I love the part when he said "You're not in chilli anymore" and spread guacamole all over Gustavo's face, marking the moment where he became Los Pollos Hermanos.
@@sebm2334 i don’t think i touched the contrast here. the yellow in the mid tones and shadows made the two areas kind of blend together. once brought back to a more neutral grade it became more apparent where the shadows were so it seems more contrasty but idr i did this like 3 months ago
Huh this show is so cool they even shot the same scene frame for frame perfect in two different locations. One in Mexico the other somewhere else where they have colors.
Last year i visited Mexico with my family and i can confirm that it is in fact exactly like the movies and TV. We actually had to leave early beacuse my dad thought he was trapped inside a lemon. You my friend are doing god's work by showing Mexico in another light.
@@vvoof2601 It is truly amazing how people who know nothing about a subject think they can simply type "lol" and turn themselves into know-it-alls. The cinematography on BCS and BB were the best in the history of television.
Don Eladio could’ve actually pulled up Google Maps, and based on current location, proved to Gus that he is not in Chile anymore, but in Mexico now. Killing his friend was completely unnecessary.
@@ccllvn or even take him to the nearest Post Office and try to send a parcel to Chile. The postmaster would ask to pay for an International Postage stamp, proving instantly to Gus and everybody in the room that they are indeed in Mexico, and not in Chile anymore
The yellow is actually super symbolic. The show uses colour as a really effective way of showing without telling different characters’ motives, ideologies, personalities, etc. In the case of yellow, the show uses yellow (in any and almost ALL circumstances) to indicate the yellow something is related to the meth trade. This relation comes from the fact that the meth that WW & JP male should technically be yellow in appearance, not blue. Examples- - Walt, Jessie, and Gale all wear yellow jumpsuits when cooking meth. - The uniforms for LPH are yellow. This ties them to the meth trade through Gus who also wears yellow. - Jessie is the character who wears yellow the most. This shows that he is the most involved in meth (addiction, cooking, getting kidnapped to cook, etc.). It also symbolises (in a more traditional use of yellow) his cowardice and naïveté as a young man in over his head. - the Krazy8 scenes are RIDDLED with yellow. This is because it’s one of the defining moments where Walt steps over the line. Yellow items are: the plate, Walt’s shirt, K8’s jumper, and the bag Walt was originally going to suffocate k8 with. - the licence plate on the van Walt used to transport his money in ‘Buried’ is D4DD31 which is the HEX code for yellow. - “Heisenberg” Is spray painted on the White residence wall in the colour yellow. - the Mexico scenes can all be tied to the meth trade There are SO many other examples of this. Yellow isn’t the only symbolic colour either. Gilligan carefully and intentionally chose each and every colour for each and every object, scene, and person. I recommend watching a couple episodes and seeing if you can see it too!
@@thememeroo178 I rewatched it and yes they do reuse the filter. In fact in close ups and sky frames they turn it off to hide it, but yes they still used the filter
This scene in particular I feel like was helped by the color grading. The yellow haze over the footage always helped create the illusion that this is more than Vince Gilligan showing us gus' past, but that this remains engraved in gus' memory.
Mexico isn't yellow all the time though, like for the whole Gus takes revenge sequence it's the normal colour palette. I thought they did the yellow pallete for the flashback but then again there's inconsistency with that too
I liked it, it was a flashback and worked well with the mood of the scene. The color offset the time from the present to give it a vintage feel, with none of the lighter emotional feel that the color would've brought
To me the intense yellow makes it feel more like an old memory, but just in the context of Mexico, that is insanely yellow. It's like wearing yellow sunglasses or safety/shooting glasses
Yeah the yellow always felt like a memory thing to me. It felt like a bitter old reminder of what happened, you don't remember things in the exact way, you tend to over dramatize them in a way and this color adds to that imo, it feels off. It is bad in season 2 though with the scenes of the twins in the deserts
@@thestanley2692 god people are so dumb lol. Quick to correct yet have no knowledge of what they’re correcting. I got the same FEELING. Like a 80’s Tony Scott VIBE 😂😂
Remember this was younger Gus who was just a restaurant business owner. After Hector shot Max and he got humiliated by Eladio, Gus needs to step up his game to be on top of cartel business. Every time he sees any Salamancas go to his restaurant, it always giving him PTSD but he has to compose his emotion very well.
@@margarethmichelina5146 Gus was in chile working as a low tier general or sth, torturing people :D OR at least in that area. So no, Gus was not just restaurant busdsiness owner. BUt anyways, his boyfriend just got shot :D I think his reaction is warranted no matter his history
It seems the sepia actually works as a “de aging” filter of sorts, which works for the purpose of the flashbacks. Though the left is more realistic, a lot more detail stay, and Gus and Hector look just as old as the do during the present time.
It’s because they had to use color correction to remove the yellow so it looks way more contrasted and saturated then when they originally shot it. I’m sure he looked the same as on the right before they added the yellow
The yellow is here to differentiate the location and signal à flashback. To add contrast to the Southwest's famous blue sky and white clouds Slovis uses a polarizing filters and when the show filmed scenes that were supposed to be in Mexico - as opposed to New Mexico - Slovis used yet another filter, letting the new color alert viewers to the shift in geography. When shooting inside, under artificial light, the use of contrast and color is similar. Slovis isn't afraid to shoot darkly lit scenes - they've also become a signature of the show - and he says he's come to rely on that fluorescent green color that you get when you shoot photos inside without a flash. It's become a signature hue for inside the various warehouses that fill the series. And more than that, the oversaturated yellow is used for flashback scenes.
