November 4th was the Fan Appreciation Night for The Eternals at the El Capitan Theatre! The long line to enter was for an early, 5 p.m. entry, where vaccination cards were checked to get wristbands. There was a photo op and costumes were lined against the back wall. The lower level room displays are still not open. It is becoming apparent that while the special ticket price remains that the exclusives are becoming less important. Still, there was a popcorn and drink as part of admission, now it is only popcorn. I think there was an offer for D23 gold members for the drink, but I wasn’t asked. A drink is needed with the dryness of the popcorn. Also, there was a special movie themed band around the popcorn buckets, that went away. If a fan wanted to buy special popcorn buckets and drinks, some with figures on top of the drink tops, and metal buckets for popcorn. There were special El Capitan edition comic books, but I think that stopped with the first Avengers movie.
The Eternals Fan Apprecation Night at the El Capitan!
The Eternals’ costumes by Sammy Sheldon who also designed the costumes in Ant-Man (2015). It features the ten Eternals, no props or costumes of other characters, and these are in the standard cubicles. It is more impressive them seeing in a room with pre-production artwork and maybe copies of the comic books. The first costume is of Gilgamesh (Don Lee), the uniform has a massive gold breastplate, green pauldrons, and gold gauntlets and boots. Next is the red and black uniform of the speedster Makkari (Lauren Ridloff). Kingo’s costume worn by Kumail Nanjiani) is purple with two silver circles on his chest (not certain what they represent) and skirt. Thena (Angelina Jolie) has a gold pauldrons, breastplate, and belt, and the rest is a white skirt. The blue and gold uniform of Ikaris (Richard Madden) looks less like armor except the gauntlets, armored skirt, faulds, and boots. There are armor pieces, for the body and gauntlets for Gemma Chan’s character, Sersi, but green and white skirt. Ajak (Salma Hayek) has a gold headpiece and a gold and blue gown.
The costume of Lia McHugh’s character, Sprite, has green and white armor with a skirt and guantlets. Druig (Barry Keoghan) has black armor and skirt with red symbols etched around the uniform. Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) had a costume of a long blue coat with gold panels. The giveaways were a pouch with the lanyard with an Eternals i.d. card. There was a journal and gel pen that didn’t arrive in time, but that it is perfectly understandable considering the problems with the shipping. It would be shipped out when information is sent in. There was a poster given away at the end of the screening. The screen had pictures of fans inside the theater. The Nerdist host asked trivia questions, these were quite easy, but I didn’t get a chance to answer. There usually is an actor or filmmaker who presents the film, but I guess it was too much of a bother to show up for this one. The fan enthusiasm was good, a few people cosplaying, and the audience had a good reaction to the film. It doesn’t seem to be a high value for the ticket price, $50, unless someone is interested in taking pics of the costumes which may be displayed at FIDM. I hope the El Capitan Theatre will give more extras to audience members since the theater itself is a premium experience.
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