Tuesday, January 09, 2024
Echo Director Says ASL "Dictated Our Entire Visual Style"
consequence.net: The Disney+ series Echo is groundbreaking in a lot of respects — it’s the first Marvel Disney+ series to be rated TV-MA, the first series to be released under the “Marvel Spotlight” banner, and the first show to star an actor like Alaqua Cox, a Native woman who happens to be an incredible fighter, as well as deaf.
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I’m so excited about the Echo Show. I am a huge fan of hers in the comics and it was awesome to see her character portrayed so well in live action in the Hawkeye show. It makes me so happy that she was well received enough to warrant her very own Disney+ show. When reading this article I learned that the actress who plays Echo is actually deaf. It’s awesome to see disabled roles played by disabled people, something that is incredibly rare in Hollywood and theater. It’s awesome that the director started learning sign language and was so willing to accommodate Cox. As a huge comic nerd it was really exciting for me to see Daredevil show up in this show. That means that all the marvel legends shows from netflix are now MCU canon, which is so so so exciting. I thought it would happen given Daredevil's cameo in Spiderman: No Way Home but it’s awesome that it’s now officially confirmed. Reading about the sound design of this show was awesome! I really like that the sound occasionally drops out. I think that’s a wonderful design choice.
As a person who has been learning ASL for the past 3 years on and off and a lifelong Marvel fan I was simultaneously stocked and nervous about Echo. After the series came out I am so happy with how it turned out. I have only had the chance to watch the first couple of episodes but so far they have exceeded my expectations. I absolutely noticed the visual style discussed in this article and personally loved it. I love that they highlighted how Maya communicates. Something mentioned in this article is that the director learned basic ASL to communicate with Alaqua. This is why I first learned ASL and is something I think anyone should do if they work with those who use any other language as their primary for of communication. I really hope Disney will continue to add good disability and language rep to their franchise. Overall I am so glad to have ASL rep in the MCU.
The character Echo was extremely captivating in Hawkeye, a show which I really enjoyed since Hailee Steinfeld and Florence Pugh are some of my favorite actors, and I was hoping to get to know the character more. Though I would not have expected Marvel to make an origin show about the character, so I am so excited. Representation is extremely important and it is lovely to not only see a character that is native american and deaf but also have them played by someone in both communities. I took ASL for two years in High School and greatly enjoyed learning about the culture and nuances within the language, and while I am not good enough to understand it thoroughly, I am always so happy to see it in more media. I am very happy to see more people who have certain disabilities playing their roles exceptionally as seen in this show and another beautiful one I watched recently, All the Light we Cannot See.
This was such a cool article to read! I love ASL and while I am not very good at it right now, it is something I am actively working on learning. I really loved learning through reading this article how for Echo the director learned ASL in order to correctly represent the culture and language and then that she also hired an ASL expert who was a part of the deaf community. This is such an incredible win and step in the right direction for the theatre world. This is what we should be doing for every show. Bringing in experts who are a part of the communities that are being represented to make sure that they are being accurately represented. I have not gotten to see Echo yet, but after reading this article it is definitely on my list of things to watch, whenever I get a chance to do so.
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