How Breaking Bad Brilliantly Uses Color to Tell a Story 

Walt leaving Tuco's place with the cash.

When Walter White runs over the two drug dealers

Saul Goodman talking about Hector Salamanca: "Does this guy ring a bell to you? Like the guy has to LITERALLY ring a bell" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

When they are in the RV and Hank is outside, I was on the edge of my seat wondering how Walt was going to get out of this.

Gus dropping dead

Bruh 😂

Marie it’s minerals

My mentioned how Marie was into purple...so much purple...maybe the color of meth.

👐 it’s showtime folks

@@dylanmai6938 🤣🤣

Wow that's amazing! That's such a deep and insightful way to look at that scene.

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Holy shit. I never thought of it like that.

😂😂

BRAVO VINCE

hehe “crack” hehehe

@@jtshorty lmao

They crack jokes cus the intentional minute details in the show are so over their head they think that people who find these are quacks

Bravo Vince

Vrabo Bince

i feel like hank brings her security, and with him dead, it's all gone, hence no purple. only bad thing that happens at their home is the nazis breaking in AFTER his death.

@@austindolan7182 when did the nazis brake into the shraders house?

Honestly I was happy when she found out he died. She was acting so smugly before when she was talking to Skyler in the car wash and forced her to tell Walt Jr about everything. It felt good to see her be so wrong about the situation and learn the truth

I just watched the finale yesterday with my husband (I know I know 😂) and I was like, “What HAPPENED to the PURPLE?” He was very confused for a minute.

Yeah I thought the same!

holy shit the details are insane

@Dick Thick'em i think it has to be somewhat related

holy crap you're right

Pretty sure it's all about the meth man

not only blue, pink, and yellow, but even any color, very subtle so i understand why you didn't know about it

@@dylanbksp ok

@@radicalman7304 I hate people like you. Why say ok, if anything just say nothing at all, my god

you had me in the first half not gonna lie

Vince is such a genius man

There’s even a line in “Better Call Saul” (Spoilers) where his unorthodox actions are referred to as “colorful methods.”

Yupppp

Si, y los primeros episodios después de salir de rehabilitación usaba sopa completamente diferente a la que uno estaba acostumbrado a ver. Pantalones y camisas ajustadas, pero ese estilo de ropa solo lo usa por unos pocos capítulos porque rápido vuelve a la vida de cocinar

Great point! Although I don't think he's ever associated with black, and if you watch Better Call Saul, that sort of makes sense with how he, at least at first, tried to be the good guy. He's a good guy struggling with evil, while Walt is an evil guy struggling with being good.

Morgoth he might be a good guy in BCS, but in BB he’s pretty evil lol. They first contact him to defend Badger, and he’s like “uhhh guys.... why not just wack him?”

ye, I thought that as he's a lawyer, therefore a showman, an actor, he can play many many parts. In BCS though when he's one his own or with Kim he wears shoddy tracksuit bottoms, perhaps revealing that underneath the glam and show biz he's quite vulnerable

your forgetting the most obvious thing, his public persona is out there and he is often associated with "out there" colours

Interesting. I'm sure he has some color themes at various points in the show. But if it's true that he has no most prominent color, that may actually be a reflection of his character. He's a fraud and a phony. His loyalty is fluid and only dependent on who is the highest bidder (or the least likely to get him killed). I've yet to start watching Better Call Saul so I'm sure we learn more about his character there.

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agree, this one was good

Why did I read it in his voice instantaneously?

but this time it’s gonna be double the price. because it’s 99.9999% pure!

Tight! Tight tight tight

Your pfp matches the topic hahah

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2 people actually.

You were simply born in the wrong time period. Our education system hasn't advanced enough to think of things like that

Yes, it's his unpredictability what we love about him.

Send em to Belize

Yeah I remember feeling like Saul was going to betray Walt eventually but it never happened. He's unpredictable.

@@teamyordle23 its because he was getting paid BY Walt, if he hadnt been a lawyer then maybe betraying Walt could be his best interest at some point but his motivation is purely money, its his job so if hes getting paid he wont screw that up

@@phoenixninja7675 after mike hited him to know where Jessi hiding, Soul told Mike in the office that he cant tell him and also said if I told you that's mean someday I will betray you too. 👍🏼Respect for soul

😂😂😂

Both in a literal and metaphorical sense.

