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What was the point of Walter White Jr having cerebral palsy?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 8/1/19 at 1:47 pm
Doing a rewatch of breaking bad, and the kid is outright annoying. What was the point of using him over just a regular kid? I guess I never got the connection of that to the overall plot.
This post was edited on 8/1/19 at 1:48 pm
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Posted on 8/1/19 at 1:49 pm to BabyTac
maybe to make the white family more sympathetic as walt turns into the bad guy
Posted on 8/1/19 at 1:50 pm to BabyTac
Walter’s fricked up kid adds to his free fall. If he dies, who takes care of his whore wife and broken kid?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 1:50 pm to BabyTac
He is motivation for Walter Sr. Making him disabled increases the empathy that you have for Walters decision to dive into a life of crime.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 1:53 pm to BabyTac
What is the point of fricking anything?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 1:57 pm to BabyTac
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maybe to make the white family more sympathetic as walt turns into the bad guy
This is the right answer. It's a script writing shortcut. You make a character young, female, crippled, or a cute animal and the viewer will naturally want to protect it and presume the same motivation for the protagonist.
There's actually a script writing book called "Save the Cat!" that encourages writers who want to sell in Hollywood to use these methods cause Hollywood loves lazy writing.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:04 pm to BabyTac
Simply put, economic pressure on Walt both before and after diagnosis.
He was teaching and moonlighting at a car wash to provide for his family and the costs of that were dramatically higher than normal because Walt Jr had CP.
Post-diagnosis, it meant that whatever nest egg he wanted to leave for the family would have to be larger than normal because Walt Jr’s medical issues would continue tearing through it.
He was teaching and moonlighting at a car wash to provide for his family and the costs of that were dramatically higher than normal because Walt Jr had CP.
Post-diagnosis, it meant that whatever nest egg he wanted to leave for the family would have to be larger than normal because Walt Jr’s medical issues would continue tearing through it.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:12 pm to BabyTac
His son's condition makes him more desperate and more likely to do crazy things to try to provide for his family initially.
Big boy pants cost a lot.
Big boy pants cost a lot.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:13 pm to BabyTac
why we're at it, why was Marie a klepto and an annoying bitch?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:16 pm to BabyTac
I mean the actor also has cerebral palsy so....
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:28 pm to BabyTac
quote:Sheesh.
What was the point of using him over just a regular kid?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:35 pm to BabyTac
What was the point of Walter White Jr. eating breakfast in 90 percent of his scenes?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:39 pm to BabyTac
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What was the point of Walter White Jr having cerebral palsy?
I think it was to illustrate how absolutely nothing broke walt's way....Even reproduction.
This post was edited on 8/1/19 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:51 pm to BabyTac
a friend of Vince Gillian has a son with CP and did it as a tribute to him if Im not mistaken.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 3:00 pm to BabyTac
Worth mentioning that the actor playing the character has CP as well.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 3:05 pm to 12
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What was the point of Walter White Jr. eating breakfast in 90 percent of his scenes?
Because he spent years perfecting his craft at the Brad Pitt school of acting and Vince allowed him to shine.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 3:13 pm to BabyTac
What was the point of whitey tighties?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 3:55 pm to Emteein
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While we're at it, why was Marie the only decent looking woman on the show (sans Janes brief appearance)?
Fixed it for you....grammar and all
Posted on 8/1/19 at 4:40 pm to BabyTac
So u instead wanted a ripped heart throb shirtless teenage football star stud instead?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 7:06 pm to birchbayduck
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So u instead wanted a ripped heart throb shirtless teenage football star stud instead?
That could've actually been interesting if he was sort of a dick and didn't respect walt. Maybe if he thought of walt as a nerdy, underachieving puss. And then of course walt evolves into the gangster he became.
For me that would've been better than the son he had. Every episode that spent too much time on walt's family was shitty and dull. Maybe a dick son could've mixed it up a little better and made his domestic life a little more compelling.
This post was edited on 8/1/19 at 7:08 pm
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