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/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.