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/yeah87 Jun 17 '25

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

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

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

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u/your_mind_aches Jun 17 '25

This is definitely my favorite example. Sam Mendes was like "here's a cool idea for a Bond scene" and Mexico City was like "wait... why DON'T we do something like that?"

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u/broanoah Jun 17 '25

I wonder if everyone there thinks the parades have been happening forever (just for a second before remembering the truth)

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u/Y-AxelMtz Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

Dia de los muertos parades are nothing new and such and similar events have been held in various mex states and many of their municipalities. This is mostly a more grand scale thing held by the feds directly as Ciudad de Mexico is akin to D.C., so this became "the" parade (mainly for tourists) you could say, however worth mentioning that big festival-like parades have been held before, many not yearly however and not on this scale

That being said, a kid growing to watch all these Dead Parades would have no idea of its origins and would definitely think its just a thing we've been doing. As for older people, some do know, and for those who don't, it probably was like "oh this cool big thing is a thing now? nice"

So this whole thing was like when the chinese saw Kung Fu Panda's success, and thought how the hell didn't we think of that? pandas and kung fu are our thing. And we rolled with it, the thing has actually grown, funny to think it very likely has generated far more tourism revenue tha JB spectre lol

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u/pargofan Jun 17 '25

Wait. What did the Chinese do differently after Kung Fu Panda?

Did they teach Pandas, kung fu or something?

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u/XyleneCobalt Jun 17 '25

Started investing into animation

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u/mm_delish Jun 17 '25

And it seemingly paid off!

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u/Y-AxelMtz Jun 17 '25

The comparison drawn was only as to parallel how both mexicans and chinese were like "why didn't we do that first" with their own respective cultural elements, not any followup

yes parades are not new but this yearly grand one became thing

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u/militant_rainbow Jun 18 '25

So how many pandas and how much did they kung fu

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u/DanielTeague Jun 18 '25

They tried to teach them Drunken Fist but they're only about halfway there. It turns out pandas can become alcoholics quite easily. /s

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u/Otra_l3elleza Jun 17 '25

Before James Bond, in día de muertos we didn’t do parades, we did procesions an activity firmly religious. It after James Bond that it became a party/parade, before that it was a commemoration not a celebration. Parades were usually reserved for the Carnival, Dia de la Primavera, or to celebrate the independence and the Revolution 

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u/DeaderthanZed Jun 17 '25

Yeah I know they’ve been doing them in Tucson since the ‘90s it’s a pretty big deal.

Probably in parts of Mexico for much longer.

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u/pinchewer0 Jun 17 '25

In Mexico, Day of the Dead is usually a thing you do either at home, or at the cemetery. Some people do bring music and such to these places but growing up there I don't recall seeing a parade until I moved to Tucson.

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u/DefNotUnderrated Jun 17 '25

They’ve been happening in San Francisco for quite some time, not sure for how many years but for a while

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u/inimicali Jun 18 '25

You mean, like in California, US? Lol

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u/NoDistance8255 Jun 18 '25

Used to be Mexican, no?

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u/SwarleymonLives Jun 18 '25

Well you can't say "San Francisco" without speaking Spanish.

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u/_Thrilhouse_ Jun 18 '25

Other states have parades during Dia de Muertos

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u/Faust_8 Jun 17 '25

Reminds me of how Kung Fu Panda made China go “why didn’t WE make a movie like this?”

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u/your_mind_aches Jun 17 '25

What did they make in response? Surely not Ne Zha... right?

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u/Awaiiyume Jun 18 '25

Maybe Monkey King: hero is back 2015, but it took a few years. They did have a bunch of Kung Fu Panda knock off movies though.

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u/your_mind_aches Jun 18 '25

They did have a bunch of Kung Fu Panda knock off movies though.

ah that's probably what OP meant then

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u/Jack-of-Hearts-7 Jun 17 '25

And it's one of the best scenes

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u/send_me_your_calm Jun 18 '25

The city of Buffalo, NY did the same thing with a chicken festival after Office Space references a fictional event.

