More so, the big gun showdown works with the sheer Western-ness of it all. (But in a very Gilligan touch, he uses a hidden gun to drop the first body.) Jesse’s Wild Bill stylings have no precedent in the original series, but thanks to Paul’s agonized but mostly soft-spoken lead performance, they work brilliantly as an expression of Jesse’s animalistic will to endure, as well as his once-suppressed, now-volcanic rage at having been imprisoned and tortured by Todd’s uncle, the neo-Nazi scumbag Jack Welker. 22, a caliber that’s often derided as “a woman’s gun” in old gangster flicks - is best not fact-checked against reality.
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Like so many moments in the original series and its prequel, Better Call Saul, Jesse’s nearly Eastwoodian confidence with his granddad’s antique semi-automatic pistol - a. The impending, inevitable violence is telegraphed by close-ups of anxious eyes and itchy trigger fingers. Their final face-off over $1,800 - the difference between Ed’s hardline price for his services and the cash Jesse has on hand - sets up the most overtly Leone-esque confrontation in the Breaking Bad expanded universe: a quick-draw pitting Jesse, who had previously handled guns with discomfort and reluctance, against the leader of the bad guys. Jesse’s chief adversaries are yet another gang of urban desperados: associates of the late, soft-spoken psycho, Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons) they get wind of the cash that Todd squirreled away and agree to split it with Jesse, who needs a small fortune to pay for his disappearance and new identity courtesy of Robert Forster’s “vacuum-cleaner salesman” Ed (one of nearly a dozen Breaking Bad characters making return appearances). Jesse carries himself with more gravitas here than on the series proper, although the strong-silent vibe is likely the byproduct of being tormented and abused in captivity and being single-mindedly focused on staying alive and starting a new life. Despite the handsome production values - Gilligan reportedly got more time to shoot each scene than was typically allowed on the show - this is a smaller-scale exercise in tension than we’re used to seeing in the era of Marvel, DC, Game of Thrones, and endless Star Wars sequels, with scenes built around characters sneaking around, trying to acquire money, and/or dispose of bodies without getting caught by the police or killed by criminals.Īfter picking up right where Breaking Bad ended, the first part of the story reunites Jesse with his old running buddies, Skinny Pete and Badger (Charles Baker and Matt Jones), who treat him with the awed respect that Jesse once lavished on Walter until their relationship started to rot. The quietness extends to the production itself, which punctuates bursts of mayhem with long stretches in which we sit back and watch people figure their way out of problems. Writer-director Gilligan builds El Camino’s plot around Jesse, and his largely reactive presence gives it a different vibe than the series, which focused on a resentful genius who couldn’t shut up.
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That tradition continues in the postscript movie El Camino, itself an unabashedly Western-tinged title, derived from the vehicle that Walter White’s former partner and pupil Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) steals to escape his imprisonment at the end of the show. Co-executive producer and regular episode director Michelle MacLaren once told me that she tried to work homages to Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, her favorite movie, into every installment that she helmed. From its fondness for desert panoramas and Sergio Leone–style face-offs between rival gangs of outlaws to its jaunty country-western needle drops - including Marty Robbins’s “Felina,” which provided the de facto Greek chorus of its guns-a-blazing finale, and its title as well - creator Vince Gilligan and his collaborators stuffed every cranny of the show with allusions to the genre. Like Justified and Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad was always as much of a Western as a crime thriller.
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This is a full review of the film, and is intended to be read after you’ve seen it.
Spoilers below for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in El Camino.
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