Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston - Walter White himself - weighs in how and why Vince Gilligan designed Heisenberg to fool viewers of the iconic series.
Breaking Bad is known for its clever twists, but the darkest trick the show ever pulled is how it turned Bryan Cranston's Walter White into an endearing and sympathetic character. Alongside other questionable protagonists like James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano from The Sopranos and Jason Bateman's Marty Byrde from Ozark, Breaking Bad's Walter White stands at the crest of a wave of antihero crime dramas.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY This is what gives Cranston's Breaking Bad protagonist an edge in terms of tricking the audience into loving him despite his actions - so much so that Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has felt the need to clarify viewers should not root for Walter White. Indeed, Walt's arc is a warning about how even a well-intentioned and highly intelligent person can transform into a monster.
The actor's admission confirms a dark truth about Walter White that only really became clear after Breaking Bad ended - that the character duped audiences into cheering for the show's true villain. From Walt's mundane suburban life to his cancer diagnosis, the arc was designed to test whether a character would still be celebrated once the poisonings and betrayals began.
Breaking Bad's Walt Transformation Proves The Show's Genius While Breaking Bad was not the first antihero crime series to feature a lovable villain, Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston pushed this formula to new extremes and revealed its limits, to the point that both have expressed concerns about the audience idolatry surrounding Walter White. At its core, this is a testament to the genius behind the characterization of Walter White in Breaking Bad.
From the circumstances of why Walt left Gray Matter, to the ending of Breaking Bad and Walt's Better Call Saul finale scenes, everything is designed to humanize Heisenberg despite his terrible crimes. That said, another crucial and comparably unique aspect of Walter White is that, unlike other antihero protagonists of his kind, Walt was essentially created by systemic failures in the education and healthcare systems of the U.S.
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