Eternals director Chloe Zhao said the red and gold shields featured in the film’s Bollywood dance sequence are a nod to Captain America.
Eternals Director Chloe Zhao recently confirmed that the shields featured in the film’s Bollywood scene were meant to be an intentional nod to Captain America.
“Look, Captain America’s shield!” the director said The Direct while discussing the Easter eggs that were part of the final cut of the film. “Yay, it’s here! I’m so excited we made the shield.”
Fans may recall that the red and gold shields appeared during a scene in which Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo was filming a Bollywood dance sequence and looked strikingly similar to the shield used by Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) in the previous Marvel Cinematic Universe films.
Zhao added that filming this scene, in particular, turned out to be “one of the most emotional things that [she’d] seen.” She continued, “Because everyone is so dedicated. The choreographer, the whole team, they even invented the song too… The way they rallied around Kumail [Nanjiani] and supported him. It was a pleasure to work with this team.”
The director also revealed that the Bollywood scene wasn’t the only one that featured a reference to Captain America. In fact, a replica of the first shield used by Rogers in 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger also appeared in the background of a scene showing Sersi (Gemma Chan) and Ikaris (Richard Madden) sitting inside Kingo’s jet. Additionally, the same shield appeared in the background of a karaoke scene involving Sprite by Lia McHugh, who made it the Eternals trailer but did not do the final cut.
Zhao’s comments about multiple Captain America Easter Eggs also came on the heels of some fans also noticing a subtle reference to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in Eternals. The nod to the hit Disney+ series came in the film’s current opening scene, when Sersi looks at a billboard in London’s Trafalgar Square and sees an advert for the Global Repatriation Council that reads, “Welcome, We can help you.” Blip’s fictional refugee charity, also known as the RCMP, previously played a prominent role in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
While Eternals received mixed reviews upon its theatrical release, Disney recently confirmed that the film outperformed other MCU films Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings since premiering on Disney+ last week. According to analytics firm Samba TV, Eternals attracted two million households in the United States in its first five days on the streaming service, beating the 1.7 million households that tuned in to Shang Chi during its first five days on the platform.
Directed by Chloe Zhao, Eternals is streaming now on Disney+.
Source: The Direct
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