12 Fictional Things That Impacted Real Life

It's a little frightening how serious some people take their favorite shows and movies.
12 Fictional Things That Impacted Real Life

The distinction between fact and fiction is hazier today than it has ever been. As corny as it may sound, a novel or movie about fictional characters can dramatically transform your life. It's a portal to another universe, a vacation from reality. We spend a significant portion of our lives engaged in books, films, plays, television programs, and other forms of fiction. We forget that those are created to make stories that have nothing to do with reality most of the time. As a result, it's not unexpected that fictional events might influence how you think during actual situations.

The sensation of peering into the brains of the characters might broaden our viewpoint and make us more accepting of differences. Sometimes the stories themselves have an impact on reality in surprising ways.

Pop culture is a lot of fun. It forces us to spend several hours absent from our families and friends. It constantly provides us with wonderful quotes to botch. And it instills us with outlandish ideas, such as these, which were carried out.

THE BREAKING BAD HOUSE IS IN ALBUQUERQUE, NM. AND PEOPLE KEEP THROWING PIZZA ON THE ROOF. The pizza on Walter White's garage roof almost became a char
JAWS DEPICTED SHARKS AS VENGEFUL, MAN- HUNTING MONSTERS. AND THE SHARK POPULATION IS PAYING FOR IT. The fearsome reputation given to great white shark
THE X-FILES FEATURES CYNICAL FBI AGENT DR. DANA SCULLY. BECAUSE OF HER, WOMEN ARE GOING INTO SCIENCE. The '9os TV series breaks gender stereotypes in
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB WAS ABOUT DRUGS FOR AIDS PATIENTS. THE MOVIE INSPIRED RIGHT TO TRY LAWS. In the movie, Matthew McConaughey's character gets infec
MALCOLM MCDOWELL KILLED OFF KIRK IN STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. SO ANGRY FANS SENT HIM DEATH THREATS. The fact that James Tiberius Kirk isn't a real perso
DR. STRANGELOVE WAS A DARKLY FUNNY KUBRICK OPUS. IT MADE THE PENTAGON CHANGE ITS SECURITY POLICY. The movie is a brilliant satire about how a random n
EMMA WATSON WAS ADORABLE AS HERMIONE GRANGER. PEOPLE WON'T STOP MAILING HER BIBLES. Apparently her performance in the Harry Potter movies as a kid wit
TOM WILSON PLAYED BAD GUY BIFF IN BACK TO THE FUTURE. HE CARRIES CARDS TO ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS. Maybe it's because BTTF is a cult classic, or the
PATTON WAS ABOUT A DEEPLY FLAWED WWIl GENERAL. Hray IT MIGHT HAVE INSPIRED NIXON TO INVADE CAMBODIA. Richard Nixon was a huge fan of the movie, and de
WILLIAM ATHERTON PLAYED WALTER PECK IN GHOSTBUSTERS. AND PEOPLE KEEP PICKING FIGHTS WITH HIM. It turns out that it is possible to be too good of an ac
THE DRAWING SCENE IN TITANIC IS FAMOUSLY SEXY. PEOPLE KEEP SHOVING THAT DRAWING IN KATE WINSLET'S FACE. In case you've only seen the daytime network T
REMEMBER THE WALSH HOUSE FROM THE GOONIES? INSANE FANS HAVE DRIVEN THE OWNER INTO HIDING. At first it was just a trickle of people showing up at Mikey

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