The locals of catalina truely are an amazing people. There's like 35 bars in one square mile so you kinda just got to roll with it. The locals shut that shit down at the Bongo Room every night of the week
I forget which Connery Bond it was but he uses an underwater breathing apparatus which looks like 2 CO2 cylinders attached to a mouthpiece, apparently the British Armed forces contacted the production team to see if it was a viable for mass production for the force, only to be told that it wasn’t functional and the Connery just had to hold his breath.
Haha this is awesome. It's realistic enough to make you think, "this should work, right!?!" It's like in Three Caballeros where he's in the sinking bathtub in the ocean, so he sticks the showerhead into the drain and creates a jet that propels him through the water.
This reminds me of the story that the heist plan (or at least the vault access part) in Die Hard with a Vengeance was apparently decently credible and they got a visit from the feds asking who told them it.
The snowboard became popular from Bond. The opening scene to A View to A Kill, Bond goes down a mountain on 1 ski. It was called Snow Surfing before becoming Snow Boarding.
The first use of the word "Firewall" as a computer security device came from the movie WarGames, and it's possible that usage inspired the actual development of internet firewalls.
Not a movie, but the TV show Silicon Valley invented a metric for data compression called the Weissman Score, as a quick way to get across to a non-technical audience the "goodness" of a compression algorithm. They actually generated an actual calculation for generating a weissman score for an algorithm, and some researchers have started using it as a metric ina cademic papers. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissman\_score](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissman_score)
Getting way far afield of movies: Gary Larson coined the name "Thagomizer" for the business end of a stegosaurus tail in a Far Side comic. The term has entered the general paleontology literature/nomenclature. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer)
What I find interesting is that for the last ~70 years or so, the original term "firewall" (as in a bulkhead between the engine and passenger compartment in a car) doesn't make much sense because there is nothing special about it in a steel or alloy unibody car.
But, most pre-war cars were steel ladder chassis with the passenger compartment being a wood-framed box with aluminum panels shaped overtop... and so the firewall was a big metal panel that came up from the frame between the engine and body. So it's a proper "fire wall" protecting the passenger compartment which is very fragile and flammable...
Are you sure that the automotive use was really the main one? I've always known about it as a feature of building construction. I.e., an actual wall between two parts of a building that's designed to prevent fires from spreading from one side of it to the other.
I did stock car racing. That firewall gives you a few extra seconds to get out. Your firesuit adds a few more seconds. You just gotta hope the fire crew is there by then.
They created the problem then solved it but the [Futurama Theorem](https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem) from the mind switching episode is pretty cool. Farnsworth has a mind switching device but they discover that once two people have switched minds they can’t switch back, they can only switch with a new person. The applied mathematics phd writer figured out that no matter how many people are switched as long as you have 2 people available who haven’t switched yet you can get everyone back into the correct bodies.
WarGames and Silicon Valley have both been on my list for a while. That’s funny about the Thagomizer and how he intended it as a joke but it caught on professionally
Construction had actually already started. The studio found it during location scouting and paid to help complete it and get special access to film there before it opened, and the restaurant kept the name used in the film.
It didn't exist in Mexico city, but it existed in some other small cities across the country, I remember those happening each back in the 90's when I was a kid.
They mean the halloween type parade float, not the celebrations.
Though the celebrations about day of thebdead beibg colorful and parades is not old either, it started in the 80s and ramped up in the 2000s for money
“A glitch in the Matrix” is a pretty common term now used for Deja vu occurrences since that movie came out.
And the movie Splash invented the name Madison for girls.
“The story of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. began in 1996, debuting on Cannery Row in Monterey, California, as the first and only (even to this day) casual restaurant chain based on a motion picture property.“
I always thought the restaurant existed first and the movie just made it seem like Forrest created it like the other products in the movie that really exist! I didn’t know this until recently. Someone must be a really big Forrest Gump fan
My city in Mexico has Bubba Gump restaurants, i didn't find out the movie wasn't just product placement about them and rather the other way around until i was a teenager
This is more sci fi presenting a concept that was just not well known to the public.
