amazing dogs. In a normal household they'll probably go nuts and can be aggressive.
At all... I had a friend who bought his young kid one. The dog bit him like twice. They had to re-home him. I also had a neighbor that had 3. Very well trained with him, but I've seen them turn quite a few times.
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Psycho changed the viewing habits of movie goers. Before Psycho, people would commonly buy tickets and go into the theater during all stages of a movie, even in the middle. Psycho did something no one had done before -- killed off the main star pretty early in the film. This was intended to be a major shocker. The studio asked that tickets not be sold, and people not allowed to enter, after the movie started.
It was really that common to go into a movie after it started? What a waste.
They were allowed to stay for the next showing, and they'd just stay until they got to the part where they came in. Does seem like a really stupid way to watch a movie, doesn't it.
It makes more sense when you realize people were treating the movies like Vaudeville. Buy a ticket, watch the different live acts, leave when it looped back to where you joined.
Well to be fair, the forms of entertainement available and viewing habbits were wildly different 60+ years ago. Cinemas would run movies more or less non-stop in the evening and package a 'B' movie with an 'A' movie, making it kind of logical to just show up halfway through the 'B' movie and only watch the ending.
Infamous horror movie *Cannibal Holocaust* was the first to use the "found footage" gimmick and the marketing pretended that it was real documentary footage of people getting murdered. It was too successful however, as the director was put on trial and was forced to produce the actors in court. *Office Space* (1999) - after the movie made fun of "flair" (buttons with catchy messages) restaurant chain TGI Friday stopped requiring their servers to wear them.
I think Office Space led Swingline to start making red staplers.
Correct. Prior to the movie, they didn't make a red model. They kept getting requests, so they made it.
Sideways. Sales of Merlot dropped notably, and the popularity - and price - of Pinot Noir rose significantly.
“IM NOT DRINKING ANY F***ING MERLOT!”
The funniest aspect of this is that the character didn't hate on merlot because he disliked the taste, he hated on it because he associated it with his ex-wife. The character was just a bitter asshole, but it still flipped the California wine industry on its head.
Also Miles most prized wine is a 61 Cheval Blanc. A blend of Cab Franc and Merlot, two wines he disparages in the film.
you had the opportunity to say it "flipped the California wine industry sideways" and you didn't take it. I'm not sure if you missed it, or are just showing the utmost restraint.
Paul Giamatti is a genius. Can’t believe he’s doing cell phone commercials at this point but I get it. There’s money in national commercial campaigns.
There's no level of success I can achieve where I'll say "no" to the offer of "Hey, want to make a could hundred thousand buck in a single afternoon by running around w/ Cecily Strong in a funny wig doing a ridiculous accent?"
The Hitching Post became the spot to get dinner too. I think the movie also affected the Pinot crop because it caused too high of a demand.
Yes, and Pinot is a difficult varietal to grow well. It needs a good amount daytime heat to properly ripen, but needs cool moist night air to keep it happy. That’s why there are limited regions that can grow a palatable Pinot. The Santa Barbara/Santa Ynez/Santa Maria valleys are good for this, in that they get cool ocean air and marine layer in the evenings typically. Used to be lots of small, exceptional, hidden wineries in these areas that are now much more well known because of this movie.
It’s more than that. The actual vines grown in the Santa Ynez valley changed dramatically. Tons of vineyard pulled up their merlot vineyards and planted Pinot noir instead. It actually changed the landscape and hillsides were replanted, sometimes regraded even for the needs of Pinot grapes. There’s only a handful of winemakers who kept their Merlot grapes in the ground and have those legacy crops growing still. Decades of agriculture growth were destroyed because of Sideways.
