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This is a phenomenon I call cinetrope. Films influence the world which in turn influences film and so on creating a feedback effect. For example, we have certa

This is a phenomenon I call cinetrope. Films influence the world which in turn influences film and so on creating a feedback effect. For example, we have certain films to thank for an escalation in the tactics used by bank robbers which influenced the creation of SWAT which in turn influenced films like Heat and so on.

dukeofdoom 1y ago
Feedback loop that often starts with government giving grants and tax breaks. Hollywood is not as independent as they pretend.
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
> we have certain films to thank for an escalation Is there a reason to think this was caused by the popularity of the films and not that it’s a natural evolution of the cat-and-mouse game being played between law enforcement and bank robbers? I’m not really sure what you are specifically referring to, so apologies if the answer to that question is otherwise obvious.
Workaccount2 1y ago
What about the cinetrope that human emotion is a magical transcendent power that no machine can ever understand...
deadbabe 1y ago
Maybe this is why American society, with the rich amount of media it produces and has available for consumption compared to other countries, is slowly degrading.
cco 1y ago
Thank you for this word! Always wanted a word for this and just reused "trope", cinetrope is a great word for this.
hobobaggins 1y ago
Actually, Heat was the movie that inspired heavily armed bank robbers to rob the Bank of America in LA (The movie inspired reality, not the other way around.) https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/north-hollywood-shootout https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/north-hollywood-shootout But your point still stands, because it goes both ways.
- boulos 1y ago
  Your article says it was life => art => life! > Gang leader Robert Sheldon Brown, known as “Casper” or “Cas,” from the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips, heard about the extraordinary pilfered sum, and decided it was time to get into the bank robbery game himself. And so, he turned his teenage gangbangers and corner boys into bank robbers — and he made sure they always brought their assault rifles with them. > The FBI would soon credit Brown, along with his partner-in-crime, Donzell Lamar Thompson (aka “C-Dog”), for the massive rise in takeover robberies. (The duo ordered a total of 175 in the Southern California area.) Although Brown got locked up in 1993, according to Houlahan, his dream took hold — the takeover robbery became the crime of the era. News imagery of them even inspired filmmaker Michael Mann to make his iconic heist film, Heat, which, in turn, would inspire two L.A. bodybuilders to put down their dumbbells and take up outlaw life.
l0ng1nu5 1y ago
Life imitates art imitates life.
ars 1y ago
Voice interfaces are an example of this. Movies use them because the audience can easily hear what is being requested and then done. In the real world voice interfaces work terribly unless you have something sentient on the other end. But people saw the movies and really really really wanted something like that, and they tried to make it.

dukeofdoom 1y ago

Feedback loop that often starts with government giving grants and tax breaks. Hollywood is not as independent as they pretend.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago

> we have certain films to thank for an escalation Is there a reason to think this was caused by the popularity of the films and not that it’s a natural evolution of the cat-and-mouse game being played between law enforcement and bank robbers? I’m not really sure what you are specifically referring to, so apologies if the answer to that question is otherwise obvious.

Workaccount2 1y ago

What about the cinetrope that human emotion is a magical transcendent power that no machine can ever understand...

deadbabe 1y ago

Maybe this is why American society, with the rich amount of media it produces and has available for consumption compared to other countries, is slowly degrading.

cco 1y ago

Thank you for this word! Always wanted a word for this and just reused "trope", cinetrope is a great word for this.

hobobaggins 1y ago

Actually, Heat was the movie that inspired heavily armed bank robbers to rob the Bank of America in LA (The movie inspired reality, not the other way around.) https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/north-hollywood-shootout https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/north-hollywood-shootout But your point still stands, because it goes both ways.

boulos 1y ago
Your article says it was life => art => life! > Gang leader Robert Sheldon Brown, known as “Casper” or “Cas,” from the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips, heard about the extraordinary pilfered sum, and decided it was time to get into the bank robbery game himself. And so, he turned his teenage gangbangers and corner boys into bank robbers — and he made sure they always brought their assault rifles with them. > The FBI would soon credit Brown, along with his partner-in-crime, Donzell Lamar Thompson (aka “C-Dog”), for the massive rise in takeover robberies. (The duo ordered a total of 175 in the Southern California area.) Although Brown got locked up in 1993, according to Houlahan, his dream took hold — the takeover robbery became the crime of the era. News imagery of them even inspired filmmaker Michael Mann to make his iconic heist film, Heat, which, in turn, would inspire two L.A. bodybuilders to put down their dumbbells and take up outlaw life.

l0ng1nu5 1y ago

Life imitates art imitates life.

ars 1y ago

Voice interfaces are an example of this. Movies use them because the audience can easily hear what is being requested and then done. In the real world voice interfaces work terribly unless you have something sentient on the other end. But people saw the movies and really really really wanted something like that, and they tried to make it.