Stefani Hunter
Professor Wells
RTV3405 – TV & American Society
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad, one of the most popular television show series, is my favorite of all time to watch. There is suspense, action, and an amazing storyline that always takes unexpected turns, which is why I chose to write my paper on this television series. Watching Walter White transition into something so unexpected is what makes this television series a thrill and a joy to watch.
Vince Gilligan is known as the creator, executive producer, and head writer of Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, and he graduated from Lloyd C. Bird High School in 1985. After high school, he attended New York University on a partial scholarship.
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Cranston dedicated a significant amount of his time to Breaking Bad and contributed a lot to the formation of the Walter White persona. He wrote his own background for the character during the development of the series. Cranston gained 10 pounds at the start of the series in order to reflect the character’s personal decline and he also had his hair dyed a regular brown color. He worked together with Kathleen Detoro, a costume designer, to have an ideal wardrobe for the show. The wardrobe consisted mostly of brown and neutral colors to make the character seem dull and uninteresting. Cranston also worked with makeup artist Frieda Valenzuela to devise a mustache that he described as a “dead caterpillar”. Cranston is described as a happy individual who is extremely playful while on set. Gilligan originally wanted to kill off Aaron Paul’s character Jesse Pinkman by the second episode but didn’t because he was impressed with performance and realized that it would be a huge mistake to kill him off of the show and Cranston didn’t agree …show more content…
This show won multiple awards including two Peabody Awards, sixteen Primetime Emmy Awards, a People’s Choice Award, eight Satellite Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. This show tells the story of Walter White who is first seen as a Chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Not only does he teach such disrespectful students but he is also getting paid so poorly. Because of the minimal money that he is making as a teacher, he decides his best option is to get a part-time job at a nearby car wash to supplement his income. Walter is eventually diagnosed with lung cancer and is told that he likely has only two more years to live, which gives him only little time to provide for his family. At this point, he is most concerned with his family’s finances and making sure they will have enough money and security after he dies. Knowing that his brother-in-law works for the Drug Enforcement Administration, Walter decides to partner up with his former student, Jesse Pinkman, to secretly cook and sell crystallized methamphetamine in New Mexico. Albuquerque was chosen as the location for the production because of the reasonable finances that the state had to offer. The show was shot with digital cameras on 33 mm film and it was around $3 million per episode to
Walter has a loving relationship with his family members, but he also has a relationship that frustrates him. Walter's family frustrations are brought on by society's lack o...
How many shows on television do you know that offer a guilt-free antihero as its protagonist? Well, I certainly cannot think of many, and I believe that is the inaugural case as to why NBC’s The Blacklist has been this Fall’s number one show. The idea behind it is that an ingenious, criminal mastermind for some apparent reason starts to assist the FBI catch the world’s most wanted criminals, some of which they did not know existed. Although I am already a fan of the show, I do think that The Blacklist does borrow much of its premise from USA’s White Collar. I feel Andy Greenwald describes the show best when he says, “It’s a cop procedural with a criminal as the lead investigator.”
Walter White while seemingly a sympathetic character in his reasoning for becoming a drug lord is doing this for love of his family. Although, further on in the show
Blue meth? This is what the TV series Breaking Bad is shaped around. First, I will be discussing why I chose Breaking Bad to analyze. Secondly, I will discuss the topic of communicating verbally with Walter and Jesse. Thirdly, I will see how they managed conflict and power. Fourthly, I will look at Walter White's relationship with his friends. Fifthly, I will see how listing actively played a role in Breaking Bad. Next, I will dissect Walter and Jesse's relationship in the workplace. Lastly, I will see what this means for communication as a whole.
I don't agree with Havrilesky when he says that Walter White is unlikeable. I believe he had a reason to do what he did and that was his family. The medical expenses he had made him be in the position. He also needed money for his familie's future. I understand that there are other ways to get the money but he didn't have time to get enough money to leave for his family. I could see how desperate he was by what he told his student about the money he had taken to him. His student was so excited and told him he had sold the drug but instead Walter got mad and told him it wasn't what he expected; he didn't have much time. I felt bad for him when he would lie to his wife that he had enough money to pay the rent when in reality he was short on money.
Walter was left money from his fathers insurance. Wanting to invest his fathers’ money into a liquor store Mama opposed saying, “I don't want that on my ledger this late in life" (Hughes, Pg. 16). Her better half eventually gave Walter some of the inheritance money to Walter and foolishly, Walter loses it. Living in his mothers’ house with his Wife and Son, Walter wants to be "The man of the house". Add poverty and being treated like a child as a man, can ruin a persons life, ability to adapt, overcome and to better themselves and
In this episode, Walter sees and hears an fly in the lab and attempts to kill it. The fly is difficult for Walter to capture so he takes the entire night attempting kill it, even making a fly-swatter and other contraptions to squash the bug. This shows that even though Walter tries to forget the bad things he has done, such as killing Krazy 8 and watching Jane die, they will always hover above him. Later when Jesse tries to kill the "contamination", Jesse and Walt talk about Jane and how the same night she died Walter had a conversation with Jane's father. He tells Jesse he is sorry about Jane and Jesse, unknowingly, says it is not his fault or anyone else's fault.