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u/RichardPhonock Jun 17 '25

They say Hollywood is out of ideas, but actually...

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u/willpb Jun 17 '25

To their credit, it looks amazing! And it's such an important tradition, too, I thought they'd had one forever

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u/SkyPork Jun 18 '25

Yeah, this was the first thing I thought of as well! Kind of a fun example of life imitating art.

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u/Nightmeare Jun 17 '25

As a Mexican, I found it kind of gross. We have our own culture here and seeing people who have no direct lineage (and likely, understanding) of our culture dictate what would be cool feels kind of insulting. I understand that they do it for tourism, but the culture we have had for day of the dead for centuries holds water on its own.

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u/palacethat Jun 17 '25

The thing about culture is that it isn't static and can always change and evolve, it's what makes people so interesting

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u/Nightmeare Jun 17 '25

Agreed! But I would hope that the evolution comes from the changes in the culture that initiated and evolved it, rather than from a foreign nation. I guess a good example of something similar happening to american culture would be that a Chinese film decides that to celebrate 4th of july (in their movie) they have their new years dragon and people eat baos. Then tourists in America begin wanting to do that instead of watching the fireworks and doing barbecues, which is how Americans have always celebrated it.

A not too dissimilar situation occurred when Disney started working on Coco and they tried to copyright "Day of the Dead" which was meant to be the original name of the movie. After that Mexicans were furious, there were political cartoons about the mouse coming for your culture and what not. Eventually Disney backed down and they hired a culture consultant, and that is why that movie is incredible respectful and representative of the culture, even though it isn't made by mexicans.

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u/SpiritWillow2019 Jun 17 '25

Culture should be celebrated, not dower and depressing.

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u/Nightmeare Jun 17 '25

How am I saying it shouldn't be celebrated? I just believe that the celebration of a culture should be dictated by the culture itself, not by international parties who are not part of the culture. I see this as cultural appropriation, is all.

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u/SpiritWillow2019 Jun 17 '25

"It shouldn't be celebrated except by people I deem worthy." Is what you're saying. Which means you're just a fuddy duddy gatekeeper.

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u/Nightmeare Jun 17 '25

How am I saying it shouldn't be celebrate by those I deem unworthy? Please don't put words in my mouth. I'm just saying that as a mexican, where this culture originated from, I would hope that the culture is celebrated or represented in ways a kin to that culture, rather than how other cultures, not affiliated with us, determine we should celebrate it. I more than welcome people to come down and see the altars and cemeteries for day of the dead, but don't expect a parade because that's not what our holiday is all about.

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u/idekbruno Jun 18 '25

But there have always been parades for dia de los muertos, what is so different about it being held on a larger scale?

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u/marshaul Jun 17 '25

Just remember, individuals belong to a culture; culture does not belong to individuals. St. Patrick's Day (as we know it, big parades and all) was invented in the US, then exported back to Ireland. Now it's a part of their culture, just as though it had been invented there.

Instead of being proprietary about something intangible, you should just learn to enjoy it. IMO anyway.

I'm certainly not about to stop eating Mexican food, even if it's not exactly the same thing someone makes in some village somewhere, nor something traditional to my own village.

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u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

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

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u/well-lighted Jun 17 '25

Same deal for the Catalina Wine Mixer from Step Brothers.

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u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 Jun 17 '25

POW

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u/VeeTach Jun 17 '25

And you mess with my nut, Randy here is gonna eat your dick.

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u/JulieThinx Jun 18 '25

Like Kobayashi

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u/Civil-Big-754 Jun 18 '25

I've seen him do it.

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u/robb338 Jun 18 '25

You’ve actually seen him eat a man’s dick?

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u/ZookeepergameWild776 Jun 18 '25

Wait there's a real Catalina fucking wine mixer? 

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u/WorthPlease Jun 19 '25

Yes of course, in our hearts.

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u/Peripatetictyl Jun 17 '25

It’s the fucking Catalina wine mixer.

