The obvious one for me would be Wolf of Wall Street. Clearly tried to exaggerate excess and hedonism, but people praised the lifestyle and tried to think "that is what I want to be one day"

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago

Same with the movie Wall Street: it was meant as a cautionary tale about greed and callousness in modern society, but Reagan era yuppies ended up identifying with the villain.

Several decades later, they made the atrociously titled sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" which had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer blow to the genitals and Trump cult members STILL managed to consider the obvious villain admirable.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I truly do not understand what makes people think that way.