At the 66th Emmy Awards in 2014, the hit American drama "Game of Thrones" dwarfed the crowd with 19 nominations. However, in the competition for several major awards, including the best drama series, they all lost to the competitor "Breaking Bad" for many years without exception.
There are no exaggerated special effects, luxurious pomp, nor the support of well-known best-selling novels. "Breaking Bad" has swept all the awards and honors it can get with only a relatively meager shooting budget, a solid script and delicate performances.
"Breaking Bad" was also ranked fifth by the British "Guardian" as the 100 best TV series of the 21st century, and "Game of Thrones", which came from behind, ranked seventh.
"There are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys dominate". It was only after the final season of "Breaking Bad" that "Game of Thrones" began its annual Emmy sweep. Was it also because of the lack of a catch-up goal that the final season of Game of Thrones was such a disappointment? This is intriguing.
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After 7 years, "Breaking Bad" is back on the big screen.
The film, titled "Breaking Bad: The Continued," was funded by Netflix and produced by the original crew of the TV series. Since its launch, the ratings on mainstream film media websites at home and abroad have performed well so far.
The plot of "The Continued" is closely linked to the ending of the TV series. The beginning of the film is the classic scene of Xiaofan, played by Aaron Paul, driving away in a car.
The ending of the drama version, which aroused the audience's infinite reverie, was finally given a comprehensive explanation in the movie. What is the fate of Xiaofan? Is Lao Bai dead or not? They will give the audience a satisfactory and reasonable answer in "Life Continuation".
Among them, the popular characters such as Lao Bai and Mike, who are inextricably linked with Xiaofan in the drama version, will meet the audience in different forms in the movie. Including Xiaofan's signature line "Bitch!", the original sound will also be reproduced in a key and emotional bridge.
However, since "Life Continuation" is a fan-oriented movie as a whole, there is not much in the film about the reasons why the male protagonist Xiaofan and the most important person in his life, Lao Bai, took the road of crime. As for the love-hate entanglements between them, and what kind of physical and mental abuse Xiaofan suffered before fleeing, they didn't explain much.
Therefore, viewers who have not watched the TV series may have some difficulties in some plots. And the process of self-liquidation and redemption of the fans in the film will not be so strong.
But in fact, the main creator is very clear. If in order to take care of non-fan audiences, flashbacks or summaries related to previous situations are bound to be inserted at the beginning or middle of the film, which will naturally affect the overall rhythm of the film.
Therefore, in order to ensure the overall quality of the film, the choice was made to take care of fans of the drama version. Because it is the choreographer and director of the original cast, the overall look and finish still maintains the high quality and level of the previous work.
As the end of the "Breaking Bad" series of stories, fans of the drama version can eat it with confidence.
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