I've heard cancer patients say they've never felt more alive before there diagnosis because "Nothing matters anymore, i can do literally anything i want" it's kinda grim but beautiful in a way.
I was a cancer patient when I was younger (8 cancer 22stroke) and later had a stroke because of the cancer treatment (better and cancer free now). Everyone reacts differently (it may depend on the fight or flight instinct encoded in us), but I can say that it gave me perspective. I think it can go one of a couple ways, with despair on one side of the spectrum and extreme focus on the other. For me, it was on the focus side of things. I was going through it, and you are right. You can gain a mindset and realize nothing else matters as I realized how unimportant some things are. It did give me a laser focus on getting better and what is really important, and it is amazing what we can do with that type of focus (beat cancer and learn to walk again). You stop worrying about things that used to keep you up at night (shame, other people's opinions, standards, unrealistic goals and desires, and your past failures). I don't want cancer or to have a stroke, but I have never been more productive than when I was recovering from cancer and my stroke. Like I said, everyone experiences it differently though I think a lot of it has to do with finding something to hold onto, which could be faith/religion, family, duty, a cause, a goal, or something else. and that thing your holding onto motivates you to sacrifice everything else for the recovery. For me, it was a combination of my faith, family, and being a hardhead that I wanted to prove something to everyone. Later, I would return to volunteer in the cancer unit in a few hospitals to talk with chemo patients. Anyway, that was just my experience I am sure you will find many others who will say I am bat s*** crazy.
It’s funny to imagine that this guy might have taken walts words to heart, and really taken his words with a lot of weight considering the situation. Assuming he survived his cancer up until walts death, it’s funny how he’d know this conversation was actually with a ruthless drug lord instead of a distant middle aged cancer patient.
I love how Gus Fring and Walter White “hid in plain sight” I thought it was brilliant how they juggled their professional drug dealer life with their normal family life
The final shot tells you it is wrong though. Walt is looking at an inspirational poster, an idealized version of the world where he is always in control and ahead of everyone, and the other patient is looking out of a window, into the real world, where you often are not in control.
@@Fematika Huh? I perceived it as Walter, while being able to live his life the way he sees it, is lost in the darkness/absence of sunlight and is given the answer in his face to stick to his family as the caring father he had been while the other patient doesn't need to follow Walter's path as his future, without even doing crime, is as bright as the Sun since things will may be in his favour soon
@@asdtgh8895 The conversation clearly implies to me that the patient allowing himself to give up control is what let's him look out the window into the real world. Nothing in the conversation even points towards it relating to whether or not he goes into crime or his future, just that he knows he isn't in control. The "stick together" actually could be referring to Walt's family as well, but the conversation before indicates that Walt is delusional about how much control he is in and isn't seeing the world as it actually is. Why would they make the other patient clearly a little confused why Walt is so convinced he is in control? It's clearly Walt trying to regain his sense of power that he lost to cancer, but doing it superficially in a way you're not supposed to idolize.
@@Fematika I meant in a way that Walt's "advice" to him can result to him doing something irrational like doing crimes or getting into trouble for shoving his authority on others by force for selfish reasons. Which can result to unforeseeable consequences without him thinking about the long term. Like someone we know who shouldn't glorify seize and control in an extent crimes are legal. But I can see as to why seeing the window can be perceived as how one can have no control in life due to the window blinds symbolising horizontal prison bars or hidden truth about the universe or whatnot. Still, he was mostly confused and almost offended by how Walt told him losing faith is bullshit and swore "To hell with your cancer". And you can somewhat see him listening to Walt's full statement as though he understands that life had became short fpr bim and he might never be given a fruitful future. As for "Stick Together", I may agree to some extent that he is delusional but from the way I see it goes back to multiple moments of him truly speaking out about his troubles and problems in his life by stating his clear motive to live the best for himself. For e.g: Telling Jesse he's awakened despite breaking bad Encouraging Jesse to do something else outside his comfort zone when trying to get ingredients for blue meth Telling Hank he slept peacefully after realising about his cancer And more. So I just can't see this conversation as lying to himself or convincing he is in control as it doesn't really equate to "I have it" but "I want it and I will have it". Like you said, regaining a sense of power but it's because, in this season, he has conflict with Gus or lack thereof. In fact, Walt admits that the cancer will get him but he'd rather start doing what he wants before all that time is gone. Plus, I've seen some times how Vince treated the universe as a guidance to people's