Daredevil (film)

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Movie
German title Daredevil
Original title Daredevil
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length Theatrical Version: 99 minutes
Director’s Cut : 128 minutes
Age rating FSK 12 (theatrical version) or FSK 16 (director's cut)
JMK 14
Rod
Director Mark Steven Johnson
script Mark Steven Johnson
production Avi Arad ,
Gary Foster ,
Arnon Milchan
music Graeme Revell
camera Ericson Core
cut Armen Minasian ,
Dennis Virkler
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Elektra

Daredevil is the film adaptation of the comic book series Daredevil by Stan Lee and Bill Everett from the year 2003 . Directed by Mark Steven Johnson , who also wrote the script. The lead roles were played by Ben Affleck , Jennifer Garner , Michael Clarke Duncan and Colin Farrell . The film opened in German cinemas on March 20, 2003.

action

Matt Murdock lives with his dad, Jack, a seedy boxer, in New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood . One day Matt loses his eyesight in a toxic waste accident, but soon finds that his other senses have sharpened. With the help of his hearing, a better sense of touch and smell, he can - similar to an echo sounder - continue to perceive his environment despite his blindness . After Jack Murdock is murdered on the street, Matt vows to avenge his father.

Years later, Matt Murdock worked as a lawyer with his partner Franklin Nelson. At night, however, he uses his skills as Daredevil to punish unjustly released criminals from his point of view. One day he meets Elektra Natchios, the daughter of the industrialist Nikolas Natchios, and a romance develops between them.

When Nikolas Natchios decides to get out of a criminal syndicate, the gang boss Kingpin hires the crazy professional killer Bullseye to kill him. By chance Daredevil gets in the way of Bullseye during the assassination attempt on Natchios. During the fight between the two, Bullseye is able to disarm Matt Murdock and kill Natchios with Daredevil's fighting stick. When Elektra finds her father, she assumes Daredevil killed him and swears vengeance. Bullseye, who escapes Daredevil, reports to the kingpin about his successful assignment and the confrontation with the demon . Bullseye explains to Kingpin that he wants to kill Daredevil himself because he is the first Bullseye ever missed.

The following day, Matt tries to explain to Elektra who is behind the murder of her father and behind the mask of Daredevil. Elektra blocks all attempts and hides from the outside world to train with her Sai for the fight against Daredevil. Matt Murdock has another problem to deal with: Reporter Ben Urich is getting closer and closer to Daredevil's true identity.

When the fight with Elektra becomes inevitable, Daredevil faces her on the roof of a skyscraper. While Matt is desperate to explain that Bullseye was her father's killer, Elektra wounds his shoulder. Badly injured, Daredevil reveals himself to her as Matt Murdock. Bullseye, who followed them both and watched the battle, now shows up and declares that he is Natchio's real killer. In the following argument, Bullseye has no trouble with the weakened Elektra, he pierces her with her own weapon. The fatally injured Elektra dies in Daredevil's arms. He can retreat to a church, but is tracked down by Bullseye and a decisive battle ensues. After a long tie, Matt Murdock is able to incapacitate Bullseye with the help of a sniper and throw him out the window. Bullseye survives the fall seriously injured and is arrested by the police, who have since arrived.

Daredevil goes to Wilson Fisk's office. He had learned from Bullseye during his fight with him that Fisk is the notorious gang boss "Kingpin". During the fight between the two, Matt learns that it was also Fisk who killed his father at the time. Spurred on by this, he succeeds in overpowering the kingpin. However, he breaks his promise and spares his life to leave the wounded kingpin to justice.

While Matt Murdock continues his double life , Ben Urich has amassed ample evidence of Daredevil's identity. But Urich decides to keep this secret and to let Daredevil go on.

Reviews

Daredevil received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes , 45% of the critics gave the film positive feedback, based on 211 reviews. On the Metacritic website , the film got 42 out of 100 points based on 35 reviews. The film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and rated the film as good, despite the usual superhero background. Bruce Westbrook of the Houston Chronicle called the film the best Marvel movie to date, which is well-written and driven by the characters. In the lexicon of international film , Daredevil is rated as follows: "The fantasy film made with a view to other comic adaptations certainly thematizes the human-moral dimensions present in the pessimistic comic book, but gives them away in favor of the rather uninspired acrobatics of combat" .

music

The band Evanescence is represented with two songs that underline the change in Electra's relationship with Daredevil. While the funeral for the ballad My Immortal is taking place, you can hear Bring Me to Life in the following training sequence .

When Bullseye is shown in the Irish bar for the first time, the song Top O 'Morning To Ya by House of Pain can be heard in the background .

You can still hear u. a. The Calling ( For You ), NERD ( Lapdance ), Seether ( Hang on ), Nickelback ( Learn the hard way ) and Rob Zombie ( Man Without Fear ).

