As much as Breaking Bad tried to say Walter White took a sinister turn due to cancer, his dark journey actually began after an act of kindness. In Breaking Bad, it's explained that Walter White (Bryan Cranston) began cooking and selling meth and became Heisenberg because of his cancer diagnosis.
1. when he first started cooking meth (episode 1 season 1), putting his finances above the law and the well being of others. 2. When he turned down help from Gretchen and Elliot (season 1 episode 5), making it clear that his actions are out of pride rather than to help his family.
The moment Walt truly became irredeemable was when he poisoned young Brock Cantillo (Ian Posada) toward the end of season 4 since it was completely intentional. The character wasn't against making a power move, even if it meant hurting an innocent party in the process.
An extremely complex character, Breaking Bad revolves around Walter White's transformation from a mild-mannered and sympathetic family man into a dangerous and sociopathic drug kingpin. It also charts his constantly shifting personality and motivations as they become darker and more selfish as the series goes on.
At the start of the series, the day after his 50th birthday, Walt is diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer.
Throughout the five seasons of Breaking Bad, Walter White caused the death of almost 300 people, directly or indirectly. As the character descended into wickedness, Walt didn't necessarily seem to fall under the label of a psychotic murderer.
Simple, complicated, it doesn't matter. Steps never change, and I know every step.
As much as Breaking Bad tried to say Walter White took a sinister turn due to cancer, his dark journey actually began after an act of kindness. In Breaking Bad, it's explained that Walter White (Bryan Cranston) began cooking and selling meth and became Heisenberg because of his cancer diagnosis.
4/7 Themes Of Family, Blood, And Otherwise
On its surface, Breaking Bad is nearly entirely about family. It's the ostensible reason Walt goes into the drugs trade in the first place, to provide money for his wife and children, both to pay for his cancer treatment and to support them after his death.
That is why Walter White is the ultimate antihero: unlike Tony Soprano (who is in therapy), White is past the point of redemption. His story is so powerful because we see the transformation from the sweet Walter to the ruthless drug lord Heisenberg.
While Walt is trying to wake Jesse, he inadvertently and unknowingly knocks Jane onto her back; she starts to choke on her own vomit. Walt rushes to help, but after hesitating for a moment, lets her die, in order to protect Jesse from their eventual overdose, and for self-preservation since she threatened to expose him ...
After insisting for five full seasons that everything he did, he did for his family, Walt finally confesses that all of his actions were entirely self-motivated.
After lying to his son that his injuries were the result of a fight that came out of his "gambling addiction", Walt breaks down in tears.
Bryan Cranston was not the first choice for the role of Walter White. In fact, casting him took some convincing by the show's creator and writer. At the show's inception, the role of Walter White was initially offered to actors Matthew Broderick and John Cusack.
Walt, the trained scientist, calls himself “Heisenberg” after the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principle by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who posited that the location and momentum of a nuclear particle cannot be known at the same time.
After hearing his son screaming at him over the phone that he hates him, Walt is crushed and sets his mind on accepting the inevitable consequences of turning himself in.
'Tread lightly. ' "If that's true — if you don't know who I am — then maybe your best course is to tread lightly." The Internet nearly exploded when Walt said the now-famous line, as fans tweeted up a storm.
Although it took some viewers (including this one) a while to catch on, most everyone agrees that Walt's call to Skyler was intended for the police he knew would be listening, that in casting her as a terrified woman under the thumb of a homicidally violent drug kingpin, he was trying to exonerate her, to absorb her ...
Breaking Bad. In their first appearence, the Cousins plan on assassinating renowed meth cook Walter White - also known as Heisenberg - as retribution for betraying Tuco and causing his death.
The fact that Walt holds on to the eye represents God's omnipresence and Walt's awareness of God 'watching' him and realisation that death and judgement is inevitable.
Jesse, who has arguably suffered more abuse from Walt than even Skyler. Every time he's tried to form a significant connection outside of Walt – Jane, Andrea, Brock, Mike – Walt has taken every single one of them away, either through direct or indirect means.
Last chance to look at me, Hector. Gus Fring's last words before his death at Hector's hands.
Hector: It is! IT IS PERSONAL-! Hector to Juan Bolsa, his last spoken words before his crippling stroke.
Gus Fring's Death Is Possible (But Not Realistic)
The blast wave severely injured his right side - but it didn't hit his vital organs, which could explain why Gustavo Fring's death in Breaking Bad wasn't immediate. Much of Gus' head and face was injured, but his skull was still intact.