Bryan Cranston and Anna Gunn talk about "I Am The One Who Knocks" scene | Breaking Bad
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- Breaking Bad cast Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Bob Odenkirk and creator Vince Gilligan at the The New York Times talks panel 2013
Walter was a great depiction of a highly intelligent man, most dramas fail by making the 'genius' flawless.
Was he really intelligent when he killed people, lost his family, friends and his soul?
That man was really impulsive and made some stupid mistakes. Let’s say he was just well educated
@@joshuafisher4241 difference between intelligence and wisdom. Knowledge and application of knowledge
@@striker8961 '“In theory, any brain that has a large number of neurons connected into associative circuitry … could be expected to add flexibility and complexity to behavior,” said Herculano-Houzel. “That is my favorite operational definition of intelligence: behavioral flexibility.”' read this recently I like it
If you don't mind watching an anime, death note follows a very similar narrative in that sense
The fact that Walt finally has a successful "business" to prove to everyone that he is as good as Elliott and Gretchen, but cannot let anyone know is eating him from the inside. So when Skyler, concerned for his safety and still seeing him as the harmless suburban dad that he once was, diminishes his "acomplishments", he snaps, intimidating and berating Skyler, because he can't handle not being the top dog anymore. He needs to show everyone that he is above, that he is the best.
Little beans?
nah walt was a top g who put his bitch in line
Great overview!
Breaking Bad is a story a successful business, period. Not a legal one, of course, but you can see a story of men who made some bad decisions in his life and didn't get what he deserved. And now is finally 'breaking bad' and getting what he want to.
@@FelipeUebio "Breaking Bad is a story a successful business", is it though? He got what he deserved. He walked out on a legitimate business that would eventually provide everything he could dream of because he was a weak fool who hated his wife earning more money than him
I like how Bryan always acknowledges that he's just the actor portraying someone else's creation. Many actors feel they "own" a character, but Bryan always seems to clarify that the writers should be given the credit for his roles.
It is a partnership. They need each other to be performing at a high level with their respective talents.
Jack Nicholson is the same way.😊
There is so much that goes into acting a character in a great way, and so much of an effect that it has on how great the character actually ends up being. Bryan is as important to the character as Vince is.
It’s just virtue signalling. Acting “humble”. But the writing and acting are equally important.
True. And some of those even pretend to own the story of the character, which is even more repulsive.
I love how Vince gives credit to Jenny Hutchinson and Michael Slovis. It shows genuine love and respect for everyone they work with and for how much of a group effort this brilliant show was, rather than just taking all the credit for himself.
And then you have the "bravo vince" comments
@@TheNinja94a Vrabo Bince
Vravo cinbe
@@TheNinja94abravo jenny
I am the one who likes
😮
Who are you talking to right now?
A man sees this interview and doesn’t acknowledge greatness and you think that of me? No, you clearly don’t understand so let me clue you in, I am the one who likes
I am the one who likes the one who likes
I'm the one who replies
I love how the entire crew has to keep reminding people that Walt was getting emotional. Way too much is attributed by theory crafters as a calculated master plan, not just in Breaking Bad, but in plenty of other media as well.
This is why no intelligent person will put too much faith into conspiracy theories. Most of them are based on the belief that hundreds or thousands of people (like the moonlanding) all act logically and rationally towards one goal. COMPLETELY impossible. System fail because people fail.
Which is weird, because as clever as Walter White is, I've never seen him as anything more than a man who got in way over his head and has barely scraped by several situations.
Even by the end of the show, he is not Gus Fring. He has always had the product, the skill to create it, and he's always been smart enough to outwit people who would use and/or kill him, but never once does he really get his drug empire off the ground.
Gus is the corporate guy, Walt is the supplier. In this business, the supplier isn't the one with all the power, despite the leverage they have if their product is as good as Walt's. He scraped by on just barely a few inches with Gus and nearly got himself killed on several occasions.