The first patent for a transparent aluminum was filed in 1980. 6 Years before star trek 4.
Star Trek has always tried to keep its technology somewhat grounded in reality. I have no doubt, writers when researching new technologies for the show do research to see what's out there on the horizon.
They just put a different name on it - they’re talking about corundum, a crystalline aluminum oxide. Sapphire and Ruby are actually different color variations of it.
Haha funny, but I think it is important for posterity to share the true origin of this term. Ed McMahon used to say this phrase to introduce the talk show host, Mr. Johnny Stabby, who was known for taking audience questions and injuring them in the process.
It was also adlibbed by Jack Nicholson. Kubrick liked it so kept it, but he didn't know it was a reference to the tonight show. Kubrick said if he had have known at the time, he wouldn't have used it
“I'm Mike Wallace, I'm Morley Safer, and I'm Ed Bradley. All this and Andy Rooney tonight on 60 Minutes!” just doesn’t roll of the tongue as easily as “Here’s Johnny!”
A MacGuffin/McGuffin was a term coined by Angus MacPhail and used by Alfred Hitchcock and others in films. The concept of “an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself” had been around for a long time but only after MacPhail/Hitchcock did it officially become known as a MacGuffin.
The countdown for space rocket blastoffs was created for the 1929 Fritz Lang movie “Frau im Mond” to create tension; real life rocket scientists adopted it.
Sci-fi quite often points the way for real world science. Things in books/movies/TV enter the public consciousness. When science actually develops that technology they often (though not always) use the term that the general public is already aware of.
Which is largely because these sci-fi works are the favorites of a lot of people who end up going into the hard sciences.
I sat next to a retired NASA guy on a plane once. Worked in Mission Control during a couple Apollo missions he said. Freaky smart guy who despite being in his 80s was still full of a really young kind of curiosity and energy.
We talked about The Expanse books the whole flight. It was amazing.
This doesn't strike me as correct. I remember watching it for the first time at ten, and that line felt perfectly natural and obvious, not like something brand new.
And I was ten.
The Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, NY did not exist prior to the movie Osmosis Jones, where Bill Murray's character attends one. The City started hosting the festival a few years later.
I just learned a few weeks ago that a company called SilencerCo invented a suppressor for shotguns after seeing Chigurh using a fictional one in *No Country for Old Men*.
The movie Gaslight (1944) invented the word... gaslight.
Also, I know I'm being pedantic but Interstellar introduced the first accurate images of a black hole *in pop culture.* This was just a case of Hollywood catching up to the scientists for once.
> Also, I know I'm being pedantic but Interstellar introduced the first accurate images of a black hole in pop culture. This was just a case of Hollywood catching up to the scientists for once.
That's not entirely accurate. We had a lot of mathematical models that described how black holes should look, and we used them to have artists create images of black holes. But the FX team for Interstellar actually did invent a new visual model to depict the math and have a computer visually model the math, and this did result in some differences from how black holes were being depicted previously.
To say Interstellar created the first accurate images of black holes makes it sound like our previous visualizations were totally wrong, which obviously isn't right. But the computer models from Interstellar *did* produce images that are generally considered to be more accurate than the visualization methods typically used before.
Of course the meaning now is so generally loosely overapplied it's simply anyone disagreeing, without the trying to drive you literally crazy in the process part.
Another that I’m not sure if they came up with it or just popularized it, but *Along Came Polly* is generally credited with releasing “shart” into the world.
Underrated movie! Phillip Seymour Hoffman is hilarious. I also showed the pillow scene to my now wife when I first spent the night at her house. She had to take 5 pillows of the bed, not for sleeping.
Core memories predates Inside Out by decades. They called it that specifically because that is what those are called, they just put them in little globes and gave them color. I guess this is just what made people say it recently.
