analysis of Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad or transformation of the poor (in English: Breaking Bad) is a series of US crime drama written and produced Vince Gilligan. It was filmed and produced in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Breaking Bad tells the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a teacher of chemistry in a secondary school, which is diagnosed as infected with lung cancer is treatable in the beginning of the series; Vilf thus to the world of crime, namely the production and sale of methamphetamine, in order to secure financial future for his family before his departure, [6] were helpful with one of his former students Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).

Began the series for the first time on January 20, 2008 in the United States and Canada on the AMC channel, with the final episode of the series presented on September 29, 2013.  The series has received universal praise from critics,  and is considered one of the greatest dramas of television in history, according to some critics.  by the end of the series, it was Breaking Bad among sitcoms cable that received more watching on American television screens, as the number of viewers twice the number who viewed the first eight episodes of the fifth season of 2012.  this has made some observers of the series, especially the most admired and influenced by its class, with some spontaneous movements when offered another episode, as many in the symbolic event participated for the funeral of a personal funeral Walter White Home, and honored some of the other characters who died during the events of the series in the commemorative ceremony privatization proceeds and returns to help the displaced persons who suffer from mental health problems and drug addiction. 

He won the series on the 16th Emmy award, including four victories won by Cranston for Best Actor category; and 3 victories for Aaron Paul for the Best Supporting Actor category, and Antsaran consecutive award for best drama series after three nominations and two awards for the category of Best Supporting Actress for Anna Gan.kma and won Golden Globe Award for best drama series, best performance by an actor in a drama series for Cranston after his nomination for the prize three times previously, in addition to being nominated five times for the screen Actors Guild Award for best actor, winning twice, and won the series award for the best crew of the drama series. Drew the series the attention of some thinkers and critics of the social system based in the Western world, which Erkiz on capital, they took that character Walter White reflects the large class of the oppressed and the marginalized and destitute people, who are victims of economic and social order based in the West, which they saw as a system dictatorship disguised cloak of democracy nor are his only satisfy the government treasury and increase their savings, even at the cost marginalization of certain groups in society. 

In 2013, the series ranked 13th in the list of the best 101 series in history selected by the Writers Guild of America. [20] In the same year, awarded the Guinness World Records series title of the top sitcoms assessment in history after for the fifth season on the proportion to 99% site Metacritic. [21]

Breaking Bad written by Vince Gilligan, who spent several years in the writing of the series The X Files on the Fox channel. Gleguean wanted to compose a serial story in which the hero turns into a main opponent. Gleguean says: "Television of good historical hand in keeping his characters in a recession self-imposed a can of this series to remain for years or even decades," he said, "when I realized that, the next logical step is to think about how I could write the story of a core conflict where about change? " he added that his goal with Walter White is converted from Mr. Chips to Scarface.  formed the idea of ​​the series when he was Gleguean talking with fellow writer Thomas Aishnaoz about the problem of unemployment, where he said one of them joked that the solution is to "put meth lab in the back of the mobile housing and drive across the country and wagon cooking methamphetamine to make money." ]

Gilligan said it is difficult to write about Walter White because his character is very dark and dubious moral: "I'll miss series when it ends, but on the other hand, I'll be comfortable when it is not Walt concern of my mind anymore." [25] As the series, making Gleguean the crew of the book Breaking bad Walter unemotional people increasingly. [14] in the fourth season, Bryan Cranston said: "I think that Walter realized that it is better to be the chaser to be a chaser. it's going to be someone a bad mood clearly." [23] knew Gagheian term (Breaking Bad) that "the expression of something loud and angry manner." [26]

In the initial stages of preparation for work, Gilligan was frustrating at first when he learned of the existence of the series Weeds and its similarity in spirit with Breaking Bad, but producers convinced him that Mslzlem different enough to achieve the desired success. He said later that he was not to go ahead with his idea had he known about Weeds earlier. [27]

Development [edit]

Initially the network 9 asked episodes of the first season, but because of the Writers Guild of America strike in 2007 was to reduce the season to only 7 [28.] I was supposed to show the events are in Riverside, California, according to preliminary versions of the text, but a proposal from Sony Corp. has been selected Albuquerque as a location for filming due to appropriate fiscal privileges granted by the state of New Mexico; were juveniles transferred to there too, where Gilligan said: "if we do not do so you'll always have to avoid the Sandia Mountains emergence whenever we need to shoot toward the east." [29] also rewritten the story to fit the actual place of production. [30] [31] The cost per episode is reportedly about $ 3 million, which is higher than the usual cost of cable TV programs. [32]

In July 2011, Vince Gilligan pointed out that he intends to conclusion of the series fifth season resort. [33] In early August 2011 began negotiations on the fifth and final season between the AMC and Sony Network, the company producing the series. AMC has proposed that the reduction of the fifth season (from 6 to 8 episodes instead of 13) to reduce costs, but the producers rejected the proposal. Sony began searching for other cable network to broadcast the show in the event no agreement was reached with the AMC network for the implementation of the series. [34] In August 14, AMC has extended the series to 16 episodes.