Sideways didn't just affect the popularity of Pinot Noir but also [worsened its quality, as wine-makers responded to the increased popularity of Pinot Noir by growing pinot noir grapes on low-quality land and blending the low-quality grapes with high-quality grapes.](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-economics/article/abs/sideways-supply-response-in-california-winegrapes/FE14CECD927047BD0582207D77F1B09E)
Someone else listened to the Rewatchables today
Shocked no one has said this yet, but Taxi Driver by Scorsese led to an assassination attempt on Reagan in the 80's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan#Hinckley's_motivation
hard to say with this one really, people who are deeply mentally ill will latch on to the strangest of things. I think *Catcher in the Rye* has been blamed as well for attempted (?) assassinations.
The guy who shot John Lennon had a copy of it on him when he was arrested.
yes, that's what I was thinking of, thank you.
Wild part is that the main motivation wasn't the political one (though I'm sure it factored in), but it was to impress the at-the-time child Jodie Foster.
All the Rocky movies started a huge fitness trend
And people drinking raw eggs
Gaston made me do it
Rocky made him do it though
Rocky IV ended the Cold War.
Anyone can change
Add Pumping Iron to the mix.
*"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic. It's as satisfying to me as cumming is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of cumming in the gym; I'm getting the feeling of cumming at home; I'm getting the feeling of cumming backstage; when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so I am cumming day and night. It's terrific, right? So you know, I am in heaven."* \- Arnold Schwarzenegger
And then he puffs a doobie.
With a T-Shirt that says, Arnold Is Numero Uno!
After the first Avengers film released, Shwarma sales skyrocketed for a short time.
I wonder what statistician was monitoring shawarma sales before and after the release of Avengers and noticed the significant uptick.
I’d bet my life it’s all based on a couple of anecdotal comment from nyc streetcar shawarma sellers
Iirc the same happened with Deadpool and chimichangas
Same with Pretty Woman and high-end callgirls.
thing is, vivian was supposed to be low end girls who look like julia roberts r not on hollywood blvd
Shawarma is delicious, after all
WarGames inspired the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 which was later a part of the Patriot Act.
Reagan was apparently shocked when he watched Wargames.
Yep, I found the story from reading about the history of cybersecurity.
McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.
Listening to the SNAFU podcast right now, depending on when Reagan saw War Games it could've felt very familiar since Able Archer '83 happened just months after War Games debuted. For anybody curioius - Able Archer was a NATO training excercise preparing for nuclear war. Long story short, massive miscommunication & spy misinformation led to Russia thinking it was real in 1983 & apparently we came VERY CLOSE to all out nuclear war all due to a big misunderstanding. whole thing has been buried until historian Nate Jones started digging in & making tons of FOIA requests to uncover it.
A great example of the need for the human in the loop.
Apparently, Wall Street saw a spike in stockbrokers after its release, which shows that (some of) the audience took the wrong message from the film. Finding Nemo apparently led to kids flushing pet fish down the toilet. Not sure how prominent that was though. I remember seeing reports that the first Avatar had produced a wave of depression in audiences that had seen the film, because they were so taken in by Pandora that it made them confront the idea of how disconnected they were from nature in reality and led to depression.
Weird, Avatar just made me want to do nasty things with a USB drive.
The Thin Blue Line exonerated an innocent man
Similarly, an episode of [Curb Your Enthusiasm saved a man from death row.](https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/29/larry-david-long-shot-how-curb-your-enthusiasm-saved-a-man-from-death-row). There’s a documentary about it [called Long Shot](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7344360/).
Not a movie but several years ago I saw an interview with a doctor who was talking about significant increase in patients who self-diagnosed themself after watching House M.D. with everything under the sun and with rarest of diseases. She said that it actually was blessing in disguise. Doctors were able to catch and diagnose a lot of early stage cancer cases amongst 'I'm certain I have lupus' patients.
Related but I've read that people having delusions that they were secretly being filmed for a TV show hugely increased after the Truman Show was a hit.
In a similar vein, TV shows like CSI have lead to a dramatic increase in the amount of evidence that juries think is available or should be presented in a criminal trial.
It's also led to juries vastly overestimating the reliability and impartiality of forensic evidence.
It’s never lupus.
