I don’t know if this is the case everywhere but before they screen movies in UK cinemas a little certificate pops up showing warnings for violence and sex and all that, and before Black Panther one of the warnings was “one obscene gesture” and I was all OOOOOH I bet that happens in a moment of high emotion, I bet that forms part of the climatic scene of the movie or something
but it turned out to be Shuri casually flipping her big brother off
See, in our theater we got to start the movie with Chadwick Boseman staring darkly at the audience, unblinking
Eventually Letitia bounces in and asks what he’s doing, and he goes “I’m glaring at them so they don’t talk or text in the movie.”
“… You can’t just stare at the audience for the whole movie…?”
“watch me.”
HE CAME BACK AT THE END AFTER ALL THE CUT SCENES AND YELLED “STILL WATCHING”
We have similar warnings to that but they are interspersed through all the adverts and differ by cinema whereas the title screen OP is talking about is shown before every film in every cinema. It’s basically a screen of trigger warnings so people can prepare.
Coming back at the end is amusing though.
Yeah, this one was definitely Drafthouse specific–that don’t do warnings except when it’s time for everyone to settle down, really. I think the assumption is that you’ve checked the rating for yourself by then.
You got Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright in a little kind-of extra scene?! DAMN. I am jealous.