@@misterrominade7928 Hmm, i feel more like Gus was throwing ''subtle'' threats towards Walt, with other words : "You will provide for me even though i don't appreciate, respect or love you, or else you will die", i feel like Walt knew this and felt like he had no choice but to accept. You could clearly hear it in Gus his voice, the tone and everything.
@@Feral94Gus already had Gale in his back pocket who was more than capable of running this lab it's just that he wanted the very best and that happened to be Walt. And Walt's ego was easier to read than a children's book.
Gus simply did a background check on him and knew that he :1- was extremely bitter deep down and had a huge ego 2 - was passed over/left out out of his lifes work and passion which only deepend his resolve to claim the prestige and the fruits of his remarkable labor
I dont really see this as manipulation, because manipulation is making the other do something without him knowing your intent. There, Gus is just convincing him with strong words, both know what each other wants.
Nope, in fact Gus not going with his instinct on Walter was maybe his biggest mistake ever. He knew Walt was not a careful man. Walt did not want to work underneath anyone. He wanted to be Gus. They had completely incompatible philosophies.
@@GlassesAndCoffeeMugsif Gus got over Walter killing his two drug dealers & then brought him into his circle like Mike then I guaranteed they would have been a powerhouse. W.W was more then just a master cook.. dude was incredible when it comes to strategic moves
@@Sebastian-km9qx If Gus brought Walt into his circle, that wouldn't change the fact that Walt wanted to be the sole one to preside over an empire of his own creation. Walt's missed opportunity at Gray Matter Technologies shaped him into a jaded person who believed he was destined for greatness but was robbed of that opportunity because of circumstances outside his control. Walt would not be satisfied as an underling of anybody, especially Gus, who created a meth empire on his own. Walt's ego is so inflated due to his chemistry genius that he thinks it qualifies him in other areas. And to a certain extent it DID help in other areas. But Walt would never be satisfied as a mere employee underneath someone else. He felt he DESERVED to be the top dog.
It hits very different when you remember one of the initial episodes where Hank gave Walter his gun to hold on his birthday, and when Walter said, 'It's heavy,' one of the guests said, 'That's why they give it to MEN.' Everybody around him humiliated and treated him poorly, but Gus hit that very nerve by acknowledging Walter as a MAN. It surely played a significant role. A mastermind like Walter was easily manipulated here because, after a long time, he had someone who respected his skills, talents, and acknowledged him as a MAN with value.
yoooo this is so true. i rewatched the first episode recently and it straight up plays out like a comedy with how he's just getting roasted for 30 minutes straight and shown how pathetic his life is and no one respects him LMFAO literally rewatch the first episode i woulda folded too
I can’t help but feel Walt’s joy in this scene. He’s like a kid in a candy store. The most endearing part of his personality is his intense love of science.
In real life a chemist would have walked into that room, been like "I only work with beakers, I have no clue what any of this does, go find an engineer" and walked out.
@@BoxStudioExecutiveits the same stuff just on a much larger scale, there's probably big differences but it's not that big of a deal. The reaction vessel he's talking about is basically just a gigantic round bottom flask with better controls over it and built in. There's no separate heating and stirring or a separate thermometer, it's just all built in. That guy who got caught making molly on an industrial scale at his house out in the woods had this same scale equipment in his shed, Hamilton Morris interviews him. Big drug production busts always are of this size, usually in a random warehouse or something
I LOVE the music choice for this scene. Walt's in a dream-like state seeing this lab; how alluring it is with Gus' speech must've almost put him in a trance.
Well Gus isn’t wrong though. The two main responsibilities of a man is to protect and provide. But it’s interesting how Gus left out the protection bc he knows there is no protecting family in that line of work.
I think this let’s Walt off the hook a bit too much. Walt was at a vulnerable turning point here. He was even beginning to question to question why he was doing it. “For my family?” Gus saw an opening, and framed Walt’s identity, masculinity, fatherhood, etc as conditional upon accepting this job. All snake-like, for sure. No different than advertising - framing the sale in whatever terms the client wants to hear. Generally speaking, Walt’s insecurity cannot be understated. This is a guy who once thought he was going to be a billionaire. He desperately wants to prove to the world that he is still that person (this is why he can’t keep his mouth shut.) However, in this moment, I think he has let go of that “I’ll show them” aspect. Here, he doesn’t care what the world thinks of him. But, Walt hadn’t let go of that grandiose vision of himself. Maybe he’d stopped caring what most other people thought, but not himself. So when Gus tells him what he wants to hear, Walt accepts it. He could have walked away from his gigs-lab billionaire genius life which he felt entitled to - which he felt was stolen from him. Walt is one of the most consistently manipulative characters I’ve seen. Occasionally, he is not manipulative. Gus is, more or less, the reverse. This is a moment where Walt wasn’t being manipulative, but Gus was. I wrote this because I wanted to push back on the idea that Walt is a victim here. But now I think he is. Rare moment of role reversal. I fucking love this show haha
@@JosephJohnston94 yeah Walt's no victim and I don't feel sorry for him. Just a comment on Gus here and how little people mean to him. As the other guy pointed out, he knows Walt is putting his family at risk by being involved in the business (and he later threatens Walt's family to try and keep him in line). Anyone could have seen that Gus was trying to manipulate Walt here. It only worked because he understood him well enough. It just makes you think about how he has handled everyone else in his life and the ways he has worked them.
@@alcoballic9593 Wrong. He only said that stuff because he wanted to appeal to Walt's ego. Gus doesn't care about macho man "a real man does this and that" logic, but he knows that Walt has a fragile ego in that area, since he's already desperate enough to enter crime life because he can't provide for his family otherwise.
Nothing… That’s why everything went smoothly after this for Walt, finally. He was even able to permanently cure himself of Cancer too. Gustavo was the friend Walt always needed!
what made the most sense to me is that Walt would continue to mentor both Gale and Jesse in the lab, then take his leave after the 3 months. That way he’s leaving behind the most solid legacy (2 young apprentices) under the most stable possible position (under the protection of Gus)
Honestly, that would have been perfect, but itnwould require a few things to work. 1. Walt would have to be willing to accept Gus as the boss but he would in return get the recognition and respect he felt he deserved. 2. Gus would have needed to be more forthcoming about his plans with Walt and Jessie, the lack of trust is one of the things that lead things to go wrong. He would also have to enforce the no using children for street dealing and certainly no killing them. If they were stupid enough to hire kids and there was concern that was a liability. Then kill the dealers for their mistake and sever the connection to the kids. 3. Walt would have to convince Jessie that if he wants in this he needs to take it serious, no more screwing around, that he's his apprentice full time and he intends to turn him from a meth cook to a meth chef. 4. To seal the deal Gus can offer Walt a full partnership in the business for the time he has left, Gus handles distribution and Walt runs the lab overseeing Gale and Jessie's work. If that happened then Gus would have been successful in taking over the Cartel and the operation would have been perfect.
That Gus fellow sure knows how to motivate! How refreshing to see an employer that truly cares about his employees. I’m sure this is the start of a great bond between these two 😊
Gus: "Why did you make these decisions?" Walt: "For the good of my family?" 2:52, I love how Walt doesn't state it, he phrases it as a question. He hasn't admitted yet that this isn't for his family but for his own ego. Good acting right there
Walter should be smart enough to know that once you see the lab, you wont be able to walk away freely with that information, like nothing happened. Gus will never let you live having that information.
@@howardr5391 Gus is an extremely cautious man, as he specifically mentions to Walter at some point. And in that same conversation he tells him that product quality isn't all that matters. AND he tries to kill Walter later when he finds a suitable replacement for him. No, he wouldn't risk his whole enterprise for the possibility of Walter changing his mind at an unspecified point in the future. Refusal would have been a death sentence for Walter.
@@howardr5391there is no reason to leave Walt alive after seeing this. If Walt refused, he becomes a liability more than anything else for the knowledge he knows if people and places
@@toptenguy1Walt was a dick, but you can't pin all the blame on him. Jesse chose to go after Gus's dealers, Gus chose to have them kill Tomas, and Walt chose to protect Hank from Gus. If we look past all the choices other characters make just to say Walt was the only one in the wrong, we miss the point of the show
It's just masterful how Gus attacks Walter's insecurity about his own masculinity. Walter believes his true legacy was snaked from him, and deep down believes he wasn't "man enough" to secure it. His wife, a strong-willed woman confident in her opinions, furthers his insecurity. All the "for my family" crap is really about his ego of course, but also about reestablishing his manhood, his dominance, in a world he feels underestimated him. Gus senses this and hits him where he's weakest, because it's more important to Walter that he not just be _a_ man, but _the_ man, than it is important that his family loves or respects him. And of course he falls for it.
@@Idk98268 He did not underestimate Walter. He knew Walter was a loose cannon. He was greedy and wanted his meth to the the highest purity, so he gambled doing business with Walter.
I wonder what wouldve happened if walt was upfront about being respected. if walt were to say "I am not getting hired, this is a partnership." or something like that. I would say walt has some kind of leverage considering how gus is willing to make a whole lab even before walt agreed to work for him.
A day in Albuquerque Family Court: Judge: “Before I hear the first child support case, we’re all gonna watch a short video from the owner of everyone’s favorite chicken restaurant.” Roll clip: “A man provides…”
“And he does it even when he's not appreciated, or respected, or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he's a man." - Even Batman and Snape agree
Breaking Bad is a good way to show the world how money & power makes people do the unthinkable. Walther thought he was doing this to provide a future for his family because of his cancer. But what he didn’t know is that his meth would be another form of cancer that destroys. Destroys communities. Destroys families. Walther could’ve gotten away. I mean he kinda did. But when someone gets involved in dealing drugs on Walther’s level. “Drug Lord” level. The only outcome is death or imprisonment. Death or Imprisonment.
"When you have children ..." and everything after that, was not just words. That was a threat. Walter was not manipulated, he was warned in this scene which Walter clearly understood, he will have to cook. There simply is no other option.
Knowing before this show the actor playing Gus contemplated killing himself so his family would get the insurance money makes this scene hit differently
Gus built all that for a cancer-ridden chemistry teacher - but dug his own grave by excluding Jesse. Let's not forget that. His cynicism was part of his cautiousness, but it was also what led to the downfall of this operation. You can't do business with human beings while pretending they're machines.
To be fair, his idea of not involving addicts in his business is a wise call. He thought that Walt would prioritize providing for his own family even at the cost of Jesse......he didn't know how strong Walt and Jesse's bond was.
Gus was a master of manipulation. He invites Walt for dinner (S3E11). Many missed this, but walking in, Walt notices toys on the floor. When discussing the stew, Gus adds "the kids won't eat it." All to make Walt relate to Gus, as a family man. But there is no family.
here is the moment right here when Walter could have walked away and been the better man for it. still had his family and could have spent the last few years of his life instead of driving them away and scaring the sh*t out of them...spending real time with them........and instead he goes back to this.
the music conveyed this perfectly, this was the ultimate gift and a hint that Walt was doing this because he enjoyed it. many folks get addicted to drugs, but Walt was addicted to drug dealing.
A man provides for his family. And he does it even when he is not appreciated. Or respected. Or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he's a man. Yep.
I always wondered about how unwise it was for Gus to recruit Walt. Surely, Gale would have been enough. But hiring Walt means eliminating a competitor (he would employ his competition). Walt is dying so the time he has left will be spent teaching Gale how to improve the cook. How much of a handful can a dying man trying to provide money for his family really be? Obviously, hindsight is 20/20 but it made absolute sense to bring him on.
Gus got Walter completely figured out. He knew he will strike his ego with this sentence and it worked. One thing he didn't know tho was that Walter was actually prepared and able to do anything for his family
"Quite a lot of planning went into this. I almost died down here."
I also had the dude who built the place killed.
The walls themselves are built from bodies. They were all men too trying to provide.
@@cranbers xDDDDDDD
r/UnexpectedBadgerGooder
oh it's goodger. What this even means
*Walt:* “Yeah I can’t do this, I need to fix my life.”
*Gus:* “Be a man lol.”
*Walt:* “lol okay.”
breaking bad if vince was a zoomer
LOL!
Gus knew exactly what words to use to tick Walt's ego in order to get him to do what he wanted from him
@@misterrominade7928 Hmm, i feel more like Gus was throwing ''subtle'' threats towards Walt, with other words : "You will provide for me even though i don't appreciate, respect or love you, or else you will die", i feel like Walt knew this and felt like he had no choice but to accept. You could clearly hear it in Gus his voice, the tone and everything.
@@Feral94Gus already had Gale in his back pocket who was more than capable of running this lab it's just that he wanted the very best and that happened to be Walt. And Walt's ego was easier to read than a children's book.
It's really rare throughout this show to see Walter being manipulated into doing something, Gus really was on his Level
Gus simply did a background check on him and knew that he :1- was extremely bitter deep down and had a huge ego 2 - was passed over/left out out of his lifes work and passion which only deepend his resolve to claim the prestige and the fruits of his remarkable labor
@@melochin8237 Yeah and he used that to manipulate him
Gus is a master manipulator tbf
I dont really see this as manipulation, because manipulation is making the other do something without him knowing your intent.