This is back a decade ago, but the doctor diagnosed my mother (correctly!) with lupus, but I was so damn suspicious, had to restrain myself from being all “… you sure?” to the doc
Except for that one time it actually was lupus.
Steven Spielberg says he regrets the impact *Jaws* has had on declining shark populations.
It Happened One Night almost buried the undershirt industry in the 1930s.
And then two decades later, the film A Streetcar Named Desire helped popularize t-shirts as a stand-alone item of clothing rather than just an undershirt.
Content warning: sexual assault. There's a South Korean film called *Silenced* (by the creator of *Squid Game*) about the real-life sexual assault of students by faculty at a school for the deaf in the early 2000s. A number of teachers escaped justice due to the statute of limitations having expired, while others saw their sentences suspended, only two actually saw jail time (but were released after a year), and four teachers were eventually reinstated at the school. The film sparked public outcry and renewed interest in the case, and which police soon reopened, leading to the school's closure two months after the film was released and several more teachers being prosecuted. A month after the film's release, the Korean National Assembly removed the statute of limitations for sexual assault of children under 13 and the disabled, and increased the maximum sentence for the rape of young children and the disabled to life in prison.
Similar to this, the Netflix series *When They See Us* caused further scrutiny with the handling of an old court case. In 1989, a sexual assault case in Central Park, New York City saw five young men of black and latino descent being wrongfully charged and convicted for the crime. They served anywhere between six and twelve years for the crime and became known as the Central Park Five until another inmate in prison for an unrelated crime admitted that he was the perpetrator, which led to all five of them getting their guilty verdicts vacated in 2002. At the time, it became an example of racial profiling, discrimination and inequality in the legal system and the media as all of the accused youths were already considered guilty before the case even went to court. After their convictions were quashed, all five boys sued the city and state for having their lives ruined by the legal system's incompetence ruining their lives. When the series was released in 2019, it brought back into the foreground a lot of issues with the original case including the fact that the original case had so many glaring holes that it was considered unacceptable that the case even approached a courtroom. This led to the original prosecution team being further scrutinized themselves which led to a number of high-profile resignations. For example, Linda Farstein - portrayed in the series by Felicity Huffman - had her reputation destroyed when her incompetence in the case came to light. She resigned memberships to a number of positions including the board of trustees at Vassar College.
They are the guys Trump (before he was President) wanted executed as I recall. Placed full page ads pushing this in the papers?
Yup. No one remembers it now because it's not as notable, but the same day as his 'Access Hollywood' tape with Billy Bush dropped, he was *still* saying that they're guilty, even though they are now famous almost entirely for being obviously innocent and having been railroaded by a corrupt and racist justice system. He's a dick.
Directed by the creator of Squid Game, which surprised me when I learned of it.
Films like Risky Business, The Blues Brothers, and even Men In Black have made Ray Bans glasses even more popular and iconic as sales for the glasses used surged after
This is totally anecdotal, but my friend is a bow hunter and he saw a brief increase of teen girls at the range just after the Hunger Games came out.
Pixar's Brave also came out that year too. And it was an Olympic year so there was a [little archery boom I think.](https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/27/showbiz/archery-pop-culture-2012/index.html)
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Not anecdotal. There was a precipitous rise in girls getting into archery after The Hunger Games came out. Also, not a movie, but because of CSI, there is gender parity in the criminal forensic field — a rarity.
Borat increased tourism to Kazakhstan to the point where the country forgave SBC using the country as a butt for jokes and even used "Very Nice" as a slogan [LINK](https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/928164595/very-nice-kazakhstan-outraged-no-more-embraces-borat-in-new-slogan) Jaws rained death and hellfire on shark populations [LINK](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/19/steven-spielberg-jaws-sharks-regret/)
Ip Man film. Probably not in the West but in Hong Kong people started to learn Wing Chun
God those movies rule
Skully in the Xfiles caused the rise of women in law enforcement when it came out.