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holy crap this is a good one

Last eight episodes is a bat shit crazy ride.

If you still have a "favorite color", you're way too young to be watching Breaking Bad :|

@@DeadAndAliveCat bro what

@@j3sus946 What part confused you buddy? Any words in there you need me to look up for you? Or was it just too many words in a row?

@@DeadAndAliveCat no bro it’s just ur logic is dumb ash😭

@@DeadAndAliveCat My favorite color is green, and I watched all of Breaking Bad, El Camino, and Better Call Saul. L opinion.

Damn O'driscolls!

Deep 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Also Walter White was the name of a leader of the NAACP, who fought for the rights of African Americans. In other words Walter White, the wimpy guy who was strugglng, represented the good instead of the monstrous Heisenberg who beat his enemies, but lost his loved ones, and eventually his life.

Walter whites last name is actually white, a reference to his underwear

He wears tighty whities

@@lyonellaverde3135 he wears tighty whities

Lmao

IT actually mąkę sens..

Jesse pinkman isnt a pink man so no

genius

But Gretchen and Elliot aren't black

this video is pure crap over analysing these dumbass details.

This made me laugh out loud

Quick call the DEA

ME TOO

And marie always with purple its the only thing that i always notice and white underweares

Same. It felt so out of place 🤣

Drippy🥶

That outfit was the most glaring for me. The other one I noticed is when he shot Mike and instantly regretted he was wearing beige jacket anc beige pants. I noticed it because it was so unstylish like he randomly picked whatever clothes and they ended up being matchy matchy. I thought it meant he wasn’t a rational thinker and did things only impulsively at the time and drove him to shoot Mike for no reason other than a bruised ego.

Bro I hope it is still talked about in 200 years!

It's been 12 years actually that how old Breaking Bad is.

@@abramsullivan7764 You cannot take the initial release date as a date for this since the show hadn't been wrapped at that time, so nobody could guarantee its outstanding overall quality. Hence why most people refer to the release of the final episode.

Watch Better Call Saul. It's just as good.

@@CHIIIEEEEEEEEFFFFSSS what did u smoke?

And how they ended it well. Counterexample: Game of Thrones.

@@animal0mother I never found Game of Thrones that good anyway so the crappy ending did not surprise me in the slightest

The thing with GoT is it was immaculate at the beginning, or at least once things started rolling. It then flopped completely, whereas breaking bad has a similar trend but just got better. People talk about how amazing BB is. They talk now about how big a disappointment GoT was. You could definitely do a side by side comparison with BB and GoT and how one jumped the shark, but the other managed to consistently appreciate better and better ​@@Vaquix000

IK BRUH, IT'S SO TRAGIC 😭

i cried so much when he died because i kept thinking he could become good again the whole series.....

@@CharlieTheCherry exactly, but I think it's meant to make you feel like shit

@@max.racing that’s what everyone wants but sadly that business doesn’t work that way

ozymandias made you sad? really? it's such an upbeat episode

Todd got killed by Jesse though

This seems way more accurate. It seemed like in this video they just dumped a ton of inconsistent thoughts into their discussion of the blue color.

You're so smart

Are you having a stroke

@@Glombor no they aren't lmao, we can understand it just fine

HAHAHAHA

😂

This is hilarious im literally gonna screenshot and save this forever

This needs to be Top comment xD

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I'm watching Justified right now. It sucks, but it's fun

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Watching Ozark atm for the 2nd time after i did breaking bad/better call saul for the 4th, so good!

Has to he 2nd best after peaky blinders

Better call saul is better.

Never thought I’d find you commenting.

Why u here?

oh hi

Nowadays I have the exact same opinion about Better Call Saul. Just like Breaking Bad, BCS is a show that manages to become better and better every new season and I highly recommend it to everyone, especially to those who love Breaking Bad.

@MVperry your an accident to this world.

Well what can you say, opposites attract

And the acting. Everyone puts on a clinic in this show.

I’ve heard they would have just amazing ideas, then go look at the character again and be like “damn they wouldn’t do that,” and have to think of something else

And you still hear dumbasses saying elite is the best series

GOAT? I thought we were talking about Breaking Bad not The Sopranos, ok I guess

Most of these are a reach

He's a chameleon!

Never thought Walt would be a dark mirror to Marie

@@yalieyal4362 He's not.

