Breaking Bad | Fan Animation | "The Half Measure"
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2012
- a little something i did for my art class. My visual interpretation on mike's speech in the Breaking Bad episode "Half measures". I have only done the visuals and have not modified the audio in any way. I am not gaining profit from this work.
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Maybe the best monologue in the entire series, which is really saying something
I dont think is the bes, but Jonathan Banks ate the scene.
The group therapist guy telling the story about how he killed his daughter by accident was very powerful.
Maybe the best monologue ever. Convince me otherwise.
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Walter's "confession" that frames Hank is the best one
This feels like a real cop telling a real story.
I wouldn’t doubt if the story is somewhat true. The abused girlfriend who can’t leave due to fear, and once there’s any form of retaliation the abuser kills her and the cop holds some sort of blame mentally
J P watch the movie “righteous kill”
It’s similar.
My uncle is an RCMP sergeant and he always says he doesn't show up on your best day. So all cops develop this conformation bias about the evil and danger in the world. He also always said when you start thinking like this it's time to leave the job. The Mike's of the world aren't heros.
hulmad No one ever said Mike was a hero.
Definitely. It sounds the type of thing where someone would go to a old retired cop and ask him to tell stories about his career and have it be recorded.
"so much blood you could taste the metal..."
Fuck does that hit hard
I almost threw up when I watched thru the first time.
Almost as hard as the base of a Waring blender.
“And it just rubbed me wrong...”
That line sent a chill down my spine, having seen what Mike is capable of.
The way he said that has always stuck with me. The sign of a truly great actor when they deliver a simple line with such a strong impact.
Kaylee: Tell me a bedtime story, Pop Pop!
Mike: I don’t know any good stories, sweetie.
Kaylee: PLEASE..
Mike:...Ah uhh 🙄 Alright look...I used to be a beat cop...
Kaylee is scared shitless
LOL 🤣
This is golden!
blazematt10 "The moral of the story, sweetheart, no half measures...otherwise it might be you that gets the base of your skull crushed in with a Waring blender"
🤣
Man, the added visuals and no-added music for this story makes it all the more scary and disturbing to listen to.
This is a beautiful animation!
There was no added music in the scene
@@schematicb5393 That what I said
It reminds me of The Kirlian Frequency which is a good thing
"...like a dog waiting for dinner scraps."
I love that quote.
"Waltuh."
I love that quote.
love waltuh
"Waltuh"
@@ohgodpleasehelpme4337 put your d away waltuh
"Put your dick away, Waltuh"
waltuh put your di-
so this is when mike broke bad. really sad that he had to find out in such a gruesome way that doing the "legal thing" doesn't always mean doing the "right thing"
I'm pretty sure his "half measure" was still not so legal.
tifforo1
His half measure was legal. He took him to jail. You could say he put a gun in his mouth, but you can't prove that in court.
There are so many people who "legally" get released from prison and who are now walking the streets, and they have business being released.
The Cowboy that’s why the comment specifically says that what’s legal isn’t always good, not that was legal is always bad. In the past slavery was legal, it wasn’t right but it was legal. The point this comment was trying to make is that sometimes what is legal isn’t always morally right and that’s the truth and plenty historical examples prove this.
@@wesleywallace4426 It was still illegal. Just cause there was no way to prove doesn't negate that fact. There are plenty of criminals who don't get caught, but they're still doing illegal things.
Frank Castle: “You hit them and they get back up, I hit them and they stay down.”
Rick Grimes: “I don’t take chances anymore.”
Mike Ehrmantraut: “I chose a half measure, when I should’ve gone all the way; I’ll never make that mistake again.”
Amazing
No more half measure Walter
3 badasses speaking the same truth.
@AcidDome Rick Grimes: "CORAAAAL"
Walter White: "JESSE JESSE"
Damn......
I love how the art style obscures everything in shadow. There’s no pride whatsoever. Nobody is trying to occupy the spotlight and be a hero. Mike hides in the dark, uses it to his advantage. He does what he needs to do and keeps on moving. No bravado. This art style reflects his story and his personality very well.
I just love how you can hear the regret in his voice towards the end. I love this show more than I could ever explain.
Like he's tasting the metal after all those years, just talking about it.
Funniest thing is Mike takes another half-measure and this time it leads to HIS downfall.
Great animation!
That isn't funny mate
Mark: "I knew this girl, she had a dozen guys. One of them found out about it. Beat her up so bad, she ended up in a hospital on Guerrero street."
