DAREDEVIL Stuntman Expresses Disappointment on The Character's Adaption in SHE-HULK... "A Massive Step-Down"

DAREDEVIL Stuntman Expresses Disappointment on The Character's Adaption in SHE-HULK... "A Massive Step-Down"

Daredevil is now officially integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but a stuntman from the Netflix series expresses their disappointment in how the character had been adapted in She-Hulk

By JonathanDan - Jul 02, 2023 04:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Daredevil
Source: The Direct

It appears Marvel Studio's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is continuing to receive its fair share of negative feedback and comments almost a whole year since its initial premiere, with this particular complaint at hand coming from a stuntman who used to work on the hit Netflix series, Daredevil.

Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock was welcomed back by the fans with open arms, and for some, causing his minimal character appearance in the show to be the main reason to tune into every new episode of She-Hulk each week. Of course, the series received a very polarizing reception from fans and critics alike, with those claiming that the show ruined Daredevil's character too when he was first introduced.

This claim is now most evident, suprisingly coming from Charlie Cox's Stuntman, Chris Brewster, who served as the body-double in Netflix's Daredevil, and has now been replaced by Justin Eaton moving forward in the MCU. When Brewster made his appearance on the lkuzo Unscripted podcast, he expressed his complaints over the character's transition into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how he had been "badly" adapted in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law:

“I think that, now that the MCU has taken over the character, I think they are really, really hurting it. If you watch She-Hulk, they turned Daredevil into a cartoon. It’s all animated and it looks bad." - Chris Brewster, Ikuzo Unscripted Podcast

"You know, I love CG to enhance real movement, but if you don’t have any real movement, it just becomes a cartoon. It’s just CG, there’s no weight to it. And what always made the action on Daredevil so good is it was visceral. You felt what Charlie was feeling, between his performance and being in there, in the action." - Chris Brewster, Ikuzo Unscripted Podcast

"And anything that you saw, we really did. We had to put somebody on a wire, we needed something to enhance the movement. But it wasn’t a cartoon. It was live-action. And you will never match the energy that live-action has. So, I think that She-Hulk was a massive step-down as far as the movement goes and the action.” - Chris Brewster, Ikuzo Unscripted Podcast

Daredevil is a character whose movements and choreopgraphy are very real and grounded. In his show, there were never any tremendous expectations of using CGI-technology to pull off a certain fight sequence, which the show had given us a lot of, as it would have detracted from the realism of how Daredevil fights. Within those fight scenes, it all looked and felt very much realistic, because the crew used the machinery and tools necessary to bring it to life other than CGI, in the sense that the audience felt every punch and kick that were being thrown by Daredevil himself. 

The movements and actions we saw Daredevil do in She-Hulk, especially during the fight sequence when the two heroes have their first interaction, there was an obvious usage of CGI effects, considering Daredevil was going up against a CGI creation like She-Hulk. Even in the scene when She-Hulk seizes Matt, and removes his helmet, we see Charlie Cox's head very-poorly pasted onto a CG body double.  

In recent years, Marvel has become more "visual-effects driven" amid the production of their projects, but in light of the controversy that had risen against Marvel overworking their visual effects artists, which was publicly disclosed after She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, it is more possible for following projects such as Echo, and Daredevil: Born Again, which will be including the character, to take the time necessary to visually perfect their quality.

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Dunejedi
Dunejedi - 7/2/2023, 5:05 PM
Sour grapes.
Drace24
Drace24 - 7/2/2023, 5:06 PM
Also DD looked like a clown in the show and also acted like one.
Madman
Madman - 7/2/2023, 5:21 PM
I mean, I can understand what he’s getting at—but to me, its clear that bigger budget means power upgrade. Just look at Fisk. Now whether that could be more grounded and powerful? Maybe, but they’re not going to perfect that for a guy who shows up for one episode. I’m sure there will be improvements in Echo (god knows they’ve had enough time), but I don’t expect the visuals/physicality to be the primary focus until his own series.
TheFox
TheFox - 7/2/2023, 5:26 PM
... JonathanDan, you KNOW there's a difference between an "actor" and a "stuntman", right?

I mean, I'm not SAYING that you deliberately wrote a clickbait headline and a misleading description to get people to click on a dumb article about a stuntman complaining about the diminished quality of the stunt work between a gritty, violent action TV show and a subsequent appearance of the character in what is essentially a SITCOM, but...

... No, yeah, that's actually exactly what I'm saying.

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JonathanDan
JonathanDan - 7/2/2023, 5:29 PM
@TheFox - my apologies. When I wrote the title and description I had Charlie Cox in mind and defined who I was referring to about as ‘actor’, rather than stuntman.
TheFox
TheFox - 7/2/2023, 7:57 PM
@JonathanDan - ... Damn, you fixed that quick!

I'm sorry if I came off as unduly confrontational. I've just found that I have to be wary about some of the information I pick up from this site, because some of the contributors (*ahem*Wilding*ahem*) will publish articles with deliberately misleading or wildly exaggerated headlines in bad faith, because it gets clicks. Frankly, your contributions to the site thus far have been great, so I was just surprised and a little thrown when I thought you were doing the same thing. I'm really glad to see I was wrong about this!

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JonathanDan
JonathanDan - 7/2/2023, 9:14 PM
@TheFox - Do not worry about it, you had a good reason for calling me out to correct me on it. I greatly appreciate it.
CoHost
CoHost - 7/2/2023, 6:37 PM
You don't make DD a Clown
You don't make DD a Clown

(To the tune of "You don't make friends with salad!")
Fares
Fares - 7/2/2023, 7:46 PM
I'm not incredibly enthusiastic about the MCU version of Daredevil we got so far, but when it comes to the acrobatics and fighting, I didn't think the use of CG was egregious. I would be interested in seeing them tone it down a bit, but it's no deal-breaker.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 7/2/2023, 8:23 PM
He's got a point. Outside of Dardevil I remember even in Black Panther (2018) I really wanted the last sequence between T'Challa and Killmonger's fight to be more practical. The animation is needed for some of the fantastical elements but the practical aspects makes it more engaging.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 7/2/2023, 8:42 PM
She-Hulk is a horrid piece of media.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 7/2/2023, 8:54 PM
I said this at the time regarding the action. How anyone could take something as unique as the fighting in daredevil and defend turning it into generic CGI nonsense I'll never understand.
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 7/2/2023, 10:29 PM
@Nightwing1015 - But that didn’t happen tho. Sure, his acrobatics were enhanced by cgi to make his movements more in line with what he’s capable of in the comics, which was quite obvious during his confrontation with She-Hulk. But so far, if you rewatch the scenes he is in after fighting She-Hulk, his hand to hand fighting has remained pretty gritty and brutal, albeit without the technical prowess which seems to be reserved for his new series. This was just a taster.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 7/2/2023, 10:49 PM
@Killuminatic - "This was just a taster"

I hope this is correct and they go back to the same fighting style in his show. But no, they didn't do an hallway fight that was anywhere near the level of what came before. There were a ton of cuts and the punches didn't have as much weight to them, there wasn't as much of a struggle for Matt, it was more comic booky in nature. Everyone raves about the fight choreography in Daredevil but nobody is writing home about that She-Hulk fight. His new theme was the best part of it.
Razorface1
Razorface1 - 7/3/2023, 12:37 PM
"You felt what Charlie was feeling, between his performance and being in there, in the action."

That is not actually something the audience can do, but if you say they do, they might just believe it.
Franshu
Franshu - 7/3/2023, 10:42 PM
I mean... He's right.
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