10 Movies With Surprising Real World Consequences
7. A Massive Parade - Spectre
Enough time has passed now that we can officially call the 2015 James Bond film Spectre a big pile of dog doo.
The narrative was convoluted, the side characters were completely forgettable, and Blofeld as Bond's brother? Get out of town!
One of the lone high points of the movie comes right at the start, when Daniel Craig's Bond chases down a member of the titular organisation in Mexico City. The action is fast and furious, thanks in part to the elaborate Day of the Dead parade going on around the two men.
The celebration looked so good that it actually inspired an uptake in people visiting the city around Day of the Dead time. There was just one problem - this parade didn't actually exist.
It had been entirely fabricated as a set piece for Spectre, leaving the Mexican government in quite a pickle.
Rather than send all the tourists (and their money) away, they decided the easiest thing to do would be to make the fictional festival a reality!
And so, in October 2016, Mexico City hosted its first ever Day of the Dead parade.
Mission accomplished, Mr. Bond.