20 Facts About Breaking Bad, One of the Best Shows in TV History

On October 11, 2019, Netflix is ​​offering a huge (long-awaited) gift to all fans of the Breaking Bad series. The feature film will be released El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. The main role will be played by Aaron Paul, who played Jesse Pinkman. Here’s hoping the movie is as good as the series, whose list of awards has earned an entire page on Wikipedia.

Due to the release of the long awaited film, the awesome.club wants to remember the most striking facts of this series. If you haven’t watched it yet, watch out. This post contains many spoilers.

According to the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe creator of the series, Vince Gilligan, Walter White was supposed to become, in the end, a kind of Tony Montana, the hero played by Al Pacino in the movie “Scarface”. And that’s exactly what happened. Vince Gilligan, author and producer of the series, met actor Bryan Cranston for the first time on the set of X file series he worked on. In one of the episodes Cranston played a neo-Nazi who was forced to drive at high speed so his head wouldn’t explode. It was thanks to this role that Cranston became the protagonist of breaking bad🇧🇷 Gilligan believed that the actor could “breathe more life” into such a negative character. Vince invited actors known for their roles in comedies to the casting, including Bryan himself. According to him, if an actor can do comedy, he is also capable of acting in dramas, but the opposite is not always true. For those who don’t know, Cranston, Anna Gunn (Skyler) and Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman) participated in “Seinfeld”, which aired on American TV for 9 long years. In the first season of breaking bad, there are only 6 episodes (not counting the pilot). According to the creators’ plan, there should be 13, but due to a writers’ strike, it was necessary to reduce the number of episodes by half. Vince later said that this was the real reason for the gradual and slow transformation of the character of Walter, who went from a gentle and calm man to a ruthless and unscrupulous monster. According to the original plan, by the end of the first season, Walter was supposed to show his true colors, which ended up not happening.

The famous hat, which became an integral part of the image of Heisenberg (Walter), was introduced as a way to protect the actor’s bald head from scorching sunlight. Incidentally, the German chemist Werner Heisenberg — White’s pseudonym — was not the only one to “donate” his name to the heroes of the saga. Hank’s last name – Schrader – was borrowed from the chemist Gerhard Schrader, responsible for the accidental discovery of “nerve agents” in 1934, certain chemicals that affect the nerves, causing a series of complications, as shown in the series. Schrader is also known for developing one of the most toxic poisons, sarin gas. In one of the episodes of the last season, Saul Goodman suggested that Walter send Hank to Belize (in South America), implying, of course, methods of physical violence. After the episode aired, the Ministry of Tourism of Belize sent an invitation to the recording crew to spend a weekend in the country, all expenses paid. The idea was to demonstrate, with this, that traveling to Belize is not as bad as it was shown in the series.

In 2013, Anna Gunn, who played Skyler White, published an article in The New York Times, talking about injustice. She said that despite the atrocities committed by Walter, the main hatred of fans fell on her character, as it also happened with Carmela Soprano, Tony Soprano’s wife in “The Soprano Family”. In his youth, Bryan Cranston was wanted for a time on suspicion of murder. The head of the restaurant where he worked was killed and, coincidentally, Cranston and his brother, at the same time, decided to go on a motorcycle trip. The sudden disappearance of the young actor caused some distrust in the police. Therefore, he ended up being considered a suspect, but for a short time. Warren Buffett, famous American billionaire and philanthropist, once said that Walter White was an excellent businessman that he would be happy to hire.

Actress Julia Minesci, who portrayed Wendy, the drug-addicted prostitute, is actually a professional athlete. She participated in marathons and also in one of the most difficult races in the world, the Triathlon. ironman🇧🇷 Marius Stan, who played the owner of the car wash where Walter worked earlier in the series, is a chemist by training. He still works with science, and his participation in the series breaking bad it was her television debut. Fans of the series have already noticed that as soon as one of the main characters dies, he is immediately replaced by another. We meet Gus Fring immediately after Combo’s death, and Mike’s first appearance in the series comes after Jane’s death. Lydia becomes one of the key characters after Fring’s death, and finally Mike’s death brings out Jack Welker.

Almost all of the main characters wear clothes of the same color most of the time. Walter is dressed in green because that is exactly the color that appears if you mix yellow, which is used by Jesse (as well as red), and blue, which is characteristic of Skyler. It reflects the transition between your old life and your new one. Hank, who is Walter’s opposite, prefers orange, the color that is on the opposite spectrum of light to green. Marie is “represented” by the color purple, which is between shades of blue (Skyler) and orange-red (Hank). As Bryan Cranston’s character develops, his clothes gradually change to black, and in the last season, he wears that color frequently. Interestingly, in the final episodes, Marie is dressed in black as a sign of mourning for Hank. In the script development process, the series creators had a discussion about whether Walter White should kill Jesse’s girlfriend Jane or not. Vince Gilligan said he should shoot her; others believed that Walter should turn her in such a way that he would choke on his own vomit. Still others argued that the hero (Cranston) could not become a murderer. Eventually, Gilligan agreed that the time had not yet come to turn White into a full-fledged monster. However, what he did could also be called murder.

During his criminal “career,” Walter White earned $80 million. By the way, if you type on the Internet the coordinates that indicated (in the series) the place in the middle of the desert that Walter dug to find the suitcase with money, you will get the address of the recording studio of the series in Albuquerque. The production did this on purpose so that people watching the episodes would not run into the desert looking for a briefcase with money. Walter and his “colleagues” at one point stopped a freight train to steal a substance known as methylamine. This chemical compound is actually not difficult to produce at all. Chemists believe that it can be produced even in the kitchen at home. The last episode of the series is called Felina. This is not just an anagram of the word finale (“final”) and the title of the song that plays in the episode, but also an abbreviation of the chemical elements: Fe (iron), Li (lithium) and Na (sodium), which can be deciphered as “blood, methamphetamine and tears” . By the way, changing the subject a bit, but still in terms of series, GGeorge R.R. Martin, author of the works that gave rise to Game of Thrones wrote on his blog that there is no better villain than Walter White in Westeros.

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