I just love the fact that Jesse does a callback to Walter's calculation of only needing 737000 dollars. Really shows how he's been paying attention to Walt slowly lose himself to the underworld.
Despite his drug use he has a surprisingly good memory, like when he was able to name the different chemistry glassware to badger after Walt showed him.
Yeah, well it's easier to remember something like that. Especially, right after watching Tuco uses his fists to beat a man to death right in front of you.
But know he realized he just bought time he wouldn’t love he wanted to secure his families future and the next families and the next one and that’s what he did
@@everettenjeze6276 True, just goes to show how egotistical Walt became because 8 million was enough to keep Walt and his family out of work for the rest of their lives.
@@everettenjeze6276That’s 80 million within a few months though. Walter told Declan that a third of his meth empire, distribution, would yield 130 million in profit. If Walter cooked the whole methlymine batch, with Jesse out of the picture, he could have easily tripled that 80 million in under a year, whereas Grey Matter grew under decades of work
@@everettenjeze6276 Not really though. Because the valuation of the company on the stock market is not how much cash the company has. The cash flow of the company cannot be used at will to the owner of that company. Publicly traded companies have certain regulations, etc. Company owners have salaries, and they can't sell the stocks they own for cash without forfeiting the company to a third party. And taxes, etc. And furthermore, Walt's ability to exponentially increase the amount of money without having any competitors or external risk is far more valuable.
Then he sold Hank's life, Mike's life, Steve Gomez's life, Andrea's life, a world of misery for the rest of his family's lives, and his own life, for his dumb Empire.
The line "I'm in the empire business" is always put in montages as a badass Walt line, but it's funny how much Jesse's rebuttal tears it all apart. I love the way this show self-mythologises and simultaneously rips apart any idea that these characters are anything more than flawed humans.
Walter felt alive he is proud that he did something something that let him be free something that mattered he loved ten times the life of a normal person he helped his family
They portray Walt as a tough and cool anti-hero plenty of times, but they always flip it around later to reveal he's just a horrible person. I think the best example of this would be the season 4 finale, with the reveal at the end that he poisoned the kid
THIS is why Walter White is one of the greatest characters of all time. He is bitterness personified. It eats him up. He looks it up every week so he can get more bitter. And all that matters to him in the end is validation for that bitterness, for the empire he felt he deserved.
Being good is overrated, it’s to make others feel comfortable for the most part, nobody gives a shit only that you serve their mood, Heisenberg is being true to himself
He always deserved an empire but the middle class morality pulled him back. The moment cancer entered his life, he kicked the morality out and he had the empire he yearned for.
@Sefu2006 yeah but Jesse sums up his silliness at the end. Walt actually did a good job swallowing his pride and taking care of his son and wife. A big part of this "break" is the delusion that any of this works amounts to anything other than a lack of inhibition. It begins to satisfy his ego over time but the biggest part of it was genuine insecurity, brought on by facing his death on the horizon at one of the worst moments in his life.
@@DailyLifeSolution Always so nice to see the toxic Walter White Acolytes calling themselves out. Walt screwed himself over. He walked away from an opportunity out of ego and bitterness, and he suffered for that ever since. He was a pathetic little narcissist who doesn't deserve an ounce of respect.
@@Lamporre Yk, it is quite rare to find someone using their brain when it comes to Walt. The dude's a great character, but he is not a good person and justifying him is just pathetic.
That’s what the empire business is though. People that value power and legacy over everything-family, money, friends, health, etc. People like Rockefeller, Gates, Carnigie, Caesar-they all cared more about building empires and the pursuit of their legacy over everything.
@@thtswhtshesai6d9 yes but he didn't try to build it properly like Fring, in the sense of taking his time and putting personal matters aside. The Empire at that point was more to me about gloryfying the Heisenberg reputation and getting big results fast enough than thinking efficiency on mid/long term
@@alexeiharp7676 the biggest weakness with Heisenberg was not just his ego but his family. If Skyler had actually divorced Walt and moved out of the town with her kids and if Walt had ler Jesse go who knows how big his empire would be. He pretty much surpassed Gus fring in pure profit in just about 1 year without needing to waste as many resources. But eventually his love for his family dragged Walt back to earth and eventually everything caught up to him.
Quit while your ahead is the name of the game. He didn't wanna quit. The more u make meth. The more u open up cases. I'm with Jesse on that note. He says he's in the empire business. It sounds like your in the I'm getting arrested business.
When he says that he looks the value of the company every week, that just shows you how regretfull he is for selling out, and it kinda makes you understand why he wants a lot more. Brilliant writing. No show will come at close range with this one for sure.
But even when he is offered to return back to the company in Season 1, and money to have his treatment covered he still turns it down cause he despises anything that comes close to “charity”. He is just incapable of letting go of his pride and ego for even 1 second. It’s his own worst enemy that he doesn’t choice to recognize until he loses everything, that his son lashing out at him was his wake up call that he has nobody to blame but himself.
I find it so powerful when Walt says “billions”. The look in his eyes, the emphasis on B, and the anger behind his voice all add up his year-long regret of the buyout and how he’s ready to reclaim what he lost no matter what.
@@timothygumenik726it’s different for Walt, he feels he was cheated from his destiny. Resentment is much bigger fuel than simple envy. That’s why he’ll never make the same mistake again.
"I'm in the empire business". Even Jesse knew how useless it was to argue with Walt at this point, and how embarrassing it is that Walt even proudly said that.
LMAOO jesse was no better Till recent, when certain events change him. Jesse literally got caught by DEA multiple times and you know his reaction ? “I’m back at it tomorrow “ he would’ve loved for the empire earlier on
@@PrimoVGL I don't think anyone can ever say Jesse was a saint. But he was also like 24-26 during the events of the show, that's still a kid in comparison to the hardened criminals in his business, and no matter how much he wanted to act "gangsta", when faced with the harshness of the business he's in, it shows how much he's in over his head. The full reality of his line of work is specifically why he changes for the better.
@@SteelBallRun1890 true, he was naive to the life and had a wake up call once kids was bought into it. It was a way to make some fast cash for him but by the end that wasn’t even important to him
What makes this scene depressing is that he mentions Gray Matter, it reminds us that he was once a good man, seeing him now as he exists is gut wrenching, knowing that he could have been something (morally) better.
I always liked walt as a character because he gets royally screwed by life, and knows he's going to die and then takes life by the reigns and doesn't let anyone get into his way to the top, he did more in the meth business in two years time(the actual length of time that passes by over breaking bad not when it aired) than the salamanca's or Mr fring could do in they're lifetimes, it's very satisfying to watch him take over and become a badass. I especially like the scene when he says he didn't do it for the money, but because he liked it. He might be a self serving morally depraved psychopath by the end but I get it
@@trevorhatcher1255 Me too. I get why he did it. The most frustrating part was that Walt didn't allow himself to fully enjoy the meth business and took too long to embrace his true self.