He's not a clever mastermind, he's just an incredibly adaptive survivor. Most of Walt's plans were impulsive. He's like a cornered animal that fights ferociously to survive, but he's never really the hunter that corners the other animals. By the time he reaches a position of freedom from all other competition, like Gus (or the people in the Cartel who Gus conveniently killed off for Walt), he's taken down by his own hubris and a bunch of white trash neo-nazis.
@@Lucifronz Well, Walt never became nearly as big as Gus due to lack of experience and resources, but I wouldn't call all of his plans impulsive. A good amount, sure, but the others were indeed premeditated and clever, if very risky. He may never have become a true crime kingpin, but at some point he was well on his path to become one. He defimitely had a lot of power and a sizeable crew in his control at multiple points in the show.
But I mostly agree. While Walt's plans were mostly very clever, not everything he did had to have been planned, and that's when he would make most of his mistakes.
@@Lucifronz Walter did have his drug empire though, it was basically Gus's empire but rebuilt with an even better secret network than fastfood. That's why he retired in a clean manner, he had reached his goal basically. Even with the carelessness of Hank finding the book, Walter managed to claw out of it with the tape which was ingenious. It was ironically his (fatherly) attachment to Jesse that set off his downfall. Gus said from the start that Walter had poor judgement referring to still wanting to be partners with Jesse no matter what and this went on until even Skyler advised Walter to kill Jesse Old Yeller style. Due to his refusal to kill him Walter got rattled by Jesse wilding out which also allowed Hank to get a second chance, but the following impulsiveness from both sides to get one up led to the disastrous results.
@@islandboy9381 Eh, Walter was a dying old man and a fugitive at the end of the show so he didn't have much of a retirement to look forward to anyway. If he didn't care about Jesse, he wouldn't have cared enough about his family. Of all things I think this was a choice - die slowly, sitting on top of a pile of gold, hated by everyone who is still alive, or leave something of a legacy
the "keeping poking my buttons" joke 😂.. brian is so quick with the comedy
That was both hilarious and also a little bit terrifying at the same time.
He shook his head and waved his hand afterwards because he knew it wasn't a clever joke and doesn't really warrant applause
One thing I really like about Vince is that he never really takes too much credit. He's always bringing up the names of the producers that helped, or writers that made the episode come together. Really cool guy giving credit all around!
skyler's face after his "I am the one who knocks", plus walt's momentary look of regret and realisation afterwards, are two of the best parts of that scene. It's masterfully acted, I could watch it all day.
“I have to protect this family from the man that protects this family” lol
Its kinda like she realizes at that moment that this is no longer the Walt that she knew, this is someone completely different.
@@sillythygoose He was always a nasty person, but he could now show it. I like that just after this scene where he shouts at a woman, he shows himself for the coward he is.
@@AndrewLakeUKthere's no man woman angle here. It's his wife, who also knows everything; and the scene happened. Plain and simple
@@flyingspaghettimonster2925 Right, cause the whole emasculation Walt perceives feeling like he doesn’t fit his ideal of manhood, Gus literally manipulating him into coming back to cook by saying “a man provides”, sure, gender concepts and dynamics have no influence in this moment 😒
The writing and direction is flawless, but if they had any other actors playing these characters I cant imagine the show being as successful
I think that Steve Carell makes a better WW but we all have our opinions.
I mean I don’t see why not. It’s not like they’re the only great actors in the world, all it takes is chemistry. I’m not understating their performance because I’ve been in love with this show since I binged it in 2013. I honestly can’t imagine anything being as good as Breaking Bad aside from Better Call Saul but imo nothing tops BB. Although I’ve heard The Sopranos is just as good.
@@DaSpaceJammer what about Don Cheadle?
I don't know about that, but the casting choice was excellent, there's no doubting that. I like what we got and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
@@Lucifronz I think maybe Bruce Willis for Hank
Another brilliant moment in this scene is how he changes his shirt to a darker shade as the conversation progresses. This is beautiful as it represents the change so subtly. Brilliant show.