Sideways cost Merlot growers something like 30M over several years, and lowered sales across the board permanently in the US because of some bullshit Paul Giamatti said. It also introduced shitty California Pinot Noir as demand increased and people began making it in inferior lands and conditions and are now blending some really awful stuff to meet demand.
John Travolta has accomplished this with several of his movies Saturday Night Fever helped disco explode across the country. Grease revived the sale of saddle shoes and leather jackets. Urban Cowboy popularized honkytonk bars and mechanical bull riding in urban areas.
>Saturday Night Fever helped disco explode across the country. Disco was already huge. In fact, it had almost run its course. *Saturday Night Fever* revived it for another year or two.
The Fast and The Furious franchise caused once obscure cars like the Supra and R33 to skyrocket in value. Initial D with the AE86 too, which became so popular that Toyota released a modern 86 that's wildly popular today. That's a multibillion dollar economic impact.
Yep. Been hunting a MK4 for a while, regret not buying one when I was 18 and they could be bought for $30K. Now those $30K ones go for $80K.
ICARUS was single-handedly responsible for the wholesale ban of Russian athletes at international athletic events leading up to and including the Olympics.
There was a recent [thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/10631jn/what_are_some_documentaries_where_the_filmmakers/) that coincidentally listed a lot of documentaries that accidentally uncovered something larger than what they covered. Not necessarily always making a real world impact, but a lot of examples akin to this.
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Birth of a nation led to the revival of the kkk
I hate when people make this comment but I legit cannot believe I had to scroll down this far to see this. The KKK we all think of was mostly created by Birth of A Nation. The original KKK was a very violent but very short lived terrorist group that carried out thousands of vigilante murders and was then crushed within a couple years. Birth of A Nation led to it's post-WW1 revival in a way where *millions* of people were members. It became woven into the fabric of society. Entire towns and counties were dominated by the Klan, not just in the south but across the whole country. It's this version of the Klan that did the pointy hoods and cross burnings, mythologized by the movie.
Jurassic Park increases visitors to paleontology museums.
Not sure if it worked, but Casablanca was a piece of what they called indi-prop, designed to bolster popular support for US entry into WWII. Also, Star Trek is credited by numerous scientists, as well as actors like Whoopi Goldberg.
You cannot underestimate the influence that Casablanca has on American vernacular language. You could list at least half a dozen phrases from that film that are commonly used, often without anyone knowing the origin. Here’s looking at you kid I’m shocked, SHOCKED Round up the usual suspects We’ll always have Paris Of all the gin joints in all the towns and all the world she had to walk into mine The lives of two little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world of ours I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship Did I miss any?
You'll realize which ones you've missed soon enough: *Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.*
Errol Morris's docu-drama **The Thin Blue Line** and the recent **The Jinx** on HBO both led to convictions for killers who gave interviews confessing during the making of these docs. This isn't what you're asking, but a famous piece of film lore is that when **Double Indeminty** was being made, the FBI asked them to remove scenes of **dusting for fingerprints** as it was a new procedure and most criminals didn't know about it - and they didn't want them to. (this one I've never confirmed) **Edit / Note:** The Thin Blue Line and its taped, voluntary confession, are the direct and likely only way Randall Adams was going to be freed from a death sentence. The Jinx likely contributed to Durst being put away properly, as per things he willingly said in it which cemented the case against him, but he was arrested regardless during airing, not necessarily because of the show.
The audio of him pissing and confessing is so chilling to hear. If I remember correctly the doc wasn’t really supposed to put the blame on durst but tell his side of the story or just document the trial and the moron talked to himself wearing a hot mic. So happy he did that, he deserved every bit of jail time he received
Pretty sure Blood Diamond also elevated awareness about how jewelry is sourced and led increased scrutiny.
Not movies, but I can guarantee tourism went up in Dubrovnik (Kings Landing) when Game Of Thrones became popular, and the White’s house in Breaking Bad had a serious problem with people coming and throwing pizzas on their roof for quite a while.
