Top 10 Times Movies Affected the Real World
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Күн бұрынThese movies had a large and profound impact on the real world. For this list, we’ll be looking at films that resonated with audiences so strongly that people took them into their behavior into their own lives- influencing everything from opinions to even politics. Our countdown of the ways in which movies affected the real world includes Anarchist Hackers Taking Symbolism & Lines From“V for Vendetta” (2005), Beach Attendance Takes a Dive Due to “Jaws” (1975), Underground Fight Club Culture Becomes Popular Due to “Fight Club” (1999), and more! Let us know what we missed and what other films had powerful effects in the real world.
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@WatchMojo Жыл бұрын
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@randallrapp946 Жыл бұрын
1983's War games. Demonstrated how U.S. war games had been conducted leading to changes in policy. Plus, after president Ronald Regan saw the movie increase in the new field of cyber security was high-end for the U.S. government.
@javib2978 9 ай бұрын
I am politically apathetic. I don't enjoy too much exposition, subtext complex philosophy. I am not dumb. I am not gifted. I do not have the eyes to be a leader of family and legacy generations. I'm only simple minded, cooperative, and curious. I feel like my mindset. Is like that of a child and baby. I may be a young adult. But, I feel nervous, timid, and scared to be a leader. I do not fit in the political landscape world.
@javib2978 9 ай бұрын
Philosophical Views From Margaret Thatcher. "I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!" or "I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!" "I am homeless, the Government must house me!" and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations".
@javib2978 9 ай бұрын
"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you." "There is no alternative" -Margaret Thatcher.
@javib2978 9 ай бұрын
The Norsefire political party. Has homages to the Nazi Party and the views of Adolf Hitler. This has nothing to do with Margaret Thatcher at all. Since in the world of V For Vendetta, Margaret Thatcher lost the election of Britain. Which led to the creation of Norsefire.
@snipermafia3609 Жыл бұрын
V for Vendetta was a very powerful movie. The Guy Fawkes mask has become such an iconic symbol in Anarchism and the phrase “people shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.” It has certain inspired many anti government groups and incited some of craziest political riots in the 21st Century.
@kidz4p509 Жыл бұрын
Including ones by the group that adopted the mask.
@rebelborn Жыл бұрын
I don't think it's about anarchy it's about a government that doesn't dictate everything you do. I mean if that's anarchy then sign me the hell up
@alexbeardsley751 Жыл бұрын
@@kidz4p509 Anonymous
@kidz4p509 Жыл бұрын
@@alexbeardsley751 Yeah. Them.
@Saddonghussein Жыл бұрын
The movie sucks, it took away all the struggles of eve, from a little kid to becoming the new v
@joshuamohlman Жыл бұрын
Every time I watch V for Vendetta, it’s scary how much it’s becomes more relevant now
@rikmichaels9233 11 ай бұрын
You’ve missed what’s been going on for 23 years at least. It has a lot of based off Bush in the movie
@JamesGilbert_ Жыл бұрын
The fact that the negative shark stigma still exists close to fifty years after _Jaws_ came out is just a testament to how effective that whole film is.
@merlynjep Жыл бұрын
I was 9 when Jaws was released. It certainly increased the fear of sharks for awhile but it by no means created it.
@alexescalona108 Жыл бұрын
Never saw it, and I am terrified of them.
@XGamerFPS2164 Жыл бұрын
Not to mention that Free Willy gave orcas a good reputation when in fact the real menaces are orcas not sharks
@grayshigami6797 Жыл бұрын
And dolphins have a good reputation despite being psychopats
@smoke26100 Жыл бұрын
@@XGamerFPS2164orcas are scary smart. True ocean serial killers.
@davinxi5926 Жыл бұрын
V for vendetta was a great one. I was surprised to not see the matrix. It had almost a rippling effect as well!
@matguy1000 Жыл бұрын
this top ten needs to be split into several subcategories. art imitating life and life imitating art is a massive subject to explore
@Lalaxbo Жыл бұрын
V For Vendetta is an amazing movie and it feels relevant to this day . The comic book is awesome also .
@keirjarvie6998 Жыл бұрын
There is another film that affected the real world. Not necessarily a feature film. It’s more of a collection of short films. That being the British stop motion short film series Wallace & Gromit. Around the time of the release of the first three short films, the Wendslydale cheese factory was running into financial difficulties and was at risk of declaring bankruptcy. However because Nick Park made the decision to have Wendslydale be Wallace’s favourite brand of cheese in the shorts, it caused sales of that brand to sky rocket, it saved the factory and the brand soon became synonymous with the Yorkshire Cheese loving inventor and his intelligent dog.