Johnny: "Haha, what a story Mark!"
Me: "That's not funny..."
Thats the point
Mike was always about half measures
@@PriestlyBlock67 no, he wasn't. you don't get the character at all.
@@raimundowilson2140 on lidya?
Someone should have this talk with Batman
Carcrafter7 Jason Todd was hotheaded. I mean a real talk like mike. Calm and rational
Misael Meraz same comment on the original video.. was it u?
Jonathan Banks actually played Commissioner Gordon in Arkham Knight
And Bryan Cranston played him in the Batman Year One Animated Movie.
Alfred could
This animation makes the story a billion times darker
I love how well Mike’s Half Measures speech speaks to his greater character, and informs nearly every decision he makes in the series.
Like how he always took half measures that always failed?
"We got there, there was so much blood you could taste the metal."
DAMN.
Sounds like a quote from Chernobyl
This is perfect. Its exactly as if Mike's remembering it. It sounds so cool because when Walt say "Just a warning?" It gives it a sense of that we don't know that's Walt talking because we can't see him. So it makes it seem like Mikes telling someone we don't know the story. That's the number one thing I love about this.
Could you re-word that?
@@KevinTheNoobie yeah I was trynna figure that out and it confused the hell out of me.
@@hellonhead5905 Lmao
what
I could be wrong, but what I think the OP is trying to say is that Mike is focusing on the memory. He’s not focusing on Walt, which is why we can’t see him. When Walt asks Mike if it was just a warning, it makes Walt sound like a stranger.
I find it ironic that Mike and Gus both wanted Walt to get rid of Jesse but in the end the basically flipped it, both preferring Jesse to Walkt
Not killing Jesse was the half measure that started the chain of events leading to their deaths.
One could also conclude that Gus forcing Jessie and the dealers to apologize was a half measure tesulting in the dealers killing the kid.
GeorgeMonet To which walter white ran them over full measure?
In the end both Jesse and Walt would've been capped.
Used this for a theatre monologue
me too!
Same.
Dafuq
I want to
I've always wanted to, but I don't want to replicate Jonathan Banks' performance because it's just so perfect. I honestly don't think I could do this monologue justice the same way he did.
Amazing. Simply amazing, it is extremely clear that you took NO HALF MEASURES to make this video.
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"No more half-measures Walter."
As soon as this sentence ends, my league match announcement pops up
Shit game
Frank Castle would really enjoy having a talk with Mike since they both share the same ideology and views about life.
Except Mike is a criminal.
Josh Robinson I think you’re the one who’s mind is warped. If you’d read my whole comment you would’ve noticed the part that said that both Frank and Mike share the same ideology and views about life. Never did I state that frank didn’t do anything criminal. Word of advice, next time try reading the entire comment before making ignorant assumptions and embarrassing yourself.
Cybermat47 technically Daredevil is too and Frank still respects him.
Ultron-5 is Daredevil part of a meth empire, or is he another vigilante?
They are not similar at all lmao
This gives me Garth Ennis' Punisher run vibes. Great work.
Bravo; that was fucking awesome.
The shot of Mike in front of the red backround was so much more effective then a visual of the actual scene would have been, and the look on his face gave me the chills. It's artists like you that make me want to become one as well! Bravo
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Man you can actually hear mike starting to tear up here.
There are two kinds of regret:
For those you killed and for those you didn't kill.
I wonder which one is worse.
People fail to see the talent and the "eye" for storytelling it takes in doing animation of this caliber. It's the equivalent of a RIDLEY SCOTT or QUENTIN TARATINO but where as those "painters" of Film have the benefit of MOTION, AMBIENT SOUND & MUSIC to convey emotion an animator simply has a pencil, ink and color. Prime example being when Mike pulls the wife aside and tells her to "press charges"...her face is cast in SHADOW not because the artist was "lazy to draw her face" but because THAT is what she IS...a shadow of a human being living in a state of perpetual fear unnoticed by the outside world and "metaphorically" nonexistent;...until her husband makes that to a REALITY. ....and that was just from the chpice to hide her face in (for)shadow!! Well done Hixmuffin...please continue your excellent work.
Amaxkn
This is fantastically well done
No music, just letting the art and dialouge tell the story
You are very talented
You actually made Mike look like young Jonathan Banks which is impressive attention to detail
Great detail, even down to how Jonathan banks looked in the 80’s
Reminds me of Alan Moore for some reason. Really solid work.
