Promotional poster for Daredevil

Daredevil is a 2003 movie directed by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the screenplay. It is based on the Marvel comics character, using predominately the tone and stories written by Frank Miller, the most celebrated talent to work on the character. This movie was banned in Malaysia due to intense action/violence. Download high resolution version (433x650, 71 KB)Promotional poster for Daredevil, deemed This work is copyrighted. ... Download high resolution version (433x650, 71 KB)Promotional poster for Daredevil, deemed This work is copyrighted. ... See also: 2002 in film, other events of 2003, 2004 in film and the list of years in film Events February 24 - The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 Cesar Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ... The first issue of The Dark Knight Returns, perhaps Millers best known work Frank Miller (born 27 January 1957 in Olney, Maryland) is an American writer and artist best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. ...

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Plot

As a child, Matt Murdock (played by Affleck) is splashed by some radioactive material in a road accident, and is blinded. He learns to overcome this disability, and develops a form of sixth sense, that allows him to 'see' by using sound waves to create a mental image of his surroundings. His father is murdered by the Kingpin (played by Clarke Duncan), and Murdock vows that he will avenge him. Radioactive decay is the set of various processes by which unstable atomic nuclei (nuclides) emit subatomic particles. ... Cover to Daredevil #170. ...

Years later, and Murdock works as an attorney, becoming the vigilante known as Daredevil at night. He seeks out and punishes those that he cannot harm in the courtroom. He fights crime in solitude, until he meets Elektra (played by Garner). Murdock warms to Elektra, and they become acquainted with each other. After Elektra's father is killed by the Kingpin's assassin, Bullseye (played by Farrel), she believes the murderer to be Daredevil, and she seeks him out. Armed with two Sais, she locates him and bests him in a fight. She realises who Daredevil is behind the mask, and so she fights with Bullseye, who kills her. Daredevil avenges Elektra's death, and supposedly kills Bullseye, by throwing him through the church window, landing on a cop's car. He then brings the fight to the Kingpin, beating him in combat. Daredevil spares the Kingpin, who promises him that he will be released from prison eventually. After a small bit of credits, we see Bullseye in a hospital wing, slowly recovering. An attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law, see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. ... In modern terms, vigilantes are militias or police who attempt law enforcement, in the usual phrase, by taking the law into their own hands. Vigilantes often operate in secret. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... Bullseye is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe who is primarily an enemy of Daredevil. ... Two sai For other meanings of the word sai, see Sai (disambiguation). ...

Throughout the film, Murdock deals with the moral implications of being a vigilante, and tries to prove that he isn't the villain.

Tagline: He is the man without fear

Director's Cut

In December 2004, a director's cut of the film was released on DVD. This version added 30 minutes of footage not seen in the original, including an entire subplot involving Murdock defending a murderer played by singer Coolio. Coolio (born Artis Ivey, Jr. ...

The following scenes were deleted that were featured in the PG-13 cut of the film:

• The confession booth scenes between Father Steven and Matt Murdock.
• The love scene between Elektra and Matt Murdock

The following additions were made:

• More scenes involving The Kingpin at his most vicious, at point killing two of his own bodyguards by breaking their necks in his office.
• The final confrontation between Daredevil and The Kingpin is longer and more brutal.
• The fight between Elektra and Bullsye is longer and ends with Bullseye giving her a kiss before he throws her onto the roof of the adjacent building.
• The fight scene in the playground with Matt and Elektra is longer.
• The scene in the bar where Daredevil takes out the bikers is longer and more violent.
• The subplot involving the character of Daunte Jackson, played by Coolio, who is accused of a murder is reintroduced in its entirety with Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson defending him.
• Matt interrogating a corrupt police officer, played by Jude Cicolella, by smashing his car in a parking lot.
• Matt and Foggy break into the apartment of Lisa Tazio, the murder victim in the Daunte Jackson trial and finding a clue, "8-5, WOW"
• A late night scene where Foggy is working at the office trying to figure out the clue found in Lisa Tazio's apartment in which Karen Page figures out by flipping the paper upside down and Foggy realizing that the WOW, are the intitals for The Kingpin's assistant, Wesley Owen Welch.
• An exchange during the Nachios' party where Foggy and Wesley have a verbal exchange that ends by Foggy saying "What a dick!"
• The scene where Bullseye demands his own costume is restored to "I want a fucking costume" as opposed to the theaterical version where he says "I want a bloody costume."
• A flashback scene where young Matt is seen with his adopted mother that was featured in the comic books.
• A scene where Matt is in church and his surrogate mother is watching him in the back of the church as he talks to Father Steven.
• The introduction of Bullseye arriving at the airport and going through a metal detector.
• The scene where Matt returns from his battle in the opening of the film, he is seen in his apartment pouring epsom salts into the water of his coffin and as he is about to lay down he starts to hear noises and sounds from the outside world as far as seeing a woman crawling on the floor and ends by him laying down inside the coffin and the top sealing.
• The scene in the morgue with Ben Urich and Kirby is longer in which Foggy ends up calling him on his cell phone and telling him about who murdered his informant from the clue that Matt had found in the murder victim's apartment.
• More scenes between Matt and Ben discussing some personal issues.
• During the finale, Daunte Jackson celebrates his acquittal by hugging Foggy on the steps of the courthoust as Matt looks on and the scene shifts with Matt walking by the church where he sees Father Steven after the afternoon mass had ended.

Cast

• Ben Affleck – Matt Murdock/Daredevil
• Jennifer Garner – Elektra Natchios
• Colin Farrell – Bullseye
• Michael Clarke Duncan – The Kingpin/Wilson Fisk
• Jon Favreau – Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson
• Scott Terra – Young Matt
• Ellen Pompeo – Karen Page
• Joe Pantoliano – Ben Urich
• Leland Orser – Wesley Owen Welch
• Lennie Loftin – Nick Manolis
• Erick Avari – Nikolas Natchios
• Derrick O'Connor – Father Everett
• Paul Ben-Victor – Jose Quesada
• David Keith – Jack Murdock
• Frankie J. Allison – Abusive Father (as Frankie Jay Allison)

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Trivia

• Stan Lee, Daredevil's creator, makes a cameo appearance in the movie when he is stopped by young and blind Matt Murdock from walking in front of a speeding car.

• In the scene with Matt Murdock's father, Jack Murdock, fighting, the sign outside the arena reads "Jack 'the Devil' Murdock vs. John Romita." John Romita was an artist in the 1960s who worked on the Daredevil comic books.

• Also in the boxing sequence, Jack Murdock is talking to a boxing manager who orders Jack to lose. During the conversation, he lists all of his fighters, whose names are "Miller...Mack...Bendis". This is a reference to Daredevil writers, such as Frank Miller, David Mack and Brian Michael Bendis (who is currently working on Ultimate Spider-Man and Daredevil).

• The character Jose Quesada's name is a reference to Marvel's editor-in-chief, Joe Quesada, who also did the artwork for a Daredevil storyline written by famous director Kevin Smith, who makes a cameo in the movie as the morgue worker Kirby, which is a reference to comic book legend Jack Kirby.

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External links

• Official site
• Daredevil at the Internet Movie Database