There, Gus is just convincing him with strong words, both know what each other wants.
gus was nowhere near walt. He was an egomaniac, and overestimated himself. In the end, gus outmaneuvered himself, and was killed by walt.
Man, Walt and Gus would've been unstoppable together.
Ego
Walt was disposable way from begining
Nope, in fact Gus not going with his instinct on Walter was maybe his biggest mistake ever. He knew Walt was not a careful man. Walt did not want to work underneath anyone. He wanted to be Gus. They had completely incompatible philosophies.
@@GlassesAndCoffeeMugsif Gus got over Walter killing his two drug dealers & then brought him into his circle like Mike then I guaranteed they would have been a powerhouse. W.W was more then just a master cook.. dude was incredible when it comes to strategic moves
@@Sebastian-km9qx If Gus brought Walt into his circle, that wouldn't change the fact that Walt wanted to be the sole one to preside over an empire of his own creation.
Walt's missed opportunity at Gray Matter Technologies shaped him into a jaded person who believed he was destined for greatness but was robbed of that opportunity because of circumstances outside his control.
Walt would not be satisfied as an underling of anybody, especially Gus, who created a meth empire on his own. Walt's ego is so inflated due to his chemistry genius that he thinks it qualifies him in other areas. And to a certain extent it DID help in other areas. But Walt would never be satisfied as a mere employee underneath someone else. He felt he DESERVED to be the top dog.
It hits very different when you remember one of the initial episodes where Hank gave Walter his gun to hold on his birthday, and when Walter said, 'It's heavy,' one of the guests said, 'That's why they give it to MEN.' Everybody around him humiliated and treated him poorly, but Gus hit that very nerve by acknowledging Walter as a MAN. It surely played a significant role. A mastermind like Walter was easily manipulated here because, after a long time, he had someone who respected his skills, talents, and acknowledged him as a MAN with value.
yoooo this is so true. i rewatched the first episode recently and it straight up plays out like a comedy with how he's just getting roasted for 30 minutes straight and shown how pathetic his life is and no one respects him LMFAO literally rewatch the first episode i woulda folded too
Same mechanism made Nazi germany
@@kalia7190same lmao bro was getting clowned no wonder he went on a killing spree throughout the show
Skyler treated him the worst.
@@huberlukeable Walt deserved whatever shit Skyler gave him. Every time.
"Careful, you're standing on Lalo."
"What?"
"What?"
LMAO
hamlin also
Who the hell is lalo
@@Lego_hq_21 watch better call saul
@@Lego_hq_21I mean Jorge de Guzman
I can’t help but feel Walt’s joy in this scene. He’s like a kid in a candy store. The most endearing part of his personality is his intense love of science.
In real life a chemist would have walked into that room, been like "I only work with beakers, I have no clue what any of this does, go find an engineer" and walked out.
*technician
But walt isn't just a chemist. He cooks and knows how to use all this stuff. @@BoxStudioExecutive
Even the background song sounds like a Willy Wonka tune lol
@@BoxStudioExecutiveits the same stuff just on a much larger scale, there's probably big differences but it's not that big of a deal. The reaction vessel he's talking about is basically just a gigantic round bottom flask with better controls over it and built in. There's no separate heating and stirring or a separate thermometer, it's just all built in. That guy who got caught making molly on an industrial scale at his house out in the woods had this same scale equipment in his shed, Hamilton Morris interviews him. Big drug production busts always are of this size, usually in a random warehouse or something
"Now that you've seen my lab - you have no choice but to work in it."
nobody said that
@@1CultureAcademy Implied logic.
He didn't kill him despite firing him later on, so that logic is wrong.
@@haziqzia5671 So you would build an ILLEGAL lab and let mere PROSPECTIVE workers see it?
@@haziqzia5671 did you watch the show ...
Patrick Fabian and Tony Dalton deserve Emmys for their performances
Slow clap begins
Ive never seen a more dedicated performance
Underrated comment.
They've perfected the art of staying still !!
😂😂dude.
I LOVE the music choice for this scene. Walt's in a dream-like state seeing this lab; how alluring it is with Gus' speech must've almost put him in a trance.
Exactly. Feels like you're in magic candy land even though you're looking at bunch of wrapped Chemical equipment.
Like Gale said, it's like Christmas morning
This scene shows what an unbelievable snake Gus is. Knows how to manipulate Walt's emotions and doesn't hesitate to do so.