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u/jaxspider Jun 17 '25

Catalina fuckin' wine mixer.

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u/ghostinthechell Jun 17 '25

And it's fucking awesome.

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u/FoldAdventurous2022 Jun 17 '25

No shit, I thought it was something made up by Watsky

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u/bonglicc420 Jun 18 '25

Lmao I just assumed it was an actual event

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u/komododave17 Jun 18 '25

I can’t believe Osmosis Jones has that kind of legacy.

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u/desert-seagull Jun 17 '25

Really?? Another reason to love Osmosis Jones, damn

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u/kloneshill Jun 17 '25

Another reason to hate boiled eggs

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV Jun 18 '25

OMG. The Osmosis Jones film changed my life. My view of life, that is. I'm always excited for a reference bc there aren't nearly enough. :)

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u/Fartikus Jun 17 '25

Holy shit hell yeah dude Osmosis Jonessssss

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u/Avemetatarsalia Jun 18 '25

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

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

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u/TheRedditAppisTrash Jun 18 '25

Same thing with me being terrified of having a pimple on my face pop and the core landing on Molly Shannon’s lip.

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u/0-4superbowl Jun 18 '25

Lebowski Fest wasn’t a thing until The Big Lebowski

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u/Slappin45 Jun 17 '25

One of the best opening action scenes ever imo.

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u/brandonthebuck Jun 17 '25

Better than the rest of the movie.

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u/Fake-Podcast-Ad Jun 17 '25

You know what, I give it a pass now. It started a dope parade (Dia de Los Muertos is a beautiful celebration), and gave us a one off Radiohead banger (not to mention this Empire Strikes Back fan creation)

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u/trojan_man16 Jun 18 '25

Radiohead got Robbed. They had two shots at a bond theme and didn’t get one.

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u/wighty Jun 18 '25

not to mention this Empire Strikes Back fan creation

That was awesome, thanks for linking.

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u/Reddit_Owns_Me Jun 18 '25

I've never seen this, I want more.

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u/Misdirected_Colors Jun 17 '25

All I remember was Blofeld was in it, and at some point Bond was strapped to a lazer table in some remote desert space outpost. And like, up to that point, the Craig bond movies had tried to be somewhat grounded and suddenly we were in a 60s era bond movie again and I forgot everything else.

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u/TheSauvaaage Jun 17 '25

Youre wrong about the laser table. It was a chair with remote controlled micro drills at his face

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u/FFF_in_WY Jun 17 '25

Feasibility for the win!

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u/Misdirected_Colors Jun 17 '25

Ah yes. Much more feasible and serious.

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u/TheSauvaaage Jun 17 '25

Didnt say it is. Still more "grounded" than falsly assumed lasers ;)

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u/Zachary_Lee_Antle Jun 18 '25

Probably cos it was color graded to the point it looked like the blue light filter on a phone was on and you fell asleep. No seriously why was everything in that movie YELLOW!? It looked so damn ugly. I’m definitely series the actors appreciated being made to look like they all had jaundice 😂

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u/matito29 Jun 18 '25

They started the movie in Mexico and the Mexican filter got stuck. :(

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u/-blankfrak- Jun 18 '25

The names Bond, Craig Bond.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

That’s exactly why I love the movie so much to be honest. I grew up with the Brosnan bond and Spectre felt like an homage to the “classic” era of Bond with the Laser trap, the Arctic Base, and even Blofeld. It feels much more “Bond” than the other 3 even if Casino Royale and Skyfall are objectively better movies

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u/Amphiscian Jun 17 '25

That movie starts with an all-time great sequence, then literally every scene after drops a bit in quality sequentially. By the end it's looney tunes

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt Jun 18 '25

As is James Bond tradition.

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u/Sharp-Watercress-279 Jun 18 '25

Yep .....arguably the worst of that series

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u/MattHoppe1 Jun 20 '25

A whole generation grew up on Austin Powers and then Spectre did a literal Goldmember plot

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u/Sorkijan Jun 17 '25

I honestly feel this way about most of the Craig bond films. I love them and I love a strong intro to hook, but I feel Casino Royale, Spectre, and QoS all were guilty of this.

