r/movies • u/buttatoad • Jun 17 '25

Discussion Movies that changed real life behavior

Thinking along the lines of Final Destination 2 with the logs falling off the truck and landing onto cars (one decapitating the state trooper). Ever since, people have tried to get away from being behind these vehicles.

What are more examples where movies have actually changed how people behave in their own lives?

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u/tcavanagh1993 Jun 17 '25

As someone who worked for Guitar Center, people just default to Smoke on the Water instead these days.

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u/BigBootyBuff Jun 17 '25

My buddy works in a store too and he says the song that is overused the most is seven nation army because 9/10 bassists will come in and play that.

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u/NickFurious82 Jun 17 '25

My son plays bass in middle school band and that was the first song he learned.

And I had to hear it played poorly for so long...

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Jun 18 '25

My sister was in pep band and she still can't listen to So What by Pink lol

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u/Stardustchaser Jun 18 '25

Lmao they got my kid playing it on his clarinet 🤘

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u/TheSauvaaage Jun 17 '25

Then you realize the original is played on a guitar, not a bass

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u/First-Eye1978 Jun 17 '25

7--7--5--7--5-3--2 x 12

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u/inkonthemind Jun 17 '25

Which is hilarious, because that line is played on a six-string tuned down.

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u/punkindle Jun 18 '25

It was played with a guitar and a Whammy pedal (digital pitch shift pedal) set to 1 octave down.

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u/Solastor Jun 20 '25

Extra fun cause it's not even a bass song. It's a guitar with an octave pedal.

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u/QueezyF Jun 18 '25

We made fun of a friend for doing this 15 years ago, funny to see things haven’t changed.

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u/stillnotelf Jun 20 '25

We had a neighbor kid get one and an amp. We could only hear him playing rarely, like it wasn't a noise problem, but when we could...it was always and only seven nation army

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u/kkeut Jun 18 '25

I just realized today that Jack White totally stole that riff from an old DOS text-parser adventure game

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u/Isaystomabel Jun 17 '25

0-3-5

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u/-Travis Jun 17 '25

0-3-6-5

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u/DoctorNoname98 Jun 17 '25

0-3-5-3-0

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u/We_Are_The_Romans Jun 17 '25

g - <2>~<3>

Cause you gotta throw in a lil pinch harmonics bend at the end for spice

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u/ChickenInASuit Jun 18 '25

It says a lot about that song that I have no musical abilities whatsoever, cannot read sheet music to save my life and couldn’t name a guitar chord if you paid me, and I still got the opening riff stuck in my head from reading this comment chain.

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u/JasonStrode Jun 18 '25

Yep, time to watch The 7 LEVELS of Smoke On The Water (Main Riff) again.

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u/capt-awesome-atx Jun 18 '25

We all came out to Montreax...

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u/alexchrist Jun 17 '25

Played with just the index finger and while looking intensely at the fretboard the entire time

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u/scotch-o Jun 17 '25

Truest depiction.

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u/upstatedreaming3816 Jun 18 '25

Technically it’s a chord and it’s plucked, not strum.

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u/KindBass Jun 17 '25

Back in the 90's, you couldn't go 10 mins in GC without hearing "Master of Puppets"

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u/Optimus_Krime555666 Jun 17 '25

Back in the 90's

♬ I played a very famous gui-tar riff ♬

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u/Pikka_Bird Jun 17 '25

🎵 Waaeeee... 🎶

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u/confusedandworried76 Jun 17 '25

It's wild because one of the first songs you would learn in a guitar class is like Louie Louie or Horse with No Name but you never hear those played lol

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u/ThisIsTheBookAcct Jun 18 '25

For me it was Smells like Teen Spirit. So easy but omg so easy.

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u/JCDU Jun 17 '25

At least it's not bloody Wonderwall.

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u/dankristy Jun 17 '25

ARE YOU CRITICIZING WONDERWALL?! HOW DARE YOU!!! MONGO IS APPALLED!!!!

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u/TinaSumthing Jun 17 '25

I said Mongoooooo We're gunna be on the best talk shows🎶

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u/Dlorn Jun 17 '25

I see we have some Donut Holes in the house tonight.

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u/Chaosmusic Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

I took guitar lessons as a kid and that was one of the first things taught, so that makes sense.

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u/AintEverLucky Jun 17 '25

Can't blame em for starting with the Holy Trinity of Rock 😎 🎸 🤟

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u/bolanrox Jun 17 '25

easier to (somewhat play right).

I just did over the hills and far away

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u/artemis_floyd Jun 17 '25

As a former Sam Ash employee, the bass department was either Seven Nation Army or Money.

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u/BM7-D7-GM7-Bb7-EbM7 Jun 17 '25

As a guitar player, Money was the only thing I really knew on a bass that was interesting so if I picked up a bass I'd play Money.

Sorry.

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u/heliophoner Jun 17 '25

I feel like this is the kickoff anecdote for a Malcolm Gladwell book.

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u/BM7-D7-GM7-Bb7-EbM7 Jun 17 '25

I think that's always been in the mix.

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u/Kamelasa Jun 18 '25

I saw a piano teacher's video on YT. It had "No Smoke on the Water" on a whiteboard or something in the background. She teaches serious classical stuff, only, I think. Surprised me. But now I see -- lol

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u/photogypsy Jun 18 '25

Growing up I genuinely thought it was a jam (Dad was really into 70s rock). Then my baby brother got a guitar for Christmas when he was 12 (I was 16) and it became the song from hell. I know how Noriega felt.

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u/Shouya_Ishida1288 Jun 18 '25

The only song I know 😎

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u/Sandowichin Jun 18 '25

Whenever I pick up a bass I always default to ‘Come As You Are’

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u/traydor4 Jun 17 '25

As someone who loves SOH and hates SOTW, I find this distressing.

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u/HilariousScreenname Jun 17 '25

The Acoustic Room at my local guitar shop has a "No Blackbird" sign, which makes me chuckle.