Gilligan Bryan Cranston chose to play the role of Walter White building on their work together in an episode of the sixth season of the sci-fi series The X-Files, which has written Gilligan, Cranston, where he played the role of an anti-Semitic man with an incurable disease. Gilligan said he must profile to be nasty and exciting too sympathetic at the same time and "that Brian is the only actor capable of doing this, is able to implement the trick. It is already a stunt. I do not have the slightest idea how to do this." [25] [36 was AMC network producers undecided about his choice for the role, just because of their knowledge of Cranston in his role Poseur as Hal in the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and they communicate with actors John Cusack and Matthew Broderick for the role. [37] after the rejection of representatives, convinced the producers after the Showing them Gilligan episode The X-Files where Cranston afternoon. [38]

Gilligan was the intention in the beginning of the personality of Aaron Paul, Jesse Pinkman, to kill at the end of the first season. Where Gilligan Jesse wanted to die in a failed drug deal as the engine of the story for personal torture Walter White because of the death of Jesse guilt. By the second episode of the season, Gilligan said that he was impressed by the performance of Aaron, adding: "it became clear early on that he would be a serious and very big mistake if we killed Jesse.

Donna Nelson, a Brofssorh Organic Chemistry works in the University of Oklahoma scans the text and provide a suitable dialogue. It also is drawing chemical structures and writing chemical equations that were used key pillars. According to the product port and author Vince Gilligan: "continued d. Donna Nelson of the University of Oklahoma with us for several seasons, saying:" I am very impressed with this series, and if you need any assistance regarding the chemistry will be happy to extend a helping hand. "It was a great advisor. We get help when we needed them, whether in chemistry or electrical engineering, or physics, where we are trying to get everything carefully. we do not have a permanent adviser in the imaging site, but there are some scenes Ansourha according to these experts first. "[40]

"[Because] Walter White was talking to his students, I was able to be neglected certain moments of the description and dialogue in the first episodes, and this is Qidny bit, so we got some help from some chemists experts," says Gilligan. And stood to him, Nelson "was a decline in the texts that we write to make sure that dialogues on accurate and updated chemistry. And also we have a chemical works with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Dallas, has provided us with help significantly." [41]

In 2013, put two scenes from the first season under the scrutiny of the Mythbusters program to test the extent of scientific validity. Although some of the amendments made to what was presented in the series, but both experiments did not Tnjuha.

Bryan Cranston role of Walter White - Taught chemistry diagnosed with lung cancer turns into methane industry in order to secure the financial future of his family. With its growth suspicious earns Walter notoriety under the name of Heisenberg. Cranston said, and that although he enjoys perform comedy roles, but he decided it ..

"I should really focus on doing something else. But I think that any drama well worth its weight has to be always that there would be workshops of comedy where, because you can relieve the tension from the public whenever it is necessary, and then re-drama again. Walt White is not have a clue that it be funny sometimes, but as an actor I know when there are moments of comedy. "[43]

Anna Gunn role Skyler White - Walter's wife and that she was pregnant with their child before the second diagnosis of cancer, which is increasingly questioned her husband after he began to act in unusual ways. Gann describes the personal Skaar as "logical, tough, smart and aggressively." It describes Gan troubled career writing for Skyler as the biggest of her dreams, she says, "I think it is at the heart of the depths eager to become an artist and to be creative and productive." [44]

Aaron Paul Jesse Pinkman role - from students and former Walter White, he works as a maker and a drug dealer, and Walter is shared in its purest types methane industry. Aaron Paul Jesse sees a kid's funny. "It's a lost soul ... I do not think it is a bad boy, I've mingled with the wrong crowd only." And adds, speaking of the personal Jesse details, saying: "I do not think that this happened because of his abusive, or addiction to alcohol, but maybe that were not linking relationship with his father, perhaps his father was very strict, or it is not suitable for Jesse." [45]

Dean Norris role Hank Schrader - Adeel Walter, and customers in the Drug Enforcement Administration. At the beginning of the series, the goal was to be a personal character Hank "comic to ease the atmosphere." Norris, who played by many of the policemen's roles in film and television has commented ..

