10 Movies With Surprising Real World Consequences
9. The Bambi Effect - Bambi
Walt Disney did plenty of dubious things in his life, but the most unforgiveable of all was traumatising several generations of children with the death of Bambi's mother.
In the 1942 animated movie, young Bambi has his life changed forever when an evil hunter guns down his beloved mum in cold blood. This sets the deer on a path of vengeance, as he trains in martial arts with the sole ambition of enacting his violent revenge!
Okay, that didn't happen, but what a movie that would be.
Apart from scarring kids for life, the movie spawned a phenomenon known as The Bambi Effect.
Commentators posit that, because of the scene with Bambi's mum, people are turned off the idea of the hunting or killing of animals that are conventionally cute. However, when it comes to ugly animals, they can all die!
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is up in the air, but it shows that even a kids movie can have a long-lasting effect on society at large.
The Bambi Effect is also a slang term used for certain bisexual men, but that's a story for another time.