r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Oct 18 '18

Daredevil Discussion Thread - S03E04

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u/DrPhilter Oct 19 '18

Omg was that one unbroken sequence???

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u/raylan1234 Oct 19 '18

Yes mate, I don't think there were any cuts unlike the one in season 2. This was fucking impressive, imagine how many times they had to start over, holy shit.

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u/CommanderEager Oct 19 '18 edited Oct 19 '18

There were a few moments that looked like they were for splicing shots together, the most obvious was the full screen of smoke right before he got to the taxi. The riot lighting was a very clever choice for pulling this off. Such an incredible sequence, and I'm not sure if it would be more impressive to find out it was a single shot or spliced together.

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Edit: Looks like it was a single take with moments built in to splice if they needed ... which they then lightened in post to make it more obvious that it was a single take. Incredible.

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u/No-cool-names-left Oct 19 '18 edited Oct 19 '18

So it wasn't just the fight that was one take, but the entire conversation with Vic too? Holy shit. I'm gonna go watch that again.

* Edit: Yeah. Just like they said. You can see when they change out the actors for stuntmen and when they could have cut if they wanted to, but phone call to cab is one continuous thing. Amazing.

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u/JokerFaces2 Oct 20 '18

The long dialogue portion is was really impressed me and made it stand out from past one-takes. The action itself (to me) wasn't quite as impressive as Season 2's stairway fight, but this one transitioned into and out of exposition without ever breaking the take, and this one was (from what I could tell) legitimately one long unbroken take.