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ScreenPrism Love the research guys. Very compelling. I'd like to suggest analysing the "Western" aspect of Breaking Bad. Vince Gilligan himself has said that he plotted it similar to a contemporary Western. I'd love it if we could dig deeper on that.
Ugh another anti capitalist media spewing BS. So I guess Skill Share is evil & you are pimping yourself off. These terrible narrators are really lame. Let's hope ScreenPrism doesn't become a large corporation.
I think you'd be better served by not bringing up examples of things just because the public believes it to be a certain way. If you actually read and investigated Martin Shkreli, I don't think you'd lump him in with Gus Fring.
Many People do it in real life. People who have to deal with customers/employers they don't like. People who feel empty or depressed and put on an outward smile.
He's an Italian actor. Let that sink in. An Italian actor portrayed a Chilean so well, even nailed the accent and Spanish to the point most of us wholly believed him to be Chilean. If that doesn't deserve an Oscar and an independent series then what does?
@@andrewince8824 you mean Emmy right? Oscar is for the movies. And yes, Giancarlo Esposito is one hell of an actor. Gus Fring is one of the strongest characters in television history.
You can respect someone's positive qualities without endorsing their negative ones. He is an objectively brilliant and driven man, those are traits we'd admire in anyone. The application is the issue.
Gus’s death scene is one of the best scenes I’ve ever seen in a show. When he walked out of the room I yelled in anger that he was still alive. Then the camera pans over to the other half of his blown up face and he falls to the ground. Amazing writing and execution. Beautiful.
Fruit Salad It was phenomenal. My jaw dropped when I saw him walk out and straighten his tie. I was like how did he live? He’s some kind of superhuman. Then it panned over to the other side of his face and I felt a wave of relief.
Debbie Hariette I mean to be fair Better Call Saul seems to be focussing lesser and lesser on Saul and more on Mike, Gus and the cartel, which I really love
@@Beiez hopefully it continues like that as it's really interesting (I am mid way though season 4), but I would love to see a few episodes about Gus before the cartel too
@@arlette3700 Theres plenty of "legitimate businessmen" who are heads of crime syndicate who use their businesses as fronts and we dont know when we could meet them let alone accidentally get on the wrong side of them.
Also the great detail of Gus is that the first time he makes a killing personal it's where he dies. He could have killed Hector with his hitmans but he wanted to go and do it. Emotion took over there and he dies. Heisenberg was smarter then and he saw a possible flaw there.
@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 Was a revenge, but a smart move too, the cartel was causing him problems, killing his man, "taking" his money, wipe them was a investment too
@@zevk._. yeah he played it smart there. But when he tried to kill Hector,he was just being impulsive. He didn't make up a plan and didn't foresee it. Actually he should've been more cautious and aware. One mistake and boom! He is dead.
@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 Yes, killing Hector was totally precipitate, and did not take even 30% of the planning that he had to kill the Cartel. He had such a hurry, it was what have killed him
@@zevk._. honestly speaking, I became really sad when Gus died. Many say that he deserved to die because he killed children. But we do not know for sure if he was gonna really kill Walt's son and daughter. I mean he just threatened to kill them. Also,we don't exactly know whether he ordered to kill Tomas. Maybe those two street dealers killed him themselves to satisfy their own ego. I don't know where you are from,but in my region, everyone thinks Gus deserved to die. Even in internet I see these comments. But I don't know why,I have a feeling Gus wasn't that heartless. Maybe I am the only one.
@@Elwood128 Gus is a character with a fatal flaw - he enjoys torturing Hector Salamanca as punishment for killing his friend. It's the one weakness in his armour of near-pristine perfectionism and ruthlessness. As ineffectual as Walt proves himself to be many times over, he is good at recognising character weaknesses - he does so for Jesse, for Skyler and many others. Once he identifies Gus' fatal flaw, all of Gus' accomplishments meant nothing. Gus and the Cartel had been playing chess for years, and as Gus stood on the cusp of victory, Walt was the pigeon knocking the pieces over and shitting on the board.
"Gus sells two things. One is a popular consumer product that’s targeted at low-income populations and with long-term consumption, can contribute to disease and death. The other is methamphetamine." Best line.
@@manantial773 As a spanish speaker, I don't agree. His pronunciation wasn't the best one, but you can understand him at least. There are worst pronunciations out there, so yeah, he has a good use of the language.
@@Andre12241 Nope, as Spanish speaker and as Spanish philologist, linguist and translator I think that his pronunciation is one of the worst in the entire history of TV.
@@manantial773 you really think is the worst in tv? Well, I think you haven't watched a lot of movies and series then. To say that its one of the worst is kinda ridiculous, considering the fact that he knows more vocabulary than some of our spanish speakers.
“A man provides. And he does it even when he’s not appreciated, or respected, or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he’s a man” Such a masterpiece of a character.
It's a really strong sentence because you would expect it from either the archetype of the christian conservative working father, or the archetype of the badass silent underground muscled guy, but it's said by the softspoken mannered one... with the piercing stare and all the weight of pure domination of the capitalist hierarchy, the mastermind you don't fuck with, and it's so much more powerful than any Vin Diesel could make it sound, it remembers that the true patriarchs are on top of the hierarchies, it's not about the balls but the business.
@@epicaunleashed8764 Oh well, not that much, really Just a tiny bit of a post-acc-xenotranscendental-neo-individulaist-intersectionnal-social-singulitarianist-anarchist maybe?
maybe they weren't told ahead of time what was going to happen. the director might have instructed everyone individually and not allow them to talk about it. it makes a shocking reaction more genuine. however i am not even an actor and if i was in that room, i'd react like they did.
Gus Fring is the archetype of how a crime lord should operate. By passing yourself off as a humble and benevolent business man will make it hard for people to question your character. Al Capone used to operate soup kitchens during the great depression
wasn't difficult to "decipher" though...the guy was masking his "ugliness" behind a well groomed and trust worthy, well mannered outer appearance. both sides of him were out on display when he walked out of that explosion
It was brilliant to me how Walt (a man with a huge ego) was able to identify that same flaw in Gus by going after him through an old enemy of his because he knew that Gus would be too smart to put himself in danger in any situation not involving his ego-fueled need to torture Hector. Walt knew this because his whole empire was built out of spite in the same way that Fring’s was. It definitely takes you back to their first meeting where Walt insisted that him and Gus were similar people, and it turns out Walt was right.