And to think that Vince nearly killed him off in the first season. And he was gonna conclude it with Walt basically turning into Jigsaw until it got his son killed by accident. (not joking either, look it up)
From Season 2 Episode 6 "Peakaboo" Gretchen: You left me. Newport, 4th of July weekend. You and my father and my brothers and I go up to our room and you're packing your bags, barely talking. What? Did I dream all of that? Walt: That's your excuse to build your little empire on my work? Gretchen: How can you say that to me? You walked away. You abandoned us, me, Elliott. Walt: Little rich girl just adding to your millions. Gretchen: I don't even know what to say to you. I don't even know where to begin I feel so sorry for you, Walt. Walt: Fuck you. It's laid out clear from that moment. Walt was visiting Gretchen's family at the incredibly wealthy town of Newport, and left. When she brings that up, he refuses to answer why he did that, and instead attacks her as a "rich girl." In their previous meeting at Elliot's birthday from the episode "Gray Matter" we saw Walt's sad smile displaying longing and regret when he lays eyes on Gretchen and how uncomfortable he was at the party seeing the Schwartzs' wealth and being amongst many distinguished scientists, engineers, and businessmen. He was embarrassed when he mentioned he was an educator to the other successful scientists and they asked him what university he taught at. By Season 2 Episode 3 "Bit by a Dead Bee" as Walt is being questioned about his fugue state he says: Walter White: My wife is seven months pregnant with a baby we didn't intend. My fifteen-year old son has cerebral palsy. I am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher. When I can work, I make $43,700 per year. I have watched all of my colleagues and friends surpass me in every way imaginable. In the following link Gretchen's actress Jessica Hecht gives us the backstory. www.amc.com/shows/breaking-bad/talk/2009/05/jessica-hecht-interview "Vince Gilligan told us exactly what went down between the characters off screen: We were very much in love and we were to get married. And he came home and met my family, and I come from this really successful, wealthy family, and that knocks him on his side. He couldn’t deal with this inferiority he felt - this lack of connection to privilege. It made him terrified, and he literally just left me, and I was devastated. Walt is fighting his way out of going back to that emotional place, so he says, “F- you.” ... In the following link Vince Gilligan himself gives us the word of God. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vince-gilligan-walter-white-gray-matter_us_56e85f27e4b0b25c91838d57 “It ends with him being so nasty to her saying, ‘Fuck you,' and then she leaves tearfully,” said Gilligan. “In my mind, the interesting thing here, and I always kind of hate to nail it down so explicitly - but let’s put it this way, most viewers of ‘Breaking Bad’ assume Gretchen and Elliott are the bad guys, and they assume that Walt got ripped off by them, got ill used by them, and I never actually saw it that way.” Gilligan explained that the truth is more nuanced. It all stemmed from White’s feeling of inferiority while spending time with Gretchen’s family. “I think it was kind of situation where he didn’t realize the girl he was about to marry was so very wealthy and came from such a prominent family, and it kind of blew his mind and made him feel inferior and he overreacted. He just kind of checked out. I think there is that whole other side to the story, and it can be gleaned. This isn’t really the CliffsNotes version so much. These facts can be gleaned if you watch some of these scenes really closely enough, and you watch them without too much of an overriding bias toward Walt and against Gretchen and Elliott,” said Gilligan. .... From: Season 5 Episode 6 "Buyout" Walter White: Jesse, have you heard of a company called "Gray Matter?" Jesse Pinkman: No. Walter White: Well, I co-founded it in grad school with a couple of friends of mine. Actually, I was the one who named it. And back then, it was just... oh, it was just small-time. We had a couple patents pending, but nothing earth-shattering. Course, we all knew the potential. Yeah, we were gonna take the world by storm. And then... This, uh... Well, something happened between the three of us. And I'm not gonna go into detail, but for personal reasons, I decided to leave the company and I sold my share to my two partners. I took a buyout for $5000. Now at the time, that was a lot of money for me. Care to guess what that company is worth now? Jesse Pinkman: Millions? Walter White: Billions. With a "b." Two point one-six billion as of last Friday. I look it up every week. And I sold my share, my potential, for $5000. I sold my kids' birthright for a few months' rent. Walter White: Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business. Walt has both an inferiority and superiority complex. He feels insecure that all his peers have surpassed him, and around other geniuses like Gale. Yet he has a massive ego and believes he deserves more. Hence why he could not work with someone like Gale and needs someone like Jesse to feel smarter and boss around. He never would've said yes because of his fragile ego.
@@luliu4572 but the show was about Walter's ego when they were having that conversation Walter was actually considering joining back until Elliot told him that he knows Walter has cancer. So, again Walter thought that Elliot is doing this out of some pity and not because Walter deserves it.
Also in that episode "grey matter" does elliot not offer him a job or help but Walts pride again gets in the way and is angry at Skyler for telling them he is sick. Walt doesn't want to be given hand outs but wants to to be the chief ,Head honcho the man in charge. Whatever idea he had of doing it all for the family quickly died and he did it because it felt good because it made him feel important.
Two kinds of people in this world, or at least, located in an opposite side of a spectrum: The ones that agree with Jesse's response to the empire business line. And the ones that think, well, an empire is an empire.
On the face of it, it doesn't make sense to be proud of running a meth empire. However, having set up an empire at the scale WW did at the speed at which he did it, is without doubt something he deserved to be proud of...
Gotta love that vague "for personal reasons I left the company" line. Just casually leaving out the fact what robbed him of his billions and broke up the Grey Matter band was cuz Walt was too intimidated by Gretchen's family being rich and decided to ditch. Dude literally couldn't handle an inferiority complex of his girlfriend being wealthy, sold his shares and ran. Every tragedy in Walt's life, every moment in the show he could've gotten away with something or avoided antagonizing the wrong people, all the way down to the failure that made him who he is, it's all tied to his ego.
“I’m in the empire business” is such a goofy sounding phrase when you think about it. Walt does it often, throw around these one liners for effect when it just makes him look even more deluded. Truly, one of the biggest geniuses and idiots of television, Cranston’s portrayal is timeless.
I’m pretty sure Walt with all his infinite wisdom would be more than capable of starting a completely new LEGAL business with that 5 million, or even easier franchise the car wash business if he’s so infatuated with the idea of running an empire
This scene pretty much explains the entire series. How he went from being a moral man to committing crimes to provide for his family and finally working for himself because he liked what he was doing.
I disagree that he went from being a moral man to this. I think the point of the show is that he was always like this. Selfish, bitter, greedy. The cancer just gave him the chance to act on it without consequence (he'll be dead anyways, whether he gets caught or not).
@@lucasirwin3074 Agreed. The fact that people were cheering for this narcissist week after week, it's repulsive. I spent years hating him and hearing shit from other BB fans who couldn't believe that I was rooting for him to fail and die already. Long before Brock was poisoned, too.