Well Gus isn’t wrong though. The two main responsibilities of a man is to protect and provide. But it’s interesting how Gus left out the protection bc he knows there is no protecting family in that line of work.
@@alcoballic9593 yes well observed
I think this let’s Walt off the hook a bit too much. Walt was at a vulnerable turning point here. He was even beginning to question to question why he was doing it. “For my family?” Gus saw an opening, and framed Walt’s identity, masculinity, fatherhood, etc as conditional upon accepting this job. All snake-like, for sure. No different than advertising - framing the sale in whatever terms the client wants to hear.
Generally speaking, Walt’s insecurity cannot be understated. This is a guy who once thought he was going to be a billionaire. He desperately wants to prove to the world that he is still that person (this is why he can’t keep his mouth shut.) However, in this moment, I think he has let go of that “I’ll show them” aspect. Here, he doesn’t care what the world thinks of him.
But, Walt hadn’t let go of that grandiose vision of himself. Maybe he’d stopped caring what most other people thought, but not himself. So when Gus tells him what he wants to hear, Walt accepts it.
He could have walked away from his gigs-lab billionaire genius life which he felt entitled to - which he felt was stolen from him.
Walt is one of the most consistently manipulative characters I’ve seen. Occasionally, he is not manipulative. Gus is, more or less, the reverse. This is a moment where Walt wasn’t being manipulative, but Gus was.
I wrote this because I wanted to push back on the idea that Walt is a victim here. But now I think he is. Rare moment of role reversal.
I fucking love this show haha
@@JosephJohnston94 yeah Walt's no victim and I don't feel sorry for him. Just a comment on Gus here and how little people mean to him. As the other guy pointed out, he knows Walt is putting his family at risk by being involved in the business (and he later threatens Walt's family to try and keep him in line).
Anyone could have seen that Gus was trying to manipulate Walt here. It only worked because he understood him well enough. It just makes you think about how he has handled everyone else in his life and the ways he has worked them.
@@alcoballic9593 Wrong. He only said that stuff because he wanted to appeal to Walt's ego. Gus doesn't care about macho man "a real man does this and that" logic, but he knows that Walt has a fragile ego in that area, since he's already desperate enough to enter crime life because he can't provide for his family otherwise.
How generous of that man to give that high school chemistry teacher his own set up! I'm sure great things will be possible.
About that....
Ikr! Such a hardworking team
I don't know something about Walt seems Two-Faced.
A high school teacher who’s way too overqualified for the job!
"quite a lot of killing went into this"
Yeah, but they were all bad.
@@logicplagueWerner and his crew??
Werner, Howard and Lalo.
@@logicplague Only lalo was. Werner was just an idiot not a bad person and howard was an innocent by standard
@@epicfan1598 Oh yeah, forgot about them.
Nothing bad would have happened to Walt. I mean he had one of the best lawyers in Albuquerque in that lab with him the whole time
Lol
With the hamlington blue suit, not sure why he isn't wearing any shoes tho
The scene just hits all kind of different when you know what went into building the lab.
You mean WHO went into/under it.
Walt and gus could be such a nice team, Walter know the chemistry and Gus know the distribution
The atmosphere of the lab hits different after Better call saul
The start of a good friendship in working and eventually breaking bread together, what could go wrong?
Nothing… That’s why everything went smoothly after this for Walt, finally. He was even able to permanently cure himself of Cancer too. Gustavo was the friend Walt always needed!
HAUGH
Happily ever after
Breaking bread together became breaking bad together
what made the most sense to me is that Walt would continue to mentor both Gale and Jesse in the lab, then take his leave after the 3 months. That way he’s leaving behind the most solid legacy (2 young apprentices) under the most stable possible position (under the protection of Gus)
You do know that they were making fucking meth right? What kind of legacy is that
Honestly, that would have been perfect, but itnwould require a few things to work.
1. Walt would have to be willing to accept Gus as the boss but he would in return get the recognition and respect he felt he deserved.
2. Gus would have needed to be more forthcoming about his plans with Walt and Jessie, the lack of trust is one of the things that lead things to go wrong. He would also have to enforce the no using children for street dealing and certainly no killing them. If they were stupid enough to hire kids and there was concern that was a liability. Then kill the dealers for their mistake and sever the connection to the kids.
3. Walt would have to convince Jessie that if he wants in this he needs to take it serious, no more screwing around, that he's his apprentice full time and he intends to turn him from a meth cook to a meth chef.
4. To seal the deal Gus can offer Walt a full partnership in the business for the time he has left, Gus handles distribution and Walt runs the lab overseeing Gale and Jessie's work.