behaviour and actions, giving them clear or vague answers. Like: 1. Walt meeting Jane's father and talk about sticking to family before he indirectly murder her 2. Skyler flipping a coin to wonder if New Mexico is still a safe place to be in 3. Walt spinning the gun and it points to him(To me, it felt like the universe is telling him "You will die if you continue this path.") until it pointed to the plant(For this, "You want to pursue on? Fine. Let your wildest ideas bloom.") And yet they continue to push forward. Then again, it did show how strangely convenient everyone is (in a way) related with one another and especially to the cartel(But these ones might be just me): 1. Pink teddy bear on Jane's wall and the one that fell into Walt's pool 2. Hank in the DEA and realising one evidence(Los Pollos Hermanos' bag) that questions Gale being vegan (Despite it being Walt's fault) 3. Saul knowing Mike who knows Gus who knows the people he can sell drugs to(I think that's what Saul meant) 4. Gus having associates who use children to do their meth dealing and conveniently one of them is Tomas who killed Combo which resulted to Walt & Jesse going deeper into the chaos even more. 5. Gus being threatened by the cartel which relates to Saul knowing a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy and can be seen as another foundation to the entirety of the show other than Walt getting cancer or leaving Gretchen. 6. Salamenca brothers knowing Gus who funded the DEA in their fun runs and knew Hank who even presented a money jar for Walt's cancer treatment. 7. Skyler getting a job with Ted Beneke which result to losing $600,000 for his tax frauds. Again, I just find it hard to see the inspirational poster as giving Walt this twisted ego-stroking belief of control over his life cause it literally says "Stick Together". Unless it stated "You will see through this" or "You will not give in", saying it one final time that I don't see it. Maybe you can explain it. In conclusion, I can chalk it up to the guy looking into the window as symbolising a brighter future for him despite not having full control of his life. While Walt looks towards the belief he can get a happy ever after in both family matters and empire business despite his vision slowly twisting to what it is, as wrong as the universe stated it to be. But either way, anyone can see this scene differently.
@@asdtgh8895 I won't convince you, but I just think the cut from him talking about being in charge to him looking at a wall and the patient out a window just really signals to me that Walt was supposed to signal that the patient was right to give up control sometimes. It is a theme in the show too, like how Walt tries desperately to save Hank at the end but the situation was no longer in his control, forcing him into hiding. The whole show is supposed to be Walt being selfish and domineering, as a response to losing his sense of control in life, but even being that crime boss he isn't as in control as he likes to think (think "I am the one who knocks" speech (about how he delusionally thinks he is on top of everyone else and they are scared of him) contrasted with the fact that people once got into his house ready to kill). The teddy bear is another example of nature taking control over Walt, and the many coincidences seem to me like the writers saying that the world decides a lot of things for you, which Walt doesn't understand until the end, when he lets Jessie free out of his and everyone else's control. The poster seems could be a subliminal message to Walt telling him the opposite of the painting displaying a man rowing out on his own to a ship. I think what's on the poster is less important that the fact that he is staring at the wall and the other guy is out the window, right after a conversation about control, though. I think you have a fine interpretation, I just think this scene in particular is supposed to show the fundamental flaw in Walt's philosophy, which is what I was responding to originally.
My favourite sentence "Never give up control. Live life on your own terms. One of these times, hell, maybe even today - I'm going to hear some bad news. But until then, who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life." I love Walt for this words.
What's nice about this scene, and Walter's speech, is that he's encouraging the guy to not stop living, just because he gets what is considered a death sentence. In other words, he's saying that you don't have to let it control you, but you can still make good use of a time that you have. That's my takeaway.
I think that's the positive spin to it. Another way to look at it, is that he has a sort of God complex going on. It's the reason why he's okay with murdering, and committing all of the heinous acts he does. He believes he is in control, of not only his life, but others.
interesting observation, but I actually read it as walt indulging in his own defensive mechanism, he's not saying this to actually give advice to the other guy, but rather just to distance himself from him, because he knows he can't be that guy, not if he wants to survive, he needs to accept the role of the ruthless criminal or his situation will become overwhelming for him and he will not make it. this is how I saw it anyway, so basically I thought he wasn't actually remotely interested in giving his insight to this other guy going through some stuff, but rather out of his own selfish needs, he was just trying to distance himself from him, as in "we are not the same" kind of thing
@@fisheatsyourhead Lol you're right mein fuher. I like to put those in quotes because it emphasises the way a character speaks. He pauses like that when he says it.