For the people who are confused, the scene was not recorded in Mexico, they just added the yellow filter after during editing. Of course if it was filmed in Mexico, we couldn't have gotten the full colored version here.
Wow, the actors willing to do the reshooting of this to make this not yellow literally did this perfectly. I went frame-for-frame on the entire video and couldn't find a single frame that was different from the other. It's amazing how actors have to not only remember their lines, but their exact movements also. Wow.
@@raniwrites Almost certainly someone has. By the law of averages and odds. Hahah. They just haven't commented. Just imagine how many people learn shit like that day in, day out; and over time it warps their views or informs their beliefs. Never even realizing it was total BS from the very get go and so far removed at that point; there's no un-learning it. Obviously I'm talking of bigger things, not a RUclips comment that wouldn't affect you one way or another.
I always assumed that yellow was an artistic choice to represent danger. Like when Walter was diagnosed with cancer and he noticed the mustard on the doctor's lab coat.
@@ddoober he was referring to the characters clothes over the seasons, they wear bright colors in early seasons and start wearing dark colors later on, I don't think it has anything to do with the filter though
@@urlsalkf2196 i think it might due to how vince liked to use more than just clothes to convey things with color, using a pink only filter on the teddy bear throughout season 2 which is a color the show uses to convey innocence. due to the nature of how much thought it put into the show i dont think we're really looking too far into it.
You really do gain a certain respect for how Gus exacted his revenge on the cartel and especially Hector for this. His slow, methodical humiliation and torture of Hector was just magnificent, and it's a shame Walt had to spoil it by giving him an easy way out.
Being a mexican, while mexico isnt yellow- while you're there, it FEELS like you and everything and everyone around you IS yellow. And i dont think that should be changed
As a latino I didn't take it as "the color of Mexico/south of the border" but rather to give an old feeling and also hide a bit the wrinkles on the actors faces... like Gus in particular looks so much younger with the filter.
@@__JH_ to my knowledge the series used the color yellow to represent death. notice how gus always wore a yellow dress shirt at pollos hermanos, walter noticing yellow mustard on the doctor’s shirt while being diagnosed with cancer, etc. it could be a total reach but it’s one theory i’ve heard
Its what inspired Breaking Bad, its a true happning, filmed by the dead men, taken by drug lords and sold to Netflix, which then kidnapped the cartel members, and tok a poor men straight out of Africa, lured him with half slice of bread onto shipping ship... he spent 2 weeks on ship with a translation book that they were so humble to let him entertain himself with tho the man did not know Spanish or English so how he manage to learn English is a mystery, tho there is however a possiblity that he doesnt know it, and all he knows is word structure... Netflix are trafficking ppl to become actors
This is amazing. You can actually see the contours of the makeup under their eyes and on their cheeks where they've tried to make them look younger and to compliment the yellow filter.
I think it’s more to signify a threat to main characters and usually yellow scenes have instances of important foreshadowing that are not yet obvious to the audience. That’s why when Gus goes back there is no tint. It’s slyly letting you know that there is no danger for Gus, Jesse, and Mike.
It's interesting seeing the parallels between this scene and when Hank is killed. Both Gustavo and Walter end up on the ground with their faces contorted in anguish.
Both were horrifying but the roles are turned with whos pleading for mercy and who died, i dont think gus' boyfriend thought he was going to be the one to get shot, he was trying to protect gus and ended up getting murdered, but hank fully accepted his death and walter was the one begging for him to be let go
I remember as a kid going to Disney land on a trip to the US, and asking my mom "are those the colors you were talking to me about?" and she replied with "indeed, my youngling". It was beautiful.
I don't know about the filter but now I have to watch the scene where Gus has his mf'ing revenge. This is the moment you learn to love Gus. You might hate him in every other regard, but in this moment your mind has fused with his and you want nothing more than that singular yearning for terrible, deadly retribution.
I see it now, that Mexico is not only yellow to simbolize a different environment, but also to help hide away the characters age. Much like in how the flashbacks of season 1 were all obscured by dim lighting.
As a native Spanish speaker, it’s pretty hilarious listening to them talk, they don’t sound like native speakers at all, they sound like an English speaker trying to speak Spanish 🤣
The yellow distracted me from noticing Don Eladio is wearing a white track suit in front of someone he likely had already planned to have killed. That is a power play
Images have a language, some conventions. In American films, the Sepia tint is either used for flashbacks / memory scenes or it's used for sunny/hot places. Besides, in those places gringos wear ray bans, making everything... yellow. This language of sepia vs blue tints tells where the action takes place so it's easier to follow.
I too find this convention annoying, cheap and a bit patronizing. Avid viewers are "fluent" in media consumption and don't need crutches to help their (not) foggy brains. All languages evolve, so that particular sepia lingo could easily be done away with.
This made me realise that these scenes being in full colour would have given them a very different vibe and I actually like that they stylistically differentiate between key locations. But it also made me realise that the filtered version is oversaturated to *such* a ridiculous degree that they were 100% fully aware of it and wanted to lean into it as far as they could, which is real bold and I appreciate that.
amazing scene to humanize gus as one of the first in the series to have "broke bad". know its about the color correction, wonderful work with that, but also still amazing scene. even without watching the show amazing seeing clips of his acting in the flashback and the current day, he doesnt get a chance to show that kind of emotion often, normally playing the cold calculating villain, but his emotional acting is top notch. you can really feel the characters emotions reflected.