Awards

The film was nominated a total of 14 times for various awards, of which it won four awards:

Director's Cut

In May 2005 the so-called Director's Cut of Daredevil was released on DVD in Germany. This is about 30 minutes longer than the theatrical version and contains both more violence and more plot. For example, a completely new storyline can now be seen with Dante Jackson, played by Coolio , whom Matt Murdock is defending in a murder trial because he is convinced of his innocence. Only through Dante Jackson does he get closer and closer to the Kingpin. Furthermore, Daredevil's ambivalence was brought much more into focus. The Director's Cut was much better received by critics.

continuation

In 2005 the film Elektra was released and deals with the events of Elektra after Daredevil .

In July 2006, Michael Clarke Duncan showed an interest in returning to the role of Kingpin but stated that he was not ready for weight gain again. He jokingly adds that he can change his mind on a $ 20,000,000 salary. Duncan suggested the character may have trained in prison to stand up to Daredevil. In July 2008, Jason Statham expressed an interest in playing Daredevil. This was also advocated by Frank Miller. In October 2008, 20th Century Fox Executive Tom Rothman said a Daredevil reboot was being seriously considered. In February 2010, it was reported that 20th Century Fox and New Regency were planning to attempt a restart with News Corp. Vice President Peter Chernin as producers. On March 15, 2011, it was announced that filmmaker David Slade would direct. Fringe writer and producer Brad Caleb Kane was hired as a screenwriter. The film should be a sequel, but with a completely new cast.

Until 2015, however, no new film was made.Instead, Marvel's Daredevil became an independent television or web series, the first season of which was released in April 2015.

Others

  • Although the film is set in Manhattan , large parts of the inner-city exterior scenes were shot in downtown Los Angeles .
  • For the first time, the Marvel logo was highlighted with a sound effect.
  • The contact lenses made Ben Affleck almost completely blind.
  • Daredevil is the first American film in which Colin Farrell speaks with his Irish accent.
  • The Mafioso Fallon , who deliberately calls on Jack Murdock to lose a fight, is played by Mark Margolis . His bodyguard, who sits next to him during a boxing match, is portrayed by actor and stuntman Kane Hodder .
  • The woman who Matt Murdock mistakenly thinks is Elektra at first is Jennifer Garner's stand-in .
  • Claudine Farrell , Colin Farrell's sister, can be seen and heard in the film: she has a small role in a bar scene and can be heard in the original English as the voice on Matt Murdock's answering machine.
  • There are a variety of allusions to Daredevil creators and artists:
    • Father Everett: shares his last name with Bill Everett , co-creator of Daredevil.
    • Jose Quesada (the acquitted rapist) shares his last name with Joe Quesada , editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and a former Daredevil artist (1998-2000).
    • Colan (a boxer whose fight is on a television at the beginning of the film), a reference to Gene Colan , another Daredevil artist (1966–1974).
    • John Romita (the boxer Jack Murdock is supposed to face) is a reference to Johnny Romita (John Sr.) (1966) and John Romita Jr. (1988–1990).
    • Kane (a bat): named after Gil Kane , Daredevil cover artist between 1971 and 1978.
    • Miller, Mack and Bendis (three other boxers Jack Murdock won against), references to Frank Miller , writer / artist (1979–1983), David Mack , one of the artists (1999–2001), and Brian Bendis , the, at the time the release of the film, current writers of Daredevil (1999-2006).
    • Kevin Smith wrote several Daredevil comics himself. His role is also named after Jack Kirby .
    • One of Murdock's and Nelson's clients is called Lee, named after Stan Lee .
    • Stan Lee also has a cameo in this film : He plays a pedestrian who, absorbed in his newspaper, wants to cross a street and is saved from an approaching bus by the young Matt Murdock. This scene is a direct comic book reference.
    • Frank Miller plays the man who was left by Bullseye on the street with a pen in his forehead ("Man with Pen in Head").
    • Greg Cox wrote the official novel adaptation of the film ( ISBN 978-0-451-41080-1 )

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Age rating for Daredevil . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ a b Daredevil . Rotten tomatoes . Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b Daredevil . Metacritic . Retrieved February 26, 2008.
  4. ↑ Roger Ebert : Daredevil . Chicago Sun-Times . February 14, 2003. Retrieved February 26, 2008.
  5. ↑ Bruce Westbrook: Daredevil . Houston Chronicle . March 26, 2004. Archived from the original on March 3, 2008. Retrieved on April 24, 2010.
  6. ↑ Daredevil. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed March 28, 2014 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ Danny Graydon: Daredevil: The Director's Cut (15) . Empire . Retrieved December 22, 2008.
  8. ↑ Jeff Otto, Andy Patrizio: Daredevil: Director's Cut . IGN. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
  9. ↑ Kellvin Chavez: Duncan Not in Transformers But Talks Daredevil 2! . Archived from the original on March 1, 2007. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  10. ↑ Geoff Boucher: Jason Statham: "I want to be Daredevil." . Los Angeles Times . July 31, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
  11. ↑ Geoff Boucher: IESB Exclusive: FOX's Tom Rothman on a Daredevil reboot . IESB. October 2, 2008. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 4, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iesb.net
  12. ↑ Mike Fleming: Exclusive: Latest Marvel Hero To Reboot , Deadline Hollywood . February 5, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010. 
  13. ^ Adam B. Vary: David Slade to direct 'Daredevil' quasi-sequel . Entertainment Weekly . March 15, 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2011.