Nice observation! Btw this also happens gradually through the entire series he dresses darker and darker
The first time I watched Breaking Bad, I watched with my room mate. He said he hated Skyler and I did not understand why.
I kinda liked her. I watched the whole show again last month and this time I enjoyed every scene where Skyler appeared
far more than the 1st time. My buddy said he would never watch it again because of Skyler.
He said she is toooo annoying and irritates him. I think she was just being a desperate house wife trying not to collapse in the midst of all the craziness happening around her.
I always liked her character, not because she's a pleasant person, but because I understand the type of person that she is. She just makes sense, and adds a perfect tension and resistance to Walt's shenanigans.
@@OldTimeyDragon Totally agreed. I enjoyed watching her riding Walt's outrageous roller coaster from beginning to end!
As i see she looked down on Walt, and she was kind of a bully and definately manipulative. Disappointed in what he'd become from the once powerful genius. That's why she had the thing with Ted, and later when Walt became 'badass', she also enjoyed it, she loved crushing Bogdan into the ground for example.
@@Sgyozo I never saw it that way, especially after watching the series a few times. She is definitely a person who wants control, not because she is a control freak, but having control is what gives her life order. Many people are that way, and people who are generally selfless often try to control things in order to preserve peace and order. There's nothing wrong in that. Lots of things happen that complicate those things, such as being pregnant so late in life and Walt's cancer diagnosis. Obviously, she wants him to survive, hence why she pushes for treatment and tells Elliot to hire Walt so that he can have insurance, even though she knows that it will hurt Walt's ego. At the end of the day, for her it does not matter that the job offer is one of pity, what matters is that he gets the treatment that he needs in order to survive. If she didn't care about him, she wouldn't do what she does.
I always defend Skyler, at most she was annoying in the first season, especially about the weed and stuff but understandably in a way as it was 2008. But if you still hated Skyler by the end of the series I think it says more about you as a person tbh. Everything she did was a reaction to Walt's insane behavior, but the viewer sides with Walt because he was the tragic protagonist. In a way I think it's beautifully written by Vince because it exposes the viewer's biases. You hate Skyler because she stands in the way of Walt, when in reality Walt is the one making all of these crazy decisions that kill people and destroy people's lives, including his own and her own. I can't take you seriously if you look at me and tell me by the end of the series in the kitchen scene you see both of them broken and still say that Skyler was wrong. She was right.
And on another note, the people who hate her for "cheating" on Walt are insane to me, she wanted to be separated from him, and he strong armed and manipulated her to allow him to move back into the house and they honestly think that SHE was the asshole in the situation? Again, these kinds of takes are just self reports and projection imo.
Brian Cranston is so amazing. He’s just as good at being evil as he is hilarious as Hal from Malcolm I’m the middle.
He has his fair share of "Hilarious" moments as Walter too...such a dweeb
Interesting to hear Bryan’s take, I always interpreted it as pure cope. Trying to seem intimidating and powerful to the one woman who sees right through him, when he was at a point of feeling cornered and constantly in fear of his impending death
Oh nice Vince agrees with me!!! Hell yeahhh
This was one of the best shows ever written and performed. I wish I had one of those flashy light things from Men in Black so I could erase my memory of watching it and just keep experiencing it for the first time over and over.
It’s just way too gut wrenching to re-watch knowing all that’s about to happen despite how much you try to wish they’d make better choices, lol
So true dude XD
I watched the last episode with my nose practically touching the screen. It was so tense.
I’m the opposite. I love rewatching it with past knowledge. I swear, every time I do, I pick up on something else that has been foreshadowed. Even though writers are often still working while a show is in production, the writers on this one were among the best. Every SINGLE time I rewatch the series I catch something new. It’s incredible. My within my top 5 shows ever, and I’d say top 2 in writing.
I'm always amused at hearing Vince's voice. Everything about it sounds, to me, like a quaint, humble, joyful dude who would be perfectly positioned to just go to local libraries to read to children. Yet, his is the mind that brought us one of the most relentlessly dark and violent (and brilliant) TV shows in history.