@@jamessanders145how so? He's a narcissist and he's always been that way. There are tons of examples of it from before his cancer diagnosis (his feelings towards gretchen/gray matter, for example)
This is absolutely one of my favorite scenes in the entire series. It is so well-written and acted by both actors. I love how Jesse has become the voice of reason, especially when he says, "I don't know. Mr. White, is a meth empire really something to be that proud of?" Very, very moving to me. This scene is a great, great scene.
Walt didn't understand that with $5m, cleaned he could invest in a legal business venture and work to grow that, using the management skills he learned in the meth business.
Fun fact: This scene is actually a reference to Ronald Wayne from Apple. Wayne left Apple 2 weeks after the company was established in 1976 and sold his share for $800. If he kept his share, it would be worth more than $60 billion in present day.
The reality is, he's not in the empire business. He's not even in the business of evil, like a lot of fans say he is. Something that I think a lot of fans miss that went right under their noses is that Walt is, at the end of the day, in the Popcorners business, and their seven quality flavors.
I love that Walt makes this big production about what he gave up, about what he felt cheated on and how this business was his chance to build the empire he believed he deserved. But then Jesse brings it all down by asking if a meth empire is really something to be proud of. Walt is a bitter man trying to win this game because he lost the last round and he doesn't care if what he's building towards is really worth it. He just wants to win
'I...WE have suffered and bled literally for this business.' Just another reason why I adore this show. Walt is desperate not to let everybody see his unchecked ego and wants to seem like he cares and empathises with others. Brilliant television.
I personally still prefer in The Sopranos Season 1 when they have a Jew they're roughing up and he goes a long rant about how 900 Jews bested a legion of 15K Romans and that they chose death before enslavement and the Romans, where are they today? Gives a look like we got them. But then Tony standing with Silvio and Paulie and Tony says you're looking at them asshole. And then the guy realizes... Oh no... These people are from Naples, Calabria, Sicily. THESE are indeed the Romans. Now all that said, the 3 series between The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad are all fantastic. I recommend the 1st Season of Fargo.
The guy was never gonna quit. It's the classic issue with those who are in it for power. Money becomes nothing, it's all about building. W.W is right and true to his word, has nothing to do with greed, it's just a viewpoint. Pinkman never had such views. Sad how it ends.
What’s hilarious is that Jimmy brings up a point in better call Saul at the final season that Jimmy could’ve found a way to sue grey matter for not having composited Walter due to his formula making them billions. Granted Walter would’ve never hired jimmy for it, and Walter most likely signed a contract where he’d get no money from the company in general, but knowing Jimmy would’ve found a way and Walter would’ve gotten his share without having anyone killed.
Walt was on a whole other level in season 5 it's crazy going back rewatching from beginning again. He's the worst possible version of himself here and I find it crazy how Walt's enemies went from intinital opposing drug lords to the ones around him and closest to him.
I have always loved this scene and rewatch it more than a lot of BB scenes. Sounds crazy- no violence, no intense thrills. Maybe because it’s two amazing actors laying out who their characters are in a cordial conversation. Or maybe it’s because I love how Bryan Cranston says the word “BILLIONS” at 2:56.
brian cranston said that whenever working on a character, he as an actor always tries to find an emotional core for that specific character that he can derive all his emotions from. For example, in Malcom in the middle, hal's emotional core was fear. Brian cranston said he was struggling to find an emotional core for Walt. But then after much contemplation, he realised that Walter White was depressed. He said he conducted some online research and how depression is usually expressed either outwardly or inwardly. In this case, walt has been depressed and has kind of imploded before the show even begins. He missed so many importnant landmarks thorughout his life in his opinion. He had that traumatic ONLY memory of his own father dying on a hospital bed from an incurable genetic disease. He messed up his life with Gretchen due to his own patriarchal ego (probably due to this very lack of a positive male model in his early childhood where he probably struggled financially with his mother and had to earn for himself at a young age). He mesed up grey matter. He messed up buying a house and failing as a scientist as well. He hates his life. And then he is diagnosed with cancer. Cooking meth, being good at something and more importantly, being respected and feared for it gave him so much power and genuine thrill. His family life got fucked up and he 100% is unhappy about it, and his selfishness ruined so many lives, but he liked it. As he (SPOILER) laid there dying in the lab, i dont think he regretted it.
We can see that Walt's ego was primarily driven by his bitterness against Gray Matter. The fact that he looks at the company's value every week is just depressing. It's like he's motivated by hatred and anger towards the Schwartz's success disguised as "serving his family".
Walt didnt take the buyout because he wanted the money; that’s true. But also…that 5 million wouldn’t have been from meth at all, it would’ve only been from stealing the methyl-amine. Part of this decision was that Walt wanted to get rich from his brilliance and formula, not just because he was smart enough to rob a train.
@@mryagami8448 He wasn't evil. He wasn't a good man at all but he wasn't truly bad either. Honestly, the only main characters I'd consider good in this series are Jesse and Hank.
@@H.K.5 Walt hasn’t done a single thing for someone else from his comfortable position. Anytime he does good its bc he’s in danger which usually involves killing somebody. Walter is evil.
@@neighborhoodk3477 Not true, he saved Jesse by killing those two drug dealers. He didn't have to do that and could've just stayed at home but instead, he put his own job and life on the line because he cared.
I just laugh at how deluded Walt is for wanting to hold onto the meth business, Jesse just keeps firing shots. Selling a share of $5,000 for a perfectly legal, safe company is not equal to netting $5 million to rid yourself of an illicit meth business that puts your family at risk for every minute of its existence. Walter really valued his ego so highly he had family members like Hank killed, kept Skyler deathly worried, all for his stupid ego he could not let go of.
And yet a few months later he makes his money, fulfills his ego with the meth empire and walks away clean. He only gets caught and has everything fall apart because of a fluke that has nothing to do with him refusing to sell here. He could've easily agreed to this deal right here and Hank could've still sat in his toilet at some point and found the book anyways.
I used to think that Walt was the right guy and always rooted for him. Even when he poisoned a child, let a young woman choke to death and blew up a nursing home, I was like yeah thats badass. But upon rewatching the series and reading more about it I finally realized how much of an asshole he turned into. What a character. Kudos to the writers.
The meth, empire argument, and Jesse counter to that is a very good point I mean the only business that literally would have more blood on the person’s hands is in arms dealer
“I’m in the empire business” just makes me cringe so hard. Walt it just losing it at this point. Doesn’t even hear how small and try-hard it sounds out loud.
"I'm in the empire business." You can tell in Jesse Pinkman's eyes, that he knew the Mr. White who was his high school Chemistry teacher was long gone. All that remained, for him, was Heisenberg.
