your blood, our ketchup :-)Quote:
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your blood, our ketchup :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerd
one intresting trivia:
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On the season one DVD audio commentary, Vince Gilligan revealed that Jessie was originally going to die by the end of season one. However, they changed their minds after seeing Aaron Paul's performance.
LOL! What would you do with authenticity? Is this a documentary or a study? Its a study of characters, an excellent one at that, will all the limitations of a teleplay.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
BBS1E03 - the hostage thingi. Absolutely nothing happens. The dude craps/pees on a bucket, Walt fixes him a sandwich and they both watch paint dry together :lol2:
call it character establishment nerd..
i started getting bored with swift cut action scenes...
For a whole friggin episode? Walt is in a confused state of mind, does not know what to do even the next second. I got that, but why would you spend 30 mins to show that. I don't mean the alternative is fast cuts and fast forwards. But you gotta move the story bro. Anyway I retire from this conversation. I am sort of like 1 against 10 here.Quote:
Originally Posted by SoftSword
its not for or against...
the point is, the intial lag will all be forgetten once it gets going... and the 10 here believes that it will work for u...
MM and BB are different animals people. I myself have made the mistake of comparing but they are not the same sub-genre(if that's what the term is) to be compared. I wouldn't buy the argument from anybody who say MM is a waste of time. MM is certainly top quality stuff but not for everybody.
Nerd,
It begins with cleaning the remains, with a trip down to the anecdote of the young healthy version of him, mulling over elements of human body, how it doesn't all add up. The high school chemistry teacher, a quote-unquote moral person, Sloppy Mr.Chips himself, is on one level worthy of serious drama, but despite all that, with Cranston's casting (post-'Malcolm in the Middle' signature) is also very evidently a farce, from neuroticism of the performance, to formal-narrative choices. Seated on the toilet, doing pros and cons of the criminal act. The list :lol: On adjacent plane, It's a psychological drama. Here the magnitude is huge, the reasonably old Mr.Chips (made to grapple with the ever-shrinking finitude of life and insecurity of having to orphan a family, here again, it's important to note WW jr isn't treated a 'special' problem, monetarily or otherwise, important distinction I'd think) to have to engage in a serious crime, not minor felony. Spare me the luxury of having to identify with WW than DD, a life/war AwoL assumed identity to engage in infidelity despite having a sex-doll for a wife, like Marylin/Jackie/Barbie/Hepburn rolled into one. A prize trophy. Again here, there's nothing of a evolutionary arc, the next husband takes over the mantle, to take care of Barbie! You'll gather soon Peggy's empowering act is also compromised.
This part farce (again not to be assumed as limited slapstick), part serious interplay of tones and mood, IS worthy of consideration, sir. Someone who "gets" Coens, is expected to get past the dark-grey humour I say. :twisted:
And unlike you, I found it superior drama to have a one-room one-act suspense episode. The Fatality of the cold-blooded murderer. Making the pieces, upstairs-downstairs, to get back to do it, the utter necessity. I found this all supremely crafted. Not to forget, the spoiler: Krazy-8 is a undercover for DEA. End.
Hank reveals the realities of date-rape, Marijuana, single-mom skank (who reappears in following seasons). Here the boy is assuming the audience. The parallel to Walt's 'corruption' in the very episode, is the 'reality exposure' of worldly 'corruption' from Hank to Ww Jr. Yet, like the audience, this entire ordeal is 'cool' to Jr. But this isn't all the function of the scene, we see Hank isn't quite cut out to be a father, nor is Marie (who we later know to be nuts). This is of course the 'functioning' marriage in the film. Yet, on the outset, not quite a 'family'. We later see Hank-Marie to have a dynamic that's not quite on the outset. :clap:
Walt dissolves the bones. The chemistry class have 'Carbon' for the day. Then Gomez-Hank turn to Organic compound in white sachet. But, Of what compound is the soul? The anecdote closes in with young Walt conceding the mystery. But years have left over the wrinkles of doubts, but now, Walt will have to 'look past it'. Even if he had known the human being, to take that life away, despite 'getting to know', is what he will have to do. The time frame of one's morality a variable, but when it gets threatening to be a near-constant, it's not just a desperation. Maybe this taking of experience of living of another man, leads to the heart of darkness, that even the densest of literature hadn't mapped fully, but they 'try' to. BB, to my mind, compares with best of fiction. The length matters here. Absolutely matters to have episodic breakdown/metamorphosis. Like every page of a Russian literature, every minute matters here. Short fiction/Feature films OTOH, ungala partha paavama irukku :lol2:
BB doesn't do cloaked malarkey, eternally thankful I really Am(!). The past is a cipher, we start with the ordinary (not an exception, now that would be easy to throw parlor pscyhology like MM, controlled by the Patriarch), then go event by event, it doesn't only deal with PoV's, but also how the PoV's smudged and tampered.
Vittrunga sir please. :notworthy:
On Mad Men..
What you've managed to avoid in the post, is why I find it to be of lesser rewards than BB. The presupposed 'Study of characters' is more of a 'refraction', save for Don Drapper, who himself is fraught with patriarchal predications & man-handling of all the subjugated female characters (Who are again, filtered through desires and limitations of the male centre, again) from start to end. In a sense, this is the 'ideal' and wish-fulfilling alpha male, for hosts to follow the show. One is pithily made to 'crave' for the ideal, and not merely observe this man. If it weren't for the objectification of the female, I'd even give the infidelity some consideration of the kind that this is a 'flawed' portrayal. But how flawed could it be, if it's visually and stylistically endorsed? The only real thing going against him is the absent physical bravura. And yet you know more about the up-class uptight ideology presented by the near-absence, there's actually a sly, nasty connotation in Pryce vs Pete (a spoiler I wish to avoid), Draper vs Donald (Which you'll get to), it turns out to be a problematic look-down.
More glamour than authenticity is my 'dig' at the 'digs' the show uniformly stacks together. And in fact, I like it for the documentary aspects of it. One of my favourites, Adam Curtis, the maker of 'The Century of the self' (related to MM), breaks it down beautifully in the BBC article. I'd also argue this is a bit too on glamour endorsement, I'm getting to doubt if it's more hinged towards that. Now to turn a mirror on this, would be just fine, but something more of a filter, would enhance it. But when the filter is an endorsement, it turns into ideology. That aside, you are dealing with drama here. I'd been kind enough to say MM doesn't compare to BB, but if BB is 'watching paint dry', then MM is BB slowed 4 times over.
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Originally Posted by kid-glove
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Originally Posted by wizzy
One thing leading on to another, that this play toy is floating in *his* pool, owned by 'his' victim. It's on Walt, the dark force for lending that hand to 'his' family, and yet being the singular source to have triggered both the destruction, matched together by the visual schema. Good one VR :clap: