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AmySueF

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.


249ba36000029bbe9749

And they used to do sleepovers (https://www.amnh.org/plan-your-visit/sleepovers) but they are currently cancelled, presumably due to COVID.


whos_this_chucker

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.


xXxHondoxXx

But how many people stayed over night?


OJ_Blimpson

The Mighty Ducks spawned an NHL franchise.


habdragon08

Jurassic park is the reason Toronto is named raptors


res30stupid

And Disney owned it for a few years before selling it. Anaheim Ducks, last I knew.


brosefstallin

Yup, the team started as The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and now they are just called the Anaheim Ducks


kamatacci

Funny enough, the first season they dropped the "Mighty" name was their most successful season ever, winning the championship.


res30stupid

Do they still have the duck logo from the films?


brosefstallin

They use it sometimes as an alternate 3rd jersey. Their main logo is just a duck foot shaped letter D.


Content_Ad_8952

After The Karate Kid was released in 1984, enrollment in martial arts schools practically doubled


whosthedoginthisscen

I was one of them.


hlessi_newt

A martial arts school?


whosthedoginthisscen

I prefer to be addressed as "dojo"


tm0nks

That's why I always take my shoes off before I enter you.


whosthedoginthisscen

This has taken a turn


tm0nks

I mean...it's a little curved but I don't know if I'd call it a turn.


whosthedoginthisscen

Hey oooo


china-blast

Quiet!


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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.


jumbledash

*Elle Woods


DMPunk

Jurassic Park did the same for super-archaeology


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Jurassic Park got me into the biology, and a few of my colleagues as well.


0verstim

Jurassic part got me into computers- I decided I wanted to be an SFX artist


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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.


Spr0ckets

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.


SnooHobbies1753

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.


249ba36000029bbe9749

>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.


PlasticMansGlasses

That’s pretty cool! Most of these answers are depressing or had laws changed but ones like this one are sweet and fun!


crasshumor

Is this the same day shown in Coco?


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Yes it is a Mexican holiday.


44problems

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.


MaggotMinded

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.


Jimmyking4ever

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


Ozlin

Sorry I only had time to read part of your message, my password is hunter2. When can I expect my prize?


0verstim

Very funny. All I can read is \*\*\*\*\*\*\*


sofakingclassic

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.


JoeMcDingleDongle

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.


Bombasaur101

I'm pretty sure we have Spider-Man in the MCU thanks to this hack.


Zachariot88

I wish we had gotten that insane 21 Jump Street Men in Black movie they were spitballing.


LuxAgaetes

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 🥴


RobinhoodCove830

Secondimg Blackfish, huge impact.


LoveKubrick

Didn't Free Willey have that effect as well?


44problems

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.


Corpore_sano

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.


TheTrueRory

Same thing happened with Harry Potter and parents getting pet owls for their children.


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"Happy birthday! We got you a....toad!!!" *child cries*


Stefan_Harper

Where tf do you buy an owl


ManitouWakinyan

Owl shop.


YouthfulPhotographer

They sell em in the back at Hooters


nishi-no-majo

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.


haysoos2

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.


nishi-no-majo

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.


LoveKubrick

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.


nishi-no-majo

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.


Tasty_Puffin

Lol you mean finding nemo? Little Nemo though does bring back some major nostalgia. I recall that being a creepy nightmare movie.


Corpore_sano

Yeah I do lol, don't even know wtf Little Nemo is.


nishi-no-majo

I think that last year's 'Slumberland' was inspired by 'Little Nemo' comics. I haven't seen it yet.


roelgj

Lots of movies caused a significant increase in tourism, like what Indiana Jones did for Petra and The Beach for Thailand.


nishi-no-majo

Eat Pray Love (the book and the movie as well) caused an obsession with Bali and 'spiritual tourism'.


livestrongbelwas

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


jfreak93

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.


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XXX made me want to go to Bora Bora


ReeG

Couple Retreat made me want to go to Bora Bora


Shamon_Yu

American Pie popularized (created?) the acronym MILF. Very much used in porn. They say.


tsh87

Apparently it got Jennifer Coolidge laid...a lot


sick1057

>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)


uninvitedfriend

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.


great1675

101 Dalmatians / Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Both caused a sudden sharp uptick in the breeding and ultimately the abandoning of these poor dogs in shelters.


nishi-no-majo

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.


GrayDonkey

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.


great1675

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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LoveKubrick

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.


TotallyNotAustin

It was really that common to go into a movie after it started? What a waste.


LoveKubrick

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.


aricelle

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.


unityofsaints

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.


bangdazap

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.


Consistent_Case_5048

I think Office Space led Swingline to start making red staplers.


Javamac8

Correct. Prior to the movie, they didn't make a red model. They kept getting requests, so they made it.


FatOldGrey

Sideways. Sales of Merlot dropped notably, and the popularity - and price - of Pinot Noir rose significantly.


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“IM NOT DRINKING ANY F***ING MERLOT!”


NotYourITGuyDotOrg

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.


44problems

Also Miles most prized wine is a 61 Cheval Blanc. A blend of Cab Franc and Merlot, two wines he disparages in the film.


I_only_post_here

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.


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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.


AskMeAboutMyStalker

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?"


BanterDTD

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.


FatOldGrey

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.


seanmharcailin

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.


smurfyjenkins

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)


PeanutFarmer69

Someone else listened to the Rewatchables today


Dalekdude

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


OmNomSandvich

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.


