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At the 5:53 mark in the first episode of Marvel\u2019s new Daredevil TV series,\u00a0Daredevil: Born Again<\/em>, Foggy Nelson has stepped outside a bar to take a phone call.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foggy is a business associate of both Matt Murdoch, aka Daredevil, and Karen Page, who both remain inside the bar. Moments earlier, Foggy was flirting with a district attorney. Murdoch listened in on their conversation and relayed what he heard to Page, whose concern for Foggy resembles that of a teasing older sister. The DA is, we\u2019re informed by Page, out of Foggy\u2019s league.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Murdoch could hear what Foggy and the DA, named Kirsten McDuffie, said, while Page could not, thanks to his superpowers. This is a Marvel TV show; exceptional hearing balances out Murdoch\u2019s complete blindness. That hearing, after Foggy exits the bar, extends through the wall. As Murdoch continues to eavesdrop, the ambient noise drops away and a circle, like a reflection on the camera lens, appears right atop his ear. The circle carries clear meaning: Murdoch is listening even more intently. Things have gotten serious. The camera plays with depth of field, and we follow it, which is to say we follow Murdoch\u2019s ear, from inside the bar to outside, where Foggy is taking his call.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A cut then takes us somewhere else. We\u2019re inside now, at the door of an apartment, where someone named Benny, whom Foggy was talking to on the phone, is in hiding. The camera focuses on a fly circling a bare bulb, and the microphone does, as well. The show\u2019s audio emphasizes the sound of the fly, which might suggest that Murdoch or his superhero alter ego, Daredevil, has entered the apartment, except we already know it\u2019s someone else. If you\u2019ve seen the early Daredevil show and noticed the circular pattern on the individual\u2019s glove, you known who it is: the villain who goes by Bullseye. Bullseye has used a bent paperclip to pick the door\u2019s lock. With a whir, the fly is stuck to the wall, pinned by the paperclip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As all this happens, both Foggy and Murdoch listen in \u2014 Foggy, helpless on the sidewalk, interpreting the sounds for Page; Murdoch, who has put on his Daredevil costume, thanks to that specialized hearing.<\/p>\n

The first episode of\u00a0Daredevil: Born Again<\/em>\u00a0does an enormous amount with the hero\u2019s hearing, highlighting what a Marvel is capable of when it elects to focus on the details. I won\u2019t be recapping all the episodes, but I did want to annotate some of the wealth of sonic signatures in this first one \u2014 and if other key moments arise as the series unfolds in the coming weeks, I may summarize them. As I type this, a third episode is waiting for me to finish this newsletter (and dinner).<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>The position of Bullseye\u2019s circular scope parallels the location of the \u201clens circle\u201d earlier around Murdoch\u2019s ear.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>The loudness of Foggy\u2019s heartbeat is exaggerated after he\u2019s shot by Bullseye, and the heartbeat slows over the course of a welcomingly long fight, until finally Foggy is dead.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>During the fight between Daredevil and Bullseye, the camera moves forward out of the bar and then back, as if the fight has stopped, except it hasn\u2019t; we\u2019re merely seeing what Daredevil\u2019s ear is focused on.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>As Daredevil proceeds up a staircase after Bullseye, we hear still Karen talking to Foggy out front. This is a traditional combination of simultaneous scenes, a standard filmmaking technique, switched up, because what we\u2019re hearing is what Daredevil is hearing.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>When Foggy\u2019s heart stops, Daredevil casually pushes the subdued Bullseye off the roof where they had been fighting. The body lands a few feet behind Karen, who is still on the sidewalk, leaning over Foggy\u2019s body. She responds with shock to the thud, something she has heard but hasn\u2019t seen, putting her in a situation not unlike Murdoch\u2019s. She initially thinks she has lost two friends this evening \u2014 until she checks, she fears it may be Murdoch bleeding out on the ground, not Bullseye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>Murdoch in his apartment, a year after Foggy\u2019s death, hears the voice of his nemesis, the Kingpin, aka Wilson Fisk. Amid the noise of city life, he has, by instinct, homed in on someone else\u2019s radio or television. Only then does he turn off his own stereo system and tune into Fisk\u2019s announcement: a run for mayor of New York City.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>As Murdoch absorbs the gravitas of Fisk\u2019s announcement, we hear the smoke alarm that goes off due to his dinner now burning on the stove. Of course, he is attentive to the more dire alarm of Fisk\u2019s mayoral run.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>Finally, for now, there is the moment when Murdoch appears outside an event Fisk has attended. At first, we just see Fisk and hear the noise of his loud fanbase cheering him. Then Fisk is directed, by a political aide, to Murdoch, still off-screen. The street goes quiet, not because the crowd has shut up, but because Murdoch has so focused Fisk\u2019s attention. It\u2019s an especially powerful moment, given how it attributes to Fisk\u2019s focus on Murdoch a clear parallel of how Murdoch experienced Foggy\u2019s death earlier.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0<\/strong>And one critique: A later face-to-face meet-up over coffee between Murdoch and Fisk at a diner earns its nod to the great scene between Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in Michael Mann\u2019s 1995 film,\u00a0Heat<\/em>. The only thing I didn\u2019t get about it \u2014 as in a scene earlier between Page and Murdoch after Bullseye is sentenced to life in prison \u2014 is how such conversations can take place within earshot of other people. The depiction of the bubble of silence that exists when people are focusing is great, in terms of a given character\u2019s point of view. However, that near-silence is entirely psychological, not physical. People nearby would be privy to what is discussed.<\/p>\n

This first episode of\u00a0Daredevil: Born Again<\/em>\u00a0is titled \u201cHeaven\u2019s Half Hour.\u201d The second episode, signaling that it will focus on Fisk, is titled \u201cOptics,\u201d referring both to both a switch from sound to vision, and to the political sense of how current events are framed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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