The Breaking Bad television series has been memorable to viewers due to its diverse plot and stirring scenes. Vince Gillian incorporated Scholes matrices of power into his piece. Rhetoric has played an important roll in Breaking Bad, pathos, ethos, and logos have brought this film to another level. Allowing a sense of emotion, logic and credibility, within each episode. The series has been culturally relatable to viewers and the visually fascinating. Through narrativity the series has offered us intense plot lines and climaxes that are hard for viewers to resist and keep people watching. Through rhetoric analysis you are able to see the significance of Scholes matrices of power in Vince Gillian’s film, Breaking Bad.
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Rhetoric is used through visual fascination, Breaking Bad amplifies the scenes with visuals that drawn in the audience and keep them questioning this “…is just one of the matrices of power and pleasure that [is] organized by video texts.”(Scholes) After Walter cancer diagnosis, the colors that he wears in the show become stronger and eventually go black when he begins to recover. After the cancer returns or when he’s defeated, the drab khaki returns. In the opening seasons Hank is seen in orange, with tints of yellow and peach. But when he suffers through traumatic events, his colors turn a deep brown. After fighting with family due dishonesty, he slowly gains tints of orange and brighter color back after he re-involves himself with the Heisenberg case. One trademark in the show that's conspicuous is that you don't often see the faces of the main characters. Other networks or studios would be upset if you put your main character in a silhouette or put a little bit of light on his head. Breaking Bad always head towards the emotion of the scene and not necessarily towards seeing the faces. The way they create visual fascination is very expressionistic and intriguing to the viewer. Breaking Bad always you to visually see the physical determination of the protagonist due to psychological turmoil he experiences over five …show more content…
An example by Scholes is, “…the process through which video texts confirm viewers in their ideological positions and reassure them as to their membership in a collective cultural body.”(Scholes) Breaking Bad successfully relates the story people’s lives allowing them to connect with the story. Dishonesty is a component that reoccurs in breaking bad. Continues white lies that turn into a major lies is the dishonesty that we see throughout the t-v series. Every lie that Walt creates begins with him lying to Skylar or Walt Jr. about his current whereabouts. The lie then turns into a made up reason for why Walt did not come home last night. Love has played both a negative and positive roll in Breaking Bad. Jesse falls in love with a girl that he ironically met in the business. Walt also shows the love that grows from partnership to Jesse, he fathers him about his addiction to meth. He gets mad and worries greatly about Jesse’s health. Jesse however falls in love with Jane Margolis who also shares an addiction with him. Jesse does not have many loved ones in his life due to him being a “burn out” stereotypically speaking. Jane eventually passes away from chocking on her own throw up that on a side note Walt had witnessed. The negative love that occurs in Breaking Bad, is of course Walt and Skylar’s marriage which shreds to
How does being sentenced to prison affect someone later in his or her life? Many people pose the question, but they have yet to form an immutable response. Oscar Wilde once said, “one of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be”, this quotation engenders the philosophy of prison, which consists of one being held responsible for his or her wrongdoings. The book Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman explores how a once drug money launderer goes to jail for a crime which she committed almost a decade earlier. At the time she committed the crime, she considered herself lost and naive in regards to her life. Throughout the book, the audience witnesses Kerman’s struggles and how she ultimately overcomes them in order to better herself for the future. After examining the book, one can see that Kerman uses many rhetorical elements in her writing such as ethos, the rhetorical triangle, narration, and myriad others to make her memoir a timeless piece of non-fiction.
How naive are product consumers today? People assume things are factual without questioning the credibility of a person or product. An article in “The Onion” mocks advertisers in a satirical tone to show the bizarre tactics companies use to market their products to customers. The author writes on the topic of “MagnaSoles” shoe inserts, a fictional brand used for his demonstration. He uses devices such as humor, false authority/science, and irony to display the outlandish strategies of advertisers.
A town, a team, a dream. Friday Night lights document the 1988 football season of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. Bissinger explores the various themes of the novel and uses conceit to colorfully describe the contrasting attitudes towards sports and academics. In the small town of Odessa bases Fridays nights in the fall are dedicated to Permian football. As a result of the obsessive attitude towards football a ridiculous amount of pressure is thrusted upon the coaches and players. Bissinger tackled the many problems in the town such as extreme pressure to perform, racism, and the relationship between parent and child. While Bissinger had several preconceived notions, he was ultimately proven wrong and through analysis of themes and incorporation of comparisons in the form of conceits he was able to develop his understanding of the town and accurately depict the events that transpired.