Aldrius Now I’m going to imagine Rorsach having Mike’s voice forever...
I was thinking that it looked like watchmen the hole time
I was reminded of Sin City
jonathan banks is a fantastic actor.
This is truly the moment Mike became Heisenberg
Walt Jr. *
His own heisenberg
@@klutz3955 wooosh
@@SPCHC do you even know what woosh is for?
@@klutz3955 This comment is making fun of everyone who says 'That's the moment that Walt became Heisenberg' so yeah, your comment is a woosh
I really want another Breaking Bad spin-off focusing on Mike's days as a cop, with a younger actor portraying him of course
This is one of the best fan animation of breaking bad i've ever seen. The drawings, and the shadow faced characters makes the video really dark as the story Ehrmantraut is telling. The same darkness as himself. This is art animation at its finest!
"I broke my boy" is the only natural follow up. Excellent stuff.
“This is it, this is how it ends!” is my favorite line.
I really hope they re-create this on Better Call Saul.
Me too
I hope they don't.
Your own imagination makes this scene better than any director ever could.
Same. It's also possible that he made the whole thing up to cover the Regalo Helado heist incident, which is probably where Mike determined to stop with the half measures.
If they did it would have to be with a younger actor as I imagine the character was much younger
Most prequels tend fall into the "fan service" trap. I just feel it would be a waste of screen time if this appeared as a flashback in BCS unless they add up something else to the story
You know what's funny? Someone showed this to me before I had even seen the show, and after seeing this monologue, I knew I had to watch the show. It was just so real… Great job on this, man!
"Get your car fixed Walter."
"No more half mesures, Walt"
Part of me has always wondered if Mike ever "dealt" with the girl's boyfriend, afterwards.
Perhaps he hired someone in prison to do it for him.
given how resourceful and intelligent he is, i wouldn't be surprised.
Seeing as Jonathan Banks was Commissioner Gordon in Arkham Knight, this little section wouldn't look out of place where Gordon could be talking about at his past as a beat cop and he would talking to Batman about how to deal with The Joker. No half measures.
That part you mentioned alone would be worth seeing even if the rest of the movie sucked.
I could listen to this man and narrate noir and mystery audibles all day long. Your artistic story telling sold me in that concept.
Kid named finger:
Oh wow, that's a smart idea, and you turned it into a pretty moving short-story interpretation. Loved every second of it, got my like and a favourite.
I would be intimidated if a student of mine sent this to me
Such a powerful scene that says so much about life.
I thought this was the best monologue that Jonathan Banks ever did in the world of Breaking Bad, and then "I broke my boy" came out.
Honestly, this story is only serves as part of what set Mike on his path. This whole experience taught him that the system doesn’t work if people are too afraid to do the right thing. What really set Mike past the point of no return was the death of his son, and the death of his killers by his own hand.
I know it would’ve probably been redundant, but I kind wish that "Better Call Saul" showed this event on screen. We don’t really get enough of cop Mike.
It wouldn’t make sense for the scene to happen now of course, but if I could’ve rewritten some elements of the show, I would’ve had two seasons of Mike as a cop in Philadelphia as opposed to a parking lot attendant In Albuquerque.
We would see Mike (like Jimmy) go from an upstanding knight of the law to a corrupt cop that broke his son’s heart leading to his subsequent death at the hands of his so-called friends.
And the moment that will make Mike break bad is seeing injustice realized in the form of that woman’s death and the guilt that came with not pulling the trigger that night.
this is amazing. young mike looks just like how jon looked in beverly hills cop
Hope you got an A, this is fire
I love the art style here. Most of the character in shadow. Makes it feel even more like a distant memory.
I’m getting “ no half measures “ tattooed this Saturday, best quote ever
Mike was such a complex character and truly frightening in every sense. Not only was he tough as nails but he was smart as fuck also. Not to many Characters get written as being extremely smart, yet brutal physically also. Mike was both. I love the writing in this show. Hated that it ended but I'm thankful the ended it a masterpiece than run it into the ground. Mike may have done some evil things. But he had a moral code and tried to do the right thing whenever the chance presented itself. This is writing and acting perfectly executed.
Rorschach: "Men are arrested, dogs get put down!"
I took a screen writing class at university last year and for one homework assignment we had to do a monolouge. I based mine off of this story. It wasnt a copy of it but it was inspired by it in that I had an older cop talking to a rookie while on patrol and talk about a dark case he covered in the past. My teacher liked it a lot
One of the finest scenes in the entire series.
