...ENGL 1102 25 March 2015 Film Techniques in Breaking Bad The directors of Breaking Bad were clever with the filming techniques by especially using color symbolism and the use of flashforwards. Color symbolism was used obviously but in a subtle way in that the general audience may not notice such as Jesse wearing a lot of red and Walt wearing green at the beginning of the show. Flashforwards, on the other hand, was the most notable film technique used in the filming of Breaking Bad by using them in such a confusing way that most viewers would not be able to interpret until at least the end of that episode. Flashforwards were not used very often in the early seasons of the show. When flashforwards were first used, the audience did not understand what was going on since they are always used at the very beginning of episodes. Viewers wouldn’t understand about any connections that it has to the plot until episodes later or until the end of the episode. Flashforwards are used intentionally to confuse the audience. The confusion may end up causing viewers to watch the flashforwards without paying much attention to them. However, most instances of flashforwards would make viewers think about what will happen and create their own events in their head only to find it out it was about something completely different. Directors of the show used flashforwards as an attempt to grab viewers’ attention. The very second an episode starts, viewers are hooked into understanding the situation...
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...Bad Not the Way to Go AMC’s crime and drama show Breaking Bad, by Vince Gilligan was a huge hit that surprised everyone when it became a huge hit when it came to the network in the beginning of the year 2008. Breaking bad was a huge sensation even though the show had a questionable topic, the show included dealing drugs but this topic came about because of the main character Walt need for money and for the sake of their families. This television show featured people of everyday lives that all had the same finance problems that most Americans deal with. In the show there are many times when Jesse and Walt fulfill the goal of ending there financial problems but they lose what was more important than money. In the end, many people fans wonder and think is money really worth losing your family and friends over. Gilligan portrays money as a harsh dirty pleasure that makes people too tempted to resist. The show features two main characters, Walt and Jesse who both have their problems from their past. Walt is a 50 year old high school teacher, who has a wife and kid with an average house, but Walt has cancer and his son has cerebral palsy. Jesse is a 23 year old male with a criminal past who is out of job and making drugs is the only thing that is familiar to him to make a living. In the show Walt decides to join Jesse after he is almost busted for a drug raid by the police but escapes. Walt meets with him and wants to team up with him in making methamphetamine because he is...
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...Breaking Bad For Good Today’s society is smothered with the influence of media. On a daily basis, whether Americans realize it or not, they are being introduced to some sort of media along with the worldview behind it. As Professor Ken Funk says, “A worldview is the set of beliefs about fundamental aspects of reality that ground and influence all one's perceiving, thinking, knowing, and doing” (Funk, “What is Worldview?”). The concept of having a worldview tends to be put in a remote part of the brain in correlation to Christianity and religion. While this can affect a person’s worldview, it entails far more. Each individual has their own worldview that they believe in and live by. Every day we choose to continue to believe or disbelieve in our individual worldviews, and decide what we will let affect those beliefs. Media can have a large effect on a person’s worldview; this is especially true for the TV show Breaking Bad. After proposing the question, “What is Breaking Bad?” to ten ORU students, over half replied with “It is a show about meth” (Garland, personal interview). While most see Breaking Bad as nothing more than a show about meth, it has a powerful plot full of biblical persuasion that conveys the importance of morality and the negative impact egoism can have on a person. The TV show Breaking Bad, produced by Vince Gilligan, has become a well-known piece of media that thousands of people have spent watching countless hours of. It has taken the plot of good versus...
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...Breaking Bad Was Realistic Breaking Bad Was Realistic Perhaps some of what was written in Breaking Bad was over kill. A story of an average now middle class family, with a full time mother, and a father that works two jobs, goes haywire. Walter discovers that he can cook meth and make more money in a short time than he could in a full career as a chemistry teacher. Setting a dollar amount on his new career choice, telling himself he will quit when he reaches that amount. Yet every time he has a new reason to continue. All the while keeping his new life hidden from his family, essentially living a double life. It can be said that Breaking bad accurately portrayed today’s society in regards to families suffering from the economic decline, health care system, money laundering, greed and self-destruction from power. Success is sometimes measured in different ways and Mr. White’s story is an example of this fact. He started out as a successful scientist and business man with a promising future. He was persuaded to believe that the company he owned with is partner was failing and he decided to sell his portion to get out only to find that he would struggle to replace his former income. Working two jobs to support his family, neither of them what he imagined he would be doing with his master degree in Chemistry. He was over qualified by his standards to be a Chemistry teacher in a local high school by day and a car wash cashier by night. Mr...
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...Breaking Bad Was Realistic Allison Heyser Baker College Breaking Bad Was Realistic Perhaps some of what was written in Breaking Bad was over kill. A story of an average now middle class family, with a full time mother, and a father that works two jobs, goes haywire. Walter discovers that he can cook meth and make more money in a short time than he could in a full career as a chemistry teacher. Setting a dollar amount on his new career choice, telling himself he will quit when he reaches that amount. Yet every time he has a new reason to continue. All the while keeping his new life hidden from his family, essentially living a double life. It can be said that Breaking bad accurately portrayed today’s society in regards to families suffering from the economic decline, health care system, money laundering, greed and self-destruction from power. Success is sometimes measured in different ways and Mr. White’s story is an example of this fact. He started out as a successful scientist and business man with a promising future. He was persuaded to believe that the company he owned with is partner was failing and he decided to sell his portion to get out only to find that he would struggle to replace his former income. Working two jobs to support his family, neither of them what he imagined he would be doing with his master degree in Chemistry. He was over qualified by his standards to be a Chemistry teacher in a local high school by day and a...
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...difficulty in remembering what had happened. Pierce finally recalls that the bus he and others were riding had to pull over to the side of the road to hide from an enemy patrol. Hawkeye yells at a woman to keep her chicken from squawking, fearful that the enemy would find them, only to be stunned when the woman smothers her chicken while trying to keep it quiet. The audience is just as horrified as Hawkeye when he realizes the woman didn’t smother a chicken; she smothered her infant child. This finale episode aired in 1983, and it remained the most watched episode in the history of television until 2010. When looking at modern day programming, the AMC original show Breaking Bad has provided moments on par with M*A*S*H, due to its strong character development, relatable stories, and good versus evil plot. Breaking Bad has had some water cooler conversation worthy moments because of its strong character development. The main character, Walter White, is a meth-cooking, drug kingpin, but he didn’t start out that way. At the start of the series, Walter is a high school chemistry teacher who...
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...What would you do if you knew that you had cancer, and you only had about 18 months to live? Would you travel the world, spend more time with your family, or even make crystal meth in order to pay off all of your medical expenses? Well that is exactly what Walter White did when he discovered that he had an inoperable case of lung cancer. The Whites were a middle class family living in New Mexico. Walter was a high school chemistry teacher, and his wife Skyler was an ‘author’ of short stories, but they never took off. They would need more money in order to keep Walt alive. I wish to commemorate Walter White for his acts of braveness and determination, and the sacrifices he made in his life. Walter was a family man; he lived to keep his family safe. He had sacrificed his own safety among others in order to provide for himself and his family. You would think that cooking meth would be the biggest safety risk for Walter, but he was a chemical genius. Walter studied chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, after he graduated he was given the opportunity to work for a billion dollar company, but due to a falling out in a friendship he chose the education route, making yet another sacrifice. Walter was a brave man. He sought out all of his competition and eliminated them one by one. He made sure the he was going to be the best in his business and make it very clear to everyone else. When his partner Jesse was brutally beaten by a rival dealer, Walt chose to approach...
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... video is the gift you get for shopping. –Amazon Prime subscribers number about twenty million, although the number of those who are Instant Video viewers is certainly smaller. –Last fall, Amazon released its first original series, “Alpha House,” created by Garry Trudeau. •YouTube -owned by Google: –A billion unique visitors watching six billion hours of video every month. Ynon Kreiz, the executive chairman of Maker Studios, the world’s largest provider of online content, noted that its series “Epic Rap Battles of History,” broadcast on YouTube, and which offers comical face-offs between, say, a faux Miley Cyrus and Joan of Arc, attracts on average forty million viewers—almost four times the viewership of the finale of AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” •Netflix competes both on its brand and on the fact that it has an extensive content library. •Netflix now offers in-house produced content such as “House of...
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...communication strategy for breaking bad news. BREAKS mnemonic is very easy to memorize (B -Background, R- Rapport, E - Explore, A -Announce- K-Kindling and S –Summarize) It can be practiced effectively as well (Narayanan et al., 2010). Background is an effective therapeutic communication which is dependent on the in-depth knowledge of the patient's problem, as the accessibility of electronic media has given ample scope for obtaining enough data on any issue. So, it is highly desirable to prepare answers for all questions that can be anticipated from the patient, so there should be awareness of the patient/relative who comes after "googling" the problem, it may not...