So many people misinterpret that scene as "Walt being awesome" when in fact, as they point out in this interview, he says that out of insecurity, because it's what he wishes was true. As Vincent says, Walt is actually doing really badly at that point.
I like this interpretation, a lot of people go "oh it's not badass, he's just an egomaniac yelling at his wife about how cool he is." Which is true, but also the fact that he wants to be seen as this almighty kingpin in the first place (even if he isn't) shows how evil he's gotten
Well, to me, in a way, it is self-discovery. He has been pushed to become the one who knocks.
He's in a bad place, but he knows he will be the one who knocks, and he is. What he did to Gus was savage. Walter is a dangerous person.
I remember so well what Anna Gunn brought to Deadwood. She was perfectly cast there as well.
Anna Gunn and Rhea Seehorn; just so real in their roles.
People quote this scene like it's a badass line, but really it's a egotistical man bullying his wife
I think it’s kind of both - but it’s best to remind people not to be like him
It's because she still saw him as this mild mannered weak suburban dad when he wasn't. Being emasculated by your own wife for half your life will eat you from inside and it will bubble up at some point.
Absolutely 💯. He abused her in many ways.
@@t221000lmaoo abuse? Put down the crack pipe yo
Foggalplscieieess!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Anna just understands like she reaaally enbodies Skyler
What's interesting to me about that scene, and that line, is that you can view it as Walt being a badass, but you could just as easily view it as him being completely pathetic.
I get the same feeling too.
In the context of the show it is nearly impossible to see it as Walt being a badass. He spends most of season 4 crying, scared and paranoid of Gus and only later outsmarts him. This is pure cope on Walt's part to look cool.
He was not even the one who knocked. It was Jesse.
@bebo2629 while it is a coping mechanism, I think Walt himself believed it. He only became truly humbled and realized the shitstorm he brewed post-Hank in the desert.
@@bebo2629 What are you talking about ? I dont get it. Walt of cource fears sometimes , but he is totally says true, he is the danger,and a killer, and he outsmared MIke and Gus earlier already , Jesse was just instrument. Sometimes you all saying wierd things. He is totally almost always on top. It can be vieved as pathetic, but only because it shows, that Walt wants attention , not because its not true.
I’m glad Vince makes that point because I feel like everyone always takes this scene to mean that Walt is such a badass. Walt says this all to Skyler as a way to reassure her that they aren’t in danger. He’s bluffing. There’s some truth to it in the sense that he was responsible for Gale dying but, he is still at this point very much in danger. Skyler should be afraid. So Walt puts on this show
Yeah, Walt wasn't even the one who knocked (on Gale's door). It was Jesse, because Walt was actually Gus's hostage at that moment. Walt (and his family) was in more danger there than ever before. Urgrent, grave, unrelenting, mortal danger. So he was actually lying to the one person who could see his situation clearly.
These mere 5 min made me want to rewatch the whole series…again
I get the sense that they cut out the applause of the seals there watching for a unique event, but too caught up in being in an audience that there would be laughter and applause of various sorts in between the cast speaking. In any case, so much easier to watch than having your finger on the fast-forward button throughout.
It’s interesting that he states that his ego becomes his Achilles heal because in a lot of ways that makes him just like Tuco from the beginning.
Anna Gunn's acting just made Walter's reply more iconic
Always such insightful answers from all of these people. A real delight to hear their commentary
I found that scene to have a lot coming together. Walter White was always being invisible, demasculated and borderline humiliated and walked over by people from his "normal" life. Skyler kept holding onto that, because in the end she just wanted control more than anything. With the confidence he'd gained from being Heisenberg he finally stuck up for himself.
I love you Anna Gunn
I don’t understand the hatred of Skyler.🤷♂️
What is not there to understand? She hated the guts of Walter. She was okay with meek Walter but not with Confident one.
@@DailyLifeSolution I don't understand your comment either
@@DailyLifeSolution he was confident but he's *murdering* people. What is there to like about a cold blooded killer?
