[DogByte6RER]

Real life initating art ...

[brytlea]

This cannot be true because I have read that the media does not impact culture, it is the other way around.

[max americana]

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Obama Oath-Taking Coverage 2009

[Borges]

So much for personal responsibility then...

[jjw]

taxi driver

[a fool in paradise]

How many murders have been inspired by cable television’s obsession with real serial killers?

[Choose Ye This Day]

Which horror movies inspired the 40+ million infant murders since Roe v. Wade?

[Steely Tom]

The against-traffic car chase in To Live and Die in L.A. has inspired several individuals who felt themselves unduly hindered -- in most cases by law-enforcement personnel -- in the completion of personal errands around the highways and byways of the City of Angels.

In most cases, the attempt to reverse the normal flow of traffic on major freeways didn't end nearly as well for them as it did for Chance and John in the very exciting movie.

[exDemMom]

For the most part, it looks like deranged people got their inspiration for how they would commit their crimes from watching the movies. They were not normal people who suddenly became psychopathic killers because of the movies.

The only exception to that would be the last one. The girls do not seem to have had the maturity to consider the possible consequences of their action, or to think about how they would like to be on the receiving end of such action.

[gardencatz]

I love horror movies, I have been watching them since I was a teenager, starting with the Sleep Away Camp movies. Couldn’t you make the same analogy about movies with ordinary crimes (bank robbery, etc.). I’m sure it’s possible, but I don’t think horror movies are the only ones with violence that’s emulated in the public.

cindie

[apocalypto]

While maybe not as clear-cut as some of the above, the film “Basketball Diaries” is said to have influenced 14 year old Barry Loukitis to kill two classmates and his teacher.