For someone who has made regretable a choice in the past, i feel somehow related to this scene. If I have to make a similar choice again in the future, I will make a diffrient one.
It's crazy how different this scene looks like to me 7 years later. At first I thought Walt was a badass, but now I'm just cringing with Jesse 😂😂. I'm going to rewatch it all.
i wonder what a few dozen of high altitude nukes would do to the great "blockchain" ... maybe turn some of your gains into real shit, like a hazmat suit and a shovel.
@@siddbastard "a few dozen high altitude nukes" would absolutely annihilate the Earth's atmosphere and turn you into the Two-face KWISPY meme irl. And the planet would become an uninhabitable wasteland for countless years to come thanks to radiation poisoning. Unlike your fantasy regarding crypto, it seems like your brain matter doesn't require nukes to go off to turn into a shit pudding.
@@siddbastard nuclear war would presumably also make our traditional fiat currencies worthless as well. The only non-perishable commodities that are going to hold their value after a nuclear war are guns, ammo and precious metals. Possibly livestock, too.
“I sold my kids birthright for a few months rent.” Yeah and you were offered it all back but you still turned it down. Walt’s problem was never misfortune like he says in “Cancer man”. It was always his pride.
@@ralfturbach4703 Die Synchronstimme von Walt ist aber schon hammer, die passt schon wie die Faust aufs Auge, finde ich.
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@@anasmoriya Finde die einzigen richtig guten Synchronstimmen sind die von Jesse, Marie, Skyler und Jimmy/Saul. Walter ist so lala, Walter Jr ist unerträglich.
If the cancer didn't kill him that bitterness would have. Walt wasn't a smoker and there's no evidence lung cancer ran in his family so it would be interesting if the cancer was a manifestation of the pent-up bitterness in his heart that only festered with time.
@@jizou1581 walter was a genius already but he lacked that attitude in the beginning whereas jesse was a failure in everything..he learned those things very fast and he gain some confidence after accomplishing the things he has never done before properly...
He put bis whole family and many others in danger because of his ego. 5 million and Mike would be alive, all the guys in prison, Jesse would never been tortured by the Nazis and his family would not be in danger.
I just love the fact that Jesse does a callback to Walter's calculation of only needing 737000 dollars. Really shows how he's been paying attention to Walt slowly lose himself to the underworld.
Despite his drug use he has a surprisingly good memory, like when he was able to name the different chemistry glassware to badger after Walt showed him.
The first time I watched it I thought that’s what 737 means. But in ABQ i was shocked.
Yeah, well it's easier to remember something like that. Especially, right after watching Tuco uses his fists to beat a man to death right in front of you.
But know he realized he just bought time he wouldn’t love he wanted to secure his families future and the next families and the next one and that’s what he did
If they sold the methlyamine now it would’ve been a lot better in the long run
Funny how $737,000 was practically peanuts for Walt near the end of the show.
Yet gray matter still is way more successful then he is with that 80 million dollars.
@@everettenjeze6276 True, just goes to show how egotistical Walt became because 8 million was enough to keep Walt and his family out of work for the rest of their lives.
@@everettenjeze6276That’s 80 million within a few months though. Walter told Declan that a third of his meth empire, distribution, would yield 130 million in profit. If Walter cooked the whole methlymine batch, with Jesse out of the picture, he could have easily tripled that 80 million in under a year, whereas Grey Matter grew under decades of work
At the end of the series, he managed to give more than enough to his family of 9 million dollars.
@@everettenjeze6276 Not really though.
Because the valuation of the company on the stock market is not how much cash the company has.
The cash flow of the company cannot be used at will to the owner of that company. Publicly traded companies have certain regulations, etc.
Company owners have salaries, and they can't sell the stocks they own for cash without forfeiting the company to a third party.
And taxes, etc.
And furthermore, Walt's ability to exponentially increase the amount of money without having any competitors or external risk is far more valuable.
"I sold my kids' birthright for a few month's rent"
That line always gets me for some reason.
Then he sold Hank's life, Mike's life, Steve Gomez's life, Andrea's life, a world of misery for the rest of his family's lives, and his own life, for his dumb Empire.
@@dontbothermeimjust12 Damn, dude. That's cold.
But not inaccurate!
and yet if he stayed with Grey Matter, he probably would've stayed with Gretchen too, and the kids we know wouldn't exist.
@@FooodSandwich yeah and gretchen is way better then skylar
"Mr. White is a meth empire really something to be that proud of" 😆 Jesse nails it
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Walter white reply: well Jesse is taking drugs and getting high anything to bitch at? ... Bitch!
The character development is so good, they're literally opposites of their season 1 selves
honestly it is, considering they built it all by themselves with pure skill and hard work. Definitely admirable.
Bro, for the love of Heisenberg, please use a comma.
The line "I'm in the empire business" is always put in montages as a badass Walt line, but it's funny how much Jesse's rebuttal tears it all apart. I love the way this show self-mythologises and simultaneously rips apart any idea that these characters are anything more than flawed humans.
Walter felt alive he is proud that he did something something that let him be free something that mattered he loved ten times the life of a normal person he helped his family
Why is being the CEO/COO of Merck something to be prouder of than running an international meth operation?
@@CheerfullyCynical829 Nobody said that.
They portray Walt as a tough and cool anti-hero plenty of times, but they always flip it around later to reveal he's just a horrible person. I think the best example of this would be the season 4 finale, with the reveal at the end that he poisoned the kid
@@CheerfullyCynical829 Grey Matter Technologies is a scientific research company, not a pharmaceutical company.
“I look it up every week”
That shows you that Heisenberg had always been inside Walt, ever since he left Gray Matter.
He was always a time bomb, the cancer just started the timer
This is deep shit
“Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.”
~The Joker
Madness=Heisenberg’s meth empire
The little push=Lung cancer
Obsessing over something can't be healthy
Heisenberg is who he has always been, Walter White too, but part of him became dormant, then it revived with a vengeance.
THIS is why Walter White is one of the greatest characters of all time. He is bitterness personified. It eats him up. He looks it up every week so he can get more bitter. And all that matters to him in the end is validation for that bitterness, for the empire he felt he deserved.
Being good is overrated, it’s to make others feel comfortable for the most part, nobody gives a shit only that you serve their mood, Heisenberg is being true to himself
He always deserved an empire but the middle class morality pulled him back. The moment cancer entered his life, he kicked the morality out and he had the empire he yearned for.
@Sefu2006 yeah but Jesse sums up his silliness at the end. Walt actually did a good job swallowing his pride and taking care of his son and wife. A big part of this "break" is the delusion that any of this works amounts to anything other than a lack of inhibition. It begins to satisfy his ego over time but the biggest part of it was genuine insecurity, brought on by facing his death on the horizon at one of the worst moments in his life.
@@DailyLifeSolution
Always so nice to see the toxic Walter White Acolytes calling themselves out.
