Days of Heaven to Magic Mike

It's hard to believe, but it turns out that the "Magic Mike" saga all started out with an impressionable 14 year old boy watching Terrence Malick's masterpiece, "Days of Heaven." And having a certain epiphany. 

“Someone went into the world with a camera and observed and had a point of view,” he says. “It just felt like anyone could do anything in movies. If you could do something like that, you could make anything that was in your mind.”

And that's the story of popular culture. Right there, in a nutshell.