@marikothecheetah9342 Жыл бұрын
DIdn't know that and I love Wallace and Gromit. :)
@tonythehappynerd7241 Жыл бұрын
Neither did I.
@Wttanz Жыл бұрын
V For Vendetta is my favourite film of all time, it has a great message and there’s a reason I have it tattooed on me. It’s message also still means a lot today.
@marikothecheetah9342 Жыл бұрын
I'd say that positive effect of a movie was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Most comedic of them all, it tackled the issue of decreasing numbers of humpbacks and whale hunting as such. Although it did not have immediate effect, throughout the years humpbacks bounced back from extinction.
@lucyviviansousa3909 Жыл бұрын
V for Vendetta was my very first adult movie when I was young (I saw it when I was 12 years old in 2006) and that movie really impress me, and Natalie Portman perfomance's was so raw and powerful 😢😢 and since that day, she is my favorite actress of all time!!! She won a Saturn Award for best actress
@SavageP.9000 Жыл бұрын
I'll always remember this line. "Remember remember, the 5th of November." -V
@marikothecheetah9342 Жыл бұрын
But do you know the real history behind it? V for Vendetta pretty much romanticised the whole event but to this day historians sigh with a relief it was stopped.
@jacobharris954 Жыл бұрын
@@marikothecheetah9342 not really king james was a dick
@helencourtnell5621 Жыл бұрын
The philosophic conundrum 'how do we know that our reality is actually real?' has been around for hundreds of years. However, the question came into mainstream consciousness with The Matrix films. When studying for my philosophy degree, these concepts and themes were regularly contextualised and illustrated by references to The Matrix movies.
@D-Bri Жыл бұрын
Depends on what you believe..if you believe that parallel worlds are possible, time travel, Mandela effect, it may be possible that the Matrix is an allegory for what we define as our reality
@W9HJBill Жыл бұрын
I can't believe you mentioned Psycho in #2 but didn't include it in the list. My mother and others in my family said it impacted them so much they didn't take showers for a month, only baths.
@paulcarpenter7844 Жыл бұрын
And then Nightmare on Elm Street came out with the bathtub scene😂😂
@asais44 Жыл бұрын
@@paulcarpenter7844 Was about to say the same :D
@ThriceCalledJoe Жыл бұрын
My brother started our schools fight club. My Dad tried to fight the principal when he threatened to shut it down.
@maddestmike5791 Жыл бұрын
The Birth of A Nation is one of the only movies I can safely say should have been lost to time.
@charleswalker8262 Жыл бұрын
M&M MARS...............You REALLY Dropped The BALL On THAT One Didn't YOU????
@pikminguy55 Жыл бұрын
There is one movie that should be on here, the South Korean movie "Silenced" which is of course based on a book....based on the horrific real life events that went down in this South Korean school which I won't say here but the students...dear god it was HORRIBLE for them, an investigation was launched but all the teachers who done those things to those children got off scott free, no punishment! It wasn't until the actor for the movie (Gong Yoo) read teh book himself and was so angry about what he read he demanded a movie to be made about it...which then changed South Korea as a whole, he even said the movie was the proudest he ever made (and he SHOULD feel proud). The movie caused an outcry from the public regarding how the court handeld the case so it was re-opened and those teachers were finally caught and sent to prison. Thanks to "Silenced", it a new law was made known as the Dogani Law (named after the Korean title of the movie). It's a movie that...you have to be brave to watch. Because it is VERY mean spirited, it is based on the true events that went down and it makes you angry with how things turn out which was the intent of the film...very well done but not for everybody.
@marikothecheetah9342 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip. I'll probably limit myself to read about it, but still.
@phantomrequim Жыл бұрын
The first time I watched V for Vendetta was back in high school and I loved the movie. I even bought the mask off Amazon.
@LoveHandle4890 Жыл бұрын
“Ideas are bulletproof.” -Guy Fawkes.