Walter is racist and sexist. He works driving rich white people around and he is sick of this. He wants to be a boss, he wants to be the king of his jungle. He has a wife and a son. They all live with his mom. When things doesn’t go right for him, or not the way he wants, everything he does is drink and walk. Walter is tired of working for white people, he wants to open a liquor store illegally. When mama got the money from his father’s life insurance, he asked for some money to open the liquor store, and she said no. She got really mad at her, and started getting drunk everyday. He didn’t show up to work for three days and lost his job. However, When mama finally gave him the money to open the liquor store, his friend ran away with all the money, including the part that he was supposed to put in the bank so his sister can go to college. Walter says, “Gone, what you mean Willy is gone? Gone where? You mean he when by himself. You mean he went off to Springfield by himself - to take care of getting the license.” (Hensberry 128). This proves that his dream of having a liquor store is not gonna happen because his friend ran away all of his money. Also, he wanted his son to go to college and be whoever he wants to, and now, it’s not going to happen too. He was surprised and really mad that his friend did that do him. This proves that Hensberry uses Walter to show all of the bad
As Walter gets older racism changes for Walter time after time. In the book Walter doesn’t realize racism is a big deal in his life. When Walter was little he did not realize that hanging a black boy caused a act of racism. When Walter gets older he sees racism in a whole new perspective. When Walter was about 12-13 his friend
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...
Mama talks to Walter about her fears of the family falling apart. This is the reason she bought the house and she wants him to understand. Walter doesn't understand and gets angry. "What you need me to say you done right for? You the head of this family. You run our lives like you want to. It was your money and you did what you wanted with it. So what you need for me to say it was all right for? So you butchered up a dream of mine - you - who always talking 'bout your children's dreams..." Walter is so obsessive over money that he yells at his mom for not giving him all of it. He doesn't know that what his mom is doing is for the family. He thinks that having money will make the family happy, when in reality the family doesn't need anymore than what they have to be happy.
When Walt entered a room, he’d get noticed. It wasn’t his stature. His normal five foot ten inch medium frame didn’t give him away. It was his demeanor and the clothes he wore that would make heads turn. His shoulder length kinked hair and long untrimmed beard surrounding leathery skin would be the focal point for his audience. Walt almost always wore a smile. His facial expression was one of comfort, not hatred. People did not fear him. He chose to wear clothes reminiscent of the late sixties. His brown fringed sued vest would wrap around layers of unmatched colored tee-shirts. His oversized Budweiser belt buckle would rest on his hips holding up striped bellbottom pants that partially coved white on black high top tennis shoes. He’d wear his belt buckle not in the center of his torso but way off to the side almost on his left hip. “Because I’m cool.” he’d reply when asked about his fashion choice.
After buying a house, Mama gives the remaining money to Walter, telling him to save some for Beneatha’s medical school, and that he can decide what the rest of the money can go to. Walter tells Travis that he is going to change their lives with the money: “One day...I’ll pull up on the driveway...just a plain black chrysler… though I’ll have to get something a little sportier for Ruth---maybe a Cadillac convertible...and I‘ll go inside...to see you sitting on the floor with the catalogues of the great in America all around you… just tell me what it is you want to be---… and I hand you the world!” (108-109). Walter fantasizes about owning classy cars and being able to pay for his son to go to any of the top-notch schools in America. His visions for the future reveal that his perception of reality is unrealistic and that wealth matters very much to him. He is very confident that he will be able to give Travis “the world”, which shows that he has excessive faith in his business deal. His delusions and excitement can hinder his ability to make calculated decisions. Without saving any money for Beneatha’s medical school, Walter gives the money to his friend, Willy, to invest in liquor stores. The next day, Walter’s other friend, Bobo, visits Walter to tell him that Willy ran off with the money. Walter melts down and yells, “Man, I put my life in your
In the “Pilot” episode of Breaking Bad I took away the lesson that, people will do anything for their families regardless of something being “right or wrong”. When Walter White finds out he has cancer he does his best to begin setting things up so that his family will be taken care of after he is gone. Even turning to the idea of making drugs for money. This, I believe, is a common theme with humans. We will do anything to protect and take care of our families, regardless of the outcome for ourselves. Just as Walter realizes that he could go to jail for what he is doing, he preservers in the interest of taking care of his family. Morality and right/wrong play a small part in a person’s mind when their main goal is taking care of their family.
In particular throughout the entertainment television. To begin with, longitudinal content and discourse breakdown of the top rated television programs. The main themes and protagonists are perturbed with numerous extensity of crime and law enforcement. These are to be considered when achieving general perspectives on the portrayals of the criminal justice system.