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When you think of a Daredevil fight scene onscreen, you think of a one-take. (Or maybe the sound of Evanescence blasting, but I've Men in Black-style memory-wiped that from my mind.) The original Daredevil Netflix show featured a tense 'oner' shot, referring to the type of shot where extensive action and movement are captured in the same take without the camera cutting, in a hallway in the show's second episode, 'Cut Man.' Now, Disney+'s Daredevil: Born Again comes to us with a lot to live up to... namely, the Netflix show's impressive one-takes. Born Again didn't waste time giving us exactly what we want to see, albeit this time, the use of one-takes had a darker significance. 

Speaking to IGN, the directors of Born Again's first episode ('Heaven's Half Hour'), Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, revealed the reasons why they took a less 'frenetic' approach to the one-take shot of Bullseye and Daredevil fighting. Benson said, "We decided on this really rigid camera language for it, because what we've noticed [is] that the most popular kind of oner is you put a camera on the person's shoulder and you just chase them around... But we decided in this one what we wanted to do was, if this is a show about a man who believes that he has lost his chance at redemption, lost the blessings of his faith, then our camera has this omniscience as well. It's like it's watching.”

He continued, "So we decided to nail our camera down. And tell our camera that it already knows how this goes. It knows that Foggy dies. It knows that [Daredevil] crosses a line and tries to kill someone on a roof. And the camera is this dispassionate entity that is just slowly moving on what we call the train tracks of fate, moving with the action, but not following it in a frenetic way. And you just get this sense, this tightness in your stomach, of doom. You just know it's going to go terribly wrong.”

Moorhead and Benson's directing choice here pays off. There's a deep sense of 'wrongness' to how the camera only moves on a Y-axis within the frame. That is, instead of moving laterally through Josie's Bar, it's either moving deeper into or retreating from the space we see in frame. 

Daredevil: Born Again drops new episodes 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern on Disney+ every Tuesday. 

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