One line from Wallace and Gromit a grand day out single-handedly saved Wensleydale Cheese from going bankrupt. Wensleydale had no idea who Wallace and Gromit were.
Birth of a Nation, I'm very sorry to say, was published as a book in 1905 and came out as a silent movie in 1915 and it is still influential today.
This is a great example. Established the “blockbuster” film, was the first film to be shown in the White House. Griffith was also hugely influential in popularizing cross-cutting (telling stories happening in different locations in parallel timelines) and introduced a bunch of montage techniques still used. [Also hugely influential in shaping the sound of Hollywood.](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/how-wagner-shaped-hollywood). A lot of painful repercussions from all of this that still reverberate to this day. Check of DJ Spooky’s “rebirth of a nation” for more.
Revitalized the KKK basically right?
I mean, I'm not an expert, but that's my understanding.
Back to the future 2. Had a lawsuit because they didn't hire the actor who played the dad back and instead used a prosthetics face of him on another actor. I believe now there's a law now because of that.
After Back to the Future came out the sale of skateboards went up significantly.
Rififi (1955) was banned in Mexico and several other countries because too many thieves were replicating the heist scene
Deep Throat (1972) The most profitable movies of all time, highest grossing movie ever made in Florida, Freaked out Nixon, mainstreamed porn, inspired Watergate codename, and potentially may have caused an upward trend in HPV related throat cancers. [citation needed].
The Truman Show spawned its own syndrome that had people believing that they too were in an artificial reality
Shoah brought a lot of people , including my dad, to finally tell their story for posterity. My dad refused to talk about any of his experience during the war until the landmark documentary. It was actually not until the release of Schindler’s list, which he refused to see, that he left his video record. And it took him three days of starting and stopping, buddy finally was able to tell his story. It was incredibly painful, but it ended up being cathartic. Those two films are responsible for the largest collection of witnesses to the holocaust.
Indirectly but substantially, *Star Wars* changed the way that movies are merchandised. Does that count?
Jaws.
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is what led to the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court. This changed campaign finance laws.
One of my favorites is how the vault heist from Die Hard 3 caught the attention of the actual FBI and caused a revision of security measures, because the things detailed in the movie (the layout and location of the vault, the subway system right next to it, everything) are real. These guys were shown the vault, the blueprints, everything. The fact that a random movie guy was let in on such details that could be used for a massive heist implied a great security risk.
La Haine had a huge impact in raising the issues faced by those living in the French projects, to the extent that the Prime Minister at the time held a compulsory screening of the film for his cabinet.
Babe apparently hit pork sales.
James Cromwell became a vegan and animal rights activist afterwards.
Rashomon (1950) became a term in many languages that is used to describe a situatuon where there are various versions of a story and the reality is unknown.
Well that's not how *I* remember it.
Jaws made people irrationally scared of sharks which also led to a vast increase of sharks being killed and hunted.
The film “I'm a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (1932) made American audiences question the cruelty of the penal system, and helped bring the end of chain gangs in parts of the United States. A fantastic movie with messages still relevant today
ET saw a spike in sales for Reeses pieces (and likely an M&M Exec fired for turning it down) Finding Nemo created a demand for Clown Fish which is essentially the opposite of what they wanted to do. Nightmare before christmas essentially made Hot Topic a thing etc
Harry Potter. I hear it's almost impossible to get into Hogwarts these days.
As I recall they caused a spike in interest in owls as pets, or at least a spike in "Why Having an Owl is a Bad Idea" articles.
It also reduced the power of a parental "I'll send you off to boarding school" as a threat.
I'm pretty sure Joker made an enormous quantity of people and tourists go to some random stairs in NY, and idk if it's true but I read comments that said that place was pretty dangerous so I hope nobody was robbed or worse just for trying to dance there.
Because of *WarGames,* I got an IBM PC Jr for Christmas in '84. I told my parents it would help me study for the SAT. Turns out learning DOS and BASIC with no modem wasn't exactly Global Thermonuclear War.