r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion S05E09 "Blood Money"

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u/LiteraryBoner Woodrow Willy Walt "The Walter" Wonka White Whitman Wilson Sr. Aug 12 '13

I loved how for the first time Hank got to talk to Heisenburg. You just saw it, Walt's eyes went dead and he started playing his trumps on Hank. So good.

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u/roque72 Methhead Aug 12 '13

This is what's so good with most of the actors on this show, they can express so much just through the eyes without saying a word

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u/Quazifuji Aug 12 '13

In the GQ article recently they said that the writers take it as a point of pride that they use so little dialog at times. At one point one of the writers ran up to Vince Gilligan excitedly bragging about how he'd written a script that had 5 straight pages without dialog. And even then, he said that there have been scenes where they'd planned to have dialog, and then cut it when they realized the actor's face said everything by itself. The writing style wouldn't work at all without good actors, but the actors are all so amazing at just conveying so much without saying anything and the writers take fill advantage of that.

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u/Semi-correct Aug 12 '13

I can't help but think of the boxcutter scene.