If that happened then Gus would have been successful in taking over the Cartel and the operation would have been perfect.
Nothing about jessie is stable
True
But Walt wanted to be the star of the business, deep down he wanted to stay as Heissenberg for the rest of his life.
That Gus fellow sure knows how to motivate! How refreshing to see an employer that truly cares about his employees. I’m sure this is the start of a great bond between these two 😊
Gus is very good laying his cards on the right time for his own reason
Gus: "Why did you make these decisions?"
Walt: "For the good of my family?"
2:52, I love how Walt doesn't state it, he phrases it as a question. He hasn't admitted yet that this isn't for his family but for his own ego.
Good acting right there
I don't hear it phrased as a question at all - BUT ... that would've been a good idea for the director to suggest.
@@SelectCirclewrong
I haven't noticed that that's genius!!
@@SelectCircleit clearly sounds like a question when he said it
@@Solaspange Oh by now ya'll just yankin' my chain?
Walter should be smart enough to know that once you see the lab, you wont be able to walk away freely with that information, like nothing happened. Gus will never let you live having that information.
Cartel would kill him anyway.
Exactly. So Gus is playing it real cool with this asset - all the while marveling at his naivete.
i dunno sometimes you can trust certain folks plus he wouldnt want to burn the bridge. I would say 50/50 chance
@@howardr5391 Gus is an extremely cautious man, as he specifically mentions to Walter at some point. And in that same conversation he tells him that product quality isn't all that matters. AND he tries to kill Walter later when he finds a suitable replacement for him.
No, he wouldn't risk his whole enterprise for the possibility of Walter changing his mind at an unspecified point in the future. Refusal would have been a death sentence for Walter.
@@howardr5391there is no reason to leave Walt alive after seeing this. If Walt refused, he becomes a liability more than anything else for the knowledge he knows if people and places
Walt never truly intended to quit. He wanted to be the boss and not work under Gus.
You're wrong
Okay okay let's not start with the whole Lalo and Howard thing...........BUT MY GOD THERE ARE 2 BODIES BURIED UNDERNEATH THAT METH LAB!!!😂
Gus: Oh, my bad. I'll go get the sodium hydroxide.
Walt: Hydrofluoric acid should suffice?
Gus: Not corrosive enough.
This scene hit diferent when you know 2 very important people were buried in that laboratoty.
Werner do sure curse this lab and its vibe as nothing good come out from here
Im sorry what
I love the music choice. It’s childish and fantastical, as if Walt is entering a candy shop
Walt was thinking, "This is what would've been had I stayed at Grey Matter."
Gus said the exact correct words in the exact way to convince Walt to go through this.
At 2:27 you could see Walter and Heisenburg fighting and its a rare moment where Walter White wins until he falls right back to Heisenburg
dude shutup. its the same person. stop overthinking everything.
Great observation!
I love how Walt is so unsure of himself when saying no. Almost like he's asking Gus for permission to go against his better judgement.
After BCS and everything Gus went through it makes me even angrier that Walt blew this all up.
Another title for "Breaking Bad" could have been "Walter White ruined everything".
@@toptenguy1Walt was a dick, but you can't pin all the blame on him. Jesse chose to go after Gus's dealers, Gus chose to have them kill Tomas, and Walt chose to protect Hank from Gus. If we look past all the choices other characters make just to say Walt was the only one in the wrong, we miss the point of the show
@@Soulful_Sorrow Nah, it was all Walt.
@sandrolenz2184 Gus shouldn't have messed with Werner Ziegler
@@imcallingjapan2178no it wasn't stop being stubborn
How is Gus so fucking scary, just him standing there instills terror in me
Lmmfao 😂😂😂 honestly
Makes me ponder if he's really lying. He doesn't have a family himself after checking Better Call Saul. He just pressed the other buttons of Walt.
That eerie bell tune in the background. Like a kid in a toy shop.
For anyone doing the math he needs to make more than 5 million a week to pay for all this.
@@IllbedamnedifIainthandsome the point is profit.
@@IllbedamnedifIainthandsome I'm just mostly agreeing with you, gus needs profit to make his investment worth it.
@@JohnWall-lj1mx depends on how much Gus was spending on everything else.
He was probably aiming on massive profits......he could charge way more for Walt's level of purity than with the solid 96%.
@@saparapatepete40k x 200 = $8,000,000 a week.