From an objective point of view, Gus was actually a fairly reasonable businessman, both in his legitimate restaurant and in the drug business. It almost never gets brought up but there are several instances in the show where Gus's employees at Pollos Hermanos demonstrate a fair amount of loyalty to him. He also appears to treat them pretty well. He gives his employees the remainder of the day off with paid overtime after the incident with Hector and then the following day he gathers his employees and fills them in on the situation. I mean, he lies about the reason but still.... Gus does seem like he aspires to be a better employer than most restaurant owners. Gus has a wild capacity for violence but he doesn't embrace it as virtue.... he uses it as a last resort. He even exhibits quite a bit of patience with Walter, who was a constant headache for him. Gus was content to allow Gale to be his cook and he probably could have run his empire without a hitch if he had never hooked up with Walt and Jesse. He even gave Walt a chance to walk away from the meth business and Walt immediately turned around and plotted to assassinate him. Gus was a bad guy, no doubt, but even with what we know as an audience, he still seems better than 90% of employers in the real world.... assuming he doesn't slit your jugular with a U-Knife
Perhaps this is exactly what the writers want us to believe; that he’s a good boss. But no amount of PTO can or should make up for the murders hes committed. None of that discounts his sociopathic tendencies. He was patient with Walt because Walt WAS the business and Gus had already been exposed. This might be a if you cant beat em, join em situation in that sense. Had Walt been replaceable, the story would likely have been different. This is kinda like saying “ya, amazon exploits workers and creates dangerous working conditions, but hey at least they give those with client facing roles unlimited PTO and wellness days.” Gus is still a horrible human being and boss for his bottom line.
7:15 Gus sells two things: One is a popular consumer product, that's targeted at low income populations, and with long therm consumption can contribute to disease and death. The other is: fried chicken...
@@Sondrox that's not what narrator said in the video. That's the correct method how this kind of jokes works. You state the obvious and do the switch at the end.
Gus was the most phenomenal, memorable, and chill-inducing villain I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing, not just in Breaking Bad but all shows in general. There was something both magnetic and horrifying about his character (and the actor's performance of course) that has stuck with me even after all these years. From a show that excelled in creating fascinating characters, Gus was truly a crowning achievement. Anyway I'm really enjoying these BB videos! I hope you'll make some for Better Call Saul too at one point, or at least about Saul himself
I always felt gus was tragic character in the story. He basically had clean, well oild business operation which while ethically dubious was still more civilised than what the cartel does. That is until two self destructive morons crossed his way just ready to pull him down with them. Poor guy. :-D
It's either i'm partially OCD or that I just love how neatly and organized gus does things in the show. It is very satisfying watching how gus places things and put them in a neat, professional and organized way.
@@Mikial. Thanks. 2 emmy awards for BB. also, he had a supporting role in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Then he acts like he gives a crap about me until after I open the can, then he goes back to ignoring me. I fall for it every time. ACTING !
I feel like an idiot b/c I've seen the show four times and never realized Gus killed Victor for being seen. I always thought it was a sort of a warped punishment for failing to protect Gale
Actually I thought it was because the guy was insulting the position of cook. Like in a weird way Walter is a stand in for his brother, who was important as a cook. His brother is killed because they dont respect his value. The guy flat out says that an idiot can be a cook by following a recipe. I think Gus was brought back to that moment his brother died and the poor guy was just talking like the guys who killed his brother.
Travis Bewley No they’ve explicitly stated in interviews that Gus did it because he was seen. They make huge moments out of it on the show. Mike grilling Victor “Did you get seen? Did you?!” Then after Victor responds Mike stares at him for quite a while without saying anything, then called Gus. They confirmed why Gus did by showing his the artist rendering of Victor two separate times.
It was done for two purposes. One for him being seen at crime scene. Another to show his brutality to jesse and walter and also to us. He was sending a message that what he can do to their own men . Just look at the jesse reactions while he was chopping off victor.
Gus's last moments weren't him only thinking about appearance. He WASN'T THINKING. It's even more symbolic this way, because when he's already died, his body still carried itself in the same professional manner. You could argue this is kind of like how businesses will always try to continue even if someone in it dies. Look at apple.
@@michiefukyu9172 yes he should have noticed that he just noticed walt tried to kill him at hospital parking lately, hector going to dea it is kinda suspicious
mike was my favorite character. it made no sense walt had to kill him. fring said he'd kill walt's newborn. who wanted him to live after that? when he walked out after the explosion i was disappointed until he actually died.
@Nicole B your problem is that you guys are so used to freedom that you take it for granted. here in brasil we made the same mistake you guys are making right now trying welfare state, when we changed our constitution in 1988, and the quality of life only decayed ever since.
I just finished watching Breaking Bad for the first time yesterday, and your videos have been an exceptional help in understanding the underlying themes of the show that I didn't catch at first glance. Your videos are so professionally done. They get right to the point, and construct a clear-cut, logical, and detailed argument for each point. Fantastic stuff!
Having a good understanding of disordered psychology really helps understand the genius of this show. Jesse's moment of telling walt (even after being "saved") to tell Jesse he wants him to shoot him is something best understood from a keen psychological understanding.
Mike basically was one of the few characters in the show who did not WANT to be "the man". He didn't want to be the boss. He was happy merely working at a privileged level as an employee for the Gus Fring's of the world (and later on Walt, although Mike has never liked Walt, he merely joined forces with him towards the end because the police took all the money he had ever earned and saved from Gus -- also Walt's fault, but indirectly).
^ this is true but Todd was not intelligent enough to really be ABLE to grasp the big picture, Todd was kind of interesting in that he was more of a blind servant than Mike would ever be (and this is proven with how he deals with Walt, although Walt convinces Mike and Jesse that their partner is a 3 way split that's totally equal -- while everyone including Walt realizes he's really the one who was controlling that ship and Mike was smart enough to realize it too, he just didn't care -- Jesse actually believed it was that way because the money WAS shared between them in that split, he was also more of a follower though than anything else, getting off track lol). Todd made up for his basic lack of intelligence with vicious, cold-hearted execution. He was always following orders, I mean even in the Train episode they literally told him "Nobody can know this happened" so like a computer he sees the 13 year old and was like "OK, well nobody means nobody. Cya kid, sorry." In a disturbingly calm fashion. But yeah, he was built from the ground up to obey orders without question, something his uncle probably abused into him from a young age. I mean, something went wrong with that kid, probably more like somethings but you get the picture. Todd might be the most disturbing character in the show for me. Even moreso than Tuco.
Gust is my favorite character. I’m amazed by how he can stay calm even when he’s in danger. I’ve heard that super nice people are often the angriest people. Gust is the definition of that !!! He k?led an entire crowd without panicking or getting angry. I have yet to see another villain
man, my favorite thing about Gus is that he wasn't always this ruthless. that backstory of his with his partner is one of the best pieces of backstory I've ever seen in a show. instantly humanizes someone who's been cold and calculating. and explains so much of his ruthlessness despite that moment being so emotional. genius writing
Aside from his flippancy at killing children, I liked Gus. He was cool, logical, efficient and unemotional in his dealings. Way better than Jesse and especially Tuco. I was sad when he died.
to be fair, it wasn't a flippant remark when he threatened walts kids, it was his final move on walt and also he never said he would kill them, he said he would IF walt didn't stop interfering with his business. a final ultimatum. also its unclear if gus had tomas killed by those Mexican gang bangers...however on the flip side, walt did poison brock.
My favorite character after Walter. Very calm, controlled, detailed & unemotional yet very creepy. That moment where he calmly changed his clothes before suddenly killing Victor shocked me the most. Giancarlo really deserved an Emmy for his portrayal of Gus.
Okay so I just realised that when Gus is missing half of his face and moves his eye(s), you can actually see the muscle moving behind where his right eye should be and it’s perfectly synchronised with his left eye. That’s attention to detail right there.
