Why Breaking Bad is Television's Magnum Opus (Video Essay)
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2024
- A new chapter is knocking, and it all starts with my favorite show of all time.
Breaking Bad follows Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of crime after he is diagnosed with lung cancer. Joining him in his meth-making endeavors is former student Jesse Pinkman. Together, the pair run afoul of New Mexico’s most dangerous gangsters, including the murderous Salamanca cartel family and the criminal mastermind Gustavo Fring.
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The Yellow Prince - Dont Leave Me, Murph
Cooper Cannell - Bach Cello Suit No. 1
Scott Buckley - Filaments
Scott Buckley - Undertow
Scott Buckley - Jul
Scott Buckley - Among Inquisitive Stars
Keys of Moon - Lonesome Journey
Keys of Moon - Illusions
Jonny Easton Warming Light
Aylex - Urano
Tushar Sharma - Distant Memories
Negro y Azul (Piano Version)
Jorge Mendez - Changes
Rights Free Sound - Sad Cinematic Music
Oak Studios - Angels
Oak Studios - Yours
Willow - MokkaMusic
INSPIRATIONS:
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Analyzing Evil: Walter White From Breaking Bad | The Vile Eye
• Analyzing Evil: Walter...
How Breaking Bad Changed My Life | Karsten Runquist
• How Breaking Bad Chang...
Breaking Bad - The Value of Human Life | Just an Observation
• Breaking Bad - The Val...
Breaking Bad: How Walter White Evolves | Just an Observation
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Breaking Bad - The Great Tragedy of Jesse Pinkman | Alex Meyers
• Breaking Bad - The Gre...
Why Breaking Bad's "Fly" Is IRREPLACEABLE | Aleczandxr
• Why Breaking Bad's "Fl...
The Hidden Origin of Heisenberg | Aleczandxr
• The Hidden Origin of H...
Breaking Bad: An Episode of Reactions | Nerdwriter
• Breaking Bad: An Episo...
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0:00 - 3:04 Introduction
3:05 - Part 1 - The Study of Change
11:37 - Part 2 - A Trip to Belize
15:13 - Part 3 - Yeah, Science!
19:04 - Part 4 - The Danger
33:22 - Part 5 - Wanna Cook?
38:47 - Epilogue
39:41 - Credits :)
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I'll never get tired of Breaking Bad analysis and retrospective videos.
It's a great show to talk about. I love the videos too.
As great as the show is, I'm the only person in my circle of friends or family who even watches the show, so I'm glad there's an online community.
Same
I’ll never get tired of Breaking Bad period
Theres so many lol, I'll watch everyone if it comes up no matter how small the youtube channel lol
This one was really good though!
There is no moment where Walt becomes Heisenberg. He was always Heisenberg. Like Vince said, all that happened was that who he truly was showed itself more and more.
i disagree there's obviously a sequence of events that causes incremental change. his behavioral readiness to react to those events were present beforehand but he also had the readiness to become other versions of himself totally different from heisenberg if other sequences of events occurred. and even if you argue that the world is deterministic and it was fate that those attributes would be triggered that still implies that walt's transformation would not be spontaneous without those triggers which makes it a process of becoming by definition.
@wamyam I personally agree with the reading of Walt that's in line with C S Lewis' Mere Christianity. I'm paraphrasing, but he likens man to rats in a dark room. If you want to see the most rats, the best way is to rush in, to surprise them. You could sneak into the room quietly, not turn on the light, but surprising them didn't swawn them. When man is caught off guard, they act most like their true self, and we see that with Walt.
The cancer caught him off guard, remission caught him off guard, the situation leading up to Brock's poisoning caught him off guard. Walt as a man was held back only by his circumstance, and being caught off guard showed him that.
This isn't to say that Walt is completely evil. Just the divide he made was always superficial. Walt is the same man at the beginning of the show that he is at the end in my opinion. And every morally repprensible thing he did desensitized himself to his own true self.
I say this because even though I am demonstrably a good person, I know I would be corrupted by own human urges. And that's what happened to Walt. As he put here, Heisenburg was Walt's pride. And Walt was always a deeply prideful man.
