Netflix’s The Punisher sure sounds like a Western if you close your eyes. The theme playing over the title’s shots of guns sounds, to me, a whole lot like God’s Gonna Cut You Down by Johnny Cash.
(And then the first fight scene choreographed to Hell Broke Luce, a song about military PTSD by Tom Waits.)
And yes, there’s a corridor fight. With guns.
Interesting that in some ways they humanise Frank (compared to both the comics, the films and even his appearance in Daredevil) giving him a sense of humour and actual friendships including an Odd Couple pairing, and nudge him towards the MCU hero ideal with a willingness to risk his life to save others and even try to resolve a paticularly volatile situation peacefully. It also makes him astonishingly brutal in the final episodes, showing his desire for vengeance as a monstrous thing.
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