Breaking Bad - Part 2

[Dr. Manhatten]

Originally Posted by Blackman

damn has it really been only 1 year in the realm of the show?

I think they meant that it'd been one year since Walt was put in remission, cancer-free. I believe there was a podcast during an episode of season 3 where the creators said it'd been one year since he started cooking

[DrDoom]

Didnt he turn 50 the first episode, now he's 51.

[Eklypze]

I just don't want Mike to die. Or Jesse or Hank for that matter. I could live with it if Walt Jr of Skyler got hit in the cross hairs cuz it would make for some epic television but I REALLY wanna see Jesse and Hank to end up coming out of all this alive

[Kane52630]

Originally Posted by DrDoom

Didnt he turn 50 the first episode, now he's 51.

Yep

[Floppity]

Hey guys, check these out.
http://www.funnyordie.com/lists/51e1...ures_and_words

[Kane52630]

[Floppity]

Originally Posted by Kane52630

Damn, you beat me to it.

[Valaquen]

"Everybody dies in this movie."

Skyler's reaction. Ominous. Another great episode

[DrDoom]

I liked the cg shots of the meth being made too

[TheOnlyOmega]

That Funny or Die link has some awesome gifs

[FCEEVIPER]

Those gif's are awesome!

[Blackman]

Originally Posted by TheOnlyOmega

That Funny or Die link has some awesome gifs

lmao

[Travesty]

Originally Posted by TheOnlyOmega

I haven't seen this one before.

[Shifty]

HuffpoTV

'Breaking Bad' Does 'Scarface': Is Al Pacino A Fan Of Walter White?

Vince Gilligan, the creator of "Breaking Bad," has consistently said that Walter White's journey is the story of Mr. Chips turning into Scarface, and tonight's episode of "Breaking Bad" (Sun., July 29, 10 p.m. ET) actually featured a scene from the the classic Al Pacino movie.

After his wife, Skyler, had an emotional meltdown in front of her sister-in-law about the many secrets in the White household, Walt and Walter Jr. settled in to watch a DVD of "Scarface." Skyler emerged from her bedroom into the living room and saw what they were watching just as the climactic "Say hello to my little friend!" scene aired. Walt, of whom she's grown increasingly terrified, murmured "Everyone dies in this movie."

It turns out that "Breaking Bad" not only had to get permission from the studio in order to use a clip from the classic gangster film, they also had to get permission from Al Pacino to use his likeness. According to Gilligan, the actor graciously acquiesced and did not charge the show much for the use of his image.

I interviewed Gilligan on Friday for over an hour, and I'll be posting more from that conversation soon, but I've excerpted here the part of the conversation that pertains to Sunday's episode, "Hazard Pay." And you might be interested to learn that star Bryan Cranston improvised the key line from that "Scarface" scene.

(Just to summarize what Gilligan and I were talking about when the "Scarface" scene came up in our conversation, we were discussing the opening scene of the fifth season, in which an apparently on-the-run Walt buys a very serious weapon from a gun dealer. My review of this week's episode, by the way, is here.)

Here's the "Scarface" section of the Vince Gilligan interview:

Walt's not having the best week when we first meet him in Season 5.
Any guy who needs to buy an M-60 machine gun in a Denny's parking lot is probably up to no good. Some grand gesture is just around the corner and we're probably not too far from the end at that point.

"Say hello to my little friend!"
My big friend. [Laughs.]

My very big friend. Well, just to segue into "Hazard Pay" -- the actual reference to "Scarface" in the episode.
Oh yeah!

You've used that analogy, "Mr. Chips turns into Scarface" for years and years …
I've probably said it one million [times] -- I'm waiting for balloons to drop next time, I've said it so many times.

But it was wonderful, it was so fun to get to use the clip from "Scarface." It almost didn't happen, because using a clip from a famous movie with famous, Oscar-winning actors like that can be a very expensive proposition. But ["Scarface" studio] Universal was very cool about it, and I hear through the grapevine that Al Pacino was extraordinarily cool about it. He could have charged us out the wazoo to use his likeness, and I think he was just very cool about it. We paid some amount that was in no way, shape or form confiscatory, and we appreciate him being cool like that.

I didn't realize that you have to have not only the studio but the actor's approval as well.
Yes indeed. That's the way it ought to be. An actor should have control over his or her likeness and have veto power: "I don't want to be in this crazy show." I never met the man, but God knows I love his work. He was very cool, and we so appreciate getting to use a clip from the wonderful ending to "Scarface." I love "Scarface," it's one of my favorites. And it's just cool to have it on the show, finally.