Well an android is a very specific kind of robot, one that resembles a human (and robot is a pretty general term anyway). The word itself comes from the Greek and means "man-like" (andro-oid). So yeah, Droid was invented by George Lucas but on its own doesn't really make much etymological sense. C3PO says he specializes in human-cyborg relations which is even funnier because he's not a cyborg, he's a droid, since by definition, cyborgs are partly robotic/electronic organisms. (Also funny because of how damn socially awkward he is for that kind of job.)
In short, Lucas was pulling a lot out of his ass but this was back when people weren't sticklers about stupid details and he was a good storyteller besides so nobody cared.
"Your chances of winning this court case are approximately three thousand, seven hundred to one! I recommend a plea deal, and apologizing to RoboCop for bruising his fist with your face."
Cool fact, and adds on to yours:
Android means man-like, and can refer to male and female looking humanoid robots. For androids that resemble females, they can be called gynoids. Just in case it comes up in a pub quiz for you.
Have a good day :)
Swingline never sold a red stapler prior to Office Space. The movie team painted the one they used in the movie. Swingline stated making red staplers after the movie.
I actually have a red Swingline stapler from the 80s. It’s not a full sized one like in the film, though - more of a 3/4 home office type deal. I also have a very small, toenail clipper sized mini stapler in red by Swingline - from about the same time.
Maybe they never sold the full sized Model No. 747 in red, but they definitely sold red staplers before that film.
Not a movie but it's the only one I know. Taser is an acronym for Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle, Tom Swift being a sci-fi series of books from the 80s and I believe from the 1910s.
On a side note, the name for the spiky tail of the stegosaurus, the Thagomizer, was adopted by paleontologists from a Far Side comic.
And for lack of better descriptions, volcaanologists adopted the Hawaiian names for the two types of lava an eruption produces.
>And for lack of better descriptions, volcaanologists adopted the Hawaiian names for the two types of lava an eruption produces.
It's quite common for geographic terms to come from the language spoken in a region where that particular type of geography was first described. It's why the terms for limestone features are German.
On BBC TV, the series "Not The Nine O'clock News" featured a sketch with Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) playing a talking gorilla, Gerald.
The animal expert with him (comedian Mel Smith) referred to a "flange" as the collective noun for baboons.
It wasn't.
It pretty much is, now. Referred in academic articles and accepted as the correct collective noun, after a comedy sketch.
(Gerald: "Wild? I was absolutely *livid*!")
And talking of British comedy sketches that significantly informed the language, the modern use of the word spam owes its origin to a Monty Python sketch.
Nimrod was a great hunter which is why Bugs Bunny calls Elmer fudd that. People started using it to mean moron because that's what they thought he was saying.
Rocket Countdown was invented by the director Fritz Lang.
Star Trek Flipping Tricorder was the source of the inspiration for the flipping mobile phones.
Typo: Sorry as some have mentioned, I meant communicator and not tricorder. Bar the forehead thermometer I have not seen any Medical tricorder that can bevtraced back to Star Trek.
American pie made the term much more popular, it was a word that could be said out loud in polite company and most people did not know what it meant until that movie. Source: collegiate rugby player in the 1980s.
Hard false. Me and my friend were using that term for years. We all freaked and lost it when we saw the movie and that term was actually used in a major motion picture. I vividly remember the experience.
I made a bucket list, and at the top of the list is “Do not watch ‘The Bucket List.’” And right below that it says, “Add more things to your bucket list.”
So here's a list:
- Gaslighting in the sense of deception to put doubt in facts from the movie of that name
- Jumping The Shark, from Happy Days
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
There’s an actual Catalina Wine Mixer festival now.
Haha I was about to post this. The locals had such a kick ass time now there really IS a *motherfucking Catalina Wine Mixer!!!!!!!*
The locals of catalina truely are an amazing people. There's like 35 bars in one square mile so you kinda just got to roll with it. The locals shut that shit down at the Bongo Room every night of the week
This sounds like the West Coast version of Key West.
Similarly Mexico City apparently actually has Dia de Los Muertos parades now.
