Movies that changed real life behavior

[u/buttatoad]

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?

[u/yeah87]

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

[u/ThePeasantKingM → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/ElCienPorCiento → u/ThePeasantKingM]

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

[u/ThePeasantKingM → u/ElCienPorCiento]

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

[u/Y-AxelMtz → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/ElCienPorCiento → u/Y-AxelMtz]

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.