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Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Breaking Down "Breaking Bad" Filming Locations with Adam and Billy - Episode 2

 

 I remember hearing that "Break Bad" is a Southernism that Vince Gilligan picked up while growing up in Virginia. Gilligan was surprised to learn that no one else seemed to recognize the phrase. 

I remember once using hydrofluoric acid in graduate school in about 1985 in order to etch glass. I read about its effects, so I was scared shitless. It doesn't burn you from the outside in. Upon contact, your skin sponges it up and you dissolve from the inside out. 

It's interesting how Adam and Billy didn't quite treat the Little Girl in the Gas Mask as a separate filming location. For that matter, I didn't do so either. Still, the Little Girl in the Gas Mask scene is important. She represents Alice in Wonderland - a direct reference to the artistic tradition of Giorgio De Chirico (starting from his painting “Mystery and Melancholy of a Street,” from the year 1914), then Salvador Dali and his paintings from the 1930s, and the world of Surrealist art, especially the Disney short film "Destino." I talk about it from times 24:40 - 30:45 in this video: 

 

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