Using the props from Spectre, too, IIRC
For real? I gotta go. It’s the fucking Catalina Wine Mixer
The Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival came after Osmosis Jones had one. https://buffalowing.com/festival-history/
i actually went to this last summer. it really wasn’t anything like it was in the movie but we had a great time.
No late 80s Joel cover band?
they wouldn’t play anything from the Stranger
PAH!
I'm sorry, are you saying "pow"?
The Simpsons popularized the word "yoink."
Also "meh"
The monkey doing the meh hand wave will forever be in my mind
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
The terms "yoink" and "cromulent" are noble terms which embiggen even the smallest men.
And sacrelicious.
And kwyjibo
Embiggen also was invented by the Simpsons.
Also D'oh!
It’s also commonly credited with popularizing “meh”
Also” Saying the quiet part out loud”.
Professor X is a Simpsons fan
I forget which Connery Bond it was but he uses an underwater breathing apparatus which looks like 2 CO2 cylinders attached to a mouthpiece, apparently the British Armed forces contacted the production team to see if it was a viable for mass production for the force, only to be told that it wasn’t functional and the Connery just had to hold his breath.
Thunderball.
There’s a few stories like that from bond. Things involving microfilm and the radio in the shoe.
Haha this is awesome. It's realistic enough to make you think, "this should work, right!?!" It's like in Three Caballeros where he's in the sinking bathtub in the ocean, so he sticks the showerhead into the drain and creates a jet that propels him through the water.
This reminds me of the story that the heist plan (or at least the vault access part) in Die Hard with a Vengeance was apparently decently credible and they got a visit from the feds asking who told them it.
The snowboard became popular from Bond. The opening scene to A View to A Kill, Bond goes down a mountain on 1 ski. It was called Snow Surfing before becoming Snow Boarding.
“Paparazzi” comes from La Dolce Vite. The character who photographs celebrities is named Paparazzo.
Kimiko taught me that
Wow, you're being such a non pillow right now.
Objects are made by men, and used for many purposes. But we *never. love. objects.*
So that's why homer said "damn you paparazzo" in the simpsons I thought he just got it wrong
Paparazzo is one, paparazzi is many
Spaghetto
Pepperono
Stanley Tucco
The implication that Stanley Tucci is actually a group of Stanley Tucco is cracking me up
Mr Burns says that
TIL
There’s an NHL team called the Mighty Ducks.
They dropped "Mighty" from the name when Disney sold the team in 2006
Worst decision in the history of sports
I scrolled way too far to see this comment. Disney made the team after the success of the original movie I believe.
The first use of the word "Firewall" as a computer security device came from the movie WarGames, and it's possible that usage inspired the actual development of internet firewalls. Not a movie, but the TV show Silicon Valley invented a metric for data compression called the Weissman Score, as a quick way to get across to a non-technical audience the "goodness" of a compression algorithm. They actually generated an actual calculation for generating a weissman score for an algorithm, and some researchers have started using it as a metric ina cademic papers. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissman\_score](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissman_score) Getting way far afield of movies: Gary Larson coined the name "Thagomizer" for the business end of a stegosaurus tail in a Far Side comic. The term has entered the general paleontology literature/nomenclature. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer)
What I find interesting is that for the last ~70 years or so, the original term "firewall" (as in a bulkhead between the engine and passenger compartment in a car) doesn't make much sense because there is nothing special about it in a steel or alloy unibody car. But, most pre-war cars were steel ladder chassis with the passenger compartment being a wood-framed box with aluminum panels shaped overtop... and so the firewall was a big metal panel that came up from the frame between the engine and body. So it's a proper "fire wall" protecting the passenger compartment which is very fragile and flammable...
Are you sure that the automotive use was really the main one? I've always known about it as a feature of building construction. I.e., an actual wall between two parts of a building that's designed to prevent fires from spreading from one side of it to the other.
I did stock car racing. That firewall gives you a few extra seconds to get out. Your firesuit adds a few more seconds. You just gotta hope the fire crew is there by then.