As a Mexican, Gus looks weird speaking Spanish, I imagine that's why his partner was given more prominence in that scene, but his non-verbal performance and the suffering at the end is excellent, I loved the background music, although At first I made fun of the sepia color of Mexico xd, with this clip I appreciate that they put it
@@thepageti874 I saw Breaking Bad dubbed in Spanish and the funny thing is that for this scene it stay pretty much the same except Gus, where they redubbed his lines so it doesn't sound that weird. Giancarlo is an amazing actor though and even in BCS he improved his Spanish a lot
@@peterpan3022 he’s breaking badder though, like the guy said he isn’t in Chile anymore, he probably hasn’t even hurt anymore before that scene by his reaction
The creators actually used color in a lot of great ways in this show Yellow was used for danger, like oranges in The Godfather. Some examples in the first few episodes alone are the mustard stain on the doctors shirt when Walt gets his diagnosis, the yellow car when Crazy 8 rolls up on the RV, the yellow plate that breaks in the basement. There's a million more, but those are just a few. You really notice them as the show goes on. The yellow tint in these scenes in Mexico are alluding to the fact that the characters we're following are in some deep shit and something bad is about to happen. I thought it was more stylistic at first, but it takes on a whole new meaning after learning the color theory.
1:23 the clear shot of hector is my favorite part. I can see why they add the filter, it’s to make the Mexican cartel seem more eerie, dangerous, and violent. But damn the show looks so good without the filter too
they don’t need to make cartels any more violent if you actually have seen their execution snuff videoes. The way they killed victims is sadistic and inhumane
@@DenKulesteSomFins yes Injecting chemicals to die a peaceful and painless death is humane (of course this should be done to people who deserve it not some randoms on the street ) And there is bashing their heads in with a hammer , beating them to death drowning them , setting them ablaze ect..
@@primadeluxe4910 not my point. Any killing of innocents is inhumane. You can't kill someone who doesn't need nor deserve to die by showing kindness or benevolence
I been to Mexico and south Texas during the burnoffs or with a ton of dust in the air. Late afternoons and evening, sun gets low, it can get like that.
In the directors commentary, Vince Gillian said that they first used the yellow tint at the start of season 3 because they need to change the scene from a cloudy day to a sunny day. But then they realized that the tint was a good way to distinguish between scenes happening in Mexico and scenes in the US.
@@demoniovenerable7563 chill out lmao they use filters for hotter countries even in italy they use the yellow filter. in colder countries they use a blue tint. its the distinguish temperatures and scenes for film. Theres brown people in Canada too called indigenous we have films about indigenous that have blue tint. I get what youre saying but its not racist. lmfao its just to add to the scenes setting.
@@demoniovenerable7563 In this show it's used as visual shorthand to indicate that they're in Mexico, but you're right about shows and movies generally. They definitely took it too far in some places, and personally I think it's kinda lazy and it's a bit strange to make a certain selection of countries look so alien.
The reason they used yellow is acutally genius, the director was asked about it a couple of years ago and it was to make Giancarlo Esposito (the actor who plays Gus) look younger as this scene happened many years before breaking bad and imo it works amazing. Honestly small things like this are why Breaking Bad is such a masterpiece of a TV series, top 3 show of all time.
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As a Mexican, It feels amazing seeing real colors for the first time.
you mean that mexican air isn't yellow?
@@dziolex2190 Te han mentido haha
@@dziolex2190 it is i dont know what pettex is talking about, I've lived in Mexico since I was born and it is yellow
@@dziolex2190 he means that watching the scene without the filters is the first time he's seen color, that's the joke.
@@takeuchi5760 i guess the joke flew over my head lol
I still remember the first time I crossed the border and finally saw colors for the first time. It was astonishing and hard to believe at first.
did you cry?
@@navibongo9354 i would have NGL
@@navibongo9354 we didn’t have crying either
It's crazy how all these people who are coming into the country illegally are simply seeking an licensed ophthalmologist. 👀 🤓
Mercia!
I love the part when he said "You're not in chilli anymore" and spread guacamole all over Gustavo's face, marking the moment where he became Los Pollos Hermanos.
los pollos hermanos is my favorite character
This was actually the moment he became El Pollo Hermano.
*El Pollo Hermano
Max would have been the other one
Then he started Morbin
Ya no estai en Chile aweonao
I feel so bad for those in Mexico who are forced to only see in yellow. Sending my prayers for you guys to see color for real one day 🙏🙏😔
thx
Sending them NFS Most Wanted because it looks natural.
Much appreciated man 😢
Update:we still only see yellow 😢
God has forsaken us😭
you can see how they used the filter to better hide Gus' age, looks a lot younger in the yellow filter version.
was just about to comment that, he definitely looks younger
I was just about to say this
Actually i think the colour grading they did to take the yellow off added a lot of contrast which also made wrinkles seem more apparent
They use the filter when we meet tucos cousins too tho
@@sebm2334 i don’t think i touched the contrast here. the yellow in the mid tones and shadows made the two areas kind of blend together. once brought back to a more neutral grade it became more apparent where the shadows were so it seems more contrasty
but idr i did this like 3 months ago
Huh this show is so cool they even shot the same scene frame for frame perfect in two different locations.
One in Mexico the other somewhere else where they have colors.
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Vince Gilligan is truly a master of his craft!
They transported the whole mansion and the whole background from Mexico too!
@@londonnoobsss719 amazing dedication! This is the best show!
even the water is rippling the same, they were controlling the winds! ive never seen such attention to detail
Last year i visited Mexico with my family and i can confirm that it is in fact exactly like the movies and TV. We actually had to leave early beacuse my dad thought he was trapped inside a lemon. You my friend are doing god's work by showing Mexico in another light.