There is something about Gus that I just love. Even though I see his evil actions, they are so well planned, serve such specific objectives, that I just can't stop praising his mindset. I think I aspire to be like him. (And, yes, I'm aware that it must be a bad thing.)
I couldn't wait til the end of the video to say that you girls are blowing my mind!!! I only was aware of the revenge part of his character, watching the series as a teen surely made me not realize so many thing. You are the enhancing drug of TV shows and movies haha
When his business partner from Chile was murdered in front of him by Hector, Gus was visibly heartbroken. His reaction to his friends death was that of a “normal” human being. I question the Gus we see on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, after that murder. Would Gus have changed that much? From an ambitious drug dealer to a cold blooded murderous sociopath?
I know it's late but that "partner" has been proven to be Gustavos boyfriend 😂 vince said it himself the amount of BB fans who cope and argue against gus being gay is hilarious
Makes video explaining the critiques of capitalism in television. Has advertisement at the end promoting a business that can teach you to start your own business. Not knocking the vid, it was great just thought this was funny.
I think there's a duplicity on it: telling that businesses are mostly a bad thing, and then saying Why don't you start up? I consider that those who criticize capitalism don't understand that there are institutions which protect individual liberties and rights. Capitalism is NOT an equivalent to Law of the Jungle. Neoliberalism is just a "straw man" which is used by statits (don't care if right or left wing) in order to aggrandize their political power and diminish our liberties. That's why we usually hear things like "too much liberties have led us to the crisis".
Neoliberalism is a wide ideology that is/was followed by everyone from Rothbard to Obama. It was first implemented under Woodrow Wilson, became the predominant ideology of capitalists under FDR, and has since created its own left and right wing factions...from American Democrats to Margret Thatcher to Anarcho-Capitalists. It differs from Classical Liberalism (an ideology held by Locke, Adam Smith, and the founding fathers), which asserted that the invisible hand would guide economic decisions. Neoliberalism asserts competition will guide economic decisions and states should do whatever fosters the healthiest competitions. But anywho, Capitalism, no matter which ideology you fall under, creates catch-22s where you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I'm sure Screen Prism would like to just create content for every day of the week as a non-profit. At the end of the day, however, motherfuckers gotta eat. You take money whenever someone is just handing it out lol.
I do not think there's too much difference between Classical Liberalism and what you called "Neoliberalism": they both believe that the most moral system is a free society within the state should not repress individuals liberties, both civil and economic liberties. Capitalism is the "economic part" of Liberalism, that could be summarized in: "protection of private propierty" and economic freedom. In a capitalist society, individuals compete with each other, but, also, they cooperate with each other (companies, businesses, CZcams Chanels) in order to present the best product-service to the customer. Is capitalism encouraging people to break bad and damage other individuals' liberties? Dunno, but one thing is certain: there are (must be) institutions which protect INDIVIDUAL (not collective) liberties. Maybe Neoliberalism could be defined as an ideology that just focuses on the efficiency of the capitalist system (even Marx would recognize such thing). But NO ONE has indentified him-herself as a neo-liberal. It has been always politicians or academic leftist who have created this "straw man" in order to explain (INADEQUATELY) the social reality.
Marx already asserts the issue isn't any specific ideology under capitalism, but rather capitalism itself with concepts such as absentee ownership, wage labor, and the price of good determined by their exchange value, rather than how they're used. Obviously, many people disagree with this, but I don't think if Marx had lived long enough to see capitalism during the 1930s that he would have changed his mind to agree that Neoliberalism is an ideology that focuses on efficiency of the capitalist system. Rather, I think he'd double down and say it's an ideology that focuses on correcting the inefficiencies of capitalism. But also I'm serious about the whole invisible hand thing: Smith thought a divine power (God, karma, or whatever) would literally guide the economy to be the most useful. Later liberals, like Keynes and Rothbard, would say the economy was grounded in the actions of people.
I knew him First as “Bug Out” from “Do The Right Thing” and From His Role In “Fresh” and Now he’s Adam Clayton Powell In “Godfather of Harlem” ...Mr Esposito is a Criminally Underrated Actor 🙌🏾 💙
I forgot that Victor was seen at the crime scene as well. There's so many small details like this that add to character motivations that make this show so great.
SCREENPRISM you guys have made one of the best series of video essays on CZcams- your interpretation of each of character on Breaking Bad is so brilliant! Thank you for the amazing content!!!!
While someone like Tuco represents more of what a brutal dictatorship would look like in a nutshell, Gus displays more of what a Neoliberal, "democratic", corporate societal mindset would represent. He is way more formal, classy, by the rules, and actively goes against the impulsivity of someone like Tuco. All of his actions are strategically planned for a guaranteed outcome to benefit him. What's important about this is that Gus may seem like he's a much better person to be friends/coworkers with (on the outside), but on the inside lies a brutal psycopath who is just as bad, if not worse, than someone like Tuco. That's the similarity between Tuco and Gus, they have the same brutal character outcome, but have a different approach in how they express themselves as people, while also operating large drug empires differently.
I admire how they made him professional yet cold. Gus is one of my favorite bad guys in history for sure and even his death is the most epic to date in my opinion. Classy, scary and deadly
@@slavicjarl8769 What? That's not what I'm talking about. I mean that Walter with 0 competition was not able to replicate Gus' drug empire. He was still just a little rat.
Screenprism is amazing. Your analysis of various films and shows are in-depth and well thought out. Seriously well done. Maybe you guys should do fight club or the matrix? Or even Mr. robot
One problem, Gus isn't unique or the first man to treat drug dealing like any other business, that's simply the business on that level, the biggest, real life drug dealers are like Gus, out of necessity, they appear fine.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Gus is like Walter they too had created an empire, but when Gus died his empire too died with him.
I'm speechless, your content is so impressing to me. Excellent analysis which ties corporation, capitalism, motive, health, moral and bipolar personality to Gustavo Fring. Breaking Bad really is fascinating as a character study.The sky is the limit for you girls if you can keep this up.
My favourite character of the show. From the very first scene I saw this guy there was something special about him, I instantly respected and idolised him.
@💧🐍 They didn’t really say capitalism was evil, but that we shouldn’t let corporations put peoples wellbeing at risk for profit and also the lack of accountability when a corporation messes up.
bluisbg Zzz fear should be used in controlled doses. A little scare from time to time is good to remind your men that you don’t fuck around. However, if you constantly use fear, your men will rebel against you. This is why dictatorships (along other reasons) usually fail over time.
It is a powerful temporary motivator. But it creates huge risks. Trust is actually the greatest motivator. If you Trust someone to lead and work in your mutual interest, that is the longest lasting and most effective. With a little bit of fear of betraying the boss as a spice.
"Gus sells two things, one is a popular consumer product, targeted at low income populations, which with long-term consumption can lead to disease and death; the other is meth." SLOW CLAPPING at that.
I was rather sad that Gus was dead. He was never the villain. His brother got killed in front of his eyes. From there, building an entire drug kingdom single handedly and also becoming the owner of a food chain-he did it due to sheer determination and hard work. He was extremely professional. Didn't harm anyone until they were harmful to him in his logic. I sometimes think Walter was the real villain in the show.
