He takes a moment to remove the mask and reset his face and body language a bit to be less threatening. He knows the kid has been terrorized, and he knows he's a guy in a black mask who just beat the shit out of piles of people with his bare hands. Once all the criminals have been beaten to the point they can't get up or fight back Murdock unlatches the door before thinking about what he's about to do. I wonder if there was any discussion about not just keeping the scene as one long shot, but also minimizing the moments that looked like they could be cuts.īarring that bit of assumed misdirection, everything about this scene is nearly perfect. In one of the final moments of the fight the momentum of a punch actually causes him to fall over a body into one of the side rooms, out of the shot.Īn interesting bit many people I talked to assumed there were a few hidden cuts in here, including the moment where the camera pans across Daredevil's midsection to show the other end of the hallway. Heck, someone was pleading with him to go to the hospital, and that was before this fight begins. He knows what he has to do, but his body is close to giving out through the entire scene. Watch how he uses the wall to gain momentum in a tight space, while his movements grow increasingly slack yet weighty as the fight moves on. There are moments in the fight where both Daredevil and his opponents take a moment to rest and catch their breath, and then Murdock goes back to attacking them one by one, assessing the more pressing threat before moving onto the next one. This fight is obviously inspired by a similar scene in Oldboy, but Daredevil runs with the basic ideas and makes it work in this world. Murdock doesn't just put everyone down, he has to take a few runs at each adversary before they stay down. Which is another way this scene rises above the normal superhero action tropes everyone involved gets tired.

It's not just an action scene, it's a gauntlet.

There is nothing in that hallway that's going to keep Murdock from getting to the young child held behind that door. The offscreen moments also allow the camera to remain fixed on the door at the end of the hallway, which slams home just how important the end goal is. His movements grow increasingly slack yet heavy as the fight moves on It takes someone with super-senses to know someone is running to join the fray and to get a piece of furniture ready to throw through the door at just the right time. Much of the fight happens offscreen as well, but when the battle spills out of the room into the frame it's almost used for humor. It takes half a beat, but he's putting together a mental image, and a plan. It shows what Daredevil can do in subtle ways watch how he places his hand on the first door to hear, feel and smell how many people are inside and what weapons they're carrying. The single shot action sequence is a showy way to get people talking online, just ask True Detective, but it only works when it's designed well, and this shot is designed perfectly. They made it work on shot seven or eight, and the show's lead switched placed with a stunt double for some of the fight, but it's a single shot, with no fakery and no cuts. We were able to slow down the fight, and just have this raw, animalistic feeling happening.' 'But Phil challenged us to do a pure one-shot, which really just brought a grounded real feeling to the whole thing.

Silvera, the show's stunt coordinator, told the Observer. For me in my head, with the time, we had, I said let’s do wipes and we’ll be able save things,' Philip J.

Phil Abraham was directing, and it was always scripted that this scene was going to be a one-shot. 'I think this was what started defining the show for me, and the weight that was being played into it. The show's creative team knew how important that shot would be in getting people involved in the show. It's a single fight scene, shot in one take, that lasts over five minutes and is wholly encapsulated in a single hallway. We've discussed the first episode of Marvel's Daredevil series, but the last scene of the second episode is where things really start to pick up.

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