"I've played many police roles, I have talked with many of the technical advisors, so I was able to be aware of a lot. Coincidentally, one of my best friends who grew up with them is a policeman in Chicago, and one of my best my other friends is the sheriff in Los Angeles . for this I was able to get all the components of that culture. "[46]

Betsy Brandt Marie Schrader role - Hank's wife and sister-infected Skaar disease theft. Described Brandt personal Marie as "smelly whore", but also said that there are more than that in saying: "I think we are seeing more of them now, where they want to be present for her family. But it's all related to it." [47]

RJ Mitte role of Walter White youngest - son of Walter and Skyler, a cerebral palsy. Like Walter, Jr., it was the fact cerebral palsy, but much lighter. Said it has been forced to retreat from the treatment of illness in order to perform personal, and he had to stay up late at night to learn the way the words of Walter and learn to walk on crutches in order not to seem artificial gait. [48]

Bob Odenkirk role Sol Goodman (secondary character in Season 2, a key figure in the 3-5 season) - an accomplished lawyer with a crooked ways, represents Walter and Jesse. The Oodenkirk building his character based on the film producer Robert Evans. Bob says:

"I thought Robert Evans, because I heard him in" The boy remains in the picture "on CD. It changes the rhythm and the way his speech constantly. And raised his voice to emphasize the interesting words. It also varies between a lot of styles in each line read about. So when'm supposed to sing on scenes on my own I impersonates Robert Evans to find those moments and turns, then I go out and represent the character of Seoul. "[49]

Giancarlo Esposito role of Gus Fring (secondary character in Season 2, a key figure in the season 3-4) - a drug dealer on a very high level of hiding under the lid as the owner of a chain of restaurants and fast food. Esposito said that he had merged his training in yoga with the performance of the character. Esposito says about personal:

"Gass is the quietest person you may be seeing at all. I think about the character Eddie Olmos in the series vice Miami (Miami Vice). It was like the Dead, he was barely breathing. I thought, how could such a man to stand in this fire and do nothing? Gass allowed me quite this level of flexibility and relaxation, not because he has absolute power and he knows that he can take someone's life. but only because he was confident of himself. "[50]

Jonathan Banks role Aarmentrot Mike (guest of honor in one season, a key figure in the 3-5 season: Part I) - A former policeman working for Gus killer (fee required) and cleaner, and also works for the Seoul a special investigator. Personal Mike has compared the character of Winston Wolf performed by actor Harvey Keitel in the movie Pulp Fiction, but Banks says he is not trying to emulate: "I have tried to directly take out this idea out of my mind, frankly. How clean it is not Ktrivta. But in all parts of the world, you can not question that there are a large number of cleaners, whether they are employed by government contractors or individuals. "[51]

Laura Fraser role of Lydia Rodrt-Coyle (secondary character in Season 5: Part I, a key figure in Season 5: Part II) - a high-level in the Madrigal Electric Company precedent and help to Gus Fring employee. Lydia begins reluctantly supplied Almethylamin Walt and Jesse is helping Walter to expand its operations abroad.

Jesse Todd Blamenz role Alkwyst (secondary character in Season 5: Part I, a key figure in Season 5: Part II) - an employee of a pest control company later became a partner of Walt and Jesse.

Secondary characters [edit]

Steven Michael Quezada role Stephen Gomez, a friend and colleague Hank's DEA, collaborating with Hank order to determine the identity of Heisenberg.

Matt L. Jones role Badger Mayhew, friend Buster Jesse hooked.

Charles Baker, the role of Skinny House, a friend of Jesse and his assistant in the drug trade.

Rodney sprayed role Christian "combo" Ortega, who is also a friend of Jesse and his assistant in the drug trade.

Jessica Hecht and Adam Godley role of Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, the owner of the company (Grey Matter), which was established in partnership with Walter, who left the project such a great success. Gretchen was a former girlfriend of Walter, a partial reason for leaving the project.

Raymond Cruz role Tocco Salamanca, a Mexican drug dealer sociopath, dominating the drug trade in his city, it becomes a meth dealer who is Walter and Jesse Besnaath.

Mark Margolis role Hector Salamanca, a former high-ranking gang in Juarez, Mexico, can not walk or talk because of a stroke he suffered, and communicates with others by Bell, is the uncle of Tocco, and brothers Marco and Lionel Salamanca.