Marie also refused to accept the fact she is a shoplifter Just like Walt when Skyler told him he is a drug dealer

woahh ive never thought abt it like that! thats really interesting

and stayed for the....?

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@@JBX07 +rep

Do you want some yellow?

very nice

El Camino was great

El Camino was pretty good, i'd say right now Better Call Saul is almost on pair with BB

@@user-xi8yh8qi9j Oh yeah!

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Jennifer H this comment has a deep interpretation

Bruh, in bunch of parody comedy of breaking bad he always associated with orange, even the parody knows that

It's a perfect example of a team effort, all aspects of tech working together. Can you think of any examples I missed?

The production and costume designers played a big role in it. According to Vince they'd discuss and plan out what color palletes were going to be used at the start of each season to visually represent change.

This is why this show is the BEST and is still going to be the BEST

Red Sparrow This must be what it's like when EVERYONE behind the scenes intends to make what's on the screen both dense & gratifying. I'm still wowed that this many layers contributed to this show's excellence

Not the writers job to decide costuming and set design

Why is lithium meth?

Lithium can also be sweated out during times of chronic depression, making the saying "blood, sweat and tears"

Also can be rearranged into Finale

Isn't it called like that because of the song that plays in the radio when Walt is driving to the nazis?

​@@connis2299 and since when are tears blue?

ABQ also adds to the idea that it's a modern day Western. I would love to see an article of video about ABQ connections can you recommend any?

Makes me really jealous it didn't take place in LA

The scenery always interested me too.

@@EugeneVDebs-mo6dh NM added so much character to the show tho. so many things are filmed in LA (don't get me wrong I love LA. downtown has an eerie haunted quality). but you can tell the directors loved NM. the sky there is so breathtaking and it shows on film

@@mischr13 Yeah, many things are filmed in LA but that doesn't mean they take place in LA. Plus everything we see about LA in media is a stereotype imo. I think with the passion of the creators they'd be able to show a different more unique side to LA.

I never saw Walter as inherintly evil. I saw him as the product of misfortunes and mistakes, like an animal backed into a corner who finally realized the only way out of that corner was to bite back.

But "I did it for me. I liked it" though

@@courtney3743 Of course he wasn't evil. That's why so many people could relate to him.

​@@courtney3743 He didn't realize cooking was the only way out, he believed it was the only way, because Walter WAS given an out through Gretchen and Elliot but his pride didn't even let him consider that option

@@toxic-spammz1478 that’s true. I recently rewatched the series and I’m conflicted now. I still don’t think he was inherently evil. I think that maybe the point of the Walt’s character arc is to show that we are a product of both our problems and how we choose to overcome them. And maybe good and bad are subjective. Because the old Walt gave up on his dream in favor of stability and thus lost out on the rewards of the company he’d helped create. He settled, in his mind, for a life of insignificance. And in the end, he was rewarded with cancer. But when he began breaking the law and hurting people, while it was perhaps temporarily fulfilling, it ultimately cost him his family and his life. No matter what he did, he lost. But still, I think the argument could be made that the problems he faced were exactly what cultivated his ego, and that his ego became a self defense mechanism. And while it’s no excuse, it is an underlying motivation. Yes, he did it because he wanted to. But he wanted to because the alternative life was to be walked on, ignored, and hurt.

Mr pink died though I’m pretty sure, it was just offscreen

Also of note is the fact that in the first season Jesse was supposed to die by episode 9.

just blew my mind

This is the coolest thing I have read about Breaking Bad for years! Thanks :)

@@fuzzybuddy7286 mr pink did ded but in another movie I think it was the great Lebowski

Probably both tbh

Sauls a sociopath- he changes his ideas, beliefs and opinions based on who he’s talking to to benefit him most. His ever changing wardrobe is just showing how his “colour” is whatever you want it to be. Or more so whatever he wants you to think it is.

the bright colors are probably supposed to represent energy and happiness, and saul always acts very energetic and friendly

Maybe to show that he's a true chameleon, being whatever the clients need him to be. Adaptable and crafty, we get no real sense of his internal motivations unless we watch Better Call Saul

@@micahsnow346 Yep. Saul is a survivor and arguably better than anyone else in the universe at adapting to change. "La cucaracha," as Lalo called him

she's committed, I guess...

Blue was purity not loyalty

He says baseless stuff like this throughout the video trying to be smart. It's like when your English teacher over-analyses poems or whatever. Not everything symbolises deep stuff.