And maybe it's a little bit of foreshadowing: "Walt, really pay attention to what goes down here!"
There's that great line that Bryan Cranston ad-libbed that is not in the script for the episode: "Everybody dies in this movie." Who knows if that's foreshadowing or not.

I read that scene a different way, actually. To me, if Bryan ad-libbed that line, that's brilliant, because so much of that episode and the season as a whole is about control. And so much of that episode is about him manipulating people and controlling them and showing them his power. He resists Mike's attempt to connect him back to Gus' empire and take care of that business. He manipulates Jesse into breaking up with his girlfriend and cutting off his only ties to anyone but Walt. We see Skyler have this very understandable emotional breakdown, and after that moment, for him to say, "Everybody in this movie dies" ... I feel like he's issuing warnings left and right to people. Like, "Don't cross me."
That's a good way to look at it. I see where you're going with that. I like that. That's interesting. I didn't even see it that way. You know what I love about this show … one of the many things I love is that, all the time, I hear interpretations of character behavior and plot moments and story and morals that we may or may not be actively trying to communicate.

I hear interpretations of the show … that are marvelous. Just way better than anything I could come up with. And I'm not being falsely modest, but I am in the middle of the forest and I can't see it for the trees. I hear stuff all the time where people honestly come up with better interpretations of this show than I ever could. And on the one hand, I have to admit, if you held my feet to the fire, half of them I didn't intend. But I like them better than anything I came up with, so maybe, in some "Inception"-like way, on some level beneath levels, maybe we had some of these ideas in mind from the get-go. Or maybe that's just patting ourselves on the back in a way that is not earned, I'm not sure which.

We do strive very hard to not answer every question in every episode, so that people can indeed argue over certain moments. We try to come up with as many watercooler moments as we can per episode, and I don't mean just big dramatic moments, but moments in which people can honestly argue about [what a character does]. I love giving the audience stuff that they can argue over in a fun way and not in an angry way. I love fomenting arguments.

[PWN3R]

The hero Albuquerque deserves.

[DrDoom]

Oh yeah, cant believe Skinny Pete can play like that.

[Belvedere]

Just because you shot Jesse James... Doesn't make you Jesse James.

Still can't get over that line. Mike continues to be one of my favourite characters.

[DrDoom]

While true, Walt is becoming awfully CLOSE to being "Jesse James" lol

And whats up with the bacon on Walt's 50th plate?

[Crockett]

Originally Posted by DrDoom

While true, Walt is becoming awfully CLOSE to being "Jesse James" lol

And whats up with the bacon on Walt's 50th plate?

It's one of those vegetarian bacon.

Love the cooking montage, it reinforces why BB is the stylish show right now, dat time lapse.

[DrDoom]

Originally Posted by Crockett

It's one of those vegetarian bacon.

Bleh!

Originally Posted by Crockett

Love the cooking montage, it reinforces why BB is the stylish show right now, dat time lapse.

Completely agree, all the cg shots of the chemicals interacting were pretty awesome also

And its pretty interesting that Cranston improved that "everyone dies" line, though that pretty much kills any foreshadowing
unless they liked it so much they went back and rewrote a little

[TheOnlyOmega]

Found this earlier today, just had to share

[Upset Spideyfan]

Walt's been bad before, and manipulative and exploitative and callous about other people's lives, but he was a complete and total monster throughout this episode.

[Poeman]

Walt is clearly going to mess this sound operation with Mike...Which will ruin him and have Pinkman against him too

[Asgard]

That speech about Victor was a threat to Jesse.

At first I thought it was for Mike, but Walt's smart enough to know that at least for the foreseeable future he needs Mike to ensure that Gus's men keep quiet. Walt felt slighted at Jesse agreeing to offer his share to cover all the legacy costs despite his concerns so he needed to let him know that like Victor, Jesse is expendable.

Walt really has no redeemable qualities about him anymore. Hes completely power and money hungry. He will manipulate, threaten, and punish anyone over the smallest thing. I have to admit that despite how horrible and despicable it was, his cover story about the reason behind Skylar's breakdown was masterfully done. He deflected any concern Marie may have had on him and laid it all on Skylar's feet and garnered even more sympathy from her as well. His manipulating Jesse to end things with Andrea was just as good and disgusting.

[Soapy]

My take on it is that I don't think it was aimed specifically at Jesse, I definitely think it he was talking about that Todd guy, but Walt might think of it as an added bonus if the idea scares Jesse enough that he won't step out of line.