exactly.People are inspired by movies and seek to mimic what they saw on screen all of the time.
To act as though they aren't inspired by movies/television is intellectually dishonest.
The whole entertainment industry is built on marketing all sorts of propaganda to different classes of people in society.
It is one of Christopher Nolan's most acclaimed and profitable films and is still given a mammoth status even now. In 2010, a man was sentenced to almost a year of jail time after he broke into his cousin's home and assaulted him while he was dressed as The Joker. In 2009, another incident happened where a young girl assaulted an Indiana High School teacher. She ran after her teacher, holding a razor blade and carved the Joker's trademark smile into her face, after the teacher went to the bathroom, full of the Joker's red, white, and black makeup.
6. A Nightmare On Elm Street
This cult horror movie was later known to be the inspiration behind the murder spree of Daniel Gonzalez that happened in 2004. Gonzalez was already a paranoid schizophrenic who, one night, ended up consuming a series of drugs and went on an absolute rampage and killed four people in the process. He carried kitchen knives as his weapons and he pretended to be the killer from A Nightmare On Elm Street, Freddy Krueger. The official reports of the incident claimed that Gonzalez did not get proper treatment and that's why he acted out the way he did. He was given six life sentences for the murders.
9. Scream
It is one of the cult movies made by Wes Craven and he completely revolutionized the slasher genre. The movie had an extremely detailed portrayal of murder that one American judge even went on record to say that it was, " a very good source to learn how to kill someone." Like the others on the list, this movie inspired its own share of copycat murders, but the most notorious of the lot was that of Thierry Jaradin. Jaradin then befriended a young teenager named Alisson Cambier and invited her over to his house. There he proposed that they would have sex, but she refused. After hearing this, he excused himself to another room and put on the iconic costume. He came back in with two large carving knives and stabbed Cambier 30 times that mirrored the opening scene of the movie.
10. Natural Born Killers
It is one of the most infamous movies when it comes to crimes committed because of a single movie. The movie tells the story of a couple on the run from authorities, who go on to commit a series of violent and terrible crimes, and they have a lot of fun while doing so. Inspired by the movie, a young couple in love set out from Oklahoma on their own killing spree, mimicking the movie. In March 1995 they began their series of crimes by robbing and shooting the owner of a liquor store. Then, they traveled all the way to Louisiana to shoot a cashier at a convenience store. The couple had the audacity to return to their hometown so that they could brag to their friends about their exploits. Soon after, they were arrested and sent to jail in 1995.