This is the most accurate stoic philosophy I've seen on TV. All the modern "Let go" bullshit feels like they're comparing life to a fart, that you have to "let go" of, *Nooo* . Stop trying to control what you can't, but you have a duty to take care of what IS under your control, and thats far more important.
Reminds me of what House tells his neurologist after he has a close call with a brain infection and is just happy to be alive... "If we were all happy with what he have, what a wonderful world this would be. We'd all slowly starve to death while drowning in our own filth, but at least we'd be happy. I need your self worth to hang on this job, you kicking ass here to be what lets you rise above all else miserable. If waking up in the morning is enough for you, then I don't need you".
Even if you aren’t sick this still is such a damn good quote. No one controls your life not even sickness, just you, you never give up. This is your life to forge, never let anyone tell you otherwise
Perhaps the best Scene I have ever watched. Walter White is true stoic. Everything goes wrong for him pretty much all the four seasons, but he's in charge, he's in control, he faces all the adversities the best way he can. When asked: "-Are you in the meth or in the money business?", he replies: "-Neither. I am in the Empire Business".
The problem is, it's fiction. In reality, Walt would have been too sick to do any of things he did. Sometimes life really does kick you down and you just have to do the best you can and adjust your expectations. That's not weakness. Just adaptation.
He is a true failed stoic. He lives by their advice, yet fails to consider ethics. He always gives reason for his actions on "the family", and never really faces that. That is externalization, and is something stoics fear.
Kind of sad how Walt’s line, “never give up control”(1:39) also functions as the double edged sword responsible for his downfall. At every moment when things start getting better, he screws it up because he feels he *needs* to be in control. His ego was ultimately something he just could not control.
Other guy must've been hoodwinked when he found out the guy who took a phonecall and gave him a speech before his treatment turned out to be one of the infamous drug kingpins ever
At 1:41. "Never give up control." That's why audience love Walt so much. Nobody likes a weak character. If you want something...work for it and take it.
@@Opethfeldt for a lot of things you have to seek it out. For example if you want to be more sociable, you have to go out of your way to talk to people
@@Xanivert You may have to put in the first effort but most of the time, what you want will come the rest of the way. For example, it's often said that you find love when you stop looking for it. I find all things in life work this way.
I love how in this scene he talks about how he's in charge with his own life but after this scene we see him continue making meth while being controlled by gus
One thing that stands out to me is how he says “That’s how I live my life” at the end, even though he’s only been this bold and ambitious man for a year, whereas for 50 years he’s been timid and afraid of life. This goes to show how he’s not only rejected the old Walt, but he’s ultimately killed the old Walt. He despises the timid and fearful man he used to be and refuses to associate with him anymore. That look when he said “Me” was ultimately a “fuck you” to the old Walt who wasn’t strong enough to take control. Anyone who’s gone most their life as a weak person but now has grown into a much stronger person (or is at least on that path) knows and feels exactly what I’m talking about.
Both grandfathers and my father died of melanoma, one grandfather only in his forties just a few years older than I am now. I notice spots and worry. I will start getting checks knowing one day maybe even the first I will hear some bad news. Until then I will just continue trying to improve my life situation, even if old age and good health is unlikely for me.
Imagine this guy's reaction when he finds out that the man who motivated him and told him not to lose control is a wanted dangerous kingpin who blew up his opponent, killed the two DEA agents who arrested him and ten prisoners in two minutes. That's called motivation
when you lived your whole life at the edge of a seat, cancer, or anything that lets you know about the days left, it will set you free, free from what you have held back your entire life, it WILL set you free, it will be a liberation, trust me.
“Who’s in charge? Me.” Wrong! At that point, Gus Fring was in charge. Walt was a kept man. Heisenberg was just bullshitting himself in this scene. Only during a few months in Season 5 did he makes his words here a reality.