Ted Christopher Cousins ​​role Baniki, President Skyler at work, which is located in the financial problem that requires intervention Skyler.

Krysten Ritter role of Jane Margolis, Habiba daughter of Jesse and the owner of the house in which he lives, a recovering drug addict.

John de Lancy role of Donald Margulies, father of Jane and acts as a monitor air but causing chattering air between the two because of his mind wandering.

David Kostabail role Gael Botikr, chemist employed by Gus Fring to work together with Walter.

Daniel Moncada and Luis Moncada role of Lionel Marco Salamanca, two Arakhmon and not a little speech, hired assassins working for a gang Juarez, Mexico, two cousins ​​Tocco Salamanca, and their uncle is Hector Salamanca.

Emily Rios role Kantaylo Andrea, girlfriend Jesse second, is also a recovering drug addict, and has a young son named Brock.

Geramaya Bitza the role of Victor, a loyal staff Gass, lead difficult tasks along with Mike.

Lavelle Crawford role Haol, guard Sol Me, who is to address some of the problems for Walter.

Bill Port role Kyuubi, a knowledge Seoul, which sends it to address some sensitive issues relating to threats and intimidation.

Michael Bowen role Jack Welker, the uncle of Todd and gang leader believes in the superiority of the white race.

Guests of honor [edit]

Danny Trejo role Tortuga, a member of the Mexican gang detective with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

DJ Qualls role Getz, Albuquerque police officer who collaborated briefly with Hank to keep track of Heisenberg.

Robert Forrester role of Ed, false identities, which covers up as an entrepreneur to repair shop vacuum cleaners.

Jim Beaver role Lawson, dealer Albuquerque weapon, which is providing some of the weapons to Walter.

Steven Bauer role of Don Eladio Fuentaa, Gang Juarez, the Mexican leader, who has a history with Gus Fring.

Charlie Rose as his own soul.

Character and symbols [edit]

Ethical consequences [edit]

In an interview with The New York Times, the series creator Vince Gilligan said that the biggest lesson of this series is that "the consequences of her actions." [25] he said, speaking in detail about the philosophy of the series:

If religion is the reaction of a man, and nothing more than that, it seems to me that it represents for the human desire to punish wrongdoers. How I hated the idea that Amin in Saudi Arabia Idi lived for the last 25 years of his life. This Ogadhana to no end. I feel somehow that there is a need to atone for the Bible, or justice, or something like that. I like to believe that there are some of comeuppance, the karma that work at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says that it is great that this philosophy also become. "I want to believe that there is a commission. I can not that I do not believe that there is a fire."

In an article examines the series compared with the series The Sopranos, Mad Men and Mssl The Wire, Chuck Clausterman said that Breaking Bad is "based on the premise uncomfortable that there is a difference irrefutable between what is right and what is wrong, the only only where the characters have real control over the way you want to live it. " Clausterman He added that the central question for stray imbalance is "What makes a man 'lost,'? Is his actions, his motives, or the conscious decision to be lost, people?" Clausterman concludes that in the world of Breaking Bad, "righteousness and delusion are simply complicated choices, no different from anything else." [13]

Rose Dautt of The New York Times, in its response to an article Clausterman, which compares it between Breaking Bad and Allsoppranus, pointed out that both Muslslan are "ethical offers" and that "both of which have been interested in the power of morality." Dautt want to say that Walter White and Tony Soprano "represent a mirror image of the problem of evil, guilt and free will." Walter is a man who "gave up deliberately light vs. dark" while Tony is "someone born and raised in the darkness," which rejects "chance after chance to make his way towards the light." [52]

Loyalty to the family [edit]

"I did it all for me .. I've liked it .. you are skillful in it .. I was .. really .. I was alive."

- Walter told Skyler. [53]

Review the series most of the main characters contacts with their families in great detail. Walter justify his decision to cook meth Alchristala and become a criminal because of his desire to support his family. [54] In the third season, he is trying to get out of his work in cooking meth because it caused him to leave Skyler. But Gus convince him to stay, telling him that the work of man is the support his family, even though it was hated. [55] In the final episode of the series, and Walter finally admits to Skyler that the main motivation for his work in the meth trade is a personal favor, although he secretly succeeded in securing 9.72 million -What managed Anqazh- for Skyler and children. Jesse unit in the early seasons of the series can be partly explained the decision to expel him and his parents out of the house because of drug-related activities. This separation from parents more proximity to Jane, that her father was Aoboukha also abuse drugs. When Walter Destiny leg that meet the father of Jane coincidence, he referred to Jesse that his nephew, and regretted the fact that he could not communicate with him, he replies the father of Jane telling him to continue to try, saying: "the family. You can not give up, never. Why are there others? ! "[56] and the death of Jane later, which gave Walter for bailed deliberately, is a key factor in causing her father's aircraft collision incident at the end of the second season.

