Eagle Cinema

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Eagle Cinema
First appearanceOff to the Movies, page 2
June 27, 2006
Related charactersAmaya, Emma, Mike, Daisy, Paulo, Lucy, Jasmine, James

Eagle Cinema is a small street-front movie theater in Roseville.[1] It is the cast’s go-to venue for dates and group outings, and Amaya works at its concession stand.[2]

Description

The Eagle Cinema marquee glows above poster-lined pillars, doors flung wide as moviegoers stream inside.[3]

The building is a single-storey street front, its marquee resting on poster-covered pillars above a set of glass double doors.[1][4] A streetlight out front does duty as bike parking for Paulo, and later chapters show the red-and-yellow façade facing a public parking lot, snow-dusted in winter.[1][5]

Inside, a red-carpeted lobby with pale-blue walls runs past the counters, lined the whole way with framed movie posters.[6] The ticket counter sits near the doors, an open desk in the earlier chapters and a glassed-in booth with a row of tills later on.[1][7] A popcorn machine stands behind the concession counter on the cast’s first visit.[2] Later scenes show a register and computer monitor at the counter and stocked back-shelving behind it.[8][7]

The auditorium holds raked rows of plush, high-backed red seats, kept dark and lit by the screen, with cupholder armrests roomy enough for two people to share one drink.[9][10] An exit door sits down at screen level, and while early visitors sat wherever they liked, tickets come with lettered seat assignments in later years.[11][9]

History

Eagle Cinema in winter as Daisy, David, and Paulo approach the entrance.[12]

The gang’s first trip here comes in Off to the Movies, where Mike and Lucy’s would-be date is absorbed by Daisy, Paulo and David. The group settles on Lucy’s joke pick, the “horror-romance-comedy-drama crossover” “Face Bleeders: Forever and Ever in Love”, and its melodramatic ending leaves Lucy quietly shaken.[2][13]

In Back and Forth, Paulo brings Jasmine here for their first date. Tim at the box office refuses them tickets to the R-rated “Goremaster Vorecoaster 3000” with a flat “No.”, until a thumbs-up from Amaya at the concession stand gets them in.[1] The gore terrifies them both before tipping them into shared hysterics, and Amaya is on the phone to Sue before the two have even left.[14]

The book-exclusive chapter Payback, set after that relationship has ended, brings Jasmine back with Mina and Cassidy for a girls’ night out. At Amaya’s register she discovers her ex has quietly pre-paid for everything: “Guys. Paulo was here. He’s paying.”[15] Paulo can’t actually cover the bill, so Amaya hands him a broom and lets him work it off.[8]

In Take Heart, David and Paulo leave an unnamed movie theater with a poster-lined lobby matching this one, fresh out of a movie about everything wrong with junk food and fully ready to go binge on some.[16]

Paulo turns up alone and rattled in Boy Toy. He glares at the poster for the romance film “All My Love”, complains about “all this gay shit being shoved in my face”, and yells at a couple kissing in the hallway.[6][17] Amaya turns him away from the NC-17 “Deception”, so he settles for a popcorn to go.[18] On his way out he collides with new employee Emma and flirts with her,[19] then flirts with Amaya by accident.[20]

Paulo returns with Daisy in Featured Attraction, this time for the limited-release anime film “My Endless Sunshower”. The showing starts with the dubbed version by mistake and most of the audience walks out, which leaves the pair a nearly private theater and Daisy’s head resting on Paulo’s shoulder.[21][22] Then the manager apologizes and restarts the film with subtitles.[23] The fans file back in, and Hannah, who has severe dyslexia and cannot follow subtitled movies, loses her only chance to see it.[24]

Mike is back in Date Night, this time with James. James fanboys over the director all the way through the queue and the concession line, since nobody on his team will ever watch these movies with him.[25] Their hands meet over the shared cup holder mid-film, and by the credits the two of them are laughing through tears.[10][26]

Staff

A small and familiar crew keeps the place running.

  • Amaya has worked the concession stand from the cast’s eighth-grade year through Date Night.[2][27] Her counter is the cast’s inside track, since she waves friends past ticket refusals while holding the line on ratings herself.[1][18]
  • Emma is a newer hire, introduced mid-shift in Boy Toy and selling tickets by Featured Attraction.[19][7]
  • Tim works the box office, where he refuses Paulo’s R-rated purchase with a flat “No.”[1]
  • Amaya’s dad is the theater manager, seen apologizing to a full house and restarting a mis-shown film.[23]
  • An unnamed, bespectacled grey dog checks tickets at the door in both Featured Attraction and Date Night.[7][27]

Trivia

The poster hallway at Eagle Cinema, lined with framed movie posters for Deception, Zombrex, Over the Sunset, and Little Blue.[28]
  • The cinema has shown “Face Bleeders: Forever and Ever in Love”, “Goremaster Vorecoaster 3000”, “Ultimate Zombie” and the anime “My Endless Sunshower”, with lobby posters advertising plenty more.[2][1][29][23]
  • Veronica designed the crowd of anime fans seen in Featured Attraction live on a Discord stream.[9]
  • In the BCI story Love Letters, Madison, Jessica and Matt catch a movie here as part of a date montage.[30]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Chapter 54: Back and Forth, page 23
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Chapter 12: Off to the Movies, page 2
  3. ↑ Chapter 54: Back and Forth, page 23
  4. ↑ Chapter 118: Date Night, page 1
  5. ↑ Chapter 113: Featured Attraction, page 5
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 87: Boy Toy, page 11
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Chapter 113: Featured Attraction, page 6
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Four, “Payback”, page 6
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 113: Featured Attraction, page 7
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 118: Date Night, page 4
  11. ↑ Chapter 54: Back and Forth, page 24
  12. ↑ Chapter 113: Featured Attraction, page 5
  13. ↑ Chapter 12: Off to the Movies, page 4
  14. ↑ Chapter 54: Back and Forth, page 25
  15. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Four, “Payback”, page 4
  16. ↑ Chapter 81: Take Heart, page 11
  17. ↑ Chapter 87: Boy Toy, page 12
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 87: Boy Toy, page 13
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Chapter 87: Boy Toy, page 15
  20. ↑ Chapter 87: Boy Toy, page 16
  21. ↑ Chapter 113: Featured Attraction, page 8
  22. ↑ Chapter 113: Featured Attraction, page 12
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Chapter 113: Featured Attraction, page 14
  24. ↑ Chapter 113: Featured Attraction, page 16
  25. ↑ Chapter 118: Date Night, page 2
  26. ↑ Chapter 118: Date Night, page 5
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Chapter 118: Date Night, page 3
  28. ↑ Chapter 87: Boy Toy, page 14
  29. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Four, “Payback”, page 2
  30. ↑ Love Letters, page 10 🔒 (members only)
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