In Popular Culture
Hollywood has often painted piranhas as aggressive, insatiable predators. An example of this perception in media appears in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, where a piece of meat is shown being fed to pet piranhas owned by the film's main antagonist, Blofeld, then only a bone is raised from the water. Later on, a woman is thrown into the piranha pool, although all that is seen is water bubbling vigorously.
Piranha (1978) and Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) perpetuated the piranha's sinister image by showing murderous piranha fish biting and eating humans.
Piranha 3D (2010) is another Hollywood film, this time portraying the incident as starting with an under-water fault opening and allowing pre-historic piranha into a lake (versus an accidental addition as in the 1978 film).
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