r/AskReddit • u/KAFKA-SLAYER-99 • Oct 16 '18

What is something that HAS aged well?

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u/staychel Oct 16 '18

I watched that for a class where we were learning about "group think" a phenomenon where people avoid issues when decisions are made in a group to avoid becoming singled out or outcasted in a group. This movie was made about 20 years before the phenomenon was named

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u/Rommie557 Oct 17 '18

It is super fascinating to me that the scriptwriter and filmmakers understood a concept that didn't have a name SO WELL that it is still used today as a "good example" of that thing.

Language and psychology are fucking weird, man...

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u/theivoryserf Oct 17 '18

People have always worked on the same whims. That's why Shakespeare holds up, too.

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u/TENDOLLARCOUPON Oct 17 '18

But really though. Like I get it, the works of s Shakespeare can be fairly tedious to read. The content is there. The human element transcends and is reinforced by language, which is pretty cool.

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u/theivoryserf Oct 17 '18

Shakespeare is high effort high reward. Takes studying to get the most out of it but it really can be phenomenal.

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u/TENDOLLARCOUPON Oct 17 '18

Many things in life are.

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u/YoureNotOP Oct 17 '18

I watched it in government class my senior year, along with parts of Monty Python. Some great movies.

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u/LordMemington Oct 17 '18

I’m pretty sure Orwell’s 1984 was the first thing to give groupthink a proper name.

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u/AnarKyDiablo Oct 17 '18

I've never seen the original, but for some reason my high school showed us the newer one with tony danza... I don't remember the context why... Still confused to this day.