Bs..a high school teacher who is living pay check to pay check become a millionaire in a very small time period! I call this progress and taking control
i don’t think you quite understood the scene let alone walt’s character development from the moment he got cancer. 50yo unaccomplished high school teacher and suddenly he gets a new lease on life and never looks back
I think it's THIS scan where Walt actually learns his cancer has returned. Note the expression on his face right after this scene, when he's working in the lab. Also. when Walt Jr. asks how the scan went, Walter's answer that his cancer is still in remission is clunky and awkward. That would not be a hard lie for Walter to tell in front of his family. From then until the end of the season, Walt's cough has also returned.
It is like this, really. We got separate rooms to change clothes but there is a place where you can chat with another patients. It’s a bit weird when you are already have an experience and other people don’t.
Unfortunately for Walt though, the price he has to pay for the feeling of being in charge and doing things HIS way is him ruining all of his personal relationships and the lives of countless people. There's some truth to his words but the fact that he would deny any opportunities to get off scott-free because it wasnt "his way" means that its all up to you when it comes to your rise or downfall
I honestly believe he doesnt care. Hell, he did not even care whether HE lives or not. He was an overly genious, underachiever man. Not even his own well-being was gonna stop his brilliance.
Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto!!! When I saw this scene I instantly liked it because of the choice of music. It can also be heard for a second in the famous movie Amadeus when Salieri looks at Mozart's manuscripts.
I've heard cancer patients say they've never felt more alive before there diagnosis because "Nothing matters anymore, i can do literally anything i want" it's kinda grim but beautiful in a way.
You mean after*?
Neh I wouldn't do anything anyway
That's only when you have lived monotonous 50 years of your life
I was a cancer patient when I was younger (8 cancer 22stroke) and later had a stroke because of the cancer treatment (better and cancer free now). Everyone reacts differently (it may depend on the fight or flight instinct encoded in us), but I can say that it gave me perspective. I think it can go one of a couple ways, with despair on one side of the spectrum and extreme focus on the other. For me, it was on the focus side of things.
I was going through it, and you are right. You can gain a mindset and realize nothing else matters as I realized how unimportant some things are. It did give me a laser focus on getting better and what is really important, and it is amazing what we can do with that type of focus (beat cancer and learn to walk again). You stop worrying about things that used to keep you up at night (shame, other people's opinions, standards, unrealistic goals and desires, and your past failures). I don't want cancer or to have a stroke, but I have never been more productive than when I was recovering from cancer and my stroke.
Like I said, everyone experiences it differently though I think a lot of it has to do with finding something to hold onto, which could be faith/religion, family, duty, a cause, a goal, or something else. and that thing your holding onto motivates you to sacrifice everything else for the recovery. For me, it was a combination of my faith, family, and being a hardhead that I wanted to prove something to everyone. Later, I would return to volunteer in the cancer unit in a few hospitals to talk with chemo patients. Anyway, that was just my experience I am sure you will find many others who will say I am bat s*** crazy.
@@conorwellman8592 I'm glad you're better now you sound strong.
It’s funny to imagine that this guy might have taken walts words to heart, and really taken his words with a lot of weight considering the situation. Assuming he survived his cancer up until walts death, it’s funny how he’d know this conversation was actually with a ruthless drug lord instead of a distant middle aged cancer patient.
I love how Gus Fring and Walter White “hid in plain sight” I thought it was brilliant how they juggled their professional drug dealer life with their normal family life
It would be so cool to see his story evolve from there. And see him become a drug lord 😂
As scientific as Walt is, his philosophy of not being afraid and feeling in charge is a nice one.
The final shot tells you it is wrong though. Walt is looking at an inspirational poster, an idealized version of the world where he is always in control and ahead of everyone, and the other patient is looking out of a window, into the real world, where you often are not in control.
@@Fematika Huh? I perceived it as Walter, while being able to live his life the way he sees it, is lost in the darkness/absence of sunlight and is given the answer in his face to stick to his family as the caring father he had been while the other patient doesn't need to follow Walter's path as his future, without even doing crime, is as bright as the Sun since things will may be in his favour soon
@@asdtgh8895 The conversation clearly implies to me that the patient allowing himself to give up control is what let's him look out the window into the real world. Nothing in the conversation even points towards it relating to whether or not he goes into crime or his future, just that he knows he isn't in control. The "stick together" actually could be referring to Walt's family as well, but the conversation before indicates that Walt is delusional about how much control he is in and isn't seeing the world as it actually is. Why would they make the other patient clearly a little confused why Walt is so convinced he is in control? It's clearly Walt trying to regain his sense of power that he lost to cancer, but doing it superficially in a way you're not supposed to idolize.
