There are many examples of how movies perpetuate everyday life with regards to exaggerating broad popular tendencies. Somehow Bernays knew in 1928 the practices and procedures that still are followed today by the producers of movies and films. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 have heightened the American citizen’s fear of terrorism tactics, increased the sense of patriotism and flooded the box office with movies playing on the fears and virtues that are a result of 9/11. Just a few of the examples of the movies resulting from the attacks are The Kingdom, Fahrenheit 9/11, Jarhead, Munich, World Trade Center, Team America: World Police.
These movies do nothing to improve the circumstances that we are living in right now, they just exaggerate the popular tendency of being afraid that it could happen again and people unconsciously behaving with more patriotism stemming from the attacks. It has been over six years since 9/11 and instead of trying to move on from what happened, Hollywood is still trying to make money from it. They are not stimulating any new ideas or opinions from their consumer, the general movie going public, they want to ride the wave of fear as long as it continues making money.
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