People hate her because we are socialised to admire male power and violent strength, and when she acts in a realistic reasonable way towards Walter's evil actions, we just view her as an obstacle. With the "one who knocks" scene the tables (for me at least) turn, and we do recognise what he really is. It was around that point in the series that I started rooting for Skyler and the family's safety, and for Walt to quit his ego trip.
@@DailyLifeSolution he didnt get more confident. He became a psychotic murderer.
Bryan Cranston, absolute legend.
such iconic scene
when skylar told waltuh they are having a baby girl and waltuh said “i am the one who KnOcKSsss” so powerful
Love this show. This scene and the characters are so iconic
Bryan and Anna are both great actors
I love the Mormon guy interviewing
I work as a Private Detective in apllied psychology in soemtimes extreme situations. theerefor this series is a goldfind for me. Some of my clients call me "their Mike Ehrmantraut." This series has Shakespearan depth. Same goes for "Better call Saul."
The character of Skyler has gotten a lot of heat over the years, but that's because Anna played her so well. Whoever did the original casting for the show hit the casting lotto.
People who thinks this scene is badass needs to realize he is saying this to his scared wife.
Still a badass scene lmao. People defend skylar here as if she is an innocent fairy and act dumbfounded when pointed out that she entitled her way into walters business and literally caused her boyfriend to be paraplegic.
It's amazing to me how people latched onto the line and ignored that he was LYING. Jesse was the one who knocked.
hes speaking metophorically though
His ego is the Achilles' heel of his Achilles' heel.
I'm not in danger.
I AM THE DANGER !
- Walter White
I like how, when... ah, f'ck it - thanks Vince!
It's such a great line. How do you come up with that?
Vince's commentary is the one I was expecting to hear, without knowing the show you'd think Walt is the biggest badass at that point, but he is so not. At that point he so full of fear, knows Gus will get rid of him anytime now and has no resources at all. He IS in danger and no one fears him lol
They're just standing there like nothing happened 💀
It probably didn't help that he had just woken up and didn't even have the chance to take a leak first.
This is the moment Vince became Bravo
Best scene in the entire show for me. Bryan is brilliant.
I hate to be this superficial, but Anna Gunn looks amazing here. In fact they all do, where they styled for this appearance or something?
nothing wrong with that, and yes I would certainly assume they were..
I can listen to Cranston talk about acting all day.
I am the one who watches…over and over.
I planned to watch BB 4 years back but i just didn't watch it. I didn't want to kill the excitement that I gonna watch something really special. And sadly I finished full series in a month recently. Now I am feeling really sad. I feel like there is nothing to watch as great as BB anymore.
Watch it again.
He is the danger.
Vince Gilligan is my hero
Anna Gunn looking kinda hot rn low key 😅
A man with nothing to gain and everything to lose is the man on an egotistical hunt
It’s interesting, because Jesse was the one who knocked.
I don't hate Skyler
almost as misunderstood a scene as Peekaboo's Gretchen-Walter talk
Walt. Last scene Gus last scene
Mike last scene Asac Schrader Lalo last scene I am the one that died
I am the one who smooches
I am the one who knocks one out.
You forgot to mention VINCE FUCKING GILLIGAN in the title 🤪
So well written. The Sopranos on a writers level was elementary compared to this. Love the Sopranos but it seemed as though they were just stinging along week to week scraping up ideas while BB was methodically written. Everything you saw had a meaning.
So much class
I AM THE ONE WHO JUJU'S
I am the one who makes microwave meals
Skyler is hot 🔥
Stunning eyes
Kim's hotter
Marie gang where u at? Gotta represent
@@turolretar Marie simp checking in
This thread ----> 🤮🤮🤮
John snow and the breaking bad cast
What a scene that was. One of the most iconic villains in television history, and Walter White.
Lol
"She is not an emotional person".
Uh-huh. Very funny.
All Walt does in that scene is intimidate his wife. He’s an insecure little man who finally got a taste of power despite the fact the real people with power do not take him seriously.
