Top 5 Moments from Breaking Bad’s Ozymandias

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1) Left to Right. Right to Left. I studied for a summer at the well-known Northwestern Cherub Theater Program and learned a tremendous amount about stage dynamics. One thing in particular I learned: a human being will prefer to watch something panning left to right because it is the direction in which the eye reads. Watching anything or anyone move right to left is therefore intrinsically more uncomfortable for us and therefore clouds that moment in subliminal tension and anxiety. Check out the many times they used this fabulous move. a) When Jesse is wrestled into the car to his doom he is pulled from right to left across Walter White b) When Walter's car is full of gas he travels…
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Top 5 Shots I Loved from Last Night’s Breaking Bad

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  Note to readers--all photographs were taken by my Iphone of my television while I stood in Pajamas. Not bad, right?     1) LYDIA'S OUTFIT     Vince Gilligan famously plays a lot with color in Breaking Bad. (Think of the names Walter WHITE and Jesse PINKMAN). Colors represent certain themes and help give a subliminal depth to his most important scenes. If you noticed, Lydia was decked out in all blue which has represented Heisenberg's blue meth the entire series. She is our link to that almost pure drug and she is the only  one left trying desperately to get it back. With all the other drama, it's actually easy to forget all about the meth but she…
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