Daredevil
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Short description
Matt Murdock is a blind attorney in New York City who lost his sight in an accident involving radioactive material. The same accident heightened his remaining senses far beyond ordinary limits, and his training lets him navigate the world through a kind of radar awareness. By day he practices law; by night he takes the law into his own hands as a masked vigilante.
The film is based on the Marvel Comics character. Mark Steven Johnson wrote and directed it, following his 1998 debut Simon Birch; Ben Affleck plays Matt Murdock, with Jennifer Garner as Elektra Natchios, Colin Farrell as the assassin Bullseye, and Michael Clarke Duncan as the crime lord Wilson Fisk, known as the Kingpin. Jon Favreau appears as Foggy Nelson and Joe Pantoliano as the journalist Urich.
Daredevil was released in February 2003 and runs 103 minutes. Made for about 78 million dollars, it took in roughly 179 million dollars worldwide, a solid return on its production cost. Reception was mixed across the board: on IMDb it holds 5.3/10 from about 240,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.3/10 from over 5,600 votes, while the film critics' rating stands at 5.4/10 from 229 reviews, leaving critics and audiences closely aligned.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film's soundtrack was recorded by the rock band Evanescence.
- During the filming of the movie, Ben Affleck used the services of four stunt doubles who substituted for him in particularly risky scenes.
- There is a director's cut of the film which is 30 minutes longer than the theatrical release.
- Three months before filming began, Ben Affleck started training to prepare for his role. Before and during filming, Affleck practiced various fighting styles daily under the guidance of stunt coordinator Jeff Imada and British veteran trainer Dave Lee.
- When Michael Clarke Duncan (1957-2012) was cast in the film, he weighed 138 kg. He was asked to gain another 10 kg for the role. To achieve this, he worked out every day and ate whatever he wanted, without any restrictions.
- Michael Clarke Duncan was often filmed standing on boxes or raised platforms to make him appear taller than the other actors, especially Ben Affleck, who is 1 meter 92 centimeters tall.
- It took between seven and eight months to create Daredevil's costume, ensuring it looked exactly as it did in the comics.
- Before working on this project, Colin Farrell had never ridden a motorcycle.
- In the comics, Kingpin is white, but on screen, his image was embodied by African American Michael Clarke Duncan, who happened to have a similar physique. The studio decided to cast Duncan in the role after a series of unsuccessful auditions involving white wrestlers. In fact, when this character was first introduced into the storyline of the original comics, it was assumed that he would be African American, but this idea (to make him African American) was abandoned.
- Some of the supporting characters contain clear references to the famous creators of the Daredevil comics. Throughout the film, the names of writers and artists such as Joe Quesada, Johnny Romita, Frank Miller, Brian Michael Bendis, and David Mack are visible or mentioned in passing. The character's creators were not overlooked either: Father Everett shares a surname with artist Bill Everett, and the client who pays with fish is named after writer Stan Lee.
- During filming, Ben Affleck could barely see anything because of contact lenses that obstructed his vision.
- The first American film in which Colin Farrell speaks with his native Irish accent.
- While filming a fight scene between their characters, Jennifer Garner accidentally hit Ben Affleck in the head so hard that he was knocked unconscious for a moment.
- Preparing for the role, Ben Affleck, a longtime fan of Daredevil, specifically reread every single comic book in which the character appeared.
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