@marikothecheetah9342 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, they are not idiotproof :/
@jimb.7523 Жыл бұрын
*I love how the narrator nearly laughs twice while doing the Fight Club entry. lol*
@Alwaysfudge Жыл бұрын
I love v for vendetta. What a film ❤
@onlyme219 Жыл бұрын
I liked your simple but totally correct comment, I agree
@brenanream639 Жыл бұрын
The comic book was even scarier from what I heard
@ROCKONplaceboforever 11 ай бұрын
Great list
@s.azfar.hussain5444 Жыл бұрын
Loved the topic of this movie and I think a companion piece of this movie being made, the topic being the effect of literary works on society, both modern and classic works. One of the most influential writer being Charles Dickens, examples of Christmas traditions due to "Christmas Carol" and how the life of children of convicts especially who have to stay with parent in jail due to no other caregiver improved by "The Great Expectations"
@Tyrunner0097 Жыл бұрын
Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' led to large overhauls in food safety in the United States, after it portrayed meat plants as causing employees to lose their limbs, which would then be ground in with other meats. It was not Sinclair's intention, as he'd really wanted to show the plight of immigrant laborers in the US. As Sinclair famously said, "I meant to hit the public in the heart, and I accidentally hit it in the stomach."
@s.azfar.hussain5444 Жыл бұрын
@@Tyrunner0097 I only mentioned Charles Dickens to skow how influential his work was and I also mentioned both modern works and classic lierature
@laurenregnier3710 Жыл бұрын
In Wallace and Gromit , Wendsleydale cheese was nearly bankrupt . The movie mentioned it and it was back in business . 😊
@abeldisla.5488 Жыл бұрын
V for Vendetta one of the Greatest Movies in the last years, also The Truman Show also create the doubt if everything on Life is Real?, Mar Adentro show the Another Point of View of Euthanasia, Philadelphia create conscience about AIDS, Rain Man about Autism.
@chriscripplercruz1833 Жыл бұрын
Ever since I watched creepshow 2 the raft as a kid I freak out anytime I go into a lake and can't see my feet lol
@TatianaMarie-jj9fe Жыл бұрын
"The Dark Knight Rises" 😢 the guy who killed those people in the movie theater on the night of that movies release 😢😢
@jacobdrolet4262 Жыл бұрын
Amazing video watch mojo of movies that have a strong effect to impact the world in a big way too,fantastic job.
@jessrosefawkes2721 11 ай бұрын
I’ve never even seen V. I need to watch it especially cos of the guy Fawkes mask being so iconic x
@debbieellett9093 Жыл бұрын
I had heard four of these before. Found the others informative!
@vulcanmaster1985 Жыл бұрын
Humpback whales were saved over the past 40 years thanks to Star Trek IV the Voyage Home
@marikothecheetah9342 Жыл бұрын
true. Didn't see your comment and posted my own about it :)
@WatchMojo Жыл бұрын
@sorensmith95 Жыл бұрын
The Interview should be on this considering it almost started a nuclear war with North Korea bc they were so pissed lol
@EnoughSaid-bw9pk Жыл бұрын
wow taught me about a lot of information.
@kleine.5438 Жыл бұрын
If there are any other movies that affected the real world, hope for an eventual part 2 please
@oscarcampbellhobson Жыл бұрын
V for vendetta is such a great movie
@faresfares-ultra Жыл бұрын
Taken did the same thing jaws did when it was show in cinéma. Tourisme to Paris saw low visit thanks to the fear of kidnapping
@Dropkickjosh8 Жыл бұрын
Final Destination and everyone not driving behind a truck load full of trees
@UncleOf5 Жыл бұрын
Guess I forgot the rules of Fight Club do not talk about Fight Club.
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
sshhh
@soFallenfilms Жыл бұрын
The movie "The interview" from 2014, nearly caused a war with North Korea.
@firstname__lastname Жыл бұрын
Reefer Madness should have been on here as well!
@corymorimacori1059 Жыл бұрын
“I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.” James Halliday
@caronstout354 Жыл бұрын
Also.."and it's the only place you can get a decent meal."
@Nik_Key Жыл бұрын
I’m surprised The Exorcist isn’t on here.
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
The real "ruling class" don't want religion to get more popular .
@clevelandcbi Жыл бұрын
I didnt even have time to say "Jaws should be on the list" before you showed the clip.
@mfkenzotuberkz5347 Жыл бұрын
Plz TV shows next 🙏
@hannahdelvecchio7521 Жыл бұрын
and I heard that there’s a theory online that Gaston killed Bambi‘s mom
@jimmeans14 Жыл бұрын
The silent film "The Man Who Laughs", based on a Victor Hugo story about a clown whose face was carved by thugs into a painful grin when he was a kid. Conrad Veidt's appearance in the movie inspired Jerry Robinson to create arguably the best-known comic book villain of all time, The Joker.
