This can work on a feedback loop as well -- popular media is where young people learn how communication works. If they all watch the same "movie logic" scenarios, those scenarios are the only examples they have of how to behave.

So while Hollywood writers may have just needed a mechanism to make the plot interesting, that pattern can become reality as well.

It's a bit like people talking reading ChatGPT crap, will start talking and writing like ChatGPT.