This is a phenomenon I call cinetrope. Films influence the world which in turn influences film and so on creating a feedback effect.

For example, we have certain films to thank for an escalation in the tactics used by bank robbers which influenced the creation of SWAT which in turn influenced films like Heat and so on.

Actually, Heat was the movie that inspired heavily armed bank robbers to rob the Bank of America in LA

(The movie inspired reality, not the other way around.)

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/north-hollywood-shootout

But your point still stands, because it goes both ways.

> we have certain films to thank for an escalation

Is there a reason to think this was caused by the popularity of the films and not that it’s a natural evolution of the cat-and-mouse game being played between law enforcement and bank robbers? I’m not really sure what you are specifically referring to, so apologies if the answer to that question is otherwise obvious.

What about the cinetrope that human emotion is a magical transcendent power that no machine can ever understand...

Thank you for this word! Always wanted a word for this and just reused "trope", cinetrope is a great word for this.

Life imitates art imitates life.

Voice interfaces are an example of this. Movies use them because the audience can easily hear what is being requested and then done.

In the real world voice interfaces work terribly unless you have something sentient on the other end.

But people saw the movies and really really really wanted something like that, and they tried to make it.

Maybe this is why American society, with the rich amount of media it produces and has available for consumption compared to other countries, is slowly degrading.

Feedback loop that often starts with government giving grants and tax breaks. Hollywood is not as independent as they pretend.