Gennifer Hutchison wrote that episode
In other words : ge has to be the man his ego
so fascinating
That scene was so epic...I...uh...I don't understand that guy's "beard"!
I am one who floppy weiner out on the table
metamorphisis, achilles' heel.. bryan cranston teaching me many new words
You never learned about butterflies⁉️
@@TheNinja94a did not know they had a word for it, no 😭
(or that it could be used like he's doing)
i am the one who coughs (covid 19 reference?!?!)
Jesse is the one who knocks
I don't think that Walter change.... or even transform..
He always is that way.. but he for many years hide this side from the others...
The only think he manage to do on the series is let go his mental blocks..
Just watch the "prequel" scenes on his older job... he always have a EGO.. He always thinks that he is GOD..
This is the motive that make him left the older company, and refuse to get help...
Heiseberg>
Herblberble
My dad>>>
I am the one who comments.
Walt's character is basically the definition of an idiot savant. He's clearly a genius when it comes to planning and problem solving (along with being a master chemist and being quite adept at mechanical engineering). But like a dunce he lets his pride and ridiculously large ego dictate his words and actions.
So many knights coping hard here over people liking a scene LMAO Who gives a f he was talking to his wife, she was no angel herself.
Walter was a weak man. Heisenberg is a powerful demon.
i am the one who subscribes
I would have like a "I'M the one who knocks", not "i AM - the one who knocks"
This interviewer confuses me.
Im sorry but o thought this scene was so cheesy and just straight out of Hollywood and completly took me put of the scene
The seeds that are planted...Anna gunn lol, u got your lucky break....enjoy the royalties
Funny
Such a boring topic
I hated. Skyler 😅
i dont get why so many people hate skyler...is it because she didn't want walt to cook meth?? and kill people??? seems reasonable to me.
@@kryspy5160 cause she acted like a bitch for majority of the show, she was manipulative and controlling and would constantly tell all of walts business to everyone who would listen even though he didn't want her too. Which always seems like she wants attention which is very much like how her sister Marie is as well. She was like this for the whole first two seasons before she even found out he cooked meth so you can't really use it as an excuse. She's a strong factor I feel in why walt became the way he is, not to justify murderous illegal acts or to single her as the only reason for his spiral into heisenburg, but her whipping him built the man who wanted control back.
@@kryspy5160 exactly, skylar was important for the show, she did what any wife would think/do
@@kryspy5160 Right. Skyler is the most reasoanable character in the show. She did all the things any housewife would do when they learn their husband is suddenly a criminal.
She is dislikeable character.
Anyone else fast forward through Anna Gunn talking? I just hate her character so much, I don't even want to hear about her.
🤣🤣🤣
up most respect to these incredible people
“I think the scene is still living inside you somewhere”
Brian: Who are you talking to right now 🤨
Anna Gunn gets hate for playing Skylar but man she did such an incredible job of making a character who's (mostly) on the morally correct side of thing so easily hated
That neck beard goes crazzzyyyy
I think another thing that drove Walt to take credit was also from what happened to him at Grey Matter. His life’s work was stolen from him and never got the credit he felt he deserved. Having that happen again with Hank pinning the whole thing on Gale, I could see him thinking “not again this will happen”. His ego AND jealousy showed during the dinner scene in my eyes
100%
In fact, nothing was really stolen in terms of credit. Walt felt inferior to Gretchen and her wealthy family, which crushed up his ego, so he voluntarily left before the company really took off. So in both cases, his inferiority complex ruined a situation that would have turned out fine
Also, it was a brilliant way to move the plot. In the hand of lesser writers, we all would have groaned at the scene, "oh gosh, what a stupid and unrealistic way to keep Hank interested in finding Heisenberg, no one would risk to be caught that way". But in Breaking Bad, it makes absolutely sense that Walter White would NOT accept someone else taking credit for his work. When I watched that scene I was basically telling at the screen "shut up! what are you doing? shut up!!!", I couldn't believe he was telling that, but it made perfect sense given the kind of person Walter is.
great point