@@Fematika I meant in a way that Walt's "advice" to him can result to him doing something irrational like doing crimes or getting into trouble for shoving his authority on others by force for selfish reasons. Which can result to unforeseeable consequences without him thinking about the long term. Like someone we know who shouldn't glorify seize and control in an extent crimes are legal.
But I can see as to why seeing the window can be perceived as how one can have no control in life due to the window blinds symbolising horizontal prison bars or hidden truth about the universe or whatnot.
Still, he was mostly confused and almost offended by how Walt told him losing faith is bullshit and swore "To hell with your cancer". And you can somewhat see him listening to Walt's full statement as though he understands that life had became short fpr bim and he might never be given a fruitful future.
As for "Stick Together", I may agree to some extent that he is delusional but from the way I see it goes back to multiple moments of him truly speaking out about his troubles and problems in his life by stating his clear motive to live the best for himself. For e.g:
Telling Jesse he's awakened despite breaking bad
Encouraging Jesse to do something else outside his comfort zone when trying to get ingredients for blue meth
Telling Hank he slept peacefully after realising about his cancer
And more.
So I just can't see this conversation as lying to himself or convincing he is in control as it doesn't really equate to "I have it" but "I want it and I will have it". Like you said, regaining a sense of power but it's because, in this season, he has conflict with Gus or lack thereof. In fact, Walt admits that the cancer will get him but he'd rather start doing what he wants before all that time is gone.
Plus, I've seen some times how Vince treated the universe as a guidance to people's behaviour and actions, giving them clear or vague answers. Like:
1. Walt meeting Jane's father and talk about sticking to family before he indirectly murder her
2. Skyler flipping a coin to wonder if New Mexico is still a safe place to be in
3. Walt spinning the gun and it points to him(To me, it felt like the universe is telling him "You will die if you continue this path.") until it pointed to the plant(For this, "You want to pursue on? Fine. Let your wildest ideas bloom.")
And yet they continue to push forward.
Then again, it did show how strangely convenient everyone is (in a way) related with one another and especially to the cartel(But these ones might be just me):
1. Pink teddy bear on Jane's wall and the one that fell into Walt's pool
2. Hank in the DEA and realising one evidence(Los Pollos Hermanos' bag) that questions Gale being vegan (Despite it being Walt's fault)
3. Saul knowing Mike who knows Gus who knows the people he can sell drugs to(I think that's what Saul meant)
4. Gus having associates who use children to do their meth dealing and conveniently one of them is Tomas who killed Combo which resulted to Walt & Jesse going deeper into the chaos even more.
5. Gus being threatened by the cartel which relates to Saul knowing a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy and can be seen as another foundation to the entirety of the show other than Walt getting cancer or leaving Gretchen.
6. Salamenca brothers knowing Gus who funded the DEA in their fun runs and knew Hank who even presented a money jar for Walt's cancer treatment.
7. Skyler getting a job with Ted Beneke which result to losing $600,000 for his tax frauds.
Again, I just find it hard to see the inspirational poster as giving Walt this twisted ego-stroking belief of control over his life cause it literally says "Stick Together". Unless it stated "You will see through this" or "You will not give in", saying it one final time that I don't see it. Maybe you can explain it.
In conclusion,
I can chalk it up to the guy looking into the window as symbolising a brighter future for him despite not having full control of his life.
While Walt looks towards the belief he can get a happy ever after in both family matters and empire business despite his vision slowly twisting to what it is, as wrong as the universe stated it to be.
But either way, anyone can see this scene differently.
@@asdtgh8895 I won't convince you, but I just think the cut from him talking about being in charge to him looking at a wall and the patient out a window just really signals to me that Walt was supposed to signal that the patient was right to give up control sometimes. It is a theme in the show too, like how Walt tries desperately to save Hank at the end but the situation was no longer in his control, forcing him into hiding.
