In recent days, people in Shanghai has changed ‘how are you’ to
‘ Have you watched Avatar?’
In front of Peace Cinema in Raffles City, which has the only IMAX screen in Shanghai, there are always people queueing up for a ticket to watch IMAX 3D Avatar.
Below are some photos I found on the web by some Shanghai netizens.
And this kind of day and night queue only appeared in train stations before the Chinese New Year. But for a movie, the very first time in town!
Now is the coldest time in Shanghai. People are still willing to wait in the chilly wind for Avatar.
Queueing for Avatar in front of Peach Cinema Shanghai
Queueing for Avatar in front of Peach Cinema Shanghai
A Shanghai netizen drew this map to show how long the queue was on 7th Jan.
The queue started at the corner of Hankou Road and Mid Xizang Road (the blue dot) winding along the Yunnan road and then ended at the corner of Fuzhou Road and Mid Xizang Road (the red dot). Amazing!
The photo below was taken at 1:30am on 9th Jan.
They were sitting outside the cinema in front of the chocolate shop.
After this photo was published, soon many netizens pointed out a few of guys in this picture were Huang Niu (scalper) (read more about Huang Niu here). I have to say it is not easy to be the Huang Niu of Avatar.
The one caught the most attentions was the old lady below.
Old lady queueing for Avatar in Shanghai
Most people queueing in front of the cinema were young. So the old lady covered with quilt caught lots of attentions.
She arrived at cinema 8pm on 7th Jan and queued the whole night till 8th Jan morning when the cinema was open and fortunately she was the first.
The old lady said she was queueing for his son. Then people started to criticise her son for putting his mother outside in the cold winter just for a movie ticket. Later someone defended her son saying her son was really sick and his mother just wanted him to be happy.
Then this triggerd a hot debate about parents, children, cinema, family issues etc.
In order to manage the large demands, the cinema has increased the ticket price from 150RMB to 200RMB and made Shanghai the most expensive city to watch Avatar in the world! (according to some Chinese netizens)
Okay, I’ve decided to watch Avatar in cinema in Feb.
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