Walt screwed himself over. He walked away from an opportunity out of ego and bitterness, and he suffered for that ever since. He was a pathetic little narcissist who doesn't deserve an ounce of respect.
@@Lamporre Yk, it is quite rare to find someone using their brain when it comes to Walt. The dude's a great character, but he is not a good person and justifying him is just pathetic.
Walt couldn't realize he was in ego business all along
That’s what the empire business is though. People that value power and legacy over everything-family, money, friends, health, etc. People like Rockefeller, Gates, Carnigie, Caesar-they all cared more about building empires and the pursuit of their legacy over everything.
@@thtswhtshesai6d9 yes but he didn't try to build it properly like Fring, in the sense of taking his time and putting personal matters aside. The Empire at that point was more to me about gloryfying the Heisenberg reputation and getting big results fast enough than thinking efficiency on mid/long term
@@alexeiharp7676 the biggest weakness with Heisenberg was not just his ego but his family. If Skyler had actually divorced Walt and moved out of the town with her kids and if Walt had ler Jesse go who knows how big his empire would be. He pretty much surpassed Gus fring in pure profit in just about 1 year without needing to waste as many resources. But eventually his love for his family dragged Walt back to earth and eventually everything caught up to him.
@@alexeiharp7676 he wouldnt be able to take his time the cancer would take him in like 4 years
Quit while your ahead is the name of the game. He didn't wanna quit. The more u make meth. The more u open up cases. I'm with Jesse on that note. He says he's in the empire business. It sounds like your in the I'm getting arrested business.
When he says that he looks the value of the company every week, that just shows you how regretfull he is for selling out, and it kinda makes you understand why he wants a lot more. Brilliant writing. No show will come at close range with this one for sure.
But even when he is offered to return back to the company in Season 1, and money to have his treatment covered he still turns it down cause he despises anything that comes close to “charity”.
He is just incapable of letting go of his pride and ego for even 1 second. It’s his own worst enemy that he doesn’t choice to recognize until he loses everything, that his son lashing out at him was his wake up call that he has nobody to blame but himself.
It's sad that this is probably the biggest reason that walt was unable to move on and held onto his regrets about this for decades
@@Ashtasticle94 True.
That's literally anyone that misses out on a big investment.
@@jamaljames9331'its all I have left!'
I find it so powerful when Walt says “billions”. The look in his eyes, the emphasis on B, and the anger behind his voice all add up his year-long regret of the buyout and how he’s ready to reclaim what he lost no matter what.
It’s okay to be angry! This world doesn’t give about you! Only that serve others and babysit their feelings!
It’s how I feel whenever I see the list of people from Forbes and see their income go up. Folks like Gates, Musk, Bezos. You name it.
TWO POINT SIX.
@@timothygumenik726it’s different for Walt, he feels he was cheated from his destiny. Resentment is much bigger fuel than simple envy. That’s why he’ll never make the same mistake again.
"I'm in the empire business".
Even Jesse knew how useless it was to argue with Walt at this point, and how embarrassing it is that Walt even proudly said that.
LMAOO jesse was no better Till recent, when certain events change him. Jesse literally got caught by DEA multiple times and you know his reaction ? “I’m back at it tomorrow “ he would’ve loved for the empire earlier on
@@PrimoVGL So what you're saying is.
He GREW and CHANGED as a PERSON, for the BETTER.
@@SteelBallRun1890 yeah of course, but it’s not like Jesse was some saint who would’ve been above that just a few months ago.
@@PrimoVGL I don't think anyone can ever say Jesse was a saint. But he was also like 24-26 during the events of the show, that's still a kid in comparison to the hardened criminals in his business, and no matter how much he wanted to act "gangsta", when faced with the harshness of the business he's in, it shows how much he's in over his head.
The full reality of his line of work is specifically why he changes for the better.
@@SteelBallRun1890 true, he was naive to the life and had a wake up call once kids was bought into it. It was a way to make some fast cash for him but by the end that wasn’t even important to him
This thing was eating him alive, his whole life, before cancer was even a thing.
Maybe that's what actually gave him the cancer?
@@sinanengin5756 that aint how it works bro
stress won't bring it on but does increase the spread and growth of cancer @@ufctekkers1945
What makes this scene depressing is that he mentions Gray Matter, it reminds us that he was once a good man, seeing him now as he exists is gut wrenching, knowing that he could have been something (morally) better.
Well said.
I always liked walt as a character because he gets royally screwed by life, and knows he's going to die and then takes life by the reigns and doesn't let anyone get into his way to the top, he did more in the meth business in two years time(the actual length of time that passes by over breaking bad not when it aired) than the salamanca's or Mr fring could do in they're lifetimes, it's very satisfying to watch him take over and become a badass. I especially like the scene when he says he didn't do it for the money, but because he liked it. He might be a self serving morally depraved psychopath by the end but I get it
@@trevorhatcher1255 Me too. I get why he did it.
The most frustrating part was that Walt didn't allow himself to fully enjoy the meth business and took too long to embrace his true self.
Or…….Gray Matter could have become equivalent of LexCorp.
We seriously do need Bryan Cranston to play Lex Luthor.
I love how in the end, with Walt descending more and more in his corruption and immorality, Jesse becomes the ethical voice on the show
And to think that Vince nearly killed him off in the first season. And he was gonna conclude it with Walt basically turning into Jigsaw until it got his son killed by accident. (not joking either, look it up)
From Season 2 Episode 6 "Peakaboo"
Gretchen: You left me. Newport, 4th of July weekend. You and my father and my brothers and I go up to our room and you're packing your bags, barely talking. What? Did I dream all of that?
Walt: That's your excuse to build your little empire on my work?
Gretchen: How can you say that to me? You walked away. You abandoned us, me, Elliott.
Walt: Little rich girl just adding to your millions.
Gretchen: I don't even know what to say to you. I don't even know where to begin I feel so sorry for you, Walt.
Walt: Fuck you.
It's laid out clear from that moment. Walt was visiting Gretchen's family at the incredibly wealthy town of Newport, and left. When she brings that up, he refuses to answer why he did that, and instead attacks her as a "rich girl." In their previous meeting at Elliot's birthday from the episode "Gray Matter" we saw Walt's sad smile displaying longing and regret when he lays eyes on Gretchen and how uncomfortable he was at the party seeing the Schwartzs' wealth and being amongst many distinguished scientists, engineers, and businessmen. He was embarrassed when he mentioned he was an educator to the other successful scientists and they asked him what university he taught at.
By Season 2 Episode 3 "Bit by a Dead Bee" as Walt is being questioned about his fugue state he says:
Walter White: My wife is seven months pregnant with a baby we didn't intend. My fifteen-year old son has cerebral palsy. I am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher. When I can work, I make $43,700 per year. I have watched all of my colleagues and friends surpass me in every way imaginable.
