5 Ways You Don't Realize Movies Are Controlling Your Brain

[Silent_Bob]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-you-dont-realize-movies-are-controlling-your-brain/

So there was a mass shooting during a Batman movie and, goddamn it, it turned out the killer owned a Batman mask and called himself "The Joker." By now, several talking heads have come to the conclusion that the movie somehow triggered the massacre, or whatever. You know the game at this point -- sadly, we've seen this whole cycle play out more than once.

As always, this knee-jerk reaction by old, scared talking heads will predictably result in most of our audience scoffing and saying that movies can't influence people to do anything, because movies are make-believe and every non-crazy member of the audience knows how to separate fact from fiction.

Well, the thing is ... that is equally wrong. But not for the reason the talking heads think.

[Free libertarian]

....oh fuck, I watched that Hitchcock movie the Birds the other night...and I have a birdfeeder...and their chirping lately seems, well somehow different.  You don't suppose those birds are planning something do you?

[Pat K]

It ain't them little birds ya got to worry about.
There is this big old yellow bird I seen on the t/v...........................

[Free libertarian]

It ain't them little birds ya got to worry about.
There is this big old yellow bird I seen on the t/v...........................

Oh THAT show ?  The one where that guy named Oscar is such a curmudgeon right ?  You don't s'pose he's related to somebody we know do you?

[Pat K]

I don't know who that could be.

[Lloyd Danforth]

"The Birds" is a great film. It, pretty much, was the impetus for putting electric and phone wires under ground.

[Free libertarian]

"The Birds" is a great film. It, pretty much, was the impetus for putting electric and phone wires under ground.

You get extra points for using the word impetus...makes you sound learned it does. 

[Jim Johnson]

I heard that when you get older you become impetus.  You know, the reason other people do stuff.