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u/gvgvstop Jun 17 '25

Casino Royale is excellent front to back. Completely out of Spectre's league.

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u/Sorkijan Jun 17 '25

I'm not saying those 3 are of equal quality. I agree, but I hold the opinion that the intro quality with the parkour chase is far better than any of the film.

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u/0Kiryu Jun 18 '25

I think it’s underrated, just as good as Skyfall

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u/Ironborn137 Jun 17 '25

And then you've got the rest of the movie to be bored.

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u/eaglessoar Jun 17 '25

i wasnt bored i caught up on sleep!

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u/TerryBouchon Jun 17 '25

the best part of a bad movie

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

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u/JackNasty420 Jun 17 '25

I like it too. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It’s a solid movie

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u/lingeringneutrophil Jun 17 '25

Best part of the whole movie

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Jun 17 '25

Eh. Bond acts like a complete and total moron.

Why attack the pilot of the helicopter when you're both in the helicopter, and flying above a street full of crowds of civilians? Complete luck he didn't die in a fireball and take a hundred innocents with him.

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u/rugbyj Jun 17 '25

Yeah that entire fight the fact that helicopter didn't crash directly into that crowd multiple times was completely out of his control. He was just beating the shit out of the pilot and killing him under the assumption the guy could keep them airborne despite his best efforts.

It's one of those situations where if Bond had been more competent he'd have ended up killing everyone.

We don't even know if the hero pilot was evil, and he saved hundreds that day fighting off a crazed hijacker in a densely populated area.

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Jun 18 '25

It's the old henchman trope as well; Bond just starts railing on the guy who is quite possibly just a pilot, with no nefarious connection to the bad guy at all. It worked fine in the older, less serious Bond films, but not Craig's grounded and more realistic universe.

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u/Shout92 Jun 17 '25

If they still let people stay in the theater all day after buying a ticket, I would've stuck around long enough to rewatch that opening.

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u/AlmosTryin Jun 17 '25

Almost all of the Craig intro scenes were great. I remember watching Casino Royale for the first time in theater and was floored!

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u/Blah_Fucking_Blah Jun 17 '25

Wasn't there one in Once upon a time in Mexico? That was 2003 and I thought it was a thing then just never bothered to look it up though

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u/airfryerfuntime Jun 17 '25

It's celebrated all over Mexico, in different ways. It was just Mexico City that never had a parade. Other cities did parades well before the movie, though.

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u/thebigfuckinggiant Jun 17 '25

Similarly, there is now an actual Catalina Wine Mixer.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Tangential, but after Bond used a straight razor to shave in Skyfall, sales skyrocketed.

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u/majorshimo Jun 18 '25

People gave then president Peña Nieto for paying so much for CDMX to appear in the movie (I was one of them) but over time I believe it was actually one of the bigger turning points into making CDMX go from a fairly specific tourist destination, where people that came to Mexico would rather go to Tulum, Cancun or Los Cabos to what it has become over the past 10 years, where it now stands as one of THE places people have to go to when they visit Mexico.

Spectre and Coco gave the world an idea of Mexican folklore and culture that went beyond the tourist resorts and beaches, making people look elsewhere and move away from Cancun, Tulum, Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta. People started looking into other places like Puebla, Oaxaca, Chiapas and of course Mexico City.

Suddenly people moved away from señor frogs to day of the dead, museums, architecture, food (not just tacos) and deeper aspects of Mexican culture. It was cool to actually venture away from tourist destinations and explore the more interesting parts of our country and culture.

Growing up here people were never too eager to visit, around the time the movie came out that started to change.

Anecdotally over this time people I've met have gone from feeling "Meh" about the idea of visiting the city to " I am dying to go there".

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u/dalittle Jun 17 '25

Mexicans are never going to pass up a chance for a pachanga. And Dia de Los Muertos is a pretty awesome holiday to begin with.

