I am always astounded by the process of writers who are able to bring their visions to life on the big and small screen. One of the best all-time is Vince Gilligan, who took an idea about an antihero and brought Breaking Bad to us.Today, I want to dig into a video detailing how Gilligan brought the show to life.Let's dive in.How Vince Gilligan Wrote 'Breaking Bad' I love compilation videos like this one because they sort of distill the whole process down. Gilligan's initial concept for this show was so simple: take a good man and have him do terrible things to save his family.He started with that idea and built it outward from there.The idea was to make Walter White a "bland, milquetoast" chemistry teacher, and then figure out how to transform him into a "Scarface."In TV, you have seasons to do all that, but you have to lay out the layers of the person and then start to pick them apart.To do that, they basically showed Walter's ego early on. An important twist was him refusing financial help for his cancer treatment and instead choosing to continue cooking meth.This decision, Gilligan explains, revealed that Walt's motivations were not purely altruistic; he was doing it for himself, even if he was saying out loud it was for his family.This quest for power and control fueled the next five seasons.The Writers' RoomThe magic of Breaking Bad was born in the writers' room, where a team of talented individuals would...
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