In the following link Gretchen's actress Jessica Hecht gives us the backstory.
www.amc.com/shows/breaking-bad/talk/2009/05/jessica-hecht-interview
"Vince Gilligan told us exactly what went down between the characters off screen: We were very much in love and we were to get married. And he came home and met my family, and I come from this really successful, wealthy family, and that knocks him on his side. He couldn’t deal with this inferiority he felt - this lack of connection to privilege. It made him terrified, and he literally just left me, and I was devastated. Walt is fighting his way out of going back to that emotional place, so he says, “F- you.”
...
In the following link Vince Gilligan himself gives us the word of God.
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vince-gilligan-walter-white-gray-matter_us_56e85f27e4b0b25c91838d57
“It ends with him being so nasty to her saying, ‘Fuck you,' and then she leaves tearfully,” said Gilligan. “In my mind, the interesting thing here, and I always kind of hate to nail it down so explicitly - but let’s put it this way, most viewers of ‘Breaking Bad’ assume Gretchen and Elliott are the bad guys, and they assume that Walt got ripped off by them, got ill used by them, and I never actually saw it that way.”
Gilligan explained that the truth is more nuanced. It all stemmed from White’s feeling of inferiority while spending time with Gretchen’s family.
“I think it was kind of situation where he didn’t realize the girl he was about to marry was so very wealthy and came from such a prominent family, and it kind of blew his mind and made him feel inferior and he overreacted. He just kind of checked out. I think there is that whole other side to the story, and it can be gleaned. This isn’t really the CliffsNotes version so much. These facts can be gleaned if you watch some of these scenes really closely enough, and you watch them without too much of an overriding bias toward Walt and against Gretchen and Elliott,” said Gilligan.
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From: Season 5 Episode 6 "Buyout"
Walter White: Jesse, have you heard of a company called "Gray Matter?"
Jesse Pinkman: No.
Walter White: Well, I co-founded it in grad school with a couple of friends of mine. Actually, I was the one who named it. And back then, it was just... oh, it was just small-time. We had a couple patents pending, but nothing earth-shattering. Course, we all knew the potential. Yeah, we were gonna take the world by storm. And then... This, uh... Well, something happened between the three of us. And I'm not gonna go into detail, but for personal reasons, I decided to leave the company and I sold my share to my two partners. I took a buyout for $5000. Now at the time, that was a lot of money for me. Care to guess what that company is worth now?
Jesse Pinkman: Millions?
Walter White: Billions. With a "b." Two point one-six billion as of last Friday. I look it up every week. And I sold my share, my potential, for $5000. I sold my kids' birthright for a few months' rent.
Walter White: Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business.
Walt has both an inferiority and superiority complex. He feels insecure that all his peers have surpassed him, and around other geniuses like Gale. Yet he has a massive ego and believes he deserves more. Hence why he could not work with someone like Gale and needs someone like Jesse to feel smarter and boss around. He never would've said yes because of his fragile ego.
TBH. I never saw Gretchen and Elliot as the villains ever. They offered him the seat THAT HE LEFT when he showed up to their party.
@@luliu4572 but the show was about Walter's ego when they were having that conversation Walter was actually considering joining back until Elliot told him that he knows Walter has cancer. So, again Walter thought that Elliot is doing this out of some pity and not because Walter deserves it.
Also in that episode "grey matter" does elliot not offer him a job or help but Walts pride again gets in the way and is angry at Skyler for telling them he is sick.
Walt doesn't want to be given hand outs but wants to to be the chief ,Head honcho the man in charge.
Whatever idea he had of doing it all for the family quickly died and he did it because it felt good because it made him feel important.
lol comment thief
Vravo Bince
Two kinds of people in this world, or at least, located in an opposite side of a spectrum:
The ones that agree with Jesse's response to the empire business line.
And the ones that think, well, an empire is an empire.
I'm the latter I think
I love how in the beggining walt was worried when jesse called or came to his house and now he's so chill about it
really shows their developement.
The fact that Walter won’t go into detail about why he left grey matter definitely indicates that it was his fault in why he left
Yeah! I think that fact gets lost in the shuffle and is such a fundamental trait of Walt's character and insecurities.
He even confirmed to Jesse that he chose to leave, confirming what Gretchen said during their argument in Season 2.
yup and some ppl still believe gretchen was the villain in that story lol
People focus on Walt's 'Empire business' quote, but I like Jesse's more. 'I don't know Mr White. Is a meth empire really something to be proud of?'
On the face of it, it doesn't make sense to be proud of running a meth empire.
However, having set up an empire at the scale WW did at the speed at which he did it, is without doubt something he deserved to be proud of...
@@kartikiyer3067 Is nuking a country twice something to be proud of?
@@thatonenoob7854 Yes.
Yes
@@thatonenoob7854 If your a warlord than I guess
Gotta love that vague "for personal reasons I left the company" line. Just casually leaving out the fact what robbed him of his billions and broke up the Grey Matter band was cuz Walt was too intimidated by Gretchen's family being rich and decided to ditch.
Dude literally couldn't handle an inferiority complex of his girlfriend being wealthy, sold his shares and ran.
Every tragedy in Walt's life, every moment in the show he could've gotten away with something or avoided antagonizing the wrong people, all the way down to the failure that made him who he is, it's all tied to his ego.
Such a great speech and piece of acting by Cranston. And Paul too.
I can honestly say, that that statement applies to pretty much any scene these two are in.
“I’m in the empire business” is such a goofy sounding phrase when you think about it. Walt does it often, throw around these one liners for effect when it just makes him look even more deluded. Truly, one of the biggest geniuses and idiots of television, Cranston’s portrayal is timeless.
fr that line is so corny and cringe but Cranston says it like he truly believes it and that's a lot
I’m pretty sure Walt with all his infinite wisdom would be more than capable of starting a completely new LEGAL business with that 5 million, or even easier franchise the car wash business if he’s so infatuated with the idea of running an empire
I think this scene should be enough to convince the audience that Walt’s justifications that he is in the life of crime for his family IS complete BS.
I mean, his justification wasn't very convincing at the beginning either.
This scene pretty much explains the entire series. How he went from being a moral man to committing crimes to provide for his family and finally working for himself because he liked what he was doing.
I disagree that he went from being a moral man to this. I think the point of the show is that he was always like this. Selfish, bitter, greedy. The cancer just gave him the chance to act on it without consequence (he'll be dead anyways, whether he gets caught or not).
@@lucasirwin3074 that's a really bad interpretation of the events and the character
@@jamessanders145it's pretty accurate
@@lucasirwin3074 Agreed. The fact that people were cheering for this narcissist week after week, it's repulsive. I spent years hating him and hearing shit from other BB fans who couldn't believe that I was rooting for him to fail and die already. Long before Brock was poisoned, too.
