Below you will find the handout we discussed in class today.
Also, a few reminders....
1. Remember to attach your Viewer's Journal to the back of your final draft of essay 3 before submitting on Wednesday.
2. There is no class this Friday.
Taking a Second
Look at Scenes from Breaking Bad,
Season 1
What could these
observed behaviors possibly suggest to viewers
about the character,
specifically?
WALTER WHITE, SR.
Walter asks the ambulance attendant to just drop him off at
the corner.
At his 50th birthday celebration, Walt does not
react, verbally or otherwise, when Hank hands his Glock to him and then makes a
crack, “It’s not gonna bite you, alright? Looks like Keith
Richards with a glass of warm milk.”
In the early morning hours, on the day after Walt
learns about his cancer, he sits outside by the empty pool. He takes match
after match from a box, lights it, watches the flame for a few seconds, and
then tosses the match into the pool.
When Jesse asks Walt why he is doing this (partnering
up to cook meth), he initially says for the money, mimicking the reason Jesse
gives. Then when Jesse pushes the issue, Walt tells him, “I’m awake. Buy the
RV. We start tomorrow.”
At the beginning of the second episode, Walt is seen
laying naked on the bathroom floor, semi passed out. He still has not told
Skylar about the cancer. Skylar knocks on the door and asks if he is coming
out. He replies that he will. When he gets to the breakfast table, it is
obvious that he is very nervous because he does not want to explain why he was
in the bathroom for so long. He finally cannot stand the silence and the looks
from Skylar, so he goes into a long story about the senior class portraits and
how some students are going to Glamour Shots for their photos. He goes into the
details about cleavage and what will the small breasted girls do, etc.
Once Krazy Eight is secured with the bike lock, Walter
panders to him and brings him food and necessities. He even cuts his sandwich
in half because that is what Crazy Eight prefers. He breaks out the beer,
settles in, and begins to ask Krazy Eight a series of questions about his
upbringing, his family, the family business, etc.
After Walt promises Tuco that he and Jesse will deliver
four pounds instead of two, they return to Jesse’s house, where Jesse tells
Walter it will take 3 or 4 hundred boxes of sinus pills. Walt tells him they
will produce their own ingredients. When Walt hands Jesse the shopping list,
Jesse says, "I can't even pronounce half this shit.
Count me out.” But after Walt
encourages him to believe in himself, Jesse takes on the mission.
Walt congratulates Jesse for scoring the supplies, though a key
chemical is missing. Jesse has found some pros to steal it from a warehouse,
but they want ten thousand dollars. Let's steal it ourselves, Walt suggests,
quickly drafting a plan to blow off the warehouse's lock using thermite
extracted from magnetic sketching toys.
At a meeting to update faculty and parents on the chem-lab thefts, Walt strokes
Skyler's thigh under
the table. She resists at first, but then revels in the erotic moment. Later in
the parking lot, the two have sex in Walt's car. "Where did that come
from?" she asks. "And why was it so damn good?" Walter tells her
it is because it is illegal.
Walter Jr. sits peering into a microscope in his father's chemistry
classroom. No students are present. After a long pause, Walt, who's grading
papers, says, "I just think that things have a way of working themselves
out." Walter Jr. doesn't reply.
MARIE
When Hank’s partner remarks, “Wow, it really does add 10
pounds,” as he watches Hank on the television news. Marie sarcastically
remarks, “TEN pounds?!?”
While Skylar packs up her items she sold on eBay to mail
them out, Marie asks about the amount of money Skylar earned on a particular mosaic
bird. When Skyler tells her, “Fourteen dollars, plus shipping,” Marie scoffs,
and says, “At this rate, in 50 or 60 years, you’ll be rich.”
In the same scene noted above, Marie asks Skyler about
Walt…”What’s up with Walt?” She says he seems quieter and more distant. Skyler
tells her that turning 50 is probably a big deal and an adjustment for Walter.
Skyler then says to Marie, “I’m not looking forward to turning 40. You’re gonna be a complete basket case!”
From Marie’s facial expression, it is clear Marie does not want to even think
about ever turning 40. She quickly changes the subject.
After Skyler blurts out the news of Walt’s cancer at the backyard
BBZ, the adults discuss Walt's situation. Skyler thinks that chemicals from
long-ago lab work might have caused the cancer, but Marie steers the
conversation on the next steps for Walt and talks about lining up "an
oncology dream team."
SKYLAR
When the family takes Walt, Jr. shopping for new jeans,
Skyler is very present, and is full of questions for Walt, Jr.:
How’s it coming in there?
Do you want me or your dad?
So how do those feel in the waist?
Are they too tight?
When Skyler is in the basement of the jewelry store, having
been accused of stealing the tiara, she fakes labor pains in order to pull
attention away from the situation and get free as quickly as possible.
When Skyler recounts the stolen-tiara incident and criticizes Marie
for refusing to fess up, Walt says, "People sometimes do things for their
families." Skyler responds by asking, “And what, that justifies stealing?”
Walt counters with, “What would you do if it were me? Would you divorce me,
would you turn me into the police?” Skyler’s final words are, “You don’t want
to find out.”
"It's spread from the lung to the lymph nodes," the
oncologist tells Skyler and Walt about the cancer. Skyler asks if it's curable;
the oncologist prefers the word "treatable." Walt asks about side
effects. Skyler takes notes as the doctor describes them. Walt zones out.
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