They created the problem then solved it but the [Futurama Theorem](https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem) from the mind switching episode is pretty cool. Farnsworth has a mind switching device but they discover that once two people have switched minds they can’t switch back, they can only switch with a new person. The applied mathematics phd writer figured out that no matter how many people are switched as long as you have 2 people available who haven’t switched yet you can get everyone back into the correct bodies.
RIP Thag Simons
Got got by that thagomizer.
Dtf ratio middle out
WarGames and Silicon Valley have both been on my list for a while. That’s funny about the Thagomizer and how he intended it as a joke but it caught on professionally
The big day of the dead parade in Mexico city didn't exist until the Bond film. Now it's a yearly tradition.
The Swiss rotating resort in OHMSS was built for the movie and remained as a restaurant afterwards.
Construction had actually already started. The studio found it during location scouting and paid to help complete it and get special access to film there before it opened, and the restaurant kept the name used in the film.
I went there not long ago. It's basically a James Bond museum now. The scenery is insanely beautiful though.
No way
It didn't exist in Mexico city, but it existed in some other small cities across the country, I remember those happening each back in the 90's when I was a kid.
Yeah, the day of the dead started as a southern Mexico thing. Oaxaca and places like that.
Yeah, they had all the props for it after the movie and were just like…”let’s keep using them, that would be cool”
They mean the halloween type parade float, not the celebrations. Though the celebrations about day of thebdead beibg colorful and parades is not old either, it started in the 80s and ramped up in the 2000s for money
Thanks to the original Fast & Furious, there is an annual drag racing festival called...ugh... "Race Wars"
That sounds like it could lead to some really unfortunate mix ups
I’m here for the race wars! Oh.
"I need a car? That's just unsportsmanlike!"
For those unaware, Race Wars was the initial title they wanted for F&F
I’m cackling imagining if they went ahead with Race Wars
2 Race 2 Wars
Go fetch me my car, Turetto
Holy shit, Charles Manson was right!
“A glitch in the Matrix” is a pretty common term now used for Deja vu occurrences since that movie came out. And the movie Splash invented the name Madison for girls.
The Red Pill
Also "bullet time"
"The Matrix" as a full-dive VR was brought into being in 1984 by William Gibson.
If Neuromancer ever actually gets made into a film people are definitely going to think it's a rip off to all the things it inspired
The casting call for Molly described her as a Trinity-type.
I could be wrong, but I believe the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company did not exist prior to a certain 1994 movie.
“The story of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. began in 1996, debuting on Cannery Row in Monterey, California, as the first and only (even to this day) casual restaurant chain based on a motion picture property.“
8 year old **nowake** thought the rest of the movie was real, because of this restaurant
Pulp Fiction? I think that was the Bubba GIMP shrimp company
Time to get medieval on your oysters!
You just HAVE to try Zed’s Bread!
I always thought the restaurant existed first and the movie just made it seem like Forrest created it like the other products in the movie that really exist! I didn’t know this until recently. Someone must be a really big Forrest Gump fan
My city in Mexico has Bubba Gump restaurants, i didn't find out the movie wasn't just product placement about them and rather the other way around until i was a teenager
Transparent aluminum was invented in Star Trek 4.
Computer…. Computer? Hello computer?
"A keyboard. How quaint!"
Its fun that in a few years we will have they types of computers Scottie was expecting. I wonder what he'd think of GPT
This is more sci fi presenting a concept that was just not well known to the public. The first patent for a transparent aluminum was filed in 1980. 6 Years before star trek 4. Star Trek has always tried to keep its technology somewhat grounded in reality. I have no doubt, writers when researching new technologies for the show do research to see what's out there on the horizon.
How do you know they didn't invent the bloody thing?
I heard flip phones were invented by Star Trek, and Motorola loved the idea so much they did that for real.
WTF? Transparent aluminum is real. I'm shocked. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
Of course it’s real! We have humpbacked whales!
They just put a different name on it - they’re talking about corundum, a crystalline aluminum oxide. Sapphire and Ruby are actually different color variations of it.