@CaptainMarvelsSon Жыл бұрын
I was told by a friend who worked on a local parole board that many prisoners tried reciting/paraphrasing Morgan Freeman's "rehabilitation" speech from _The Shawshank Redemption_ 😂
@edc2879 Жыл бұрын
V is kind of funny when you know the history of Guy Fawkes. Plus did he have any actual plans to rebuild the country after the dictatorship was removed or just leave the country to potentially descend into anarchy and chaos.
@burneshortliver2161 Жыл бұрын
One thing you missed is that War Games (Badham, 1983) inspired the current US President Ronald Reagan to implement the USA's first cybersecurity policies. He sat through the entire movie and when it ended he immediately asked "Could something like this really happen?".
@jamiesmith5728 Жыл бұрын
Amazing!!!!!! That a REALLY GREAT FAMILY movie could save or make a candy a ONE of the good old GREATS!!!! 😂❤😂❤😂❤😂
@stevensiferd7104 Жыл бұрын
Two more (at least allegedly): Undershirt sales take a nosedive -- "It Happened One Night" (1934) Undershirt/T-shirt sales recover -- "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
@Levelistchampion 10 ай бұрын
An item for a future list would be the US insider trading provision based on Trading Places. It's more nuanced, and belated, but the rule is commonly referred to as the Eddie Murphy Law.
@CatsOverBrats Жыл бұрын
I remember meeting a guy back in those days that had a yearly fightclub with his friends. They arranged a Summer party every year in someone's garden and did that. I found it pretty stupid but if it worked for them, go ahead and beat each other up, I guess.
@donovandelaney3171 Жыл бұрын
Wait, there were fight clubs after the movie came out? Why didn’t we hear about this on the news?
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
SSSSHHHH !!!
@caronstout354 Жыл бұрын
The first rule!
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
@@caronstout354 you too !! SSSHHH!!!!
@nameless.greyceo Жыл бұрын
I remember me and my best friend having a fight club every Friday night because I watched fight club, best days
@NCTStudio Жыл бұрын
What about The Day After and Threads contributing to the end of the Cold War?
@nathanielenochs1843 7 ай бұрын
And now most recently the 2023 movie Sound of Freedom is the film that affected the world the most
@btb3181 Жыл бұрын
I would add contagion on there. People behavior started to imitate the ones in the movie during the pandemic
@danielsantiagourtado3430 Жыл бұрын
Love your lists😊😊😊❤❤❤
@marcjameswhelan6231 Жыл бұрын
Bot
@grayshigami6797 Жыл бұрын
Real clownfish were taken from their habitats due to the success of Finding Nemo
@marikothecheetah9342 Жыл бұрын
No, not really. People, who owned the fish started flushing them in the toilet and it became so big that governments issued a statement not to flush the poor fish.
@himynamelscolin Жыл бұрын
Honestly ET is the reason I love Reese’s Pieces 😂😂
@IWantToPetYourDog 7 ай бұрын
Reese's Pieces are better than M&Ms. The PB&J M&Ms were good though.
@Carswith_keith Жыл бұрын
V for Vandetta so true en cooool🥵🙃🇰🇪
@broolkeez Жыл бұрын
Beat Street caused an explosion of Breaking around the world almost immediately.
@steffeni.6009 Жыл бұрын
The famous hand sign from Hunger Games was used by protesters in Myanmar, you could have at least put that as Honorable Mention.
@ericpanissidi6761 Жыл бұрын
Bambi's moms revenge," I'm no dear in the headlights sucka"
@henri191 Жыл бұрын
"Shark attacks are incredibly rare" Meanwhile in Egypt a Russian guy is attacked , killed and filmed like Jaws movie , ironically right
@joshnelson1515 Жыл бұрын
They are rare though
@Christian.9198 Жыл бұрын
Also 2 men attacked in Florida within less than 36hrs.
@rebeccac.l.5601 Жыл бұрын
Considering how many people go to the beach every year, that's still pretty rare. You're much more likely to be attacked by dogs than by sharks.
@prasannamarathan Жыл бұрын
South Korean film “Silenced” should be on the list!
@mahitabmohei6586 Жыл бұрын
Top 10 tv shows affected people real world
@letitbeknown8126 Жыл бұрын
In 2019 after Joker was in theaters, people started using The Joker's image for protests around the world
@AnonikAnonikos Жыл бұрын
Polskiego filmu się nie spodziewałem.