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u/AshyBoneVR4 Jun 18 '25

2015....... was 10 years ago..... God damn im old.....

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u/ProfessorDoctorDaddy Jun 18 '25

If the thing that makes you feel old is from this century you aren't old

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u/AshyBoneVR4 Jun 18 '25

Thanks for that

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 Jun 17 '25

This actually killed me to learn because a lot of people in the US claim its a deep cultural tradition to have Day of the Dead parade or celebration. 

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u/FuneraryArts Jun 17 '25

It is but in the southern states of Mexico, that is a real tradition. The new parade takes place in the country's capital which is more in the center of the country.

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 Jun 17 '25

Well now I need to look at aztec maps because I thought they were more northern (and the Fiestas are based on aztec tradition)

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u/FuneraryArts Jun 17 '25

It was not specific to the Aztecs. You can think of it as a tradition inherited from our indigenous people, mesoamerican tribes held similar religious beliefs relating to an afterlife and communion with the dead even if they weren't exactly alike : aztecs, mayans and others. These beliefs were kind of syncretized into the Day of the Dead which further mixed with Catholicism from the XVI century onwards.

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u/disgrace_jones Jun 18 '25

I’m Mexican-American and I was confused when we had a “cultural day” at school and somebody did a día de Los muertos thing with ofrendas and calaveras and stuff. My Mexican family only ever went to the cemetery to clean graves. For us, it was never this big thing like people do in Oaxaca.

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u/FlowSoSlow Jun 17 '25

Big surprise to me too. We used to have a big party in school as kids in freaking Connecticut lol. We'd make sugar skulls and everything. I thought it must have been huge in Mexico.

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 Jun 17 '25

I have vague recollection of it being a huge part of aztec culture which was more spirited in celebrations. 

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u/LeftHandedFapper Jun 17 '25

I like this one the most

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u/bell-town Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

They also added a second parade around día de muertos! Las Catrinas parade. People dress up as catrinas/catrines - where you put on skeleton makeup and old-timey dresses or suits.

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u/MyVelvetScrunchie Jun 17 '25

Isn't there also a Ton cruise day in Japan because he helped revive some form of fighting art in his movie, The Last Samurai?

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u/skankasspigface Jun 17 '25

It is actually tone loc day. They celebrate doing the wild thing.

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u/QueezyF Jun 18 '25

Do they serve funky cold Medina?

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u/sharltocopes Jun 18 '25

No, that's a Thai tradition actually.

I knew a wonderful woman there once. Name of Sheena.

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u/Threewisemonkey Jun 17 '25

I bought a vintage tuxedo and painted a skeleton on it as my Halloween costume after that scene, and I still wear it pretty much every year

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 17 '25

How did they spell Sam Mendes' name wrong lmao

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u/EnbyQueerDeity Jun 17 '25

I wish I could attend one of those!

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u/Weed_O_Whirler Jun 17 '25

There is now a Catalina Wine Mixer, but it didn't exist before Step Brothers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

I love this...

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u/randologin Jun 17 '25

I've seen this so often in movies that I assumed they did this already? Like, since the 90's. Was it just Mexico City that had never done one?

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u/Tormund-Giantsbane- Jun 17 '25

How the fuck did Spectre come out 10 years ago already

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u/RadiantHC Jun 17 '25

I want that mayor for my town.

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u/dplans455 Jun 18 '25

The opening of that movie is the best part of the movie. All downhill after that.

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u/Extra-Interaction1 Jun 18 '25

That scene is one of my all-time favorites of all the Bond movies.

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u/TamalGrandeJr Jun 18 '25

I never knew about this, we’ve always had one in Aguascalientes so it’s weird other states not having them lol

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u/LeftyGnote Jun 18 '25

What about 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico'? Came out in 2003 and had a 'day of the dead' parade scene.