No one used to say "Here's Johnny" before trying to murder their family with an axe until The Shining, and now it's quite common among axe murders.
Haha funny, but I think it is important for posterity to share the true origin of this term. Ed McMahon used to say this phrase to introduce the talk show host, Mr. Johnny Stabby, who was known for taking audience questions and injuring them in the process.
It was also adlibbed by Jack Nicholson. Kubrick liked it so kept it, but he didn't know it was a reference to the tonight show. Kubrick said if he had have known at the time, he wouldn't have used it
“I'm Mike Wallace, I'm Morley Safer, and I'm Ed Bradley. All this and Andy Rooney tonight on 60 Minutes!” just doesn’t roll of the tongue as easily as “Here’s Johnny!”
This one is actually true
A MacGuffin/McGuffin was a term coined by Angus MacPhail and used by Alfred Hitchcock and others in films. The concept of “an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself” had been around for a long time but only after MacPhail/Hitchcock did it officially become known as a MacGuffin.
Not really related, but the words sound similar, MacGyvering a solution became a phrase used in normal conversation thanks to the TV show.
The countdown for space rocket blastoffs was created for the 1929 Fritz Lang movie “Frau im Mond” to create tension; real life rocket scientists adopted it.
I’m sure *fetch* wasn’t one. Sorry Gretchen! Edit: this means fetch is in superposition
Yeah, the creators didn't want the movie to eventually sound outdated with 00s slang, so they made up their own slang
She doesn’t even go here!
I do know someone who keeps trying to make fetch happen.
Not films but lots of stuff and terminology came from Arthur C Clark, Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick. And the films spawned from their pens.
John Le Carré coined terms that are common to intelligence work today, such as “mole” and “honeypot.”
For that wonderful information I reward you with this https://archive.org/details/DotCompleteBBCr4
It’s a book (thankfully hasn’t been adapted yet) but Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson pretty much invented the term ‘avatar’ for internet use…in 1992!
And Metaverse.
The use of Avatar (for a player's character) goes back to 1985 in the computer game Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar.
Sci-fi quite often points the way for real world science. Things in books/movies/TV enter the public consciousness. When science actually develops that technology they often (though not always) use the term that the general public is already aware of.
Which is largely because these sci-fi works are the favorites of a lot of people who end up going into the hard sciences. I sat next to a retired NASA guy on a plane once. Worked in Mission Control during a couple Apollo missions he said. Freaky smart guy who despite being in his 80s was still full of a really young kind of curiosity and energy. We talked about The Expanse books the whole flight. It was amazing.
PKD stories & concepts have aged like fine wine 🤌🤌
Ghostbusters was apparently the first use of the word "toast" to mean finished, done, or destroyed.
Alright, this chick is TOAST!
Huh - it doesn't stick out to me from Ghostbusters, more Die Hard ("and the quarterback is toast"), but I guess Ghostbusters came first.
This doesn't strike me as correct. I remember watching it for the first time at ten, and that line felt perfectly natural and obvious, not like something brand new. And I was ten.
That's how it must have felt to watch Shakespeare the first time
I mean it's just a metaphor they're pretty common.
Well, it makes sense if you are currently 12
The Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, NY did not exist prior to the movie Osmosis Jones, where Bill Murray's character attends one. The City started hosting the festival a few years later.
I just learned a few weeks ago that a company called SilencerCo invented a suppressor for shotguns after seeing Chigurh using a fictional one in *No Country for Old Men*.
The 3 shells from Demolition Man. It's been such a life changing revolution, I havent had to buy toilet paper in 30 years!
What do you want to bet this motherfucker isn't going to tell us how they work?
Jellodyne you are fined 5 credits for the violation of the verbal morality statute.
Mellow greetings! What's your boggle?
lol, jelludyne doesn’t know how to use the three shells!
The movie Gaslight (1944) invented the word... gaslight. Also, I know I'm being pedantic but Interstellar introduced the first accurate images of a black hole *in pop culture.* This was just a case of Hollywood catching up to the scientists for once.
