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I don't understand the energy levels here. One moment, you can barely stand up, and it's hard to move your arms, and in the next instant your executing a perfect flying roundhouse kick. ...then you want to sleep again. Then you're tossing a guy through the air like a tin can... aaaand then you're so lethargic you fall over. Again and again...

Funny, that felt like the most real aspect of the scene to me. I've obviously never been in a fight like this, but I've certainly felt like this during some of my martial arts gradings.

It doesn't take long to get very tired (especially against more than one opponent), but each time someone attacks, you summon up the energy for one more round until you put them down.... repeat (literally) ad nauseam.

That last drop at 2:28 seemed completely unnecessary though (dude's already on the ground, just walk up and kick him!)

As for the scene itself, it's very cool. My only question is that if it really is one take (and I'm not saying it isn't), it seems like an odd choice to have so many points (0:38, 1:38, 2:18) that feel like they're there for the express purpose of an invisible cut.

Either way, I'm going to have to check this show out. Been hearing some *quality things about it.

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I'm assuming they threw in a few moments where they could place invisible edits for safety, in case they needed to, but tried their best (and succeeded?) to do it in one unbroken take.

(and thanks for the quality!)

Oh, and here's that interview with the stunt coordinator:

http://observer.com/2015/04/daredevil-stunt-coordinator-on-designing-a-one-shot-fight-scene-for-a-blind-hero/

So it was genuinely one shot? No cuts?

No cuts. We did do a few Texas Switches between our actor and our stunt double, but it was purely a one shot fight. There were no cuts in that fight. Every performer, the actors and the stunt doubles, were in there performing that fight full on. I’d say there was a minimum of 105 beats, and they killed it.

i don't entirely believe that but it would be cool if they did enough planning to pull it off. there are at least 3 spot where they could have had edits.


[the planning in TV is so horrible that i have a hard time believing they actually committed to, well, anything, especially one take]

Without spoiling the plot, I'd like to point out that Matt was quite used up by the time he entered this hallway.

Its pretty cool that its one shot, it must have been a really hard thing to coordinate and time perfectly, but I thought the majority of punches here REALLY look like obvious fake moviepunches, ie, a punch in the face is a light touch on the shoulder. I know that they ARE movie punches in every movie, obviously, but shooting from the right angle usually hides the cheat. In this shot, i guess they sacrificed that to get it all in one shot, but imo, that killed the realism.

I don't believe this is a 1-take fight scene. Watch the camera motion, when it "flies" near Daredevil , almost threw an opening in his arm. That seems like special effects, where the fight would have been stopped for the special effect, and then another clip of the fight to resume after wards.

If you have not seen this show, you owe it to yourself to try it out. It is incredible. I'm on episode 8 and I think it is the best super hero show I've seen. Simply incredible. There are some parts that could have been better, but from what I can tell it is a 13 hour movie.

So he beat up a lot of people and didn't take anyone into custody. That won't put much of a dent into the crime problem there in Hell's Kitchen.

Also, didn't read anyone their rights.

This is more like 3-7 cuts at various places. Its certainly not one, so I hope they're not actually selling it like it is.

After watching it again just for possible cuts, my uneducated guess is 3 to 5.

Watched the first episode last night... it really is very good.

Very nice. But I liked him better in this: http://bit.ly/1H126p7

According to an interview I saw this was indeed one single take but they used the rooms to switch from actor to stuntmen and back. Most def one of the more realistic fight scenes I've ever seen and absolutely an homage to Oldboy.

The show might be great but that stunt fighting is awful...

The number of blows that completely break believability are incredible. If that's the trade off for "one take", do more takes...

There was an interview with Charlie Cox, the lead actor, on Slashfilm today. He's also saying it's actually one shot. I mean, I guess everyone involved could be lying, but why? It's impressive either way.

http://www.slashfilm.com/daredevil-fight-scene/

Charlie Cox: It was incredible. It was as a special day as it was to as the scene has turned out. We dedicated our whole day to it. The first half of the day was just the camera movements. And then we got into, it was as you know it’s one take, so we had to get everything right. Each attempt that we had at it. And it’s incredibly tricky because it’s not like a long tracking shot with two people speaking, it’s a long tracking shot with people punching. And if one punch doesn’t land, it no longer works. It ceases to work as a scene. So I think we did it 12 times. I think three of them we made it all the way through to the end. And one of them was the one in the show, which is kind of almost flawless. I mean, it’s very hard to pick holes in that.

Peter Sciretta: So its really not stitched together at all?

Charlie Cox: No, that’s one take.

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