When Gretchen expects an explanation for the lie, we truly see Heisenberg for the first time. He could have just accepted the money and gotten his job back at Grey Matter and he would have been fine. His pride wouldn't allow that, and he lashed out.
im glad you gave particular appreciation towards fly, it always went over me how often people consider it just a low worth filler episode
everyone gives appreciation to fly. actually I’ve seen more people thanking people for appreciating it rather than seeing people berate it.
im glad you gave particular appreciation towards ozymandias, it always went over me how often people consider it just a low worth filler episode
the fly is actually my favorite episode, It saddens me to know how many people dislike it.
They do!? I loved that episode! I'm the type to automatically care less for self contained episodes in an otherwise serialized television show,but that one was SO good. There really is no accounting for taste,is there!?
@@AshtonRogers-se1zj precisely, I absolutely loved that episode, all those who dislike it clearly aren't real breaking bad fans.
There was no moment Walt became heisenberg, it is a trick question, he always had the potential within him, he was no more monster than he was loving family man, they just switched places.
Yeah but "This is the moment Walter and Heisenberg switched places" doesn't quite roll off the tongue that well, though I do get what you're saying and kind of agree with it
huh?? How can you assume he always ahd the potential of beeing a drug lord ill cunning murderer, from what is shown in the show ? lol it's CLEAR there is a moment he switched, and it most likely has to do with a life of missed opportunities, broken family, 50 years crisis, social situation, and the cherry on top : cancer. From WHAT scenes do you assume there always was a Heisenberg prior to the commitment of partnering with jesse ?
@@kheops8498 i see you're one of the countless people that believes an anybody is incapable of terrible things.
@@catattack885 once again... HOW do you assume that ? you really are a person who ASSUMES a lot, how can you even THINK that ANYBODY can think that 'an anybody is incapable of terrible things' ? Your defense mechanism wasn't even giving me arguments or exemples of scenes in BB, instead you just projected your initial thoughts with an assumption just because I'm not agreeing with you, step up your game, kid
@@kheops8498 I'm just being general, it's how people talk, oh sorry, MOST people talk, not all. I'm using the argument that desperate people will do desperate things, crowds crushing people to death to escape certain danger, someone going on a drastic last ditch effort under the affect of an end-of-life crisis to ensure the stability of their family, not this kind of event mind you with the drug manufacturing overlord with an ego complex, but many other examples of this sort of thing have happened IRL with people under similar pressures, it's the nature of us as animals. Most people simply still won't assume it though because they have a moral compass that urges them to do what they deem ''right'', and most people must deem similar things ''right'' in order for society to exist.
10 freaking years since it ended and we still excitedly analyze it. Without exaggeration, the best show ever made. Not my favorite, but objectively the best.
My favorite show is the terror season 1, but breaking bad is the best series ive seen
When i first watched Breaking Bad (around 2021), i understood Skylar at first. Then pretty quickly on, i started rooting for her. She didnt do anything wrong except for smoking while pregnant
**and singing happy birthday to Ted 😂
honestly, my mom watched the show before me and always said she hated skyler. when i watched it i was so confused, because i really liked her, even when the show makes her seem a little annoying at times. i empathized with her so much.
And having sex while in a marriage.
And paying off her affairs massive debt
bro was rooting for the least interesting character
Even on my first watch through of BB, I quickly understood this is a narcissist living out their ultimate power fantasy. They dilute themselves at every opportunity to avoid personal accountability, and this is the story of how that personality type destroys itself. He's like a Boogie2988 becoming a drug kingpin if you will, sounds silly, but he has the same personality type.
Same, I didn’t watch this show for the first time until 2021 and I was blown away by how the show, and specifically Jesse and Walt, differed from what I had heard.
Imagining boogie leaning back in his computer chair swirling a bowl of Doritos around, looking at his old viral vids and saying, "I'm in the empire business," is pretty funny.
but walt is BADASS, there's the big difference
Not the only "BIG" difference@@necrosadotor
@@johnhein2539then on his next video he says “I’m the one who streams”
thank you so much for the section about Skylar. she is absolutely a realistic supporting character, and it's very telling when people complain that she sucks and is annoying, etc.
I will forever point out that even when Skylar was making bad decisions, her decisions mirrored Walt's, if anything. I don't blame her for panicking, for trying to protect her kids, or even leaning into the lifestyle by investing in the carwash. This is a woman who gets backed into countless corners and is just trying to survive being around her husband.