@@jamessanders145how so? He's a narcissist and he's always been that way. There are tons of examples of it from before his cancer diagnosis (his feelings towards gretchen/gray matter, for example)
This is absolutely one of my favorite scenes in the entire series. It is so well-written and acted by both actors. I love how Jesse has become the voice of reason, especially when he says, "I don't know. Mr. White, is a meth empire really something to be that proud of?" Very, very moving to me. This scene is a great, great scene.
Walt didn't understand that with $5m, cleaned he could invest in a legal business venture and work to grow that, using the management skills he learned in the meth business.
I love how you can see the brewing in his eyes while Jesse is trying to explain it to him realistically
Fun fact: This scene is actually a reference to Ronald Wayne from Apple. Wayne left Apple 2 weeks after the company was established in 1976 and sold his share for $800. If he kept his share, it would be worth more than $60 billion in present day.
1:05 my favorite pinkman line
Walt’s face after Jesse says “mathematically” 😂😂
It’s crazy to see that Walt’s ego is the biggest thing compared to the empire he created.
It's technically why it happened to begin with
The reality is, he's not in the empire business. He's not even in the business of evil, like a lot of fans say he is. Something that I think a lot of fans miss that went right under their noses is that Walt is, at the end of the day, in the Popcorners business, and their seven quality flavors.
I love that Walt makes this big production about what he gave up, about what he felt cheated on and how this business was his chance to build the empire he believed he deserved. But then Jesse brings it all down by asking if a meth empire is really something to be proud of. Walt is a bitter man trying to win this game because he lost the last round and he doesn't care if what he's building towards is really worth it. He just wants to win
This is the exact moment millions became billions, with a b
Nailed it!
'I...WE have suffered and bled literally for this business.' Just another reason why I adore this show. Walt is desperate not to let everybody see his unchecked ego and wants to seem like he cares and empathises with others. Brilliant television.
Greatest line of all time
🎯
Facts
I personally still prefer in The Sopranos Season 1 when they have a Jew they're roughing up and he goes a long rant about how 900 Jews bested a legion of 15K Romans and that they chose death before enslavement and the Romans, where are they today? Gives a look like we got them. But then Tony standing with Silvio and Paulie and Tony says you're looking at them asshole. And then the guy realizes... Oh no... These people are from Naples, Calabria, Sicily. THESE are indeed the Romans. Now all that said, the 3 series between The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad are all fantastic. I recommend the 1st Season of Fargo.
The guy was never gonna quit. It's the classic issue with those who are in it for power. Money becomes nothing, it's all about building. W.W is right and true to his word, has nothing to do with greed, it's just a viewpoint. Pinkman never had such views. Sad how it ends.
What’s hilarious is that Jimmy brings up a point in better call Saul at the final season that Jimmy could’ve found a way to sue grey matter for not having composited Walter due to his formula making them billions.
Granted Walter would’ve never hired jimmy for it, and Walter most likely signed a contract where he’d get no money from the company in general, but knowing Jimmy would’ve found a way and Walter would’ve gotten his share without having anyone killed.
"I sold my kids' birthright for a few months' rent".
Nowadays that would barely be two months' rent in most cities.
Give me rent.
@@finmat95you'll get your door when you fix this damn rent
@@cathcartofficial5632 This is a free rent country, not a free country.
Walt was on a whole other level in season 5 it's crazy going back rewatching from beginning again. He's the worst possible version of himself here and I find it crazy how Walt's enemies went from intinital opposing drug lords to the ones around him and closest to him.
Yeah, ever since he killed Gus he got gassed up on ego. Man become Hector Salamanca: Gringo Edition.
I have always loved this scene and rewatch it more than a lot of BB scenes. Sounds crazy- no violence, no intense thrills. Maybe because it’s two amazing actors laying out who their characters are in a cordial conversation. Or maybe it’s because I love how Bryan Cranston says the word “BILLIONS” at 2:56.
Same
Bouillons with a B
brian cranston said that whenever working on a character, he as an actor always tries to find an emotional core for that specific character that he can derive all his emotions from. For example, in Malcom in the middle, hal's emotional core was fear. Brian cranston said he was struggling to find an emotional core for Walt. But then after much contemplation, he realised that Walter White was depressed. He said he conducted some online research and how depression is usually expressed either outwardly or inwardly. In this case, walt has been depressed and has kind of imploded before the show even begins. He missed so many importnant landmarks thorughout his life in his opinion. He had that traumatic ONLY memory of his own father dying on a hospital bed from an incurable genetic disease. He messed up his life with Gretchen due to his own patriarchal ego (probably due to this very lack of a positive male model in his early childhood where he probably struggled financially with his mother and had to earn for himself at a young age). He mesed up grey matter. He messed up buying a house and failing as a scientist as well. He hates his life. And then he is diagnosed with cancer. Cooking meth, being good at something and more importantly, being respected and feared for it gave him so much power and genuine thrill. His family life got fucked up and he 100% is unhappy about it, and his selfishness ruined so many lives, but he liked it. As he (SPOILER) laid there dying in the lab, i dont think he regretted it.
Beautiful analysis
I love how Walt's scene in Better Call Saul called back to this.
We can see that Walt's ego was primarily driven by his bitterness against Gray Matter. The fact that he looks at the company's value every week is just depressing. It's like he's motivated by hatred and anger towards the Schwartz's success disguised as "serving his family".
Walt didnt take the buyout because he wanted the money; that’s true. But also…that 5 million wouldn’t have been from meth at all, it would’ve only been from stealing the methyl-amine. Part of this decision was that Walt wanted to get rich from his brilliance and formula, not just because he was smart enough to rob a train.
I started wanting a piece of the sidewalk. Even a stray dog gets a piece. Now. I want everything.
*B I L L I E N S*
*WITH A BEE*
Jesse was the conscience, Skyler was the alarm.
For me Skyler was the truth I didn't want to admit my first watch. Walt was evil to put it plainly.
@@mryagami8448 He wasn't evil. He wasn't a good man at all but he wasn't truly bad either. Honestly, the only main characters I'd consider good in this series are Jesse and Hank.
@@H.K.5 Walt hasn’t done a single thing for someone else from his comfortable position. Anytime he does good its bc he’s in danger which usually involves killing somebody. Walter is evil.
@@neighborhoodk3477 Not true, he saved Jesse by killing those two drug dealers. He didn't have to do that and could've just stayed at home but instead, he put his own job and life on the line because he cared.
@@H.K.5 he needs Jesse. He’s never cared about him very much outside of the obvious manipulation tactics he uses
These two are brilliant actors
Brilliant. With a B
The way he said “I’m in the empire business” lol so funny....we miss you Walter
Walter and his stupid drip
Considering that there are no second chances in this business, Walt’s success is even more commendable
I wonder if Walt's true end goal was to make more money than Gray Matter was worth so he could say to Gretchen and Elliot that he's better then them
He came 2.08 billion short of his target
More like 640 million short, as he would have had a 33% share of that 2.16 Billion (assuming they didn't sell stock to raise capital or go public).
