On July 2, the fourth day after "Jaws" was released, the box office dropped slightly, with only 275,000 effective clicks.
After all, it's a working day, and even if the film is only 70 minutes long, most people don't have that much time to watch it.
However, even so, 270,000 effective clicks are still a box office of 1.35 million.
Within four days of its launch, "Jaws" has grossed 6 million at the box office.
Everything was within Li Qian's expectation.
However, life always has surprises. After getting up in the morning and washing up, Li Qian read the news as usual.
I saw a strange news on a forum, saying that a shark was found in the waters of a seaside resort along the coast.
The poster uploaded several photos, all of which showed chaos on the beach and tourists still in the sea rushing to swim to the shore. No sharks were photographed.
There were also a lot of doubts at the bottom. After all, there are almost no incidents of sharks eating people in China, but overseas, we often hear about sharks attacking humans.
However, the person who posted the message swore steadfastly and repeatedly emphasized that he saw the shark's fins exposed on the sea surface with his own eyes.
Because of this, I even got into a fight with netizens.
There is nothing strange about sharks. Basically, there are traces of sharks in the waters of all coastal cities in China.
But those sharks are different from the sharks in the "Jaws" movie.
Generally speaking, sharks will not actively attack humans.
Sharks act on instinct. Even if they mistake humans for some of the animals they often eat, after biting people, they will usually let go when they taste the food and it is not the food they usually eat.
Except, of course, the very hungry shark.
But these are what experts say. Whether this is the case will be known by letting the shark take a bite and seeing whether it relaxes after tasting it or eats it directly.
Li Qian didn't take this news to heart, but it was quite a big news in the local area.
After the incident, the local resort was scared to death. If a shark attacked a human in their scenic area, it would basically be a relief.
However, after repeated confirmation and detection, no traces of sharks were found in the nearby waters, and after inspection, no loopholes in the anti-shark net were found.
It was a false alarm, and the person in charge immediately announced to all the tourists that it was a misunderstanding, and one of the tourists might have seen it wrong.
But tourists didn't buy it, especially some viewers who watched "Jaws" and became more and more frightened the more they thought about it.
And those tourists who first discovered "shark fins" have always insisted that they saw sharks.
No matter how reasonable the person in charge is, he just doesn’t believe it.
Other tourists did not dare to take risks at this time. Regardless of whether it was true or not, they could not risk their lives and decided not to go into the sea.
Just like that, not long after, most of the people on the beach were gone, and except for a few brave people, only those who were watching the excitement were left.
There was also some irritable brother who directly called the police.
Soon the police and people from relevant departments arrived, and reporters who heard the news also arrived.
The police and reporters came, and the tourists became more emboldened.
Although all evidence shows that it is unlikely that there are sharks in the nearby waters, the beach will still be closed for inspections for one day to appease tourists.
It happens to be summer vacation, and many people go to the beach to travel. The local TV station also made corresponding reports to remind tourists to pay attention to safety when visiting the beach.
It still has nothing to do with "Jaws". The little boy was not found. Otherwise, if the news reported that he imitated the plot of the movie and pretended to be a shark after watching "Jaws", it would have helped promote the movie.
However, on the same day, in another city, several young people who also played pranks were not so lucky.
"Remotely controlled shark fins teased tourists in the sea, causing large-scale brawls!"
This is a piece of news from the legal channel of a certain TV station.
Basically, three young people used remote-controlled shark fins to put sharks in the sea to scare tourists.
One person controls the remote control, and the other two people act as supports, pretending to be scared.
The all-purpose Taomao really sells everything!
Later, the three of them set their sights on two beautiful girls, which scared the girls to tears.
Unexpectedly, seven or eight classmates came out to play together. After several other male classmates found out, the two sides started to quarrel.
After arguing and arguing, the young people got angry and started fighting, calling the police.
It's a small case, but quite funny.
What's even more funny is that the three people said that after watching "Jaws", they wanted to pretend to be sharks and stimulate others at the beach for fun.
The TV news reported it, and of course the internet movie "Jaws" was also mentioned. When explaining the news, the host couldn't help but laugh a little.
There was another similar incident, but no one discovered it.
This kind of thing actually happens every year, but this year some of these tourists have watched "Jaws" and were frightened half to death at the slightest movement, so it was amplified.
People follow the herd, and fear is contagious.
This kind of prank would not be a big deal in normal times, but because some of the people involved were particularly sensitive to sharks, it actually caused a certain amount of panic.
After the news of the prank incident that made it into the legal news was broadcast, it was also reprinted by other media, causing quite a stir on the Internet.
"You are so talented. You can watch a movie and learn the plot. Why didn't you love learning so much when you were studying?"
"Fortunately those people didn't read "Tomb Raiders", otherwise they might have been thrown into their ancestral graves!"
"What kind of movie is "Jaws"? I just went to the cinema yesterday and I don't think I saw this movie."
"I seem to have seen it somewhere. I'll look for it and I'm a little curious!"
"It's a big internet movie. It's a new film directed by the director of "Sniper Phone Booth". It's quite good."
"Internet University? You can watch it, and I'm convinced!"
"What's wrong with Internet University? "Phone Booth" and "Jaws" are much better than many theater movies. At least this year, I haven't seen any better suspense and horror movies released than these two!"
"Thumbs up, I haven't borrowed the account for "Jaws" yet, but I watched "Phone Booth". It's awesome. It's definitely one of the best suspense movies this year!"
"I highly recommend "Jaws". I watched it three days ago and it's still a bit scary now that I think about it!"
"The director of "Jaws" is awesome. He turned a horror movie about a shark into a suspense movie. It feels so scary!"
"Is it really so beautiful? I'll take a look. If it doesn't look good, wait until I come back and beat everyone upstairs to death!"
After watching a movie about sharks, I pretended to be a shark to scare people, which also aroused the interest of many viewers in "Jaws".
Just like people who don't read online novels very much, if they hear that someone went to rob a tomb after reading "Tomb Raiders Notes", they will also be curious about what kind of novel it is and what magic it has.
In the following days, the box office of "Jaws" continued to rise, with 880,000 effective clicks and 4.4 million box office receipts in three days.
Including the 6 million in the previous four days, the total box office in the first 7 days has exceeded 10 million.
Moreover, after seven days of popularity, the movie has made the audience's fear of sharks more and more intense, and they also have a deep fear of the seaside.
Such a large audience, even if it is not like the two previous prank incidents that were not discovered, has begun to affect the tourism industry in some coastal areas.
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