@donovandelaney3171 Жыл бұрын
The Magic Bullet Theory was debunked years ago. They’ve confirmed there was four shooters though.
@jenniferjohnson1053 Жыл бұрын
Damn bro this is interesting
@_iyamdavid Жыл бұрын
Crazy
@bheast86 Жыл бұрын
the gambling-on-Russian-roulette that was invented for THE DEER HUNTER became a thing in the Philippines.
@Danny_Fantasy Жыл бұрын
I believe the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had to change its layout due to the producers accurately portraying the real life one during the robbery in Die Hard lol
@jdr2k11 Жыл бұрын
It's just a theory, but I bet Fast and The Furious caused a rise in popularity in illegal street racing.
@yudhabagaskara98 Жыл бұрын
honorable mention: Contagion (2011): you know the reason
@Robert-jc1dz 10 ай бұрын
It Happened One Night. Sales of men's undershirts plummeted
@ggania4866 Жыл бұрын
Final Destination got everyone paranoid. On a highway and see truck carrying logs? Nope.
@victoriasalter1701 Жыл бұрын
It is horrible that some people actually hunted sharks because of a MOVIE. I have never seen Jaws in full, but I still dislike it because of the negative portrayal of sharks. It created more prejudice against sharks, and this shark prejudice could have contributed to sharks’ endangerment because some people are still less likely to sympathise with sharks as much as, say, pandas, because they view them as man-eating, dangerous animals due, in part, to movies like Jaws and Sharknado and The Meg. This is also similar to how I hate the movie The Grey, despite never having seen it, as it depicted wolves, animals who already had a villainous reputation in the movies and stories, as vicious man-eaters, which, again, they are not. Apparently, the actors also ate wolf meat during filming. Absolutely disgusting. It is actually extremely rare for healthy, wild wolves to attack humans; they are generally very wary animals that avoid humans. You are more likely to get killed in a room full of people (especially strangers) than in a forest with wolves. Please do the wolves and sharks a favour; next time you see or hear of a movie that portrays them as bad, speak up and kindly contact the makers about it!
@andieallison6792 Жыл бұрын
NOTHING about "The Day After"? A film that lead to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and was a HUGE step in ending the Cold War????
@user-em6ie2be7x Жыл бұрын
The Interview- North Korea lost it when they found out about a movie about assassinating their Leader.
@bluetrailerproductions7488 Жыл бұрын
Barbarian where The Mother busted through the wall
@mrkdavis22 Жыл бұрын
b4 i even watch this list if final destination doesn't make this list
@GMDTurbo Жыл бұрын
Surprised Die Hard 3 or 4 didn't make the list. They literally caused the government to investigate the directors lol
@billywilliams4183 Жыл бұрын
We thought the movie Colors was pure fiction when it came out. A few years later crips a bloods everywhere.
@christiancastro2442 Жыл бұрын
Amirican pie invented or popularized the word MILF it would not be strange that older women -younger men relationships made a jump in the 2000s by the inspiration of the movie
@sogggy Жыл бұрын
The first Matrix movie influenced many people to buy leather jackets and pants.
@hunterohioKovacs Жыл бұрын
Remember Remember the 5th of November
@hannahdelvecchio7521 Жыл бұрын
Also sequel to Bambi
@user-dr2sm7wu5o Жыл бұрын
Poltergeist, I mean I never liked my closet door in my room to be open, even before watching the movie, the remake might have made it worse.
@herohut725 Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised The Matrix wasn't on this list.
@JCCyC 11 ай бұрын
It should be, for all the wrong reasons.
@rickywestcoast7546 Жыл бұрын
F that doc thin blue line
@ruthharris9664 Жыл бұрын
Why in all of Disney's movies does a parental figure die
@AnonikAnonikos Жыл бұрын
Because Disney lost his mother.
@mendelgoodman96 Жыл бұрын
You should add screaming cause it really caused the demand of caller id
@lamajsmoovesartisticmultiv2355 Жыл бұрын
The Sinbad movie Kazaam has caused wars
@JTRaptor1 Жыл бұрын
I’m Surprised He Didn’t Say The Joker Movie ;)
@monst3rslay3r2 Жыл бұрын
A lot of people who were in the Mafia held The Godfather in high regard, despite the extreme controversy that the book caused.
@vincentpelky7789 Жыл бұрын
if only bambi was realistic i could see people being against hunting bambi was born in spring it doesn't take that long for a deer to grow up and loss its spots by hunting season plus if bambi was born that late bambi wouldn't have most likely made it though winter anyway
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