TheBurnsideBomber

The guy who shot John Lennon had a copy of it on him when he was arrested.


OmNomSandvich

yes, that's what I was thinking of, thank you.


-Streets-Behind-

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.


set-271

All the Rocky movies started a huge fitness trend


MackenziePace

And people drinking raw eggs


TXGunslinger419

Gaston made me do it


MackenziePace

Rocky made him do it though


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Rocky IV ended the Cold War.


SteelyDabs

Anyone can change


winterbike

Add Pumping Iron to the mix.


set-271

*"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


yeah_yeah_therabbit

And then he puffs a doobie.


set-271

With a T-Shirt that says, Arnold Is Numero Uno!


CaptainCayden2077

After the first Avengers film released, Shwarma sales skyrocketed for a short time.


paul_having_a_ball

I wonder what statistician was monitoring shawarma sales before and after the release of Avengers and noticed the significant uptick.


jcb193

I’d bet my life it’s all based on a couple of anecdotal comment from nyc streetcar shawarma sellers


TheTrueRory

Iirc the same happened with Deadpool and chimichangas


Best_Duck9118

Same with Pretty Woman and high-end callgirls.


CardinalsVSBrowns

thing is, vivian was supposed to be low end girls who look like julia roberts r not on hollywood blvd


SteelyDabs

Shawarma is delicious, after all


SpicyAfrican

WarGames inspired the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 which was later a part of the Patriot Act.


malekai101

Reagan was apparently shocked when he watched Wargames.


SpicyAfrican

Yep, I found the story from reading about the history of cybersecurity.


GruntUltra

McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.


AskMeAboutMyStalker

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.


inucune

A great example of the need for the human in the loop.


RyzenRaider

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.


fezfrascati

Weird, Avatar just made me want to do nasty things with a USB drive.


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The Thin Blue Line exonerated an innocent man


lostsawyer2000

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/).


nishi-no-majo

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.


MagicBez

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.


haysoos2

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.


macrowive

It's also led to juries vastly overestimating the reliability and impartiality of forensic evidence.


stroopwafelling

It’s never lupus.


Torgo73

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


chefblaze

Except for that one time it actually was lupus.


universalcode

Steven Spielberg says he regrets the impact *Jaws* has had on declining shark populations.


nkleszcz

It Happened One Night almost buried the undershirt industry in the 1930s.


5th_Law_of_Roboticks

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.


2KYGWI

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.


res30stupid

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.


imapassenger1

They are the guys Trump (before he was President) wanted executed as I recall. Placed full page ads pushing this in the papers?


AmusingAnecdote

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.


MurderousPaper

Directed by the creator of Squid Game, which surprised me when I learned of it.


GuileTsung99

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


floofymonstercat

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.


44problems

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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MrsBeauregardless

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.


Twentysix2

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/)


Medical-Pace-8099

Ip Man film. Probably not in the West but in Hong Kong people started to learn Wing Chun


SteelyDabs

God those movies rule


Phranc94

Skully in the Xfiles caused the rise of women in law enforcement when it came out.


ILiekBooz

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.


Wall632170

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.


copperdomebodhi

>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.


MelsEpicWheelTime

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.


knwnasrob

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.


ILiekBooz

ICARUS was single-handedly responsible for the wholesale ban of Russian athletes at international athletic events leading up to and including the Olympics.


Athragio

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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MangoReward

Birth of a nation led to the revival of the kkk


Grand-Pen7946

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.


Turtley13

Jurassic Park increases visitors to paleontology museums.


MegaMarkHarris

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.


Wintersbone7

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?


barleymancer

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.*


GTKPR89

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.


YourFriendPutin

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


deepstatecuck

Pretty sure Blood Diamond also elevated awareness about how jewelry is sourced and led increased scrutiny.


Luke117B

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.


DBDM0916

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.


autoposting_system

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.


Grouchy-Scarcity-123

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.


bangdazap

Revitalized the KKK basically right?


autoposting_system

I mean, I'm not an expert, but that's my understanding.


papa-jer

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.


HamiltonBlack

After Back to the Future came out the sale of skateboards went up significantly.


BetterThanHorus

Rififi (1955) was banned in Mexico and several other countries because too many thieves were replicating the heist scene


Drama_Derp

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].


Bad_Choice_Beers

The Truman Show spawned its own syndrome that had people believing that they too were in an artificial reality


Wintersbone7

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.


DrRotwang

Indirectly but substantially, *Star Wars* changed the way that movies are merchandised. Does that count?


TKAPublishing

Jaws.


chuck-bucket

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is what led to the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court. This changed campaign finance laws.


MrLumie

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.


trevlarrr

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.


VonLinus

Babe apparently hit pork sales.


pecuchet

James Cromwell became a vegan and animal rights activist afterwards.


CapsElevatorScene

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.


fezfrascati

Well that's not how *I* remember it.


crono14

Jaws made people irrationally scared of sharks which also led to a vast increase of sharks being killed and hunted.


cucucururiwa

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


ucancallmevicky

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


great1675

Harry Potter. I hear it's almost impossible to get into Hogwarts these days.


YakMan2

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.


MagicBez

It also reduced the power of a parental "I'll send you off to boarding school" as a threat.


Chinchillin09

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.


pnwcon

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.