Ben Affleck opens on Daredevil, Punisher and what MCU has had absolutely well

Ben Affleck It is not exactly new in the world of superheroes. Before wearing the head and Cowl as Batman, it was Daredevil in 2003, when superhero movies were still trying to understand exactly what they could be.

And now, in a strange moment in full circle, it is recited alongside Jon Bernhal, the official punishment of the MCU The accountant 2. Of course, someone had to ask them.

Jake Hamilton sat with the duo and raised Marvel, and Affleck took the opportunity to reflect on the transition from pre-Mcu chaos to the mega-Machine Marvel simplified Kevin FeigeLeadership, and actually made a solid point on why the MCU has become such a Juggernaut.

“Well, his punisher is good. Daredevil was an interesting story. It was before Kevin Feige entered the role of Running Marvel. He imposed a sort of clarity of tone on those films that understood the most difficult thing, which is in order to balance a film in which you did the fact that people wear the pajamas and you have superpower, and how serious you take it and the public is Wink, what did you do the fact that people wear pajamas and you have superpower, and how seriously you take it and how much the audience is and that you have balanced a film in which you did the fact that people wear the pajama and what do you have pajama and what you have done so that people wear the pajama does the action appear?

“He coincided with the visual effects that arrived in a place where it might seem really convincing. He understood the great actors like him to intervene and really do it. There is a new Daredevil, I have not yet seen him, but I certainly love the character, I wish him the best, but I would not tighten with his punishment.”

Affleck is not talking about shared universes or crossover or box office of billions of dollars. He is talking about the atmosphere. Because before the MCU nailed it, the superhero films were everywhere. You could be dark and meditabondo (The punisher), the next one soap opera at neon (Daredevil), and none of them seemed that they could actually exist in the same world.

That’s why a Daredevil team against Punisher in 2004 would have felt like a dream of strange but fantastic fever. As Affleck implies, it was not licenses, it was tone. And that’s exactly what Feige managed to standardize.

Of course, that consistency has its compromises. Many fans have noticed that many MCU projects are starting to merge together, with some films that only feel to check the boxes rather than to do something fresh. Even inside the franchise, there are characters who feel as if they existed in a different cinematographic flavor.

Regardless of this, it is a kind of sin that the Affleck superhero era did not move as it probably hoped. Listening to him talking of the genre, it is clear that the boy takes it. He had been involved in a period when the genre was young and people were still trying to understand what he could and should have been.