FROM GOOFY FATHER TO SUPER-METH-VILLAIN
According to the topic of the body language I'd love to talk about amazing job made by Bryan Cranston in the TV series "Breaking Bad" where he played the role of Walter White.
If you’re unfamiliar with the story, the character Walter White in Breaking Bad begins the series as a downtrodden high school teacher struggling to support his family from whatever fate befall them. As the season progresses, his character develops into a villain who controls his world and writes his own destination.
In the early episodes, when Walter finds out that he has cancer Cranston says that he rounded his shoulders as if the weight of the world was being applied to them. He would bow his head. In the interview he shows how he would hang his head bobbing it forward. He says this represented the “tension and depression held inside him.”
As White develops into the Heisenberg persona of the super-meth-villain Cranston says the character takes on a more upright posture with shoulders back. He says the posture is “greater, more powerful and in control.” He wanted the character to “manifest his stateliness.”
If you’re unfamiliar with the story, the character Walter White in Breaking Bad begins the series as a downtrodden high school teacher struggling to support his family from whatever fate befall them. As the season progresses, his character develops into a villain who controls his world and writes his own destination.
In the early episodes, when Walter finds out that he has cancer Cranston says that he rounded his shoulders as if the weight of the world was being applied to them. He would bow his head. In the interview he shows how he would hang his head bobbing it forward. He says this represented the “tension and depression held inside him.”
As White develops into the Heisenberg persona of the super-meth-villain Cranston says the character takes on a more upright posture with shoulders back. He says the posture is “greater, more powerful and in control.” He wanted the character to “manifest his stateliness.”
The change of Bryan Cranston from a goofy dad from "Malcolm in the middle" into Walter White, a mastermind chemist associated with drugs was truly underappreciated.
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