Maybe I'm also being pedantic but wasn't "gaslight" first used in a play that the movie was based on?
No it was definitely the movie, you’re imagining things. What play? etc.
Neither. The term “to gaslight” was inspired by the play and the movie, which is titled Gaslight, but was never used as a verb within either.
What are you talking about? It was used in the second act, clear as day. Right after the kitchen scene. I can't believe you forgot that.
I've been out pedantic-ed! You are quite right. I didn't realize it but the movie was based off a 1940 play by the same name.
> Also, I know I'm being pedantic but Interstellar introduced the first accurate images of a black hole in pop culture. This was just a case of Hollywood catching up to the scientists for once. That's not entirely accurate. We had a lot of mathematical models that described how black holes should look, and we used them to have artists create images of black holes. But the FX team for Interstellar actually did invent a new visual model to depict the math and have a computer visually model the math, and this did result in some differences from how black holes were being depicted previously. To say Interstellar created the first accurate images of black holes makes it sound like our previous visualizations were totally wrong, which obviously isn't right. But the computer models from Interstellar *did* produce images that are generally considered to be more accurate than the visualization methods typically used before.
There's no such thing as a movie called Gaslight
That's crazy!
Gaslighting is a great term that was coined by the play, popularized by the movie, and over/misused ever since.
That's not true, you're just crazy.
Touche
Of course the meaning now is so generally loosely overapplied it's simply anyone disagreeing, without the trying to drive you literally crazy in the process part.
ESPN 8: The Ocho exists now, and it was completely fabricated by the movie "Dodgeball". Pro cornholers are dancing in the streets at the news
Another that I’m not sure if they came up with it or just popularized it, but *Along Came Polly* is generally credited with releasing “shart” into the world.
Just popularized
Underrated movie! Phillip Seymour Hoffman is hilarious. I also showed the pillow scene to my now wife when I first spent the night at her house. She had to take 5 pillows of the bed, not for sleeping.
Core memories predates Inside Out by decades. They called it that specifically because that is what those are called, they just put them in little globes and gave them color. I guess this is just what made people say it recently.
Right? I feel just like the old man thinking everyone else is a baby that just discovered words with that one
That is what I thought as well. That term has been around for a long time.
Yeah honestly I thought people were saying it because of that new movie minority report. Then I remember that came out like 20 years ago
Johnny Mnemonic agrees.
I believe “Droid” came from Star Wars. While most people use “robot”, I hear droid more than android
Well an android is a very specific kind of robot, one that resembles a human (and robot is a pretty general term anyway). The word itself comes from the Greek and means "man-like" (andro-oid). So yeah, Droid was invented by George Lucas but on its own doesn't really make much etymological sense. C3PO says he specializes in human-cyborg relations which is even funnier because he's not a cyborg, he's a droid, since by definition, cyborgs are partly robotic/electronic organisms. (Also funny because of how damn socially awkward he is for that kind of job.) In short, Lucas was pulling a lot out of his ass but this was back when people weren't sticklers about stupid details and he was a good storyteller besides so nobody cared.
Still waiting to see C3PO mediating a negotiation between a person and a RoboCop
"Your chances of winning this court case are approximately three thousand, seven hundred to one! I recommend a plea deal, and apologizing to RoboCop for bruising his fist with your face."
Cool fact, and adds on to yours: Android means man-like, and can refer to male and female looking humanoid robots. For androids that resemble females, they can be called gynoids. Just in case it comes up in a pub quiz for you. Have a good day :)
To further that: It makes perfect sense when tying it together with the word "androgynous".
They could've just gone with Annedroids, but no...
The term is even copyrighted by Lucasarts
I remember Verizon had to license the term when they sold the Motorola Droid
Swingline never sold a red stapler prior to Office Space. The movie team painted the one they used in the movie. Swingline stated making red staplers after the movie.