Jaja buen chiste
😂
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The Color filter makes them look younger took me 10 seconds to realize this that’s what they wanted 100%
Lol no.
@@Ahuizotl_Yolotl Actually Lol yes. It's ok to be stupid but at least be open to learning.
@@vvoof2601 It is truly amazing how people who know nothing about a subject think they can simply type "lol" and turn themselves into know-it-alls. The cinematography on BCS and BB were the best in the history of television.
@@Ahuizotl_Yolotl Well....that really added a lot, didn't it?
@@Ahuizotl_Yolotl Lol yes.
If you'd watched the series, you'd know any present day Mexico scenes are not color graded like this. Just flashbacks.
Mexico is always yellow and medieval Europe is always grayish blue.
Not Italy or Spain, we are often yellowish as well
You ever been to my country England?
cuz its cold
Yes! I love the episode where Walt and Jesse go to medieval France!
@@Ror0009 londistan*
Don Eladio could’ve actually pulled up Google Maps, and based on current location, proved to Gus that he is not in Chile anymore, but in Mexico now. Killing his friend was completely unnecessary.
Google maps didn't exist then... Poor Max.
Wasn't this scene set in 1989?
@@Krishnakumar-wl7ih in 1989 he could turn on any radio or TV and show stations that you couldn't receive in Chile
@@ccllvn or even take him to the nearest Post Office and try to send a parcel to Chile. The postmaster would ask to pay for an International Postage stamp, proving instantly to Gus and everybody in the room that they are indeed in Mexico, and not in Chile anymore
@@Krishnakumar-wl7ih hm… well in that case maybe it was necessary to kill his friend. Not that I condone murdering but a man gotta make a point
The yellow is actually super symbolic. The show uses colour as a really effective way of showing without telling different characters’ motives, ideologies, personalities, etc.
In the case of yellow, the show uses yellow (in any and almost ALL circumstances) to indicate the yellow something is related to the meth trade. This relation comes from the fact that the meth that WW & JP male should technically be yellow in appearance, not blue. Examples-
- Walt, Jessie, and Gale all wear yellow jumpsuits when cooking meth.
- The uniforms for LPH are yellow. This ties them to the meth trade through Gus who also wears yellow.
- Jessie is the character who wears yellow the most. This shows that he is the most involved in meth (addiction, cooking, getting kidnapped to cook, etc.). It also symbolises (in a more traditional use of yellow) his cowardice and naïveté as a young man in over his head.
- the Krazy8 scenes are RIDDLED with yellow. This is because it’s one of the defining moments where Walt steps over the line. Yellow items are: the plate, Walt’s shirt, K8’s jumper, and the bag Walt was originally going to suffocate k8 with.
- the licence plate on the van Walt used to transport his money in ‘Buried’ is D4DD31 which is the HEX code for yellow.
- “Heisenberg” Is spray painted on the White residence wall in the colour yellow.
- the Mexico scenes can all be tied to the meth trade
There are SO many other examples of this. Yellow isn’t the only symbolic colour either. Gilligan carefully and intentionally chose each and every colour for each and every object, scene, and person. I recommend watching a couple episodes and seeing if you can see it too!
Bro wrote a whole book 💀
But yea you right
3 likes ? Let me correct that
This show exemplifies the use of color theory to its fullest extent. Your comment is the one that should be at the top.
Ah yes, truly the show of all time
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Another day of thanking Nacho Varga for giving Hector what he deserved for the rest of his life.
uhh, what, for killing a drug dealer? lol
hector wasnt the brightest man but gustavo and his friend werent innocent anyway
@@arkle519nah for putting him in the wheelchair
@@eeeeee8762 He was talking about Hector, not Nacho
@@novamc7945 Goddamnit not again...
I actually think part of the purpose of the yellow filter was to make Gus look younger, and it absolutely does. It also feels like a haze of a memory.
It also adds a bit of an errie, rustic vibe to the desert scenes. And makes it look sorta like sundown
But they use this filter in every Mexico scene
@@wizard_of_poz4413 no they don't they only use it during flashbacks of you watched breaking bad and bcs they go to Mexico and it's no filter
@@thememeroo178 I rewatched it and yes they do reuse the filter. In fact in close ups and sky frames they turn it off to hide it, but yes they still used the filter
@@mr.magpie2 Only in flashbacks. This is kind of a pop myth
Tbh I completely forgot about the point of this video and just watched the scene unfold.
Truly a masterpiece.
Same 😂
okay complicated fart 😂😂
@@antoniosadel8868 Ahh, a fellow based person
Haha me too!
literally same
This scene in particular I feel like was helped by the color grading. The yellow haze over the footage always helped create the illusion that this is more than Vince Gilligan showing us gus' past, but that this remains engraved in gus' memory.
I always thought this scene was more yellow because it was a flashback. Like on older and aged photos where they yellow a bit as times goes on.
Mexico isn't yellow all the time though, like for the whole Gus takes revenge sequence it's the normal colour palette. I thought they did the yellow pallete for the flashback but then again there's inconsistency with that too
Yellow are flashbacks in Mexico
Lies. Everything is yellow in Mexico. The moment you cross the border, everyone's eyes are magically covered with a yellow tint.
Everything is blue in New york and London. And everything is yellow in poor countries
@@yussss4639 I always thought New York was a gray tint, but maybe that's just pollution
@@joseurena3640 New York had a blue effect in John Wick 1
As a Mexican, I can confirm our color wheel is comprised of variations of red, yellow, orange, and sometimes green (very rare!)