Maybe it’s because she tries to appear loyal/pure on the outside and even thinks of herself as pure

Dude, she's *loyal* to herself

Lol that’s cute

You could probably spend hours just breaking down one episode. Especially a key one, like Ozymandias.

Same! this will be my 7th time running through it!

I wish i could but there are other series i'd like to watch :(

greatest show of all time and its not debatable tbh

either they actually meant to do that or this whole video is a coincidence

It doesn't matter if they intended it or not. Because of the Death of the Author concept, the artist's intentions are no more important than anyone else's interpretation of something. Everyone's interpretations are valid, even if the creator of the work of art never intended for those meanings It what makes art so fun to discuss. Everyone's interpretation is equally valid as long as they have good reasons for it. It means we can discuss movies for hours at parties, talk about what meaning we personally took from certain songs or albums, that sort of thing As it happens, the colour thing in breaking bad was absolutely 100% intended by the creators. They've confirmed as much, and it explains why you can so often see the HTML color codes for these specific colours written on things in the show. But even if they didn't intend it, if someone can explain why they think the colours have these meanings with a good argument and evidence, then it's a perfectly valid interpretation either way Art would be a hell of a lot more boring if we couldn't take our own meanings from it in this way. Once an artist is dead, that would be it, you could never discuss it anymore, we couldn't talk about say the meaning of Mozart's music or Shakespeare's plays, because they're dead, so we can't ask them what they mean anymore. But because of Death of the Author, we can find our own meanings even if they weren't intended by the artist, and so it makes the world a much more fun and interesting place

@@duffman18 of course it was 100% intended. Breaking Bad is a masterpiece.

Composition and positioning add a lot to a shot! For example a character being framed above another character may represent authority over the other character, a close up shot may provide a deeper, personal connection to the audience, a wide shot of a character may tell the audience the character feels lonely, or a symmetric shot like you suggest a feeling of stability and balance. Composition can communicate a lot of subtle information to an audience and there are a million ways to do it. I hope this helps

WOW. You have a lot of RU-vid videos to catch up on

Wow, you’ve only just started, my friend

ScreenCrush ye he does

Now go watch BetterCallSaul

Oh yea better call Saul is just as good and just different enough to set itself apart

That roght

Purple and dark blue are almost the same and the fact that dark blue isn’t included here so yeah he used purple.

Ok calm down Photoshop boy

@@deltahomicide9300 nah just a programmer who actually has background knowledge of this stuff

@@sapuseven6119 You don't have to be a programmer to know that... Delta Homicide is just a 13 year old who doesn't know shit

the base 16 representation of rgb values. Not hex-code. That would be like saying that a price label is a decimal-code for how much something costs.

@@ggffd3704 so... you're saying Base-16 is not called Hexadecimal (short hex)? Those are equivalent. You could say that a price label is decimal-code and that's perfectly valid. But you don't need to, as base-10 is basically the default for everyday use. Anyways, the number representing the color is hex-coded. HTML code is something completely different.

The barrels were black

You fooled me, I was about to argue

There's actually a large number of people who are discovering it during this pandemic. Luckily, more of them are posting their reactions to RU-vid, so I have something to watch during the pandemic :)

I do sort of wish that you had skipped the singular El Camino example, since that wasn't advertised in the title, but oh well.

Lol Im watching it for the first time. Ill watch this video when I finish

Lol sadly 7 times for me

GOAT indeed. best episode?

@@ScreenCrush Well its hard to pick,but when anything gets a fucking 10 on IMDB that must mean something,but i prefer last episode over ozymandias especially Jessy and MR White goodbye scene when he kinda asks approval from him to leave,he didnt want to go without it.The best show ever,and its not debatable.

Sopranos? Much better

@@user-xi8yh8qi9j I prefer sopranos too, but I don't think that it is better in an objective way.

I honestly don’t go of IMDB ratings anymore. I used to of course, but it just get’s tedious after awhile. Like I’ve seen so many great movies and shows that got undeservedly low ratings for whatever reason, so I think it’s just best to come to your own conclusion on what you thought.

same. :) Funniest is when Jesse wants to build a dune buggy

i thought he died, but this was "only" damaged neck

Fr😂

Thanks! That means a lot. I've noticed our big hit videos tend to be slow burns

Thanks for the great videos

@@ScreenCrush Just like Breaking Bad

Definitely turned out to be a slow burn!