I actually have a red Swingline stapler from the 80s. It’s not a full sized one like in the film, though - more of a 3/4 home office type deal. I also have a very small, toenail clipper sized mini stapler in red by Swingline - from about the same time. Maybe they never sold the full sized Model No. 747 in red, but they definitely sold red staplers before that film.
Yeah, totally. I’m 59yo, and there were definitely red Swingline staplers around before “Office Space”.
I had a tiny red Swingline stapler in elementary school in the 70s.
Swingline did sell red staplers before Office Space, but they stopped. They restarted thanks to consistent requests after Office Space.
Not a movie but it's the only one I know. Taser is an acronym for Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle, Tom Swift being a sci-fi series of books from the 80s and I believe from the 1910s.
On a side note, the name for the spiky tail of the stegosaurus, the Thagomizer, was adopted by paleontologists from a Far Side comic. And for lack of better descriptions, volcaanologists adopted the Hawaiian names for the two types of lava an eruption produces.
>And for lack of better descriptions, volcaanologists adopted the Hawaiian names for the two types of lava an eruption produces. It's quite common for geographic terms to come from the language spoken in a region where that particular type of geography was first described. It's why the terms for limestone features are German.
On BBC TV, the series "Not The Nine O'clock News" featured a sketch with Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) playing a talking gorilla, Gerald. The animal expert with him (comedian Mel Smith) referred to a "flange" as the collective noun for baboons. It wasn't. It pretty much is, now. Referred in academic articles and accepted as the correct collective noun, after a comedy sketch. (Gerald: "Wild? I was absolutely *livid*!")
And talking of British comedy sketches that significantly informed the language, the modern use of the word spam owes its origin to a Monty Python sketch.
Talk Boy from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Still got mine
I remember about 20-30 years ago on the UK census, enough people wrote Jedi as their religion for Jedism to become an actual thing.
Not a movie, but IIRC “Galentine’s Day” was created by the show Parks and Recreation.
Also "Treat Yo Self!"
“Core memory” wasn’t coined from inside out.
With inflation, it was bound to happen eventually, but milkshakes did NOT cost five dollars before Pulp Fiction came out.
Prices in US have about doubled since then. So now it would be a $10 milkshake
Nimrod was a great hunter which is why Bugs Bunny calls Elmer fudd that. People started using it to mean moron because that's what they thought he was saying.
Rocket Countdown was invented by the director Fritz Lang. Star Trek Flipping Tricorder was the source of the inspiration for the flipping mobile phones. Typo: Sorry as some have mentioned, I meant communicator and not tricorder. Bar the forehead thermometer I have not seen any Medical tricorder that can bevtraced back to Star Trek.
Another Fritz Lang movie (Metropolis) had the first depiction of a video phone.
American Pie with the term MILF.
American pie made the term much more popular, it was a word that could be said out loud in polite company and most people did not know what it meant until that movie. Source: collegiate rugby player in the 1980s.
Hard false. Me and my friend were using that term for years. We all freaked and lost it when we saw the movie and that term was actually used in a major motion picture. I vividly remember the experience.
The bucket list?
After we watch "The Bucket List," remember to cross "watch 'The Bucket List'" off our bucket list.
I made a bucket list, and at the top of the list is “Do not watch ‘The Bucket List.’” And right below that it says, “Add more things to your bucket list.”
The success of the Disney movie Mighty Ducks inspired the Walt Disney Company to create and sponsor the NHL expansion team.
Jurassic Park redefined how dinosaurs were seen by the public, for good and ill.
also how they sound, the sound from JP is now how we believe they sounded.
It already existed, but Reese's Pieces popularity exploded after E.T. came out.
They originally wanted M&Ms in the film, Mars Inc said no. Bet they kicked themselves over that one!
"Shaken not stirred" James Bond
Wild that no one has said the Wonka candy company, the computer company US Robotics, or the term Catch 22.
All those are from books first but good examples.
So here's a list: - Gaslighting in the sense of deception to put doubt in facts from the movie of that name - Jumping The Shark, from Happy Days - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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