No era penal
@@salejrei3564 Ya se me había olvidado…😅💔⚽️
alch no wey, no sé dónde vivas pero son colores normales
vete a checar porfa
mucha coca y no es la liquida
@@oscaruriaa yeah yellow is the normal color
I liked it, it was a flashback and worked well with the mood of the scene. The color offset the time from the present to give it a vintage feel, with none of the lighter emotional feel that the color would've brought
Nice of you to go through all the effort of getting the cast and crew back together to film this scene again in the united states. Appreciate it man!
To me the intense yellow makes it feel more like an old memory, but just in the context of Mexico, that is insanely yellow. It's like wearing yellow sunglasses or safety/shooting glasses
They all look younger too which adds to the realism of the flashback.
Yeah the yellow always felt like a memory thing to me. It felt like a bitter old reminder of what happened, you don't remember things in the exact way, you tend to over dramatize them in a way and this color adds to that imo, it feels off. It is bad in season 2 though with the scenes of the twins in the deserts
I think that is because old books and old photographs naturally become yellow. So our brains naturally make that connection.
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Exactly. When Gus comes back there isn't this yellow filter
The editted version actually looked super cool, and it had an 80's feeling too.
vibe*
@@RUclipssaysimCyberbully ???
@@RUclipssaysimCyberbully vibe and feeling are two similar words
@@thestanley2692 god people are so dumb lol. Quick to correct yet have no knowledge of what they’re correcting. I got the same FEELING. Like a 80’s Tony Scott VIBE 😂😂
That'd be the goal lol
It looks so much better! I’d also love to see the last few Better Call Episodes in color
It's amazing that Vince Gilligan went to Mexico and all he remembered was "it was yellow"
It's interesting how nervous Gus is here, so used to seeing him with that dead look in his eye, calm and collected all the time
Because of this.
Remember this was younger Gus who was just a restaurant business owner. After Hector shot Max and he got humiliated by Eladio, Gus needs to step up his game to be on top of cartel business. Every time he sees any Salamancas go to his restaurant, it always giving him PTSD but he has to compose his emotion very well.
@@margarethmichelina5146 Gus was in chile working as a low tier general or sth, torturing people :D OR at least in that area. So no, Gus was not just restaurant busdsiness owner. BUt anyways, his boyfriend just got shot :D I think his reaction is warranted no matter his history
@@GBValode the usage of ":D" is cursed. stop
here the actor could still act a bit, later he forgot
It seems the sepia actually works as a “de aging” filter of sorts, which works for the purpose of the flashbacks. Though the left is more realistic, a lot more detail stay, and Gus and Hector look just as old as the do during the present time.
Wait, it does! I didn’t even notice that
yeah
Definitely. I paused on a close-up of Gus and you can see how the yellow tint lessens shadows, meaning less apparent wrinkles and aged face.
It’s because they had to use color correction to remove the yellow so it looks way more contrasted and saturated then when they originally shot it. I’m sure he looked the same as on the right before they added the yellow
You could literally do this with any other filter without making it look this bland
This really puts into perspective just how ridiculously exaggerated that yellow filter is.
Its amazing how the actors are identical with each other. Wow what skill!
Colors exist?
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Only in mokey show.
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It’s not super obvious when you first see it, but seeing them side by side makes it so much more apparent
Bro switching from season 1 to season 2 feels like they put piss in front of the camera wdym 4 me it was rlly obvious
wdym it is obvious it looks like they dipped the camera in honey or some shit
@@lol-zp1ps you're right actually when I'm online I don't usually write correctly
Them as lovers or do you mean the colors?
Bro wdym it's not obvious bro it's like they put some cheap yellow glasses on the cameras or some shit bro, bro.
Thank you so much for giving me a glimpse of what my country could look like
The yellow is here to differentiate the location and signal à flashback.
To add contrast to the Southwest's famous blue sky and white clouds Slovis uses a polarizing filters and when the show filmed scenes that were supposed to be in Mexico - as opposed to New Mexico - Slovis used yet another filter, letting the new color alert viewers to the shift in geography.
When shooting inside, under artificial light, the use of contrast and color is similar. Slovis isn't afraid to shoot darkly lit scenes - they've also become a signature of the show - and he says he's come to rely on that fluorescent green color that you get when you shoot photos inside without a flash. It's become a signature hue for inside the various warehouses that fill the series.
And more than that, the oversaturated yellow is used for flashback scenes.
Fun fact: this wasn't a digital filter, someone pissed into a bag and placed it in front of the camera every day on set.
That's dedication, looks like they drank their share of redbulls too for the colour
I think we know who. Hector Motherfuckin' Salamanca.
Nah the camera lens was broken and they had to settle with the bottom of a tequila bottle
That dude needs to get himself checked for Jaundice! 😂
To quote Chappelle Show in context: IT was me. I peed.
wow they teleported into USA
Your content is trash
low effort joke low effort channel
the US are blue-ish tho
The only place in the world where vision doesn't have a default Snapchat filter.
@@tie7626 low effect pfn, low effort channel
everytime a guy starts talming fast, nervous and higher tone, you know he's gonna go
For the people who are confused, the scene was not recorded in Mexico, they just added the yellow filter after during editing.
Of course if it was filmed in Mexico, we couldn't have gotten the full colored version here.
Wow, the actors willing to do the reshooting of this to make this not yellow literally did this perfectly. I went frame-for-frame on the entire video and couldn't find a single frame that was different from the other. It's amazing how actors have to not only remember their lines, but their exact movements also. Wow.