My name is Skylar white yo 🤓
Skylar led walt to spiral back into his meth business. He wanted to change, he wanted to stop, he had enough money to support his family when he was gone. He wanted to finally be honest. She just wanted to fuck her boss, even before finding out everything. Then after he made an effort to bond with his family again, after telling her the truth, she slept with him and told him she slept with her boss. That was when he realized the only time hes ever been truly appreciated for efforts was when he was making meth. That was when he stopped doing it for his family. I will forever hate skylar. But i do pity her in the last season. But she isnt innocent in the slightest. Im sure if she hadnt done it, if she saw his point of view, if she had supported him, not with his business, but with his situation, respected his decision on why he did it, and not go and decide to sleep with her boss, it wouldve been a different story.
Yeah I do blame her for what she does after actively helping Walt. She was never required to do that, just keep quiet about it and don’t tell the police, and nothing would be taken away. Then after that her helping Walt makes her act poorly towards other people, as if she didn’t decide to do it.
By far the best introduction on the entirety of UA-cam, gave me chills. You managed to capture the essence of the entire show in under 3 minutes & was able to draw out so many emotions. Truly amazing.
This felt like a very impactful documentary to watch and immediately made me come back to the brba universe that I missed so much.
you typed all of that but you cant type Breaking Bad?
I loved the connection to crime and punishment. So many of these video essays lack the connection to other clasical arts that they are based on.
The very hungry caterpillar>>>crime and punishMID
When are we getting the deep dive of Mr. Krabs selling SpongeBobs soul for 62 cents?
Great essay. I'd just like to give an alternative explanation of when Walter White becomes Heisenberg. Could it be that the question should be flipped on its head? ie: When did Heisenberg become Walter White? Because the Walter we see celebrating his 50th birthday with turkey bacon and the saddest handjob I've ever seen is quite far from the Heisenberg that is the one who knocks we are led to the, i suspect intended, misinterpretation that Walter precedes Heisenberg. I think, however, that the Walter we see in flashbacks, confidently teaching Gretchen in an inspired way or boastfully home shopping with the pregnant Skylar, isn't actually the Walter we meet in the pilot episode. That is Heisenberg. Pre-crime Heisenberg, but the actual personality that used to reside in the shell of a person we meet first on his depressing 50th birthday. Breaking Bad is about Walter becoming what he always was. It is Walter choosing to fall in love with his fated end. This was always within him. Ever since he saw the shell of his father he knew, that he was predisposed to take radical measures to escape that fate. And yet he was well en route to becoming exactly that when he was awaked by a mustard stain with a side-order of a cancer diagnosis. Breaking bad, or, if you will, breaking out. Escaping the mundane slow suicide the dethroned and scorned Heisenberg was taught by civility to endure. Nietzsche would, I think, agree that Walter always had the capacity for Heisenberg within him, and I'm just taking it one step further by suggesting that perhaps there never was a Walter as we thought we knew him from the beginning of the show. We meet a man dying slowly, who comes to realise he may be dying a lot faster than he wasn't considering, and in that realisation it dawns on him that he is exactly the type of person who has always wanted, since he was a child, to design the stage more deliberately before curtain call. And, indeed, the show closes with Walter getting the only death that would fit the son of his father.
A great observations. Indeed, we are capable of dimming our own lights out and reigniting them just as much as the world, if not the more.
There’s a fear and anxiety about things when we’re alive that we often just settle for the easiest path that also protects our egos. With him seeing death coming, he had nothing to hold back. It’s kind of like a xanny head, lying, stealing , cheating, getting over on people, and extremely moody. Fearing no repercussions do it the anti anxiety effects.
Beautiful, magnificent tribute to the greatest television series of all time. I’m actually crying tender, bittersweet tears. This show means so much to so many of us. You did a brilliant job. Thank you!
well Fraggle Rock is television's Magnus Opus but Breaking Bad is a very close second.
My mother would be extremely pleased to hear someone else believes this lmao
"But Heisenberg threw the pizza" got me 😂😂
What a beautiful video! The sound design is very impressive. It made me immersed in this world of you speaking about the show.
Cannot put into words how fucking insane this is! Keep it up bro!
this is the most beautiful essay i have seen on this show, I love all the interconnected stuff you found
The first 2 minutes of this video have one of the best editing I have seen in any UA-cam video! This is some top level storytelling
After finishing the video I have to congratulate the creator. The editing throughout this whole video essay is top notch! I cant even imagine how much time it took to find all of these specific shots and sentences. Some of the visual similarities from shot to shot that you managed to find are just si beautyfull! The one where Jessie looks at Walter one last time fluidly jump cutting into young Jessie speaking to a younger Walt.