Actually Gus was very healthy and reasonably in the way he approached his revenge plan, not making it his top priority and achieving it without threatening his other plans.
The irony is his Achille's heel is his passion, his personal need for revenge. He'd beaten the Cartel, defeated the Salamanca utterly, yet his need for a coup de grace on Hector led him to his demise.
Gus killed his most loyal partner because he was spotted in a crime scene. I thought Gus killed him because he's giving Walt a new opportunity to keep cooking.
I actually had a very positive perception of Gus' character. In reality, the street pusher with poor impulse control exists more frequently and is subject to emotional cues or consuming their own product. Gus on the other hand displayed a measure of temperance necessary for a long - lasting and stable market. Mike says it best when he gets fustrated with Walt. Walt was a short lived impulse driven overly aggressive market that was unsustainable
Gus Fringe is what anyone is business should seek to emulate. The one time he did something out of emotion or ego (Killing Hector Salamanca) he was killed. Literally everything else he did was remarkably logical and pragmatic. I've been self-employed for the last 10 years. Like even Gus Fringe when I started a venture I made more mistakes than I cared to admit. Thing is I have found that you haft to put business first over all emotional considerations than means your own and everyone else.
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ScreenPrism Love the research guys. Very compelling. I'd like to suggest analysing the "Western" aspect of Breaking Bad. Vince Gilligan himself has said that he plotted it similar to a contemporary Western. I'd love it if we could dig deeper on that.
Ugh another anti capitalist media spewing BS. So I guess Skill Share is evil & you are pimping yourself off. These terrible narrators are really lame. Let's hope ScreenPrism doesn't become a large corporation.
I think you'd be better served by not bringing up examples of things just because the public believes it to be a certain way. If you actually read and investigated Martin Shkreli, I don't think you'd lump him in with Gus Fring.
"Gus' smile never reaches his eyes." That's a brilliant observation, AND it shows how brilliant the actor is to pull that off.
Gus was a perfect example of the phrase "dead eyes."
Ya it's called corporate smile
Many People do it in real life. People who have to deal with customers/employers they don't like. People who feel empty or depressed and put on an outward smile.
Gus was so professional he even fix his tie in death that dedication
Gotta look sharp even in death
@@dreademperor2094 he needs to look good in the coffin one way or another even if its closed or opened.
straightening his tie to meet the devil
He wants to look good for a deal with Satan.
@@kylesoler4139 Gus would probably be running Hell in a few months
Giancarlo Esposito should've won an Emmy for his role on "Breaking Bad."
Ikr! Too bad he didn't.
Kristine Ilochi with any luck, he could win one for BCS.
He's an Italian actor. Let that sink in. An Italian actor portrayed a Chilean so well, even nailed the accent and Spanish to the point most of us wholly believed him to be Chilean. If that doesn't deserve an Oscar and an independent series then what does?
@@andrewince8824 you mean Emmy right? Oscar is for the movies. And yes, Giancarlo Esposito is one hell of an actor. Gus Fring is one of the strongest characters in television history.
@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 just give him all the awards. The man is a fair dinkum legend.
It's genuinely difficult for me to not respect Gus Fring. And that's the scariest part of it all for me.
Bad people can still be likeable
OMG! Omerguy i might be a bad guy omerguy..
You can respect someone's positive qualities without endorsing their negative ones. He is an objectively brilliant and driven man, those are traits we'd admire in anyone. The application is the issue.
He's my favourite character in breaking bad
Bad people also impact the world a lot. We can take the good things from them and use it for good.
Gus’s death scene is one of the best scenes I’ve ever seen in a show. When he walked out of the room I yelled in anger that he was still alive. Then the camera pans over to the other half of his blown up face and he falls to the ground. Amazing writing and execution. Beautiful.
I wish I had that experience! I'm watching the show now and that scene was the only spoiler going in :(
@@CentEH0321 same
Fruit Salad It was phenomenal. My jaw dropped when I saw him walk out and straighten his tie. I was like how did he live? He’s some kind of superhuman. Then it panned over to the other side of his face and I felt a wave of relief.
and the way he fixes his shirt and tie whiles his face is blown off🤣🤣
I want to know how that blow didn't kill him instantly.
Gus Fring, like Saul Goodman, should have a solo series.
yes!!!!
Debbie Hariette I mean to be fair Better Call Saul seems to be focussing lesser and lesser on Saul and more on Mike, Gus and the cartel, which I really love
@@Beiez hopefully it continues like that as it's really interesting (I am mid way though season 4), but I would love to see a few episodes about Gus before the cartel too
It soon will it is called chile con fring
I would love that
Gus isn't scary because he's well written, Gus is scary because he is real.
What do you mean?
@@arlette3700 Theres plenty of "legitimate businessmen" who are heads of crime syndicate who use their businesses as fronts and we dont know when we could meet them let alone accidentally get on the wrong side of them.
@@fegao3150 Absolutely concur.
Which means he is well written
@@ayoubzahyo also very helpfull that his acting is amazing.
Gus is the living embodiment of professionalism.
Not any more :-D
I think gus was copied from half life.......g-man
Yes, absolutely psychotic.
yeah half of his face blewn off inside his grave very alive and very professional.
@@DominickDecocko professionals fail too...
Also the great detail of Gus is that the first time he makes a killing personal it's where he dies. He could have killed Hector with his hitmans but he wanted to go and do it. Emotion took over there and he dies. Heisenberg was smarter then and he saw a possible flaw there.
I think Gus poisoning the whole drug cartel including Don Eladio in Mexico was also a personal issue,a revenge
@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 Was a revenge, but a smart move too, the cartel was causing him problems, killing his man, "taking" his money, wipe them was a investment too
@@zevk._. yeah he played it smart there. But when he tried to kill Hector,he was just being impulsive. He didn't make up a plan and didn't foresee it. Actually he should've been more cautious and aware. One mistake and boom! He is dead.
@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 Yes, killing Hector was totally precipitate, and did not take even 30% of the planning that he had to kill the Cartel. He had such a hurry, it was what have killed him
@@zevk._. honestly speaking, I became really sad when Gus died. Many say that he deserved to die because he killed children. But we do not know for sure if he was gonna really kill Walt's son and daughter. I mean he just threatened to kill them. Also,we don't exactly know whether he ordered to kill Tomas. Maybe those two street dealers killed him themselves to satisfy their own ego. I don't know where you are from,but in my region, everyone thinks Gus deserved to die. Even in internet I see these comments. But I don't know why,I have a feeling Gus wasn't that heartless. Maybe I am the only one.
Giancarlo Esposito did a phenomenal job. Gus' calm brutality was extremely chilling.
Giancarlo...would do a great job!! Followed his career!! Since Spike Lee's School Daze...you must check thst movie out! One best ever!
My kinda villain, the more realistic Lex Luthor archetype
Very much so
This aged well.
Love to hate em
Giancarlo should play Lex Luthir
@@jackxiao9702 He does. He is Lex Luthor in Harley Quinn's animated series.
Walt: i believe we’re alike in that way
Gus is so offended lmfao
I love it, when you first watch that scene you have no idea how different they are hahaha
Gus knew it was just flattery.
Walt’s ego just got hurt big time. When Gus said, “We’re not alike at all”
And yet Walt outsmarted Gus in the end. Looks like they weren't in the same league after all.
@@Elwood128 Gus is a character with a fatal flaw - he enjoys torturing Hector Salamanca as punishment for killing his friend. It's the one weakness in his armour of near-pristine perfectionism and ruthlessness. As ineffectual as Walt proves himself to be many times over, he is good at recognising character weaknesses - he does so for Jesse, for Skyler and many others. Once he identifies Gus' fatal flaw, all of Gus' accomplishments meant nothing. Gus and the Cartel had been playing chess for years, and as Gus stood on the cusp of victory, Walt was the pigeon knocking the pieces over and shitting on the board.
*Gus Fring is CEO of Skillshare*
A subsidiary of Madrigal Electromotive GmbH.
@@petejt lol
No he's the CEO Chick-fil-A
more like Skullshare
@@user-bn7rc9uv1m ay cee what u did there
"Gus sells two things. One is a popular consumer product that’s targeted at low-income populations and with long-term consumption, can contribute to disease and death. The other is methamphetamine." Best line.
The other is FRANCH 😂
I love Gus Fring. Easily my favorite characters and a legendary villain
He was never a villain. He was just a professional businessman. Walter was the real villain
@The underrated Guy, yea sure u right ,
Stringer Bell thooo
@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 Uh... What.
@@Acidfunkish yup
Probably one of the greatest villains in t.v. history. Giancarlo was robbed of an Emmy!
He was not, his Spanish was beyond terrible.
Ivo Stoyanov most of us don’t know Spanish anyways so it didn’t make much of a difference
@@manantial773 As a spanish speaker, I don't agree. His pronunciation wasn't the best one, but you can understand him at least. There are worst pronunciations out there, so yeah, he has a good use of the language.
@@Andre12241 Nope, as Spanish speaker and as Spanish philologist, linguist and translator I think that his pronunciation is one of the worst in the entire history of TV.
@@manantial773 you really think is the worst in tv? Well, I think you haven't watched a lot of movies and series then. To say that its one of the worst is kinda ridiculous, considering the fact that he knows more vocabulary than some of our spanish speakers.
“A man provides. And he does it even when he’s not appreciated, or respected, or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he’s a man”
Such a masterpiece of a character.
He really manipulated Walter with that line.
It's a really strong sentence because you would expect it from either the archetype of the christian conservative working father, or the archetype of the badass silent underground muscled guy, but it's said by the softspoken mannered one... with the piercing stare and all the weight of pure domination of the capitalist hierarchy, the mastermind you don't fuck with, and it's so much more powerful than any Vin Diesel could make it sound, it remembers that the true patriarchs are on top of the hierarchies, it's not about the balls but the business.
@@26yd1 how leftist are you lmao
@@epicaunleashed8764
Oh well, not that much, really
Just a tiny bit of a post-acc-xenotranscendental-neo-individulaist-intersectionnal-social-singulitarianist-anarchist maybe?
This show really puts one off having a family, so much mediocrity, boredom, responsibility and un-masculine stupidity
love all these breaking bad break downs
Love your videos, man.
Kiss me already
love your vids dude
Dog bless.
my man
One of the most chilling scenes is in Season 4 when Gus calmly and quietly changes into a hazmat suit and cuts Victor's throat.
Had the same reaction as Walter, Jesse, and Mike
maybe they weren't told ahead of time what was going to happen. the director might have instructed everyone individually and not allow them to talk about it. it makes a shocking reaction more genuine. however i am not even an actor and if i was in that room, i'd react like they did.
Gus Fring is the archetype of how a crime lord should operate. By passing yourself off as a humble and benevolent business man will make it hard for people to question your character. Al Capone used to operate soup kitchens during the great depression
Wow, deciphering the meaning of the Gus' half-face scene is impressive
wasn't difficult to "decipher" though...the guy was masking his "ugliness" behind a well groomed and trust worthy, well mannered outer appearance. both sides of him were out on display when he walked out of that explosion
Thats true but their interpretation isnt the only one. You can take it as a refernce for Gus's character also without making it about politics.
Gus Fring was such an amazing character
A racist representation
@Flying Dutchman he was not a villan
It was brilliant to me how Walt (a man with a huge ego) was able to identify that same flaw in Gus by going after him through an old enemy of his because he knew that Gus would be too smart to put himself in danger in any situation not involving his ego-fueled need to torture Hector. Walt knew this because his whole empire was built out of spite in the same way that Fring’s was. It definitely takes you back to their first meeting where Walt insisted that him and Gus were similar people, and it turns out Walt was right.
From an objective point of view, Gus was actually a fairly reasonable businessman, both in his legitimate restaurant and in the drug business. It almost never gets brought up but there are several instances in the show where Gus's employees at Pollos Hermanos demonstrate a fair amount of loyalty to him. He also appears to treat them pretty well.
He gives his employees the remainder of the day off with paid overtime after the incident with Hector and then the following day he gathers his employees and fills them in on the situation. I mean, he lies about the reason but still.... Gus does seem like he aspires to be a better employer than most restaurant owners.
Gus has a wild capacity for violence but he doesn't embrace it as virtue.... he uses it as a last resort. He even exhibits quite a bit of patience with Walter, who was a constant headache for him. Gus was content to allow Gale to be his cook and he probably could have run his empire without a hitch if he had never hooked up with Walt and Jesse. He even gave Walt a chance to walk away from the meth business and Walt immediately turned around and plotted to assassinate him. Gus was a bad guy, no doubt, but even with what we know as an audience, he still seems better than 90% of employers in the real world.... assuming he doesn't slit your jugular with a U-Knife
Yeah unfortunately our bosses can't all be sociopathically obbsessed with running a good business.
Yeah well just make sure not to become useless or a problem to him and you should be able to continue being alive.
Perhaps this is exactly what the writers want us to believe; that he’s a good boss. But no amount of PTO can or should make up for the murders hes committed. None of that discounts his sociopathic tendencies.
He was patient with Walt because Walt WAS the business and Gus had already been exposed. This might be a if you cant beat em, join em situation in that sense. Had Walt been replaceable, the story would likely have been different.
This is kinda like saying “ya, amazon exploits workers and creates dangerous working conditions, but hey at least they give those with client facing roles unlimited PTO and wellness days.” Gus is still a horrible human being and boss for his bottom line.
7:15 Gus sells two things:
One is a popular consumer product, that's targeted at low income populations, and with long therm consumption can contribute to disease and death.
The other is: fried chicken...
😂😂😂 great one!
The other is Meth, you ruined the joke!!
no he didn't, the other one being just "fried chicken" was the joke
@@Sondrox that's not what narrator said in the video. That's the correct method how this kind of jokes works. You state the obvious and do the switch at the end.
You ruined the joke with the misquote.
It’s called a paraprosdokian.
Gus was the most phenomenal, memorable, and chill-inducing villain I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing, not just in Breaking Bad but all shows in general. There was something both magnetic and horrifying about his character (and the actor's performance of course) that has stuck with me even after all these years. From a show that excelled in creating fascinating characters, Gus was truly a crowning achievement.
Anyway I'm really enjoying these BB videos! I hope you'll make some for Better Call Saul too at one point, or at least about Saul himself
He's like Marlo Stanfield if he grew up and became really, really competent
I always felt gus was tragic character in the story. He basically had clean, well oild business operation which while ethically dubious was still more civilised than what the cartel does. That is until two self destructive morons crossed his way just ready to pull him down with them. Poor guy. :-D
Among all characters, I adore him the most.
Gus is better then Walter, in every way. When Gus died his empire that he built, died with him.
Gus greatest villian in TV show.
Calum Elliott he’s like a more business savvy Stringer Bell.
It's either i'm partially OCD or that I just love how neatly and organized gus does things in the show. It is very satisfying watching how gus places things and put them in a neat, professional and organized way.
Seems meditative to me.
Call it OCD, organizing his clothes gives him time to organize his thoughts.
No I totally agree I love it!
I met Gus in an Albuquerque sushi bar, dining with his daughter. Got a selfie, nice fellow.
Rolling Ormond wtf thought he died
I named my cat Gustavo in his honor
Daniel Kokal your cat is a great actor
@@Mikial. Thanks. 2 emmy awards for BB. also, he had a supporting role in
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Then he acts like he gives a crap about me until
after I open the can, then he goes back to ignoring me. I fall for it every time. ACTING !
@@danielkokal8819 your cat is a great cactor
I fall in love with his professionalism! His working style and accent of talking superb! I started this series again because of Gus!
"The capitalist model appears attractive for a while"
Mike: WE HAD A GOOD THING WITH FRING
Your Breaking bad characters analysis just proves this is one of the best series ever made !
The wire bro .... have you seen it ?
so very true.. look at how they summed up large corporations in one character. I never thought of Gus this way before.
Is it coming home ?
A melhor de sempre na minha honesta opinião
What did we do to deserve these recent Breaking Bad analysis videos? Keep posting them they’re amazing!
What did we do to deserve this channel. 🙌
I feel like an idiot b/c I've seen the show four times and never realized Gus killed Victor for being seen.
I always thought it was a sort of a warped punishment for failing to protect Gale
Actually I thought it was because the guy was insulting the position of cook. Like in a weird way Walter is a stand in for his brother, who was important as a cook. His brother is killed because they dont respect his value.
The guy flat out says that an idiot can be a cook by following a recipe.
I think Gus was brought back to that moment his brother died and the poor guy was just talking like the guys who killed his brother.
Travis Bewley No they’ve explicitly stated in interviews that Gus did it because he was seen. They make huge moments out of it on the show. Mike grilling Victor “Did you get seen? Did you?!” Then after Victor responds Mike stares at him for quite a while without saying anything, then called Gus. They confirmed why Gus did by showing his the artist rendering of Victor two separate times.
That doesn't fit him in any way tho
It was done for two purposes. One for him being seen at crime scene. Another to show his brutality to jesse and walter and also to us. He was sending a message that what he can do to their own men . Just look at the jesse reactions while he was chopping off victor.
@WPLU572 Trunked Radio victor answered, remember he said what's the difference, I'm just another mexican
Gus's last moments weren't him only thinking about appearance. He WASN'T THINKING. It's even more symbolic this way, because when he's already died, his body still carried itself in the same professional manner. You could argue this is kind of like how businesses will always try to continue even if someone in it dies. Look at apple.
“It’s not personal…it’s just business”
A phrase that embodies Gus
And going against that was the end of him
the biggest mistake gus ever made was not killing walter with that box cutter
And frankly I didn't think there was a believable reason for him not to, at that point. The story just needed Walt to prevail.
RatatRatR Gus needed him dude
@@RatatRatR Except for the fact that Gus needed a cook, and every other option was compromised?
Actually its when gus wasnt careful enough when he went to the retirement home
@@michiefukyu9172 yes he should have noticed that he just noticed walt tried to kill him at hospital parking lately, hector going to dea it is kinda suspicious
Gus Fring is one of the most terrifying characters I’ve ever seen.
These Breaking Bad videos are some of your best work, ladies! They're nice to have until BCS comes back in 5 months.
Thanks! We'll be making videos on BCS, too
Oh Yeah, that'll be a great source for new killer content!
Joseph Belk better call saul
Can't wait! So far really solid work, every one of your Breaking Bad analyses.
Gus fring was my favorite character in breaking bad 💯
@WPLU572 Trunked Radio dude season 5 did feel empty without him thats excatly how i felt
I’ve always appreciated him as an actor but his portrayal of Gus Fring was nothing short of brilliant.
my fav character was that gay pirate that only has two arms and a big fluffy beard
mike was my favorite character. it made no sense walt had to kill him. fring said he'd kill walt's newborn. who wanted him to live after that? when he walked out after the explosion i was disappointed until he actually died.
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 what his name
It's interesting that Gus is from Chile - the birthplace of neoliberalism.
Simplemente chile, weon wea weon por la chucha XD 🇨🇱
While saying "birthplace" is quite a stretch, it's a good point - Chile is often associated with neoliberalism
@@gianinapapetti9803 sigan nomás el camino de argentina,pero no lloren cuando se la peguen
@@gianinapapetti9803 compare chile to every other country in south america and you'll realise that in every aspect they live better
@Nicole B your problem is that you guys are so used to freedom that you take it for granted. here in brasil we made the same mistake you guys are making right now trying welfare state, when we changed our constitution in 1988, and the quality of life only decayed ever since.
I just finished watching Breaking Bad for the first time yesterday, and your videos have been an exceptional help in understanding the underlying themes of the show that I didn't catch at first glance. Your videos are so professionally done. They get right to the point, and construct a clear-cut, logical, and detailed argument for each point. Fantastic stuff!
I eventually will watch it again, but for now I'm still in awe at my first viewing experience
i did the same . first time 10 hours b4
Having a good understanding of disordered psychology really helps understand the genius of this show.
Jesse's moment of telling walt (even after being "saved") to tell Jesse he wants him to shoot him is something best understood from a keen psychological understanding.
What about a mike analysis ?
Fernando Leal my favorite character. He needs it
Mike basically was one of the few characters in the show who did not WANT to be "the man". He didn't want to be the boss. He was happy merely working at a privileged level as an employee for the Gus Fring's of the world (and later on Walt, although Mike has never liked Walt, he merely joined forces with him towards the end because the police took all the money he had ever earned and saved from Gus -- also Walt's fault, but indirectly).
voteZDLR Todd was like that as well.
^ this is true but Todd was not intelligent enough to really be ABLE to grasp the big picture, Todd was kind of interesting in that he was more of a blind servant than Mike would ever be (and this is proven with how he deals with Walt, although Walt convinces Mike and Jesse that their partner is a 3 way split that's totally equal -- while everyone including Walt realizes he's really the one who was controlling that ship and Mike was smart enough to realize it too, he just didn't care -- Jesse actually believed it was that way because the money WAS shared between them in that split, he was also more of a follower though than anything else, getting off track lol). Todd made up for his basic lack of intelligence with vicious, cold-hearted execution. He was always following orders, I mean even in the Train episode they literally told him "Nobody can know this happened" so like a computer he sees the 13 year old and was like "OK, well nobody means nobody. Cya kid, sorry." In a disturbingly calm fashion. But yeah, he was built from the ground up to obey orders without question, something his uncle probably abused into him from a young age. I mean, something went wrong with that kid, probably more like somethings but you get the picture. Todd might be the most disturbing character in the show for me. Even moreso than Tuco.
voteZDLR Don’t mess with Captain Daly for He’s a jolly good fellow!!
I have to say, these breaking bad videos have to be some of the finest analysis I have ever come across
Gust is my favorite character. I’m amazed by how he can stay calm even when he’s in danger. I’ve heard that super nice people are often the angriest people. Gust is the definition of that !!! He k?led an entire crowd without panicking or getting angry. I have yet to see another villain
Gus/Gustavo**
man, my favorite thing about Gus is that he wasn't always this ruthless. that backstory of his with his partner is one of the best pieces of backstory I've ever seen in a show. instantly humanizes someone who's been cold and calculating. and explains so much of his ruthlessness despite that moment being so emotional. genius writing
This is quickly becoming my favorite CZcams channel, you guys have amazing content.
Need the same for Hank Schrader please....!!!
And Mike, and Saul, and Marie for some reason.
Hank: what happens when you eat too many potato chips
PLEASE
Hank is so predictable..!
Saipraveen Seva His names ASAC Schrader and you can go fuck yourself
Aside from his flippancy at killing children, I liked Gus. He was cool, logical, efficient and unemotional in his dealings. Way better than Jesse and especially Tuco. I was sad when he died.
Jadin Rosh The newest happenings in BCS have made this all much more interesting.
to be fair, it wasn't a flippant remark when he threatened walts kids, it was his final move on walt and also he never said he would kill them, he said he would IF walt didn't stop interfering with his business. a final ultimatum. also its unclear if gus had tomas killed by those Mexican gang bangers...however on the flip side, walt did poison brock.
@@gloverdragon6854 from watching better call Saul i think gus would order a hit on a kid. But at least walter didn't kill brock.🤣
dragon dragons threatening to kill innocent people isn't much better than actually being about to do it.
Yeah, it was bad that he was flippant about killing children. All the adults were fine though, because they're not children.
My favorite character after Walter. Very calm, controlled, detailed & unemotional yet very creepy. That moment where he calmly changed his clothes before suddenly killing Victor shocked me the most. Giancarlo really deserved an Emmy for his portrayal of Gus.
Okay so I just realised that when Gus is missing half of his face and moves his eye(s), you can actually see the muscle moving behind where his right eye should be and it’s perfectly synchronised with his left eye. That’s attention to detail right there.
There is something about Gus that I just love.
Even though I see his evil actions, they are so well planned, serve such specific objectives, that I just can't stop praising his mindset.
I think I aspire to be like him.
(And, yes, I'm aware that it must be a bad thing.)
If your applying it to something good i think they are great qualities. Bet you could start many successful businesses with that attitude
Gus is the quintessential sigma male
@@anitaremenarova6662 please stop with alpha, sigma and whatever else. Please, it's cringeworthy
@@bgos4727 Don't care, didn't ask. You must be fun at parties "GuYs! NO humor allowed!"
Love Gus. Gus, Jesse, Saul, and Mike were my only reasons for watching
I couldn't wait til the end of the video to say that you girls are blowing my mind!!! I only was aware of the revenge part of his character, watching the series as a teen surely made me not realize so many thing. You are the enhancing drug of TV shows and movies haha
Was confused as to why Gus was putting on a pair of overalls, but then he killed his henchman, and oh boy it all made sense.
terrifying character, and a beautiful portrayal by Giancarlo Esposito. his work in The Mandalorian is amazing as well.
When his business partner from Chile was murdered in front of him by Hector, Gus was visibly heartbroken. His reaction to his friends death was that of a “normal” human being. I question the Gus we see on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, after that murder. Would Gus have changed that much? From an ambitious drug dealer to a cold blooded murderous sociopath?
I know it's late but that "partner" has been proven to be Gustavos boyfriend 😂 vince said it himself the amount of BB fans who cope and argue against gus being gay is hilarious
that analysis was impeccable, Gus was my favorite villain in BB.
Gus is one of my favourite villains in screen history.
Makes video explaining the critiques of capitalism in television.
Has advertisement at the end promoting a business that can teach you to start your own business.
Not knocking the vid, it was great just thought this was funny.
I think there's a duplicity on it: telling that businesses are mostly a bad thing, and then saying Why don't you start up? I consider that those who criticize capitalism don't understand that there are institutions which protect individual liberties and rights. Capitalism is NOT an equivalent to Law of the Jungle.
Neoliberalism is just a "straw man" which is used by statits (don't care if right or left wing) in order to aggrandize their political power and diminish our liberties. That's why we usually hear things like "too much liberties have led us to the crisis".
Neoliberalism is a wide ideology that is/was followed by everyone from Rothbard to Obama. It was first implemented under Woodrow Wilson, became the predominant ideology of capitalists under FDR, and has since created its own left and right wing factions...from American Democrats to Margret Thatcher to Anarcho-Capitalists. It differs from Classical Liberalism (an ideology held by Locke, Adam Smith, and the founding fathers), which asserted that the invisible hand would guide economic decisions. Neoliberalism asserts competition will guide economic decisions and states should do whatever fosters the healthiest competitions.
But anywho, Capitalism, no matter which ideology you fall under, creates catch-22s where you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I'm sure Screen Prism would like to just create content for every day of the week as a non-profit.
At the end of the day, however, motherfuckers gotta eat. You take money whenever someone is just handing it out lol.
I do not think there's too much difference between Classical Liberalism and what you called "Neoliberalism": they both believe that the most moral system is a free society within the state should not repress individuals liberties, both civil and economic liberties. Capitalism is the "economic part" of Liberalism, that could be summarized in: "protection of private propierty" and economic freedom. In a capitalist society, individuals compete with each other, but, also, they cooperate with each other (companies, businesses, CZcams Chanels) in order to present the best product-service to the customer. Is capitalism encouraging people to break bad and damage other individuals' liberties? Dunno, but one thing is certain: there are (must be) institutions which protect INDIVIDUAL (not collective) liberties.
Maybe Neoliberalism could be defined as an ideology that just focuses on the efficiency of the capitalist system (even Marx would recognize such thing). But NO ONE has indentified him-herself as a neo-liberal. It has been always politicians or academic leftist who have created this "straw man" in order to explain (INADEQUATELY) the social reality.
Eric Vargas hit the nail on the head
Marx already asserts the issue isn't any specific ideology under capitalism, but rather capitalism itself with concepts such as absentee ownership, wage labor, and the price of good determined by their exchange value, rather than how they're used. Obviously, many people disagree with this, but I don't think if Marx had lived long enough to see capitalism during the 1930s that he would have changed his mind to agree that Neoliberalism is an ideology that focuses on efficiency of the capitalist system. Rather, I think he'd double down and say it's an ideology that focuses on correcting the inefficiencies of capitalism.
But also I'm serious about the whole invisible hand thing: Smith thought a divine power (God, karma, or whatever) would literally guide the economy to be the most useful. Later liberals, like Keynes and Rothbard, would say the economy was grounded in the actions of people.