Underrated comment lmfao
i’m actually surprised that nobody has taken you seriously yet 😂
What has the internet done to is
And that guy got shot in the head again
@@raniwrites Almost certainly someone has. By the law of averages and odds. Hahah. They just haven't commented. Just imagine how many people learn shit like that day in, day out; and over time it warps their views or informs their beliefs. Never even realizing it was total BS from the very get go and so far removed at that point; there's no un-learning it. Obviously I'm talking of bigger things, not a RUclips comment that wouldn't affect you one way or another.
And with that one bullet, Don Hector killed the entire Salamanca line… he just didn’t know it yet.
Not the entire salamanca line, right? (IDK, not up to date on Better Call Saul)
@@kennedyshotfirst2534 In BB Gus says to Hector all the Salamancas are dead. Lalo hasn't been killed yet in BCS but he will be
@@judgejudys3xdungeon94 Or he doesn't know about his survival.
Yeah
@@kennedyshotfirst2534 BCS is in the past.
"And it was all yellow" - Coldplay
1:22 Hector stare is underrated asf
I always assumed that yellow was an artistic choice to represent danger. Like when Walter was diagnosed with cancer and he noticed the mustard on the doctor's lab coat.
actually yellow represents things to do with the drug business as well as danger, I believe orange primarily represents comedy or danger
Stop overthinking shit, the filter makes Giancarlo look younger
@@urlsalkf2196 but also vince gilligan confirmed colors correlate with different things and even set the license plates to hex codes for colors.
@@ddoober he was referring to the characters clothes over the seasons, they wear bright colors in early seasons and start wearing dark colors later on, I don't think it has anything to do with the filter though
@@urlsalkf2196 i think it might due to how vince liked to use more than just clothes to convey things with color, using a pink only filter on the teddy bear throughout season 2 which is a color the show uses to convey innocence. due to the nature of how much thought it put into the show i dont think we're really looking too far into it.
You really do gain a certain respect for how Gus exacted his revenge on the cartel and especially Hector for this. His slow, methodical humiliation and torture of Hector was just magnificent, and it's a shame Walt had to spoil it by giving him an easy way out.
Fr, after watching this scene i actually started rooting for gus instead of Jesse and Mike.
@@Tardzud Gus was evil though
@@Az22490 so was hector and the cartel
@@Az22490 Literally 90% of the characters on this show are.
Walter Won.
Being a mexican, while mexico isnt yellow- while you're there, it FEELS like you and everything and everyone around you IS yellow.
And i dont think that should be changed
This scene actually supports the theory that Gus is not a psychopath, he is deeply driven by emotion and the desire to make the Cartel pay.
psychopaths do feel emotion though. they just don't feel guilt. and tend to be quite intelligent and charming. gus checks all the boxes
he doesnt check jack shit.
@@j4log719 not love towards others
@@j4log719 I think he is a sociopath and not psychopath
He's neither a psychopath or a sociopath, he's just a broken man who hides it very well
As a latino I didn't take it as "the color of Mexico/south of the border" but rather to give an old feeling and also hide a bit the wrinkles on the actors faces... like Gus in particular looks so much younger with the filter.
I think that’s probably one reason
The "old" feeling doesn't make sense when they show yellow scenes at moments that didn't happen in the past during the series
Well I certainly didn't see it that way, as yellow filters are extremely commonly used to portray Mexico in American films.
@Ha Nu what country are you from?
@@__JH_ to my knowledge the series used the color yellow to represent death. notice how gus always wore a yellow dress shirt at pollos hermanos, walter noticing yellow mustard on the doctor’s shirt while being diagnosed with cancer, etc. it could be a total reach but it’s one theory i’ve heard
Wow the emotions are more visable
Seeing this really makes me appreciate the yellow version lol
I can just imagine Walt and Jesse driving the camper into mexico and everything immediately turns yellow like they're entering a video game area🤣
That's actually a pretty cool transition though.
Like they entered a tunnel, and suddenly at the end of the tunnel its now yellowish tint
@@tardarsauce1842 or maybe it fades to yellow, that’d be so rad
entering blighttown from the depths
Reverse of Stalker when they go from sepia to color
@@KeedGmaer and then you suddenly see everything in ultrawide resolution
Notice how Gus' face at the end (2:28), mirrors Walt's same expression when Hank died.
I noticed that too
@@arswap4361 Hey, take a chill pill. I'm not criticizing him, I'm just pointing out a detail that the writers left in.
@Jason King like you
@Jason King yeah his face is cringing in that situation, you would be cringing of fear too.
@@juliandelapena4293 cringing is the wrong word to use
You just moved them out of Mexico, that's all you did
It must've been really shocking for Mexicans to see real colors for the first time.
I'm confused - where was the left side filmed? And how did they nail it so well to match frame-by-frame with the stuff that was filmed in Mexico?
lmfao
Its what inspired Breaking Bad, its a true happning, filmed by the dead men, taken by drug lords and sold to Netflix, which then kidnapped the cartel members, and tok a poor men straight out of Africa, lured him with half slice of bread onto shipping ship... he spent 2 weeks on ship with a translation book that they were so humble to let him entertain himself with
tho the man did not know Spanish or English so how he manage to learn English is a mystery, tho there is however a possiblity that he doesnt know it, and all he knows is word structure...
Netflix are trafficking ppl to become actors
@@cookiecola5852 Try harder next time. 🤦🏻♂️
@@RedDeadRogers, i dont need to🌚
@@cookiecola5852 humor broken
"You're not in Chile anymore"
"Well how was I supposed to know? Someone removed the color filter..."
But the filter is from México, Chile filter its different
Trust me Im from Chile
@@simonkisino88 simon martinez xupalo
@@simonkisino88
Haber, si de verdad eres de Chile tiembla
@@jorgea.2318 Jorge A.weonao
This is a slap in the face to reality.