The whole show is supposed to be Walt being selfish and domineering, as a response to losing his sense of control in life, but even being that crime boss he isn't as in control as he likes to think (think "I am the one who knocks" speech (about how he delusionally thinks he is on top of everyone else and they are scared of him) contrasted with the fact that people once got into his house ready to kill). The teddy bear is another example of nature taking control over Walt, and the many coincidences seem to me like the writers saying that the world decides a lot of things for you, which Walt doesn't understand until the end, when he lets Jessie free out of his and everyone else's control.
The poster seems could be a subliminal message to Walt telling him the opposite of the painting displaying a man rowing out on his own to a ship. I think what's on the poster is less important that the fact that he is staring at the wall and the other guy is out the window, right after a conversation about control, though.
I think you have a fine interpretation, I just think this scene in particular is supposed to show the fundamental flaw in Walt's philosophy, which is what I was responding to originally.
Other guy: “You’re right! I’m going to start that crystal meth business I’ve always wanted”
Walt: “Hey now”
There is no YOUR cancer, only my ALL OF IT!
Stay out of my territory
I am the cancer
"i am the one who coughs!!!" *coughs aggressively*
The other guy was so impressed by Walt's speech that he became Uncle Jack
That's why he left him a barrel 🤣.
is it really him?
@@user-zk4mk1vu7x no
@@user-zk4mk1vu7xYes
This is one of the most underrated scenes in the show
I think this is the #1 most underrated scenes in all of tv history
@@maxmoon2356 i mean, you're not wrong
Agree, I’m pretty surprised it isn’t talked about more.
My favourite sentence "Never give up control. Live life on your own terms. One of these times, hell, maybe even today - I'm going to hear some bad news. But until then, who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life." I love Walt for this words.
Kids don't take advice from fictional meth king pins
That's several sentences
What's nice about this scene, and Walter's speech, is that he's encouraging the guy to not stop living, just because he gets what is considered a death sentence. In other words, he's saying that you don't have to let it control you, but you can still make good use of a time that you have.
That's my takeaway.
I think that's the positive spin to it. Another way to look at it, is that he has a sort of God complex going on. It's the reason why he's okay with murdering, and committing all of the heinous acts he does. He believes he is in control, of not only his life, but others.
walter definitely made good use of his time left lol
@@person92906 yea his last year was much better than rest of his life
that IS the takeaway.
interesting observation, but I actually read it as walt indulging in his own defensive mechanism, he's not saying this to actually give advice to the other guy, but rather just to distance himself from him, because he knows he can't be that guy, not if he wants to survive, he needs to accept the role of the ruthless criminal or his situation will become overwhelming for him and he will not make it.
this is how I saw it anyway, so basically I thought he wasn't actually remotely interested in giving his insight to this other guy going through some stuff, but rather out of his own selfish needs, he was just trying to distance himself from him, as in "we are not the same" kind of thing
"Every life - comes, with a death sentence."
not sure that comma or hyphen belong there
@@fisheatsyourhead Lol you're right mein fuher. I like to put those in quotes because it emphasises the way a character speaks. He pauses like that when he says it.
@@fisheatsyourhead It's the pause break in the quote go back and listen.
@@jordansmith6959 so you 'like' to be wrong?
@@iustinkevin8826 get fancy bruh
This is basically the thesis for the whole show
"Every life comes with a death sentence"
This is the most accurate stoic philosophy I've seen on TV. All the modern "Let go" bullshit feels like they're comparing life to a fart, that you have to "let go" of, *Nooo* . Stop trying to control what you can't, but you have a duty to take care of what IS under your control, and thats far more important.
true ✊
Reminds me of what House tells his neurologist after he has a close call with a brain infection and is just happy to be alive... "If we were all happy with what he have, what a wonderful world this would be. We'd all slowly starve to death while drowning in our own filth, but at least we'd be happy. I need your self worth to hang on this job, you kicking ass here to be what lets you rise above all else miserable. If waking up in the morning is enough for you, then I don't need you".
your right man 🤟
On the surface it’s accurate, but if you know Walter then deep down it’s coming from excessive pride, so technically not the best stoic quote lol
Well let go means the same thing
1:51 The one guy who dislikes cancer charity videos
My when the cashier asks if I want to donate my 2 cents change to help kids with cancer
@@TovenDo.O.Video- Fringillionare Grindset
Even if you aren’t sick this still is such a damn good quote. No one controls your life not even sickness, just you, you never give up. This is your life to forge, never let anyone tell you otherwise
this was one of my mom's favorite scenes. she was diagnosed with cancer and lived the rest of her life with the same ideology. (minus the druglord)
Perhaps the best Scene I have ever watched. Walter White is true stoic. Everything goes wrong for him pretty much all the four seasons, but he's in charge, he's in control, he faces all the adversities the best way he can. When asked: "-Are you in the meth or in the money business?", he replies: "-Neither. I am in the Empire Business".