Gus is the only person who can make the act of puking look classy.
3:55 I loved how this hurt Walt’s ego so bad 😂. “I don’t think we’re alike at all Mr. White”
I knew him First as “Bug Out” from “Do The Right Thing” and From His Role In “Fresh” and Now he’s Adam Clayton Powell In “Godfather of Harlem” ...Mr Esposito is a Criminally Underrated Actor 🙌🏾 💙
I forgot that Victor was seen at the crime scene as well. There's so many small details like this that add to character motivations that make this show so great.
SCREENPRISM you guys have made one of the best series of video essays on CZcams- your interpretation of each of character on Breaking Bad is so brilliant! Thank you for the amazing content!!!!
Two birds with one box cutter
While someone like Tuco represents more of what a brutal dictatorship would look like in a nutshell, Gus displays more of what a Neoliberal, "democratic", corporate societal mindset would represent. He is way more formal, classy, by the rules, and actively goes against the impulsivity of someone like Tuco. All of his actions are strategically planned for a guaranteed outcome to benefit him. What's important about this is that Gus may seem like he's a much better person to be friends/coworkers with (on the outside), but on the inside lies a brutal psycopath who is just as bad, if not worse, than someone like Tuco. That's the similarity between Tuco and Gus, they have the same brutal character outcome, but have a different approach in how they express themselves as people, while also operating large drug empires differently.
Video: savage critique of capitalism
Sponsorship: *how to be better at capitalism*
14:00
given the final context of this video you do realize the irony?
Well they confuse capitalism with corporatism so no.
gus is one of my top favorite villains. what makes a person scary, is not knowing what that person is thinking or what that person is about to do
I admire how they made him professional yet cold. Gus is one of my favorite bad guys in history for sure and even his death is the most epic to date in my opinion. Classy, scary and deadly
Gus portrays who Walter could only dream of becoming if he didn't break bad.
It’s funny because Walter never reached even a tenth of Gus’ greatness.
@@slavicjarl8769 What? That's not what I'm talking about. I mean that Walter with 0 competition was not able to replicate Gus' drug empire. He was still just a little rat.
Gus Fring is Stringer Bell if he was able to succeed in legitimizing his drug operation
Gus is a genius. String is a fucking psuedo intellectual 🤣
Not even close
Screenprism is amazing. Your analysis of various films and shows are in-depth and well thought out.
Seriously well done. Maybe you guys should do fight club or the matrix?
Or even Mr. robot
These videos are so well put together. They're so entertaining! Keep up the good work. 🙂
You simply nailed it. The only question is: What events of his childhood, youth and start of his campaign made him the man he is?
"Gus's two faces are capitalism's two faces". Well done! This is a very well thought-out and supported analysis. Loved it.
One problem, Gus isn't unique or the first man to treat drug dealing like any other business, that's simply the business on that level, the biggest, real life drug dealers are like Gus, out of necessity, they appear fine.
"You know how they say it's been a pleasure, it hasn't" -Mike
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Gus is like Walter they too had created an empire, but when Gus died his empire too died with him.
I guess you could say he was Two Faced
I’ll leave now
I always wondered how they make him look so young in the scene with Eladio and Hector?
This officially is my favorite youtube channel along with one other channel.
Gus Fring's class and sophistication are refreshing to experience in the base and sociopathic nature of the criminals around him
Bike Maurice Which makes him the most dangerous psychopath of all. He’s smart, he’s charismatic, he’s manipulative, and he’s violently ruthless.
I'm speechless, your content is so impressing to me. Excellent analysis which ties corporation, capitalism, motive, health, moral and bipolar personality to Gustavo Fring. Breaking Bad really is fascinating as a character study.The sky is the limit for you girls if you can keep this up.
My favourite character of the show. From the very first scene I saw this guy there was something special about him, I instantly respected and idolised him.
This video: capitalism is evil
Also this video: "Hey check out this service where you can learn how to start your own business!"
@💧🐍 They didn’t really say capitalism was evil, but that we shouldn’t let corporations put peoples wellbeing at risk for profit and also the lack of accountability when a corporation messes up.
Gus in Breaking Bad: "I don't believe fear to be an effective motivator"
The Dentist in PAYDAY 2: "Fear, as you surely know, is a powerful motivator"
I think fear is a powerful motivator as a short time measure, but in the long run is not so effective.
bluisbg Zzz fear should be used in controlled doses. A little scare from time to time is good to remind your men that you don’t fuck around. However, if you constantly use fear, your men will rebel against you. This is why dictatorships (along other reasons) usually fail over time.
It is a powerful temporary motivator. But it creates huge risks. Trust is actually the greatest motivator. If you Trust someone to lead and work in your mutual interest, that is the longest lasting and most effective. With a little bit of fear of betraying the boss as a spice.
Gus is my favourite villain of all time because of how unique, cunning and calculating he is
Biggest flaw about this video is that it's only viable if the consumer want it.
This is so good. Gus Fring is one of my favorite villains, and this is the best Breaking Bad essay I've seen so far. I'm glad I'm subscribed to ye.
In particular you actually managed to make me see him in a new light.
Gus is literally just "American Pharmaceuticals: the person"
More like, corporations and capitalism itself.
Gus is by far my favorite character on the show. Giancarlo Esposito as an actor plays a huge part in that as well
"Gus sells two things, one is a popular consumer product, targeted at low income populations, which with long-term consumption can lead to disease and death; the other is meth." SLOW CLAPPING at that.
I was rather sad that Gus was dead. He was never the villain. His brother got killed in front of his eyes. From there, building an entire drug kingdom single handedly and also becoming the owner of a food chain-he did it due to sheer determination and hard work. He was extremely professional. Didn't harm anyone until they were harmful to him in his logic. I sometimes think Walter was the real villain in the show.
Actually Gus was very healthy and reasonably in the way he approached his revenge plan, not making it his top priority and achieving it without threatening his other plans.
The irony is his Achille's heel is his passion, his personal need for revenge. He'd beaten the Cartel, defeated the Salamanca utterly, yet his need for a coup de grace on Hector led him to his demise.
Gus killed his most loyal partner because he was spotted in a crime scene. I thought Gus killed him because he's giving Walt a new opportunity to keep cooking.
Victor became a liability, and was now a danger to the business.
I actually had a very positive perception of Gus' character. In reality, the street pusher with poor impulse control exists more frequently and is subject to emotional cues or consuming their own product. Gus on the other hand displayed a measure of temperance necessary for a long - lasting and stable market. Mike says it best when he gets fustrated with Walt. Walt was a short lived impulse driven overly aggressive market that was unsustainable
One of the best villain.
Giancarlo Esposito really nailed this character! He's a real good actor!
Gus Fringe is what anyone is business should seek to emulate. The one time he did something out of emotion or ego (Killing Hector Salamanca) he was killed. Literally everything else he did was remarkably logical and pragmatic. I've been self-employed for the last 10 years. Like even Gus Fringe when I started a venture I made more mistakes than I cared to admit. Thing is I have found that you haft to put business first over all emotional considerations than means your own and everyone else.