Canada is blue, Mexico is yellow.
Sigh, the yellow filter is supposed to represent the sepia tone we give to our memory’s. “ rose colored glasses”
The yellow version reduces the skin wrinkles, makes them all look younger. I'll buy some yellow sunglasses for all my friends and family.😎
Paint yourself yellow.
What a caring man you are, Joe.
@big black man gaming king joe
@@bigblackmangaming Hes such a joeker 🤣
This is the moment Mexico got its colors back.
Speechless, Vince did it again
@@makutas-v261 bravo vince
Vince gilligan is a genius!
vravo bince
Gracias Vince, todo un genio
Still feelin the Mexico vibes because of these amazing actors
It was really great finally seeing colors after hopping i mean crossing the border it was amaizing not having to worry about drinking pics by accident
This is amazing. You can actually see the contours of the makeup under their eyes and on their cheeks where they've tried to make them look younger and to compliment the yellow filter.
There's pretty creative of them to use the yellow filter to make the deaging more believable
Bravo, Vince
@@harold3165 Vravo, Bince
That's because of the massive increase in contrast. Doesn't have much to do with changing the color temperature.
This is not only mexico, but a flashback. When Gus comes back and kills Don Eladio in current times, the filter isn't there or isn't as strong
But there is a filter when we meet tucos cousins and it's not a flashback
Just like when Mike is throwing corn to the chickens, that scene is yellow pakas
I think it’s more to signify a threat to main characters and usually yellow scenes have instances of important foreshadowing that are not yet obvious to the audience. That’s why when Gus goes back there is no tint. It’s slyly letting you know that there is no danger for Gus, Jesse, and Mike.
Wasn't it obviously supposed to be a flashback? I mean even Hector is walking around lol
@@clementine2234 I don't see any comment arguing about that
The color joke aside, this scene is absolutely marvelous. i was enthralled
As someone who lives in Mexico, I can 100% confirm that everything here is tinted yellow.
As an Arizonan I'm telling you there is a huge wall extending to space that is just a yellow tint at the border.
i do work around the nogales border frequently, its like youre looking through endless miles of yellow glass
The yellow filter helps make Giancarlo look younger
Yeah but they used the filter when we met tucos cousins so its invalid
@@tomerart9544 who gives a fuck why are we making a big deal about it
@@flamingravenmc4058 Cuz its breaking bad fans
And they don't use it when they go to Mexico the second time, or multiple other times they're in Mexico, dumbass.
@@aolson1111cause its a flashback
Mexican President Leaves Night Light On at Most During the Day
seeing this scene for the first time was craaaaazyyyyyy, yellow way better fr
It's interesting seeing the parallels between this scene and when Hank is killed. Both Gustavo and Walter end up on the ground with their faces contorted in anguish.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Spoilers :/ (can't act surprised though he seems to have it coming)
Both were horrifying but the roles are turned with whos pleading for mercy and who died, i dont think gus' boyfriend thought he was going to be the one to get shot, he was trying to protect gus and ended up getting murdered, but hank fully accepted his death and walter was the one begging for him to be let go
@@cornbreadloverrr wait, boyfriend? canon??
@@barakathiongo4835you gotta be trollin
I remember as a kid going to Disney land on a trip to the US, and asking my mom "are those the colors you were talking to me about?" and she replied with "indeed, my youngling". It was beautiful.
@Proud.Libyan its a joke
@@alvily JAJAJAJA se la creyó
@@sugarpoyon2077 En efecto
cap
Youngling?
I don't know about the filter but now I have to watch the scene where Gus has his mf'ing revenge. This is the moment you learn to love Gus. You might hate him in every other regard, but in this moment your mind has fused with his and you want nothing more than that singular yearning for terrible, deadly retribution.
I see it now, that Mexico is not only yellow to simbolize a different environment, but also to help hide away the characters age. Much like in how the flashbacks of season 1 were all obscured by dim lighting.
As a native Spanish speaker, it’s pretty hilarious listening to them talk, they don’t sound like native speakers at all, they sound like an English speaker trying to speak Spanish 🤣
that’s because they are
I'd say that is understood for the purpose of the show.
Si, pero se supone que interpretan a personajes que son hablantes nativos. "gringo" de tercera mano.
They sound that way to native English speakers, too. Or even non-native English speakers.
Gus isnt a natural speaker
It was very brave of Vince to film this scene exactly the same in both countries
And it's truly impressive how they managed to recreate it beat for beat the second time
I Just came here to Watch this wonderful scene
Man I'm too busy focusing on how good the sound design is for this scene on rewatch good lord
The yellow distracted me from noticing Don Eladio is wearing a white track suit in front of someone he likely had already planned to have killed. That is a power play
Images have a language, some conventions.
In American films, the Sepia tint is either used for flashbacks / memory scenes or it's used for sunny/hot places. Besides, in those places gringos wear ray bans, making everything... yellow. This language of sepia vs blue tints tells where the action takes place so it's easier to follow.
That’s a great point, but the palette is less like tinted shades and more like BMX goggles you pick up at the airport
I too find this convention annoying, cheap and a bit patronizing. Avid viewers are "fluent" in media consumption and don't need crutches to help their (not) foggy brains. All languages evolve, so that particular sepia lingo could easily be done away with.
who are you calling a gringo wet back?