Perfection! Keep it up man! This type of content is what UA-cam is made for I hope you get millions of views and get the recognition you deserve!
First video I’ve seen of yours, and I’ve seen a lot of these BB analyses/essays. The intro montage got me hooked and the intro gave me chills. Excited to hear the rest, thanks for this great piece ❤
Ever since Better Call Saul ended, the stream of Breaking Bad analysis content had slowed down considerably. Glad to see new vids still talking about it ❤️
That had to be one of the best intros to a video I’ve ever seen. Editing was awesome and really drew me in. Keep it up!
I never actually considered the possibility of Walter's final moments looking at his reflection being a parallel to the mirror scene from Season 2, that's pretty neat if it was intentional. Great job with the video overall, I wouldn't call BB my favorite show but I do think it's a pretty great one and you had some really good takes on it here. Bravo, Joe!
this is my new favorite BB video essay, thank you!!
I have watched a lot of Breaking Bad video essays in my time, and this is one of the best. Well done! Subscribed and looking forward to more from you.
Great inclusion of the snippet of Walt Whitman, and connecting that to the final shot. Yet another brilliant hidden detail I had not realised was there. Great documentary!! Truly the best show ever made.
Really well done video essay. It was a fun watch! Breaking Bad (and Better Call Saul) are the up there with the greatest TV shows in history.
Walter probably has one of the greatest character arcs I've ever seen. Mainly because it isn't an arc, but self discovery. It reminds me of the original Jekyll and Hyde, where Hyde wasn't an alternate personality, but Jekyll's deepest darkest desires made human. Heisenberg was Walter's Hyde, and like Jekyll, he used Chemistry to unleash it.
This is phenomenal. Gave me goosebumps several times. Thank you
Greatly crafted video, the intro was amazing
Damn. You really gathered EVERYTHING this had to offer on the scene of what this was about and how it was delivering it all, even jokes, damn. What a gathering of everyone's thoughts and so beautifully composed into a single magnum opus, great job.
This is without a doubt the best Breaking Bad video I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them. Good fucking work man!
Honestly the best breakdown I've ever seen, my man. Auto subbed
22:20
This is the moment Waltuh became the one who knocks
I love the way Walter smoothly and believably transitions from the nice guy school teacher to the bad ass drug lord.
Only 2 min in, but have to say - fantastic intro compilation, probably the best I've seen on UA-cam (and I've seen a lot lol)
Beautifully put together, a worthy tribute to my favourite show. Thank you so much for this.
What a fantastic video essay! this needs to blow tf up
This is still my favorite series I’ve ever watched! Nothing compares to it, so far.
This video is an absolute masterpiece. The quality of the writing is excellent, with some points and details I've never seen anyone else point out before! But also THE EDITING MY GOD!! That opening mv was beautiful and so well-crafted, but then the exact same craftsmanship carried on throughout the video! I had to liveblog to my friend as I was watching cuz there were so many little editing moments that had me losing my mind. It's like you enhanced the emotions that were already in those scenes, or bolstered what they wanted to communicate by intercutting them with different scenes. You have a great skill for this, amazing work!
A really exciting departure from your other work, Keep it up!!
Great quality video! I can feel the amount of time you put into it. Great Great work!!
i just finished the series a few months ago. a friend of mine who get this was also dying of lung cancer recommended it to me. i also saw el camino and getting ready for better call saul
Did your friend get into meth manufacturing?
Best show, and a real special time to be watching along while it was airing. Some prefer better call saul which I also love but this takes the top spot just slightly for me.
Yeah breaking bad is hands down one of the ten best shows ever made in my opinion
What a great video. Maybe the best video I've ever seen about breaking bad, or any show or movie for that matter
Wow this is the content I aspire to make. good job, loved this review. xx
Amazing Video
Thank you so much for your work
The quality of this video is insane considering how small a UA-camr this guy is. Props!!!! Keep it up.
Incredible video man, glad to see you back on UA-cam!
I cried. The work put into this video. omfg
Great video man, watched almost every analysis video is this may be my favorite
Great essay, and great format too!
