Risky Business is NOT like I remember it, an introduction to the Mandela Effect — Steemit (2024)

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What is the most famous Mandela Effect? Popular examples of the Mandela Effect include misremembering Mr. Monopoly wearing a monocle, incorrectly remembering the last name of the Berenstain Bears family and misremembering Mickey Mouse as wearing suspenders.

What is for sure, if you watch Tom Cruise in his famous undies scene now he is in a pink shirt with no sunglasses at all. Interestingly enough if you google "Risky business Halloween costume" everyone's wearing white shirts and yes, sunglasses.

A man becomes obsessed with a phenomenon where facts and events have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing it to be the symptom of something larger, his search for answers brings him to the brink of insanity when a startling revelation forces him to make a difficult decision that, if he is right, could have consequences for the entire world.

The Mandela Effect / Film synopsis

Fiona Broome, a paranormal researcher, coined the term to describe collective false memory when she discovered that a significant number of people at a conference she was attending in 2010 shared her memory that Nelson Mandela had died in prison during the 1980s.

The Mandela effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event occurred when it did not. The term was originated in 2009 by Fiona Broome, after she discovered that she, along with a number of others, believed that Nelson Mandela had died in the 1980s (when he actually died in 2013).

Despite beliefs to the contrary, due to the Pikachu Mandela effect, Pikachu's tail was never black. It may have been seen with shade on its tail every once in a while, but it was never actually black. It was always completely yellow, save for the patch of brown at the base.

Tom Cruise does his own stunts and it's remarkable what he's been able to pull off. Hanging on the side of a plane, skydiving, climbing the world's tallest building — he's done it all.

Does Tom Cruise's lip-syncing of Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger in Risky Business devalue that song? I won't say it devalued it. Seger was greatly enriched by it, deservedly so. But it quickly became one of those songs, that I could make a long list of, that I never need to hear or wish to play ever again.

Risky Business sunglasses

And while his character isn't exactly a role model, there's no denying that he had some great style. One of the most iconic looks from the movie is when Cruise is seen wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. There are many iterations of the Wayfarer but the one sported by Cruise is the true O.G.

A monomaniacal man obsesses endlessly over the historical events that have been collectively misremembered by history. He is able to convince himself that this fault in collective memory points to a flaw in the larger human condition, pushing him to question the very existence of reality.

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Mandela wound up spending 27 years in prison for leading the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed apartheid policies that kept South Africa's Black residents segregated, often in inhumane conditions.

Other examples include memories of the respective title component of the Berenstain Bears children's books being spelled "Berenstein", the logo of clothing brand Fruit of the Loom featuring a cornucopia, Darth Vader telling Luke Skywalker, "Luke, I am your father" in the climax of The Empire Strikes Back (he actually ...

After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela was freed in 1990 and negotiated with State President F. W. de Klerk the end of apartheid in South Africa, bringing peace to a racially divided country and leading the fight for human rights around the world.

Double “Stuf” Oreos

Another Mandela effect that has surprised each and every one of us is the Double Stuf Oreo. Maybe we were just busy dunking our favorite cookie into a glass of milk to notice that there isn't actually a second 'f' on the packaging.