Breaking Bad is a sad story of a man who let his pride lead him down a path of destruction. We watch Walter White transform into his alter ego, Heisenberg, as he gets more money than anyone could possibly spend in a lifetime, but in the process loses everything, even his soul. He loses his happiness, he loses the love of his wife, he loses the love of his close family members and eventually brings them into harms way. Breaking Bad doesn’t glorify evil. Far from it. It shows us the consequences of evil. Breaking bad shows us how pride is a virus and how pride goes before the fall. Vince Gilligan said he once had a long fight with his writing staff over a single, small scene in the fourth episode of the first season. In that episode Walter White was given a way out, his friends from college gave him a life raft, a nice job, health insurance and all of his medical bills paid. All he had to do was say yes. “Essentially they throw him a life preserver and he says in that fourth episode of the series, essentially, no, and he goes instead back to cooking crystal meth and that was, I think the moment I was most proud of. In the writers room, even though at the time it was not nearly as dramatic, as some of the, many of the things that have happened since, but it was the moment that all of us in the writers room argued a lot, and hashed it out amongst ourselves and said ‘Wait a minute, what…kind of character is this that would turn this down?’ Because this is a good guy, who’s doing bad things, for good reasons, but we realized in that moment that this is a man who is very prideful, to a fault.” So Breaking Bad is a Greek tragedy of sorts, and a demonstration of what happens when a man’s pride leads him to destruction.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:21:57 +0000
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