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...Breaking bad was written and produced by Vince Gilligan and broadcast from 2008 to 2013. Over these 5 seasons, many blog personal pose the question that Breaking Bad doesn’t examine the extent to which American institutions are failing and the drug problems. That it is deceptive by only exploring Walter White’s (actor) problems rather than the drug problem as a whole, specifically the urban poor. The middle class focus left questioning if it is the greatest series of all time, as popularly reported. The show squarely represents the target audience; forty-something, middle class, good living, conservative, suburban white America in the midst of an economic downturn, where the equilibrium (Todorov) of health and fortunes are pulled away from under them. Walter’s response conforms exactly to the American Dream; he personalises responsibility for other’s (bankers/corporations) actions, looks to himself to seek out opportunity, he becomes the entrepreneur, a manufacturer of a commodity much in demand. The middle class however can relate to the problems as it almost mirrors them. I got thinking and decided this argument really excites me and can write a lot about this argument prompted from breaking bad. The wider drug problem isn’t explored, but it is interesting as there is a lot to argue, in the fact it narrates the story from the middle class perspective. While similar shows, the wire, solely focuses on the underclass being exploited by higher authoritative people in society....
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...25, 2014 Breaking Bad Again The stench in the air permeates and causing pneumonia, chemical bronchitis, possibly collapsed lungs. These are just a few of the medical problems to suffer breathing fumes from the production of meth. Exposure to the chemicals used in meth production damages the central nervous system, skin, kidneys and a major irritant to the eyes and nose. For each pound of meth there is five to six pounds of toxic waste. It goes down the drain or into the ground where it can stay in the soil and groundwater for years. (Methamphetamine and the Community, n.d.). Meth is not considered to be a big city problem. It is any city, town or community problem. Meth has been around since the 1980’s and now has a foothold all across America. Meth has spread rapidly. Meth is a blue collar drug that you can make at home in your bathtub. According to Breaking Bad chemistry expert Dr. Donna Nelson the initial synthesis process is actually very easy (Dimon, 2013). The meth cook uses liquids such as battery acid, drain cleaner, lantern fuel, and antifreeze to increase the products strength. The liquids can be highly explosive and the cooks can be severely burned or killed when these explode. In Bernalillo county New Mexico, where the television show, Breaking Bad was filmed, a population of 670,000 and 1,166 square miles it had a total of 97 illegal meth labs (Dimon, 2013)...
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...If I’m going to be honest, I’m neutral on the subject of saying no to drugs. One of my friend’s mom's illegally uses marijuana edibles for depression; she says it helps her feel calmer and happier. “Before I was in a state of being suicidal, and if I hadn’t used edibles, I might not be here today” (she chooses to stay anonymous). “Breaking Bad”, a popular television show, is about a man who sells meth with one of his old high school students, Jesse. Jesse’s girlfriend dies after doing heroine, Jesse, a drug user himself goes to rehab and stops selling drugs with Walter. Walter’s wife Skyler divorces him and gains custody of their children after she finds out he produces methamphetamine. You see, in one hand, if Jesse’s girlfriend never died, he wouldn’t have gone to rehab. In the other hand you have a broken family. Marijuana, though still a drug, doesn’t have any damaging effects for somebody over 18. Since it’s legal in Washington, you don’t have to go to a shady corner to buy it where someone could do anything to you,...
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...It was one Friday night when Drew was out with his friends, Mike and Josh, at his neighborhood park. They were talking about Drew’s crush and how he should approach her. “You should definitely take her to the pizza parlor and you will win her” Josh said. After all fun and games, Mike took out a joint and offered to his buddies. “Hey let lit this bad boy up” Mike said. Drew and Josh felt uncomfortable and reluctant to take a smoke. Soon as Josh took in the smoke, Mike said “Come on Drew do not be a wuss and join us!”. Eventually, Drew took a few puff as he did not want to disappoint his friends. He felt the lightness on his feet and the euphoria by the beauty of trees around him. The United States is a nation full of different cultures. People across the globe may think of Americans as gun lover, bacon lover, pickup truck lover, etc. Beside the typical American stereotypes that other countries label us, one of the main well known Americans’ trait is our love of freedom and free-will. The choice of able to do almost whatever we want to do and...
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...Breaking Bad, a television series on AMC proves Katherine Thomson’s idea, that TV has become “the new literature.” This story has complex characters and stories that develop over more time. An audience can quickly analyze multiple elements that impact the way the story is being represented. Many factors such as the writing, acting, setting and camera work can alter an interpretation of an idea. One scene in the episode “…And the Bag’s in the River” the main character Walter White kills a math distributor named Krazy-8. Two elements in particular, lighting and sound, help convey the meaning of this scene. This scene takes place in a dim, empty basement. The lighting in consistent at the focal point of the scene. The staircase in the background...
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...they need to be communicated in a systemic way. For instance, breaking bad news in an unethical manner can have adverse health impacts on patients. Breaking bad news to patients is usually very difficult because of the emotions that it evokes. Despite this fact, it is inevitable that physicians will at some point have to deliver bad news to patients. Most medical schools offer limited training on how healthcare practitioners can be able to discuss bad news with patients and their families. It is debatable that a major reason why medical education institutions do not offer adequate training on how healthcare providers can disseminate bad news to patients is because different health...
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