![]() Among those cast in Breaking Bad are actors Steven Bauer – as Mexican drug lord Don Eladio Vuente – who previously played Pacino’s right hand Manny in Scarface, and Jonathan Banks – as ex-cop turned hitman/cleaner Mike Ehrmantraut – who starred in the 1987-90 TV drama about organized crime, Wiseguy. Indeed, Breaking Bad is rife with allusions to or scenes influenced by gangster movies such as The Godfather: Part II and The French Connection, the black comedy of Fargo, Westerns such as The Great Train Robbery and the interplay of crime-boss-meets-family-drama of HBO’s The Sopranos. ![]() Chips” who transforms into something akin to Al Pacino’s psychopathic drug chieftain in the 1983 movie Scarface. “I am awake,” replies White, soon on his way to becoming the unlikeliest of organized crime bosses.īreaking Bad, which aired between 20, traces Walter White’s arc as a decent, moral guy with an unfulfilled talent who evolves into a cold, vengeful, murderous drug lord nicknamed “Heisenberg.” He develops a special recipe for the highest-purity meth – 96 percent – in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and soon his product is sold throughout the American Southwest and as far away as Europe.Īccording to David Thomson, editor of Breaking Bad: The Official Book, show creator Vince Gilligan pictured Walter White as a professorial “Mr. Pinkman, incredulous, responds, “Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass, and all of a sudden is, what - 60? He’s just going to break bad?” But you know the business, and I know the chemistry.” “The DEA took all your money, your lab,” Walt tells Jesse. On the other end of the conversation is White’s hapless, hoodie-wearing former student, the low-level drug dealer Jesse Pinkman, whose makeshift crystal meth lab in his parents’ basement was raided and destroyed. He’s about to announce his desire to use his chemistry skills to cook and sell illegal methamphetamine. Fed up with his low-paying job, White wants to find a fast way to cover his enormous medical bills and leave a legacy for his family. ![]() Walter White, a kindly, meek and brilliant high school chemistry teacher, learns that he has terminal lung cancer. The line on which the title of Breaking Bad is based comes during the television show’s pilot episode. Few could have predicted at the time that the show would become one of the most critically acclaimed television series of all time. Ten years ago today, Breaking Bad debuted on the AMC network.
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