It's just masterful how Gus attacks Walter's insecurity about his own masculinity. Walter believes his true legacy was snaked from him, and deep down believes he wasn't "man enough" to secure it. His wife, a strong-willed woman confident in her opinions, furthers his insecurity. All the "for my family" crap is really about his ego of course, but also about reestablishing his manhood, his dominance, in a world he feels underestimated him. Gus senses this and hits him where he's weakest, because it's more important to Walter that he not just be _a_ man, but _the_ man, than it is important that his family loves or respects him. And of course he falls for it.
and that poetically became gus's undoing, when walter got rid of gus to be the man 🤣
@@heartemperor4616he didn’t get rid of Gus to usurp him, he had to do it out of self preservation
@@Idk98268 He did not underestimate Walter. He knew Walter was a loose cannon. He was greedy and wanted his meth to the the highest purity, so he gambled doing business with Walter.
Wonder if Gus heared that 'A Man provides' speech from someone when he was in Chile.
nope
He played Walt like a violin here. Gun would have been one heck of a Used car salesman. He knew all the pressure points to convince Walt.
Gun Firing, the CEO of Los Pullos Trigger Hermanos
Lalo & Howard below the lab be like: ☠️☠️
Love how gus walks away like:
"B*tch i got you now" 😂
I wonder what wouldve happened if walt was upfront about being respected. if walt were to say "I am not getting hired, this is a partnership." or something like that. I would say walt has some kind of leverage considering how gus is willing to make a whole lab even before walt agreed to work for him.
The lab was initially built for Gale though
He didnt want a partnership though.. he wanted all the recognition..
A man provides for his family
In the scene, also known as, a man provides for Gus
A day in Albuquerque Family Court:
Judge: “Before I hear the first child support case, we’re all gonna watch a short video from the owner of everyone’s favorite chicken restaurant.” Roll clip: “A man provides…”
This the moment Walt became the child on a christmas eve.
just don't ask about what's beneath your feet
Seems like the start of a great partnership. I wish them the best of luck
about that...
So if Walt had refused, would Gus have let him live, now that Walt knew of the lab’s existence? I’m inclined to think “no”
We needed an alternate seequel where Walt and Gus both make it alive and continue the business
Notice how gus didnt even use the rail to come down the stairs
Yep I noticed that too… looks kind of funny walking down the stairs with his arms down at his sides
@@capsdude4838because he is a man
Its like a kid with his favorite toys
The music in the beginning certainly helps exemplify that, like Walter seeing some big, incredible presents for him on Christmas morning.
“And he does it even when he's not appreciated, or respected, or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he's a man."
- Even Batman and Snape agree
Breaking Bad is a good way to show the world how money & power makes people do the unthinkable. Walther thought he was doing this to provide a future for his family because of his cancer. But what he didn’t know is that his meth would be another form of cancer that destroys. Destroys communities. Destroys families. Walther could’ve gotten away. I mean he kinda did. But when someone gets involved in dealing drugs on Walther’s level. “Drug Lord” level. The only outcome is death or imprisonment. Death or Imprisonment.
Wow u r a genius. No one thought of that ever
Gus playing that red pill hard
Who would've ever thought 2 people were buried under the lab the whole time
Gus appealing to Walt's ego is peak psychology
"Quite a lot of planning went into this."
Watch BCS to find out how much planning.
Not canon
@@alvaroprieto2092says who..?
@@mightbetoad6786 me
Yep seen it…. Brilliant series
@@alvaroprieto2092it’s not an anime movie dude, it’s a prequel. It _is_ canon.
"When you have children ..." and everything after that, was not just words. That was a threat. Walter was not manipulated, he was warned in this scene which Walter clearly understood, he will have to cook. There simply is no other option.
Knowing before this show the actor playing Gus contemplated killing himself so his family would get the insurance money makes this scene hit differently
Walt had it absolutely made with Gus and flushed it all down the toilet.
Gus built all that for a cancer-ridden chemistry teacher - but dug his own grave by excluding Jesse. Let's not forget that. His cynicism was part of his cautiousness, but it was also what led to the downfall of this operation. You can't do business with human beings while pretending they're machines.
To be fair, his idea of not involving addicts in his business is a wise call. He thought that Walt would prioritize providing for his own family even at the cost of Jesse......he didn't know how strong Walt and Jesse's bond was.
Love the 'night before christmas' music. Makes it look like Walt is receiving the best gift he has ever gotten. Ever😊
Gus was a master of manipulation. He invites Walt for dinner (S3E11). Many missed this, but walking in, Walt notices toys on the floor. When discussing the stew, Gus adds "the kids won't eat it." All to make Walt relate to Gus, as a family man. But there is no family.
