You didn't miss a thing.

Police Academy - First time I saw boobs on tv. And you know what they say, "once you've seen one pair.....you wanna see 'em all"

Real, fantasy, at the end of the day, stories are stories and have a ripple effect on events and minds. And sometimes today's fantasy becomes tomorrow's reality.

Stories, in fact, are one of the primary ways we teach our children and ourselves about the world, life, and how to navigate existence.

The first thing that I thought about were Disney films. I grew up with things like Pollyanna, Old Yeller, Dumbo, Bambi, and the like. I think they probably had a big impact on me growing up.

I don't understand the shock. There is a reason why people still read Aesop's fables to kids. They impart important life lessons. The story and fantasy elements just make the lessons easier to digest, especially for kids. Most people on earth allow a book with fantasty elements to form their worldview.

i think he is more shocked at agreeing with me than anything else.

That is how I read it as well. As for the OP, if a person has watched a James Bond movie and thought "I'd like to be more like him" then that is the very basic element of a 'fantasy entertainment' influencing a person's world view.

One thing we can all agree on is 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing' is a wretched piece of tripe.

I've heard that a fantasy movie about a talking fawn, Bambi, has had more influence on the US policy about forest fires than anything else.


I can't think of any movies that had much effect on my worldview. I didn't see many movies, or much TV, so my views came from books. But I'll give another shout out to James Burke's Connections.

That's gonna be my story here. The movie I'm gonna talk about didn't exactly "form my worldview", but it certainly made me think about some attitudes I possessed. I may have shared this story here in the past, I don't know, I'm getting old, old people repeat themselves. It's what we do.

In the 90s, there was much talk about the lack of diversity on the TV sitcom Friends. How, for taking place in the very diverse city of NY, it was all white people all the time. I thought (at the time) that this was a very stupid argument, because to me Friends was just a show about being 20-something and living in the city. Adulting for the first time. Some of the characters were educated, some were struggling to get by without a college degree. In other words, something all people could relate to. Plus, I remember as a kid loving shows like Good Times and What's Happening, and later on Living Color, and those shows were all black. I loved 70s "Blaxploitation" cinema. Therefore, why couldn't people of color also enjoy Friends?

The movie that opened my eyes was Desmond Nakano's White Man's Burden starring John Travolta and Harry Belafonte. It takes place in an America where blacks were the people of majority and power, and always had been. There were things I expected to see in this movie, and I was not disappointed: The (black) cops pull over Travolta's character and hassle him for no reason, neighbors call the cops on him when he's in Belafonte's upscale neighborhood, etc etc. But the scene that made me revisit my worldview was just a short scene where Travolta's kid is watching TV, just flipping the channels, and it's nothing but black people. Black sitcoms, black dramas, commercials for black hair care products, et al. The kid just has a bored look on his face. And I then put myself in that world, and asked myself, would I watch as much TV and movies if it were as it what was depicted in this movie? And the answer is a clear no. I mean, yes, I'd still watch some movies and TV, but I'd get this overwhelming feeling that it wasn't for me, I was clearly not the target audience.

Now I always wonder what it is like for a person of color to almost never see a person who looks like them as the star of a movie, or for commercials that are only aimed at white people's hair care, skin care, you name it.

And yes, it was incredibly short-sighted that a show like Friends only had white people on it.

They never changed my world view good or bad and view them mostly as entertainment.

Born on the 4th of July I hope maybe moved people to reconsider why we go to war and the consequences but that was being too optimistic.

It was sad after Kovac danced with his girlfriend to Moon River his life would be changed forever once he went to Vietnam.

Shaped my worldview is a tough one, I honestly don't think any film has done that in a significant way. Had an impact on me? Made me think? Shaped my career?...yeah, a fair number of those. OT SW, and LOTR for my love of art and working in games - virtually every wk I'm looking to those for inspiration.(landscapes, music) Watching the Roots mini-series in elementary school did impact me quite a bit...probably my first real exposure to seeing racism like that on screen (I of course learned about MLK earlier, but just from books) Later on a couple of Gibson classics Braveheart and The Passion had an impact, and American History X was of course very powerful.

Obv 'formed' turned out to be too strong a word for most. Perhaps 'significantly impacted' or something would have been better!

Like Pokemon!

If we're talking about that as changing a world view, then, for me, it's Linda Hamilton. Terminator.
My stepfather brought the flick over on Beta, along with a huge beta player (man those suckers looked heavy), and played Terminator. I think my mom and him thought I was asleep on the floor but really I was peaking out under the blanket. The part where he cuts his eye out terrified me but it was made alright by the first pair of cinematic breasts I saw...all in glorious Betamax fullscreen! I must have been about 10 or 11.

Along a similar path, we had, really, one black kid in our school growing up in my small border town. So we weren't exposed to blacks growing up. Our English Teacher showed us In the Heat of the Night in Grade 10 and I think it was my first real look at racism, something I realized was processed by some family members. Words and sentiment I didn't quite understand during holiday talks or other gatherings was made clear and I realized it was wrong.

That maybe was a pebble on a mountain but it was something that changed my view. I didn't understand hate for people who had different skin color then me.

The show Quantum Leap had an impact on this as well, not to mention them exploring sexism and LGBTQ issues.

Yes, I noted that bit of humor but was more focused on his surprise that people let fantasy influence them.

I think the first titties I saw in a movie were Beverly D'Angelo's in National Lampoon's Vacation. Saw it in a theater when I was about seven.

Even before that, I think the first ones I saw in a movie were probably in Piranha, which I saw at someone's house who had HBO, on a small black and white tv.

I don't remember that scene and it now occurs to me I have only ever seen Vacation on Comedy Central.