Truman Capote showcases his very distinct style of writing in his true crime novel, In Cold Blood. Capote intentionally frames ruthless murderer Perry Smith as a relatable, well-intentioned human throughout the whole novel, and employs various rhetorical devices to show us that Perry is not just a stone cold killer. Specifically, Capote uses diction comprised of complex words, interviews conducted by Capote personally in which he interacted with the suspects and their loved ones, and sentence structure that came off as very to the point, in order to illustrate Perry’s dynamic and unique personality, opposed to the one dimensional heartless murderer many made him out to be.
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
I chose this word because the tone of the first chapter seems rather dark. We hear stories of the hopes with which the Puritans arrived in the new world; however, these hopes quickly turned dark because the Purtains found that the first buildings they needed to create were a prison, which alludes to the sins they committed; and a cemetery, which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves.
Remember the Titans was a film based on the 1970s, a time of racial segregation. The Gettysburg Speech, given by Coach Boone, is an attempt to persuade his players to integrate regardless their racial differences. He brings the team to Gettysburg to deliver his speech, hoping to emphasize the point he is trying to make. Coach Boone explains that they too will be destroyed like the men of Gettysburg if they do not end this feud. Coach Boone was able to successfully unify his team despite their racial differences by effectively utilizing imagery, alliteration, and pausing throughout his speech.
“We represent reality, we don't reproduce it.” Says Michael Slovis in Behind the Lens: Michael Slovis, ASC & Breaking Bad.
The purpose of any text is to convey the criticisms of society, with V for Vendetta and Animal Farm being chief examples of this statement. Through their use of allusion, symbolism and representation, they portray many of society's flaws and imperfections. Such an imperfection includes the illustration of how totalitarian governments abuse the power they have acquired for their own gain, harming the people they are sworn to serve and protect. Through this abusive self-gaining government, we all are liable to become victims of consumer culture caused by the blind obedience to advertising and propaganda, being unable to form or voice an opinion of our own. But this lack of opinion can be at fault because of our own apathy, the ignorance and slothfulness that is contributed to the role we play in our society and the importance of that role's ability to motivate and inspire change.
In Cesar Chavez’s article, he uses many rhetorical devices to help give the reader a better understanding of how important nonviolence vs violence is. Chavez explains how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi have endowed reasons of nonviolence worth following.
Evan Young was the valedictorian at Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School in Longmont, Colorado. He was supposed to give the commencement speech on May 16th, but when the school administration found out that he was going to use his speech to come out as gay they told him to rewrite the speech. He said that he took out other parts that the school disapproved of, but would not take remove the part of his coming out. The school refused to recognize Young as the valedictorian, and also called his parents, possibly inadvertently outing the teen before he was ready.
Among the thousands of TV shows that are available to us, what makes certain shows have more of an appeal to the human audience? Shows of this nature have something that is mesmerizing, something we can not take our eyes off. Something that is so bizarre we must continue to watch it because we acquire devotion to the characters life. In the hit series Dexter, a man named Dexter Morgan is a Miami blood splatter analysts but, as dawn approaches he becomes a vigilante who seeks to murder atrocious people that have gotten away with horrendous crimes. By this nature he is a non-traditional hero because he kills and goes behind the law. Dexter’s main objective is to kill, but in order to achieve this goal he does other anti-hero notions as well. For the purpose of this essay I will only be looking at season 4 of Dexter because this is when he is most like an anti-hero.
Steven Johnson wrote an article for the New York Times in which he argues that back in the days, television shows use to have a very simple plot which was easy to follow without too much attention. It was just an other way to sit back and relax. However, throughout the years, viewers grew tired of this situation and demanded more complex plot lines with multiple story lines that related to recent news topics. He takes the example of the television show “24”. “24” is known for being the first show which its plot occurs in “real-time”, it is also known for not censuring the violence of its topics. It is a drastic change from what Johnson states as an example “Starsky and Hutch” where basically each episodes was only a repetition of the last one. Johnson also believes that there is a misconception of the mass culture nowadays where people think the television viewer wants dumb shows which in response makes them dumber. Johnson does not agree, for him, television shows such as “24” are “nutritional”. He also states that sm...
Back in 2000, viewers were introduced to Bryan Cranston in the television show, Malcolm in the Middle. He played the role of a father with three extremely unruly children. His acting was good, and he played an integral role in the series, yet it was nothing close to the magnitude of greatness in Breaking Bad. This comparison can be easily appl...
Colors in Breaking Bad play a huge role through symbolism, where each color represents a specific theme and its relationship to the scene. One of the most symbolic colors is green, which represents money and greed. In the very first scene, Walter wears nothing but a green apron and white underwear when he first begins to cook meth, reinforcing the notion, at this point in time, that is he only cooking for money. Walter and his wife Skylar wear green quite often, whereas their son, Walt Jr., is only shown