What an awesome vid. The editing added so much :)
I always thought “the moment” as being the scene on Crawl Space (S4 E11) where he goes nuts because Skyler “gave it to Ted” and the plongée plan used is the same as in Heisenberg’s death after getting mistakenly shot by his own automatic .50. So, “the moment” for me it’s not exactly when he becomes Heisenberg but when “Walter White dies”, every piece of good in him is dead on that exact moment for me.
There is no moment he becomes heisenberg. It's a transformation
This is a great and very well made video and the hope your channel grows bigger and bigger
each part just gets better and better. Damn.
Walt started becoming heisenberg the day he was born. He was already an egomaniac frame 1, harboring resentment towards his former colleagues and boss. He doesn't just do things for the family, but their praise. He latched onto that appreciation once he got into business. He liked feeling powerful and in control.
Brilliant work! Thanks for this.
“Every life comes with a death sentence” is cold 🥶
Amazing work, thank you❤
This editing is amazing
Well done here, quite professional. Wishing you the best for your channel!
Been waitin for this to drop 🔥
Really a unique relationship between 2 characters, dont think that we ever seen anything similar in cinema history. Also small detail - from start to finish Jesse constantly calling Walter ''Mr White" that just shows that weird respect and admiration that he has for him...
what a great video! breaking bad really is a masterpiece of a show. the good luck jesse text was touching.
the audio editing here could use a bit of extra attention, your narration is quieter than the clips, and gunshots after I've turned up my volume are a bit startling 😅
This is the best video I've watched in a long time. Your insight and intelligence as well as eye for artistic detail are evident. Keep creating.
What a beautiful, astute and profound essay, bravo! 👏
This was such a good video essay!
Seeing something this well made is brilliant, this is gonna blow up soon
Bravo! this is so well done! Keep em comming :)
holy moly the intro for this video was so good
Every episode is great.
Walt became Heisenberg the moment he built a robot that shoots bees…
dude your channel is seriusly underrated, you produce GREAT content, keep up the nice work!
Steve Jobs once said that television was the most corrosive of all technologies. But then he added that at its best TV could be magnificent.
Excellent video all round.
Really slowed down the way I thought about this show. I’m waiting to start Saul back up again but I know I need to rewatch this whole series and really be present and learn things I haven’t compared to last time. And yeah, Jesse and Walt’s relationship I’m glad you saved for the end. It’s incredibly complicated under the surface level. It’s like a snake, that you trust, because maybe there’s some hope or respect you can earn from Walt mutually by all those years of work and working through problems in general, and Jesse, naturally under all that bs wanting to do good, he tries to still be there, but it destroys him. It’s the most tragic shit I’ve ever seen because unlike a movie, this whole series was gradual, 5 SEASONS of humor, minor conflicts, the good times and the slightly shitty times, the times they’d get in trouble together, the times they’d fight and want to get rid of each other, but still with love. All over years of consistency of this feeling real, 5 seasons we spent seeing them turn into this, it couldn’t have been any better. I’ll always look up to this show.
man this wus PHENOMENAL
u have to do better call saul in this format be there day one
this is a magnificent video extremely well done
I like how he implies Mr krabs is the biggest monster of tv history
beautiful, doubt i could think of any youtuber that could word it/say it better than you have/this video.
This introduction alone is amazing. Cant wait for the rest this shift
Just clicked, please tell me no better call saul spoilers bc netflix fucked me over with the household thing right after i watched breaking bad for the first time ever recently
no bcs spoilers 👍
This was an incredible documentary 🤞🏾
Excellent video. I am impressed.
Thanks for putting this together. Every time I visit the breaking bad universe I learn something new.
Brilliant analysis! I've been thinking of rewatching the series but there's so much other stuff to see its hard to justify committing to a long series like Breaking Bad. But there's stuff I'm sure I missed the first time around. And the characters and plot are s complex. Might finally do it again.
Great editing
YO that opening edit was so fucking good I don’t even know if I wanna watch the video essay
This is a masterpiece of a video essay about this brilliant piece of tv 📺 ❤
This feels so cinematic!!
Only watched the intro so far as I write this and Jesus Christ what an amazing edit.
My facebook banner in the leadup to the finale was a picture of Jesse with the text:
IF JESSE DIES, WE RIOT
😂
amazing video!!!!
Great video!
this was amazing
Editing is great
The say my name bit was so slick