Some of the overarching, consistent problems with the Marvel Cinematic Universe come from the way the films are made. It's not quite a cookie-cutter assembly line, but the studio certainly has a formula it likes to stick to. That's applied not only to characters, villains and plot beats, but also to the visual style, which is pretty consistent across all of their films, despite involving a good dozen different directors. Sometimes they get to have a little dabble outside the norm. Kenneth Branagh managed to sneak some Dutch angles into the first Thor, the action cinematography of The Winter Soldier is noticeably clearer than previous films, but when Edgar Wright looked to bring his signature style to Ant-Man? He and Marvel couldn't reach a compromise, and so he was booted in favour of gun-for-hire Peyton Reed. Daredevil once again bucks that trend, not once settling into the generic orange-and-teal colours and bright, clean look of the rest of the MCU. Instead it's all murky yellows, browns, greys, shadows more omnipresent than light. It's a style that's consistent throughout the whole show, and is markedly different from the films. It's more like the crime dramas the show's pulling influences from.
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