Junior: What you did to Mom, you asshole.
Walt: Listen to me, you've got to listen to me.
Junior: Just shut up. Just stop it, stop it. I don't want anything from you. I don't give a shit.
Walt: You need this money, your mother. Your mother needs this money.
Junior: You killed Uncle Hank. You killed him.
Walt: It can't all be for nothing! Please. Please. Breaking Bad (Ft. Peter Gould) – Granite State (Script)
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Bryan did that scene, knocked it out of the park, and then the film was run over by an airplane. I kid you not. Our postproduction producer Diane Mercer still has the crushed film cans. We had pictures of film being brought into our labs in garbage bags. We had to go back and reshoot a portion of that scene. Bryan had to go through all that twice.
- Peter Gould
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Q: When Jesse breaks out of his little prison, there’s the one-shot of him balancing on the bucket. Obviously he had to do that jump and grab himself, right?
He did. Aaron absolutely did that stunt himself and he clung to the bars and it was really physically taxing. He also had to climb that chain-link fence a number of times. I couldn’t tell him to slow down because he had to be going balls out, but we actually had trouble keeping him in frame because he was moving so fast. I think there is one brief shot that’s not him, but it’s just him clinging to the bars from below. Every other shot in that sequence is Aaron Paul, and I think you can tell. It makes such a huge difference. He’s so game, I can’t even tell you. The guy just comes to play every day.
- Peter Gould
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Robert Forster is almost giving Zen advice, which is, “Be here now. Be in the moment. Try to just experience where you are.” And that is truly a prescription for health for Walter White. It’s the last thing he wants to think about – who he is, what he’s done, where he is. He just doesn’t want to think about it. I just love the way Robert delivered that line.
-Peter Gould
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You cut the cards to make sure the dealer isn’t cheating you. At this point Walt feels he has nothing to lose
Interesting that he asks if Walt wants to cut the cards after asking if Walt would believe him. It would seem that Walt is saying that he would believe him, since Walt trusts him to cut the cards. I suppose he’d believe anything at this point with nothing left to live for.
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The blue meth that Walter White created is still on the streets making a profit and has a high reputation in the streets without Walt. Similar to how Gray Matter Technologies did so well without Walt even though he helped create it. Things have truly come full circle.
This also alerts Walt to the fact that Jesse is still alive, since he is the only other person capable of cooking the blue. This fact gives him the motivation to return to ABQ and free Jesse from Nazi slavery or die trying. He is no longer content with turning himself in or rotting in a New Hampshire cabin. He might not succeed, but he’s not going down quietly.
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This entire scene is very interesting, it almost seems out of character for Walt. He gets in his car and races to his money without thinking for even a second about what is going on.
Obviously he has a big ego and he thought Jesse could never outsmart him, but still this scene is interesting.
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Fantasy comedy-drama about a 243-year-old magical store owner (Dustin Hoffman), about to retire, who forms an employee (Natalie Portman) that’ll take care of the store in the end.
A metaphor about cancer-stricken Walter and formerly incompetent Jesse Pinkman.
We weren’t allowed to show the cover, of course, because that’s a Fox property. At a certain point, in the way the scene was written, we had a whole series of movie titles, and Bryan and I realized that it was just so much funnier with one. I love the way he delivers that. When we were in the writer’s room, whenever that title came up it, for some reason, it always brought smiles to our faces. Not to say anything bad about the movie which, frankly, I haven’t seen, but it’s just… you can imagine that that would be Walter White’s least favorite movie to watch.
-Peter Gould
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In the end Magorium dies…possible foreshadowing?
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