The problem is, it's fiction. In reality, Walt would have been too sick to do any of things he did. Sometimes life really does kick you down and you just have to do the best you can and adjust your expectations. That's not weakness. Just adaptation.
@@Opethfeldt He went in remission for a good amount of time.
@@Opethfeldt he WAS too sick to even teach his classes in the beginning. But still he persisted. I find that admirable.
He is a true failed stoic. He lives by their advice, yet fails to consider ethics. He always gives reason for his actions on "the family", and never really faces that. That is externalization, and is something stoics fear.
God knows what kind of things that dude did after that speech
He does nothing. It's just a character in a TV show with no further action.
@@shrimpflea there's always that one retard who takes everything seriously
@@ripvanwinkle5647 😂😂
Likely nothing. People hear inspirational quotes all the time. Do they ever change their thinking or lives? Very rarely is one quote going to do that.
Heisenberg 2
Kind of sad how Walt’s line, “never give up control”(1:39) also functions as the double edged sword responsible for his downfall. At every moment when things start getting better, he screws it up because he feels he *needs* to be in control. His ego was ultimately something he just could not control.
Motivational speech my Walt💯
Other guy must've been hoodwinked when he found out the guy who took a phonecall and gave him a speech before his treatment turned out to be one of the infamous drug kingpins ever
At 1:41. "Never give up control." That's why audience love Walt so much. Nobody likes a weak character. If you want something...work for it and take it.
Never give up Control
I find it's better to have what you want come to you.
@@Opethfeldt except most things in life don't just come to you
@@Opethfeldt for a lot of things you have to seek it out. For example if you want to be more sociable, you have to go out of your way to talk to people
@@Xanivert You may have to put in the first effort but most of the time, what you want will come the rest of the way. For example, it's often said that you find love when you stop looking for it. I find all things in life work this way.
Even though he became a mad man meth dealing psychopath, Walter still remained based
Scenes like this go underappreciated.
What chapter is?
@@betogg831 season 4 episode 8 intro, i think.
This has life changing dialogue
This quote really drives the final episode
I LOVE THIS SCENE
Unironically good sigma GRINDSET mentality there
I don't remember thus scene, but man it really shows a good bit of how Walter thinks
I love how in this scene he talks about how he's in charge with his own life but after this scene we see him continue making meth while being controlled by gus
Then killed Gus to be in charge again tho...
One thing that stands out to me is how he says “That’s how I live my life” at the end, even though he’s only been this bold and ambitious man for a year, whereas for 50 years he’s been timid and afraid of life. This goes to show how he’s not only rejected the old Walt, but he’s ultimately killed the old Walt. He despises the timid and fearful man he used to be and refuses to associate with him anymore. That look when he said “Me” was ultimately a “fuck you” to the old Walt who wasn’t strong enough to take control. Anyone who’s gone most their life as a weak person but now has grown into a much stronger person (or is at least on that path) knows and feels exactly what I’m talking about.
I feel that
This is one of my favorite scenes. I think it has a powerful and true message.
Both grandfathers and my father died of melanoma, one grandfather only in his forties just a few years older than I am now. I notice spots and worry. I will start getting checks knowing one day maybe even the first I will hear some bad news.
Until then I will just continue trying to improve my life situation, even if old age and good health is unlikely for me.
You alright still? You got me worried with how long its been.
Do you wanna cook?
This is the moment the Patient becomes Walter White.
Imagine this guy's reaction when he finds out that the man who motivated him and told him not to lose control is a wanted dangerous kingpin who blew up his opponent, killed the two DEA agents who arrested him and ten prisoners in two minutes. That's called motivation
1:08 cringe moment
when you lived your whole life at the edge of a seat, cancer, or anything that lets you know about the days left, it will set you free, free from what you have held back your entire life, it WILL set you free, it will be a liberation, trust me.