Wow that is just amazing detail.
Man how did everything fall apart, this was perfect for both of them...
Jessie pinkman
Walt’s ego at every turn ruined everything in part for sure.
Jesse’s ego
What makes this place even more insane is the fact that 2 bodies are buried beneath them
0:56 - Gus: "I have no damn idea, i've just paid for it" 😆😂
i dont remember this sountrack being in this scene
Best part is that, Gus has no family, so talking about family, he just knew how to MANipulate Walt
Gus could have been a guidance counselor / Life coach with the way that he ended this clip!
This is the moment Walt became Reactionvesselenberg
It hits way different when you know what is buried under the floor.
here is the moment right here when Walter could have walked away and been the better man for it. still had his family and could have spent the last few years of his life instead of driving them away and scaring the sh*t out of them...spending real time with them........and instead he goes back to this.
If only he had not succeeded in convincing him. Or even better: if only he hadn't even tried.
Gus gave the most accurate description of Mike, but such a motivation is beyond Walter.
wAltuH... sO tEndA wAlTuH.... sO sWeEt wAlTuh....
Gale:
The background music makes it all much better
please take note of the dreamy christmassy music in the scene. for a die-hard passionate chemist, this WAS the ultimate christmas gift.
gus knew that.
the music conveyed this perfectly, this was the ultimate gift and a hint that Walt was doing this because he enjoyed it. many folks get addicted to drugs, but Walt was addicted to drug dealing.
The eerie music, as if trying to tell something
Walt: I cant do this anymore
Gus: Then you give me no choice, Look at me WALT
*Rips shirt open*
A man provides for his family. And he does it even when he is not appreciated. Or respected. Or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he's a man.
Yep.
This scene always had background music? I swear to god I remembered it being completely silent excepting dialogue
Werner was a good man. This was his masterpiece.
All jokes aside, I never thought I'd learn the most valuable lesson of my life after watching Breaking Bad. 3:03.
Walt: "How did you know how to put this all together?"
Gus: "I had excellent help...from Daniel Hardman."
Gus will say whatever someone wants to hear
A man provides even if he’s not appreciated, wanted, or even loved…
man that’s deep
gus could have had 3 nice labs like this, 1 runned by walt, the other by jessy and the 3th one by gale.
I mean it took him a lot of trouble just to get this one lab built
Maybe the other 2 labs could have been built after Walt finished mentoring them and the profits were enough to scale up the business.
You seen Better Call Saul?
A whole season went to buillding this Lab and Gus nearly died
@@daredevil6145 the first is always the hardest if you have to invent the wheel, but for the second you allready know how to handle and make it.
Gus knew the assignment. Every labrab just wants one thing... entirely brand new equipment in a layout that was planned.
I always wondered about how unwise it was for Gus to recruit Walt. Surely, Gale would have been enough. But hiring Walt means eliminating a competitor (he would employ his competition). Walt is dying so the time he has left will be spent teaching Gale how to improve the cook. How much of a handful can a dying man trying to provide money for his family really be? Obviously, hindsight is 20/20 but it made absolute sense to bring him on.
Gus didn't recruit Walt, Saul introduced them after Combo's death
@@devonwhite2443 so what is Gus doing in this scene?
@@dautolover walt practiaclly begged Gus for another chance, then he backed out after skyler found out. Gus is getting him back in
Howard & Lalos skeletons are a few feet underneath this floor…
This really blew up in Gus' face
“Quite a lot of work went into this”
*And yet it could still never be as epic as the crystal ship*
Gus got Walter completely figured out. He knew he will strike his ego with this sentence and it worked. One thing he didn't know tho was that Walter was actually prepared and able to do anything for his family
Some men were touching Walts big ego, others used his desire to provide for his family. Gus knew how to pull both these strings at the same time.
"I buried two bodies underneath the floor of the lab"
Better than to hang them from the rafters.
Probably a good thing he didn't mention that🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cant believe hes cooking in a place where TWO DEAD BODIES are buried, thats insane!!!
If a fly bothered him that much, imagine how he would feel about two rotting corpses
The man provide , then she divorce and take a half .
A man provides. He bears up and does it.
The mafking music man, thats one of the many reasons this show is unbeatable.
After watching BCS this BGM hits a hell lot different 🥶
Something tells me hank got first look at this hide out before walter his cooker