From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 06:58:44 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> "Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> > [This would be the place for people to interject what they feel
> > are concrete examples of where "movies" actually changed the
> > course of history (other than American Graffiti).] Robert
>
> How did American Graffiti change the course of history?
>
> For history changing, I would nominate the movie Taxi Driver,
> because the would-be assassin Hinkley became obsessed with
> Jody Foster after repeatedly watching this otherwise forgettable
> film, then went on to take a shot at Reagan. spike
'The Day After' : a nuclear war movie that was tv broadcast with a
followup conference show with a science panel that included Carl Sagan.
They were all hyping these climate models based on rather unrealistic
assumptions and which concluded that nuclear war would cause worldwide
winter for several years at least.
"Dr. Strangelove" : did immense damage to the image of science in the
public eye.
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