Even the most hardened characters Serial maintain kinship ties with the family. In the second season, Tuco Salamanca spend time in the care of his uncle, physically disabled, Hector. When Tocco killed in confrontation with Hank, his cousins ​​is seeking to avenge his death. It has been interpreted their actions in flashback, where Hector explain to the brothers how "Family is everything." The series Gus Fring Restaurants Paulus called Los Hermanos (Los Pollos Hermanos) means "brothers chicken", a name that refers to the fact that the company was established jointly by Gass and a man named Max, which is associated Bgas personal relationship is very close. When kills Max at the hands of Hector Salamanca, Gass vows to destroy the family of Salamanca. [54] In the fifth season, insured the superiority of whites Jack Welker says: "Do not skimp on the Family", leaving Walter to live after they caught him in the desert because of his love for his nephew Todd Alkwyst , which was to have more respect for Walter.

During the second season, there is footage which bear doll pink corrupted, and one eye missing, as a function appear. Doll first appeared in the music video "fallacies" of the band Jesse "TwaüghtHammër", which was released as a Web link in February 2009 before the start of the second season. [57] As the doll is also seen in the mural on the wall of Jane room in the final episode of the second season, and connect it to aircraft crash Pidgin. Seen Bear doll in flash in front of me over four rings; One thing distinguishes these four episodes, so that if you put their addresses in the order respectively, they form a sentence: "Seven Thirty-Seven down over ABQ" which means "737 fall over Albuquerque"; and 737 are 737 Boeing, which fell because of the guidance and the father of Jane. [58] [59] [60] was filmed this front flash black and white, with pink bear the color of an exception, and this refers to paying tribute to the film Schindler's List, where the use of the color red to distinguish the small girl wearing coat. [61] at the end of the season, causing Walter indirectly in the collision of two planes in the air; [62] [63] is located pink teddy bear from one of the planes and fall into the pool of his house. Vince Gilligan described the crash as an attempt to visualize the "terrible grief that has caused Walter to his loved ones," and "God spend." [64]

In the first episode of the third season, pick up the NTSB Bear doll from the pool and Walter, and he finds the missing eye later in the pond filter. Description television critic Miles Makint that eye as a "symbol of the harm that feels [Walter] behind it," [65] and suspended the newspaper The A.V. Club that the "pink teddy bear continues being charged." [66] Compare admire and critics of the emergence of his face pink teddy bear generally Gus Fring in the final episode of the fourth season. [67]

Sold Bear doll at auction with numerous other memorabilia, in the September 29, 2013, a brief summary of the day in which she presented the final episode of the series. [68] [69] On October 29 of the same year, he published Aaron Paul on Instagram picture of Bryan Cranston holds a Bear pink during the production of the series.

Mention the name of Walter White is a great poet Walt Whitman. [71] episode "Gliding Over All (fit for everyone)," a conclusion middle of the fifth season, is the poem title No. 271 from the Group of Walt Whitman poetry called Leaves of Grass. [72] During the series , gives Gayle Botikr Walt copy of the Court of leaves of grass, [73] by giving him a gift, read Gayle on Walter's poem "when I heard the astronomical world." [74] in the loop "Bullet points (important) points," Hank finds initials and. And. In one diary Gayle, and he jokes with Walter as his initials, but Walter indicates that it must be intended is Whitman.

In the episode "Hazard Pay (instead of risk)," finds Walt copy of Leaves of Grass during Todiba for the purposes of his bedroom, smiling briefly and leave the Court in order to read it later, this happens during the stable phase of his life, where he feels that things are back to normal, and it may He has achieved all of its projects that work for it. Based on one of the poems Court, the poem "self-song", many of the same feelings, and enhance the relationship between the life of Walter and hair Whitman. [75] in the loop "Gliding Over All", Hank finds the Office of Leaves of Grass in the bathroom and Walter and opens the cover page to find a sign giving handwritten sentence: "to WW other favorite. It's an honor to work with you. devotee G.b." After reading it, Hank gets shocked and clear, and recognizes the fact that Walter for the first time. This was the starting point for the beginning of the second part of the last season of the series.