Well Done! I Loved that instead of showing us the murder we just have darkness, and a very well drawn young Mike filled with red... her blood and his rage, just wow. Bright future man.
"So much blood you could taste the metal" - what a line...
“No more half measures Walter.”
I like the young Mike with hair, looks accurate. I'd totally be down for another spin off about beat cop era Mike.
The constant shadows on the faces really adds to the gravity of this story.
Crazy Walt showed no empathy for the woman in this story.
this is more than a movie series, this is art.
I get a real Cormac McCarthy vibe from this. Reasonable seeing as both are Texas-oriented.
Flawless, in the top 5 best scenes in the series
Mike the crooked cop also had a sense of justice. The animation is better than the actual show, which is something I didn't think was possible.
This is why Mike is the best on what he does: Made by experience.
Such a simple little scene but easily one of the best.
Always gives me chills.
*This is not an animation, this is an animatic.*
Oh man it really does give you chills
What’s crazy is that you could see the story unfold as he told it without any flashbacks or sketches! The sketches here are the icing on the cake but to see this scene for the first time back in 2011 was jaw dropping
Best bedtime story ever.
I listen to it every night before bed.
I just gotta say that the lighting the artist used for the imagery is theatrically dramatic and really well done.
Good lighting can add a lot to any scene.
Hopefully we'll see this in Better Call Saul.
BCS wasn't that long before BB
Remember Mike said that's happened when he was cop, in active service. In BCS, he's retired.
It happened today. But Mike had already learned the lesson. He did take full measures.
bruh
@@jgsandovald there's still the possiblity of a flashback (like Jimmy's), but with a younger actor instead of Jonathan Banks with a black wig
This monologue is just strong... Mike is just too damn good written character...
This speech and a lot of the cop stuff we see from Mike makes me want a police based spin-off with him
Make it a past vs present series with old Mike cop episodes and Hank DEA episodes
Mike was such an integral part of this amazing series and he was originally only in 1 scene after Jane's death and was supposed to be Saul. Jon Banks was so great they used him in subsequent seasons.
I love how in most of the shots of Mike, only half of his face is visible… then in the shot after he brings up her death, his face is full, as if to symbolize his resolve never to use any more half measures
Intentional or not, that was genius. Kudos
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind watching a movie with him narrating over the animation.
Cool animation work! This is one of my favorite bits of BB - the speech is bone-chilling but also reveals a lot about Mike's backstory & what makes him tick. It's been a few years now since I re-watched BB but I might have to after this
Love this! I love your artwork. Really brings the dark, gritty feel to life from the original scene. Gonna show this to some friends of the series, they'll like it :D
victory is seldom won by half measures. All failures are the results of half measures and two half measures never add up to a whole. I'll be using no half measures. No half pundit gags to end my mission in life.
Moral of the story is: I had straight sex, when I should’ve had gay sex. I’ll never make that mistake again.
Thanks for this. It adds a different level of perspective when there’s visuals to go along with it
My favorite monologue in the whole show. The delivery and writing is just outstanding and tragic.
“So much blood you could taste the metal”. I’m a paramedic and have done some gruesome murder scenes, and I can tell you this is spot on accurate. You can smell and taste it. You never forget it
One of my absolute favorite Breaking Bad moments. Leaving the audio alone was a justice, and your art was fantastic. Thanks for this.
This is really excellent, especially the all red frame at the end, kudos.
"I'll never make that mostake again".
Queue scenes of Mike repeatedly making that mistake for the rest of his appearances during the show.
This was so fantastic. I'm blown away by how well-put together it was! Major kudos!
Just like Quint's Indianapolis Speech in Jaws, you don't have to watch the screen. Just close your eyes and you're immediately transported there. Great writing!
Commanding Officer: Mike, what the hell?
Mike: what?
Commanding Officer: Why does the squad car smell like shit?
Mike: oh that, well....
Very Sin City-esque. Love it.
WoW! This is a great visualization...wow! Couldn't have been any better than the BB speech episode itself. BIG THUMBS UP FOR YOU GUY!
this was the perfect scene for an animation. thank you for this great work.
I got one word to describe this one for you: perfection. Great job.
Amazing. This is Why Mike is my Favorite character in both shows
Wonderful little piece. I love the gritty style you have with the harsh shadows.