“Who’s in charge? Me.” Wrong! At that point, Gus Fring was in charge. Walt was a kept man. Heisenberg was just bullshitting himself in this scene. Only during a few months in Season 5 did he makes his words here a reality.
Bs..a high school teacher who is living pay check to pay check become a millionaire in a very small time period! I call this progress and taking control
Walt was in charge of his life everytime. He was taking more control when he was planning how to kill gus
i don’t think you quite understood the scene let alone walt’s character development from the moment he got cancer. 50yo unaccomplished high school teacher and suddenly he gets a new lease on life and never looks back
The way he says "Me". Shit
plot twist: The guy took Walt's advice and became a drug lord millionaire himself...
The "Stick Together" sign at the end bakes the cake.
The elevator type music at the beginning always cracks me up
I wonder what that guy thought when he heard that was the great Heisenberg.
I like god fearing people around me. It puts up a mirror on myself and forces me confront my Machiavellian identity.
This is the exact moment when Heisenberg became Plato
I think it's THIS scan where Walt actually learns his cancer has returned. Note the expression on his face right after this scene, when he's working in the lab. Also. when Walt Jr. asks how the scan went, Walter's answer that his cancer is still in remission is clunky and awkward. That would not be a hard lie for Walter to tell in front of his family. From then until the end of the season, Walt's cough has also returned.
this scene gives me the "I'm the one who knocks" vibes
Little did that man know that he was standing right next to heisenberg
I wonder what this guy thought seeing Walters face all over the news, about a year later
I would have felt so badass shutting that guy up to take care of drug lord business.
I love walt. He’s really helped through this bullshit lmaooooo
Im surprised I haven’t seen a cringe edit with this scene and that sigma music.
Let's make it happen
You mean a based edit
That dude could have his own show lol
Ngl, this is great as a motivational speech 🤣
TRUE! I listened to this right before a track meet and had the best meet of my life
Walt here doesn’t recognize a higher power
Be nice if you saw in a cameo still alive with kids and his wife in better call Saul last episode
It is like this, really. We got separate rooms to change clothes but there is a place where you can chat with another patients. It’s a bit weird when you are already have an experience and other people don’t.
Where did he pull that phone from 🤣
His ass. The back door to his meth lab just below his shaved Heisenberg nut sack.
Unfortunately for Walt though, the price he has to pay for the feeling of being in charge and doing things HIS way is him ruining all of his personal relationships and the lives of countless people. There's some truth to his words but the fact that he would deny any opportunities to get off scott-free because it wasnt "his way" means that its all up to you when it comes to your rise or downfall
Yeah, but those people didn’t respect him or appreciate him in the first place. They passively created him in some ways.
I honestly believe he doesnt care. Hell, he did not even care whether HE lives or not. He was an overly genious, underachiever man. Not even his own well-being was gonna stop his brilliance.
towards the end of season 1 or somewhere in season two. before Walt's cancer is in remission
This is actually in a later season, season 4 I believe, and this is a flashback to when he was first going through chemo.
Nope - season 4.
@@EquilibriumTelevision it isn't a flashback, he has a goatee
This show is so good
Most underrated scene in breaking bad
memento mori
Que capitulo fue? Yo la vi y mee estremeci pero no recuerdo cual fue
Amor Fati.
I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. I was really... I was alive.
does anyone know any thing about the "stick together" poster on the wall at the end. I would really love to have one xD
What episode is this?
What if this guy took Walt’s words to heart and started his own drug empire?
but until that, who is in charge?
Walt's mindset reminds me of Wisdom ch 2
Love this scene
Sauron Heisenberg,WW,a true crack.
Goals
2:03 borrowed time
Walt does get bad results from this
Walt makes me not scared of getting cancer… is that bad?
At Least you don't live it a quarter mile at a time!
What the hell is that music in the background? You ruined a perfect scebe
Heisenberg nos enseña el camino
number episode and season?
who is the guy(actor) talking to walt?
How I hate Walter in this scene
what is this episode? please anyone could help me? season? chapter?
Season 4 ep 8: "HERMANOS"
Hector diaz no
Which episode?
hello
Lol
What's the song name?
Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto!!! When I saw this scene I instantly liked it because of the choice of music. It can also be heard for a second in the famous movie Amadeus when Salieri looks at Mozart's manuscripts.