@@Fred-yq3fs i find it patronizing you use the word gringo so openly you racist little bean
I think it's more like a yankee convention of Latín América is allá hot and yellow, same with the middle east.
it's in mexico. but more importantly it's a FLASHBACK
such a chilling scene
This made me realise that these scenes being in full colour would have given them a very different vibe and I actually like that they stylistically differentiate between key locations. But it also made me realise that the filtered version is oversaturated to *such* a ridiculous degree that they were 100% fully aware of it and wanted to lean into it as far as they could, which is real bold and I appreciate that.
not only that, one comment mentions how the filter makes gus loog young as hell
amazing scene to humanize gus as one of the first in the series to have "broke bad". know its about the color correction, wonderful work with that, but also still amazing scene. even without watching the show amazing seeing clips of his acting in the flashback and the current day, he doesnt get a chance to show that kind of emotion often, normally playing the cold calculating villain, but his emotional acting is top notch. you can really feel the characters emotions reflected.
As a Mexican, Gus looks weird speaking Spanish, I imagine that's why his partner was given more prominence in that scene, but his non-verbal performance and the suffering at the end is excellent, I loved the background music, although At first I made fun of the sepia color of Mexico xd, with this clip I appreciate that they put it
@@thepageti874 I saw Breaking Bad dubbed in Spanish and the funny thing is that for this scene it stay pretty much the same except Gus, where they redubbed his lines so it doesn't sound that weird. Giancarlo is an amazing actor though and even in BCS he improved his Spanish a lot
gus was bad before that scene. this is not him breaking bad. he was doing much of the same stuff in chile before the BB timeline.
This was the scene where Gus became Heisenberg.
@@peterpan3022 he’s breaking badder though, like the guy said he isn’t in Chile anymore, he probably hasn’t even hurt anymore before that scene by his reaction
Looks so much better - never understood why they added that filter. Made it look like an early 2000s film or something.
pretty brilliant to do that really
The creators actually used color in a lot of great ways in this show
Yellow was used for danger, like oranges in The Godfather. Some examples in the first few episodes alone are the mustard stain on the doctors shirt when Walt gets his diagnosis, the yellow car when Crazy 8 rolls up on the RV, the yellow plate that breaks in the basement. There's a million more, but those are just a few. You really notice them as the show goes on.
The yellow tint in these scenes in Mexico are alluding to the fact that the characters we're following are in some deep shit and something bad is about to happen. I thought it was more stylistic at first, but it takes on a whole new meaning after learning the color theory.
bullshit
Yellow 👋
No
no the air in mexico is just yellow
When Gus goes back to Don Eladio’s pool, it’s not yellow then, either
If they had used a black & white filter, we would have thought that the flashback takes place in Nazi Germany.
1:02 Don Eladio makes a gesture to Hector to kill Gustavo's friend
I think people from the states think us from latin and south america live more close to the Sun 😂😂😂😂😂
1:23 the clear shot of hector is my favorite part. I can see why they add the filter, it’s to make the Mexican cartel seem more eerie, dangerous, and violent. But damn the show looks so good without the filter too
they don’t need to make cartels any more violent if you actually have seen their execution snuff videoes. The way they killed victims is sadistic and inhumane
@@amarson2322 as opposed to murdering someone... Humanely?
@@DenKulesteSomFins There is a difference for sure. The cartels inflict as much pain and suffering as possible. To instill fear.
@@DenKulesteSomFins yes
Injecting chemicals to die a peaceful and painless death is humane (of course this should be done to people who deserve it not some randoms on the street )
And there is bashing their heads in with a hammer , beating them to death drowning them , setting them ablaze ect..
@@primadeluxe4910 not my point. Any killing of innocents is inhumane. You can't kill someone who doesn't need nor deserve to die by showing kindness or benevolence
Mexican weather man: We're gonna be having an awful lot of *YELLOW* today
So cool seeing a (somewhat close to) correct white balance in Mexico!
I been to Mexico and south Texas during the burnoffs or with a ton of dust in the air. Late afternoons and evening, sun gets low, it can get like that.
incredible how they took the time to film this shot for shot on both sides of the border!
In the directors commentary, Vince Gillian said that they first used the yellow tint at the start of season 3 because they need to change the scene from a cloudy day to a sunny day. But then they realized that the tint was a good way to distinguish between scenes happening in Mexico and scenes in the US.
bullshit, they use the same color for middle east and any other latin american country, so what da hell is wrong with them?
@@demoniovenerable7563 chill out lmao they use filters for hotter countries even in italy they use the yellow filter. in colder countries they use a blue tint. its the distinguish temperatures and scenes for film. Theres brown people in Canada too called indigenous we have films about indigenous that have blue tint. I get what youre saying but its not racist. lmfao its just to add to the scenes setting.
@@demoniovenerable7563 In this show it's used as visual shorthand to indicate that they're in Mexico, but you're right about shows and movies generally. They definitely took it too far in some places, and personally I think it's kinda lazy and it's a bit strange to make a certain selection of countries look so alien.
@@demoniovenerable7563 the yellow filter is usually used in desert or warm areas. it could also be a flashback.
Yeah I thought that was the case
I really like how the yellow filter adds a very oppressive feeling to the scene, it feels like a super hot and nostalgic hell
This is so much better and immersive!
this looks so much better that shit eye strained me lowkey
the edited "non-yellow" version is better IMO makes it feel more realistic and has an 80's Scarface feel to it as someone here already pointed out
No amount of color filters will fix Gus’ terrible Spanish
one of the best revenge stories on television
The reason they used yellow is acutally genius, the director was asked about it a couple of years ago and it was to make Giancarlo Esposito (the actor who plays Gus) look younger as this scene happened many years before breaking bad and imo it works amazing. Honestly small things like this are why Breaking Bad is such a masterpiece of a TV series, top 3 show of all time.