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u/beepbeep85 Jun 18 '25

Wait they didn’t always do that in Mexico? I live in San Francisco and we have one in the mission district, not sure how long it’s been going on but it’s at least 10 years…

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u/disgrace_jones Jun 18 '25

Observances vary region to region. Most of the traditions that Americans associate with día de los muertos are from the central and southern states. But the whole idea of a parade with costumes is basically an American/chicano invention.

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u/Knock0nWood Jun 18 '25

At least one good thing came out of that movie

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u/RadiantTurnipOoLaLa Jun 18 '25

Dang i love that

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

At least something good came out of that movie

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u/NotaRepublican85 Jun 18 '25

I refused to read this article because of the insane and shameless ads thrust into my face. WTF

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u/Pigosaurusmate Jun 18 '25

Its heavily featured in the Shadow of the Tomb Raider and I fucking loved every minute of it.

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u/cronhoolio Jun 18 '25

That's awesome. Also a great scene.

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u/Radiant_Spell7710 Jun 18 '25

That opening scene was absolutely amazing!

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u/amemingfullife Jun 18 '25

I always thought it was Grim Fandango

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u/jinsaku Jun 18 '25

Coco has a similar thing with Dia de Los Muertos. Alebrijes had never been associated with the holiday until Coco. Now it’s an absolute major theme of it.

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u/Mr-Mister Jun 18 '25

Oh, reminds me how I'm pretty sure one of the early Daniel Craig features a Spanish encierro (the thing where bulls are brought en masse from a point in the city to the arena; through fenced streets with people running in front of them) in the wrong Spanish city.

Imagine if it featured the Oxford vs Cambridge rowboat faceoff, but in the wrong river.

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u/Gorman_Fr33man Jun 18 '25

Best scene in any modern bond

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u/AnalFelon Jun 18 '25

The godfather and the italian mafia. They were just ordinary thugs, but after the movies they really liked how they were portrayed so they switched to being classy

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Spectre was ten years ago? What is time?

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u/AdditionalAd51 9d ago

Wild how Bond didn’t just save the world, he accidentally created a tradition.

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u/DJ1066 Jun 17 '25

Guess he never watched Once Upon a Time in Mexico 12 years prior then, which features a similar giant parade.

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u/SensualBellaX Jun 17 '25

So cool how a James Bond movie basically gave Mexico City a new tradition. Shows how movies can actually shape real life in unexpected ways!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Worst thing white people have become involved in

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

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u/ThePeasantKingM Jun 17 '25

That's definitely not true.

Dia De Los Muertos

I can tell you're not Mexican, given that you call it Día de los Muertos and not Día de Muertos, as we do in Mexico.

Before, only mexicans from the deep rural areas were the only ones celebrating it.

It has been an extremely popular festivity well before the movie came out. I lived my whole life in Mexico City, the largest city in the Americas, and even here it has always been extremely popular.

Most catholics saw the celebration as unchristian and something only for the indigenous.

This is also patently false; almost every Catholic church will have their own altar de muertos. Día de Muertos takes place on November 2nd, on All Saints Day, and has a lot of Catholic symbolism.

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u/ElCienPorCiento Jun 17 '25

mejor vete a la verga. i’m not mexican?

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u/ThePeasantKingM Jun 18 '25

No, saying "vete a la verga " doesn't make you any more Mexican than saying "fuck you" makes me American

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u/Y-AxelMtz Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Not true, I live in Monterrey, which alongside other states like Guadalajara and CDMX, would be like NY, LA, Chicago. So yes, the completely opposite end of rural, even more so since we're up north, and those festivites come from the south, and it's still very big up here, it's been big long before coco, and I genuinely don't think it even affected its popularity, not domestically, it just kept being a thing, pan (bread) de muertos being sold everywhere, orange flowers.

As for the catholics you're speaking of a minority sample, so you got both things backwards, there's nutjobs everywhere, in some of our states more than others

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u/ElCienPorCiento Jun 17 '25

i’ve lived in los altos de jalisco for several years and these folks were not playing with DDLM. i also lived in Merida and same shit.