@@liamcollins9183 Still a lot of money
His empire was worth more than he made. The 80 millions were just income from a couple of months
“I’m in the empire business” is one of the dumbest lines in the entire series. It encapsulates how delusional Walter and makes no goddamn sense.
U wouldn't say that to his face
Walt´s ego was worth 80 million, Jesse fucking understand that xd
I love the way he says Millions and Billions
I just laugh at how deluded Walt is for wanting to hold onto the meth business, Jesse just keeps firing shots. Selling a share of $5,000 for a perfectly legal, safe company is not equal to netting $5 million to rid yourself of an illicit meth business that puts your family at risk for every minute of its existence. Walter really valued his ego so highly he had family members like Hank killed, kept Skyler deathly worried, all for his stupid ego he could not let go of.
And yet a few months later he makes his money, fulfills his ego with the meth empire and walks away clean. He only gets caught and has everything fall apart because of a fluke that has nothing to do with him refusing to sell here. He could've easily agreed to this deal right here and Hank could've still sat in his toilet at some point and found the book anyways.
Walt's entire character summed up in 4 minutes
If he’d have just taken the 5 million it would have been a very different ending
He forgot the part where he was invited back in but he's pride was too high to except it
I used to think that Walt was the right guy and always rooted for him. Even when he poisoned a child, let a young woman choke to death and blew up a nursing home, I was like yeah thats badass. But upon rewatching the series and reading more about it I finally realized how much of an asshole he turned into. What a character. Kudos to the writers.
The meth, empire argument, and Jesse counter to that is a very good point I mean the only business that literally would have more blood on the person’s hands is in arms dealer
“I’m in the empire business” just makes me cringe so hard. Walt it just losing it at this point. Doesn’t even hear how small and try-hard it sounds out loud.
Best part of this episode is where Skyler asks Jesse if Walt told him about the affair she had with Beneke
Walt looks like a super villain with that glass of wine
He basically is a super villain
After hearing Walts story, I dont condone what he did.
But I understand. 😢
Jessie does not know he not talking to the same man from season 1 .
"I'm in the empire business." You can tell in Jesse Pinkman's eyes, that he knew the Mr. White who was his high school Chemistry teacher was long gone. All that remained, for him, was Heisenberg.
problem was at this point of the show, this empire is all walt had left and he knew it
"I look it up every week"
Ive always liked the way Walt opened the door to let Jesse in, it's like he had a swagger doing it
For someone who has made regretable a choice in the past, i feel somehow related to this scene. If I have to make a similar choice again in the future, I will make a diffrient one.
Damn, you’re also a cancer induced chemistry teacher who turned to making methemphetamine with his old student?
@@benvolio5415 ikr like wtf scenario have they been in similar to this
I agree, let's sell meth
Haven't we all? Don't let it haunt you bro.
I check it every week, doesn't shock me at all Walt :D
Scenes like this are what make the final two episodes of the series all the more powerful for me.
Me if I was Jesse: Okay, Palpatine
It's crazy how different this scene looks like to me 7 years later. At first I thought Walt was a badass, but now I'm just cringing with Jesse 😂😂. I'm going to rewatch it all.
You are so right !
This me when im too greedy trying sell my crypto gains
i wonder what a few dozen of high altitude nukes would do to the great "blockchain" ... maybe turn some of your gains into real shit, like a hazmat suit and a shovel.
@@siddbastard are you dense?
@@siddbastard "a few dozen high altitude nukes" would absolutely annihilate the Earth's atmosphere and turn you into the Two-face KWISPY meme irl. And the planet would become an uninhabitable wasteland for countless years to come thanks to radiation poisoning. Unlike your fantasy regarding crypto, it seems like your brain matter doesn't require nukes to go off to turn into a shit pudding.
@@siddbastard nuclear war would presumably also make our traditional fiat currencies worthless as well. The only non-perishable commodities that are going to hold their value after a nuclear war are guns, ammo and precious metals. Possibly livestock, too.
@@Morty90152 yes i'm dense and i should have never doubted that our great civilisation will last a thousand million years
I love how walt is wearing the watch jesse gave him and jesse sees he liked the gift
" i look it up every week" i would literally do the same
How does Walt know they would have made that same success with him?
Grey matter is why he started cooking meth the cancer was just the last straw
Bilyuns
He is just awake and sees the reality as its real truth .
3:34 me after buying a stock share at 30 bucks and selling at 35
Damn it feels so good to have a glass of whiskey in your hand
He is right when you create something that you know is good you don’t walk away. Never sell yourself for less than what you know your worth.
“I sold my kids birthright for a few months rent.” Yeah and you were offered it all back but you still turned it down. Walt’s problem was never misfortune like he says in “Cancer man”. It was always his pride.
This scene answer why Walter felt alive while he was in business. He found an opportunity to be part of something he lost- an empire.
Walter white: 😈I’m in the Empire business.
Breaking Bad is my fucking life. Watched it 4 times in German, IDK if I should rewatch it again in the original English version?
Ja solltest du. Die deutsche Synchro ist übertrieben schlecht.
I'd recommend it, turn on subtitles if you're not 100% confident with your english.
@@ralfturbach4703 Die Synchronstimme von Walt ist aber schon hammer, die passt schon wie die Faust aufs Auge, finde ich.
@@anasmoriya Finde die einzigen richtig guten Synchronstimmen sind die von Jesse, Marie, Skyler und Jimmy/Saul. Walter ist so lala, Walter Jr ist unerträglich.
I don't know why people bother watching dubs. If I was watching a German show, I would never turn on an English dub.
" I am in the Empire business "
"Mr.White, Is the meth Empire really something to be that proud of ? "
Classic lines
The moment he could've gotten out
"I'm in the empire business" - Heisenberg
This backstory should have been revealed in season 1.
If the cancer didn't kill him that bitterness would have. Walt wasn't a smoker and there's no evidence lung cancer ran in his family so it would be interesting if the cancer was a manifestation of the pent-up bitterness in his heart that only festered with time.
This conversation deserved not to be interrupted
Skylar walking in was the reason Jesse wasn’t able to convince him
If you have Confidence like jesse pinkman and Attitude like Walter white you can do anything!
why jesses confidence? walter has so much more confidence than jesse
@@jizou1581 walter was a genius already but he lacked that attitude in the beginning whereas jesse was a failure in everything..he learned those things very fast and he gain some confidence after accomplishing the things he has never done before properly...
If you have the mind of walt and the age of Jesse you're definitely unstoppable
when he says "Start with a B", such a regret...
TWO POINT SIX.
He put bis whole family and many others in danger because of his ego.
5 million and Mike would be alive, all the guys in prison, Jesse would never been tortured by the Nazis and his family would not be in danger.