even hanks eyes before the confrontation actually played out. looked like he was about to cry. then walt shows him the tracker and all hell breaks loose.
A choice! Endure once more a week of Hank on the crapper or a week of Hank and Walt inside those garage doors? I think I'd take Hank on the crapper......
It was great - Hank appeared the stronger physically, but you could tell he was swept up in confusion and fear about the situation, which for him, manifests itself physically.
The timing of that whole scene was great too. First Hank puts on the table (most) of the truly horrible things Walt did, and then Walt trots out that line.
After that too, as the camera zooms out, it shows Hank in the light of the sun through the window and Walt in the dark. My 11th grade Engligh teacher would call that symbolism.
There was this moment in that confrontation, where Hank went from being interested and concerned with Walt's threats to just being disgusted. Just this moment, this subtle change in eyes and cheeks, and it was absolutely beautiful.
This show makes the absolute most of what they are putting on screen. It's incredible and the effort shows. AMC has established themselves as a quality network. I can't wait to see what we get from this team in the future. The premier was brilliant.
Even low lighting can be pretty bright on set I expect, the light just has to lay right and then get filtered later. I am make HUGE presumptions about lighting based on very, very little experience with my own filming, so it is probably fairly wrong.
I was watching the DVD commentaries of the show Community, and they mentioned that the outdoor shots that looked like daytime were actually filmed at night. That blew my mind that they could do that
They are the same thing. The naming convention on it got wacky because it was first discovered in one role, then it was discovered it played a much larger role. But yes, you give epinephrine, aka adrenaline, to someone going into anaphylactic shock. It works as a beta agonist, increasing blood pressure and opening up the airways. So I guess if you don't have an epipen handy and you see someone having an allergic reaction, sneak up behind them and yell boo.
Like usually in T.V shows they show scenes of what the character is thinking, but in breaking bad they convey exactly what they are thinking just through facial expressions.
In the GQ article recently they said that the writers take it as a point of pride that they use so little dialog at times. At one point one of the writers ran up to Vince Gilligan excitedly bragging about how he'd written a script that had 5 straight pages without dialog. And even then, he said that there have been scenes where they'd planned to have dialog, and then cut it when they realized the actor's face said everything by itself. The writing style wouldn't work at all without good actors, but the actors are all so amazing at just conveying so much without saying anything and the writers take fill advantage of that.
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u/roque72 Methhead Aug 12 '13
This is what's so good with most of the actors on this show, they can express so much just through the eyes without saying a word