Did Daredevil just compare Donald Trump to Wilson Fisk?
When I say "just," I am speaking in regards to when I saw the episode, and not when it was released. Season 3 of Daredevil came out last October, but I only caught up to that point in the Marvel Netflix series last week. But there was a particular moment in episode 11, "Reunion," that I couldn't help but gawk at: Wilson Fisk's press conference.
For anyone who needs context (and yes, this will be a spoiler if you haven't seen it), Fisk, the ultimate baddie in the Daredevil series, is freed from his imprisonment when his conviction is overturned, and his first big move is to hold a press conference. It may be worth noting here that he is only perceived to be innocent because he was able to blackmail the jury. Anyways, he gathers the press outside of the hotel in which the FBI have been keeping him under close watch, and he tells everyone that he is truly innocent, and that Daredevil is the real criminal.
I do wonder, sometimes, how he expects people to believe that the guy who is responsible for stopping so much crime could be the one calling the shots, but I guess he's hoping that they hype and lack of information around the masked figure will be enough to make people swallow his lies.
This is where things get interesting, though. As he outright lies to the media, and the people of New York, he tells them that they've "been manipulated, poisoned into believing the news media’s fake story that [he is] evil." Say what? Haven't we heard that claim before?
I think I might have actually paused the show at that moment to take in what I had just heard (although, with the binging I did for this season, it's all a bit of a blur now). I could not believe that Wilson Fisk had just, essentially, quoted Trump. Now I assume that Trump doesn't exist in the MCU, so this is meant to be Fisk's own wording. But it was a little haunting to hear this villain say those words.
And then I started to take in the whole scene. The director had quite carefully centered Fisk in the shot, with the hotel as a backdrop. The hotel which he owns. In New York City. And the name, lit deliberately so that it would be seen over his head, reads "Presidential Hotel." I don't think one could be any more subtle....
The criminal at the center of the entire narrative is standing in front of his presidential hotel claiming that none of his fraudulent and illegal activities ever happened. And I Don't think the intention here was to say that Fisk is in any way like Donald Trump. No, in fact, I think the point they wanted to make was that the story about the president are just as true as the ones about Kingpin. Although they are both getting away with their crimes, they are equally guilty, but too rich and powerful to be stopped. It's a bit of a horrifying thought, knowing how far the show took that storyline, to imagine how such a situation might play out in real life.
For anyone who needs context (and yes, this will be a spoiler if you haven't seen it), Fisk, the ultimate baddie in the Daredevil series, is freed from his imprisonment when his conviction is overturned, and his first big move is to hold a press conference. It may be worth noting here that he is only perceived to be innocent because he was able to blackmail the jury. Anyways, he gathers the press outside of the hotel in which the FBI have been keeping him under close watch, and he tells everyone that he is truly innocent, and that Daredevil is the real criminal.
I do wonder, sometimes, how he expects people to believe that the guy who is responsible for stopping so much crime could be the one calling the shots, but I guess he's hoping that they hype and lack of information around the masked figure will be enough to make people swallow his lies.
This is where things get interesting, though. As he outright lies to the media, and the people of New York, he tells them that they've "been manipulated, poisoned into believing the news media’s fake story that [he is] evil." Say what? Haven't we heard that claim before?
I think I might have actually paused the show at that moment to take in what I had just heard (although, with the binging I did for this season, it's all a bit of a blur now). I could not believe that Wilson Fisk had just, essentially, quoted Trump. Now I assume that Trump doesn't exist in the MCU, so this is meant to be Fisk's own wording. But it was a little haunting to hear this villain say those words.
And then I started to take in the whole scene. The director had quite carefully centered Fisk in the shot, with the hotel as a backdrop. The hotel which he owns. In New York City. And the name, lit deliberately so that it would be seen over his head, reads "Presidential Hotel." I don't think one could be any more subtle....
The criminal at the center of the entire narrative is standing in front of his presidential hotel claiming that none of his fraudulent and illegal activities ever happened. And I Don't think the intention here was to say that Fisk is in any way like Donald Trump. No, in fact, I think the point they wanted to make was that the story about the president are just as true as the ones about Kingpin. Although they are both getting away with their crimes, they are equally guilty, but too rich and powerful to be stopped. It's a bit of a horrifying thought, knowing how far the show took that storyline, to imagine how such a situation might play out in real life.
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