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本视频转载至 youtube screencrush we love breaking bad for its sharply defined characters， the symbolism and the exquisite writing， but this is also a story that is told with color nothing you see in breaking bad is an accent every piece of clothing the colors of the backgrounds the props all of them work together to tell a single cohesive story every color in the show has a symbolic meaning every character is associated with a color and their relationships in the show are even defined by their position on this color wheel creator vince gilligan told gq in twenty thirteen at the beginning of every series we would have a meeting in which i would discuss with the production designer and the costume designer about the specific palettes that we would use for any given character throughout the course of the year and by the way， we are not the first people to point this out there are numerous articles on the internet and even a very thorough page on the breaking bad wiki， we've included some links to reading material in the description， please check them out first， i want to explain the colors that breaking bad most often uses and go over what they represent so let's take a trip around the color wheel beginning with yellow this color has many traditional meanings including caution and cowardice nobody calls me yellow but in breaking bad it's mainly associated with crystal meth and anything related to the meth business in real life meth is usually white， but can sometimes be yellow it's the main color of lois poyosurmonos check out their yellow uniforms and gus's yellow shirt the mexico flashbacks are often colorized with a yellow tent and it's also the color of the hasmat suits that they used to cook the meth， but the most over use of yellow might be when wall kills crazy aid in the bags in the river， the sea begins when walt reassembles a shattered plate now remember the plate was intended as a sign of charity away for walt to bring his prisoner some food this is similar to his good intentions for cooking meth to begin with as a way to provide for his family but the plate like his cooking is corrupted and becomes a tool for violence when walt drives his money into the desert the license plate of the van just so happens to match the html code for yellow oh and when walt gets his cancer diagnosis what was it that he focused his attention on a yellow mustard stain the same way he used his cancer as an excuse to focus on a life of crime now once， you know these symbols you can watch any scene look at the wardrobe and use it as a key to understand each character's role in that scene jesse is the character mostly associated with yellow as seen on this amazing graphic that charts each character's wardrobe in every season so subconsciously we associate jesse with the mess business and also with fear next up is orange which is often used for action but also warns us that danger is near for instance when ted is injured or just fill in the ground or when walt is reunited with his old neighbor again hello， carol whoa whoa what are you doing you're dropping your fucking oranges now these are also emages to the godfather when oranges are always used as a portent of doom， but orange is also a light hearted color the color of comedy hank is strongly associated with the collar orange because he's the character who's always cracking wise when he got his arm crushed clean off anyone will see the photos around my website hilarious and has been involved in the most action next up is red which like yellow is a primary color you'll find the primary colors in breaking bad also have a more central significance to the show red symbolizes blood murder in the criminal underworld it's the color of gus's meth lab and the tarp that walt's money sits on lydia also drank from a red cup when walt poisoned her and it's the color of the remote that he used to kill uncle jack's nazis many characters especially jessie will often wear red when engaged and violent behavior and then there's the red car symbolizing the luxury of the criminal lifestyle by jessie's monte carlo， which proudly displaced his cap'n cook license plate and walt loves to destroy red sports cars this is a metaphor of how the criminal lifestyle can gain you flash and wealth， but will always backfire and become violent next up is pink which represents used naivete and tragedy jessie's last name is pink pinkman symbolizing his naive child like nature baby holly is almost always dressed in pink， but anne essence is often destroyed by tragedy this is best symbolized by the pink teddy bear from wayfare flight five one five we look at this bear and we understand visually it belonged to a little girl that walt and advertinally killed walt also allowed jane to die and her bed is covered in pink sheets showing that even though outwardly she wore black and projected a dark image in her inner life she was still sweet and innocent just like jane's life was tainted by her drug addiction the teddy bear is tainted by the destruction of the airplane this connection between jane holly and the bear is made explicit in the episode phoenix walt carefully lays holly on her side to prevent her from choking but refuses to do the same for jane because walt leads two lives one pink the other black and as pink veneer is symbolized by his bright pink sweater which he wears when tragedy strikes in his own backyard then there's beige this drab neutral collar signals that someone is harmless often wealthy after walco straight， he and skylar mostly wear beige and maybe they're imitating the wealthy guests at elliott's birthday party and by the way we did a breakdown of that episode and why it's the most crucial scene in all of breaking bat so check that out walt wears a lot of beige when the series begins in the pilot this conceals his yellow shirt symbolizing the criminal desire that lurks inside of him and when you look at this chart you can see that his wardrobe gradually trends darker throughout the entire series except in season three when he briefly talks about leaving the business until gus pulls him back in the man provides because he's a man over the series he often wore the exact same clothing just in gradually darker shades next is brown the colors of the earth of soil this symbolizes stability and humility a normal grounded life hank often wears brown including in his very first scene and jesse's brother the symbol of the stable life that he never had wears brown the white's home has brown walls which in the final season has been defaced with yellow heisenberg spray paint this shows how walt's life of crime has tainted the normal life that he tried to build for his family next up is purple associated with royalty， luxury and safety purple has long been the color of the ruling class and julius caesar was assassinated in part for wearing a purple toga seriously and by the way gus was wearing purple when he was assassinated but purple is mostly associated with marie she's the only character who's clothing stays one hundred percent consistent in every season now the exception is in the last few episodes after her husband is killed marie sees herself as a kind of royalty she even steals the tiara for baby holly as if she was entitled to it by divine right hank and marie's home is filled with purple because they're financially secure during hank's recovery his get well card's gifts and bed sheets are purple this shows that as he's healing he's in a kind of protective cocoon next is the final primary color of the show blue blue means purity as in the pure blue meth that will creates it also means sadness as then i'm feeling blue it's the color of the memorium ribbons for wayfare five one five mr q margolus buries jane in a blue dress after spending a lot of time deliberating over the color it's all black and gray once the last time you saw her ever wearing a yellow dress， but blue also means purity of heart and an intention to wash away your sense and fly when waltzegelt nearly bubbles to the surface he's bathed in a cool blue light sorry about jane blue can also symbolize escape like you're rowing out to see the vacuum cleaner man creates new ids using a blue backdrop and saws luggage and shirt in the scene are both blue and blue is also the collar of loyalty and of pendability todd whereas blue is walt's assistant and heel and kubi safely deliver all of walt's money while both wearing blue mexico all the time saying and when gayle is murdered he's wearing blue and yellow shirts the blue shows his loyalty while the yellow shows his compliance in the meth business and his fear you don't have to do this olidia also often wears blue a symbol of both her loyalty and her connection to the pure blue meth， but notice her wardrobe is often tinged with red red fingernails red soles of her shoes showing that her hands and feet are bloody cause of her connection to the bloodshed of the criminal enterprise， but skylar is the character most closely associated with blue throughout the series until she becomes corrupted by walt's criminal actions her name calls to mind a blue sky she often wears blue and has bright blue eyes this is because she represents what is pure in walt's life she's loyal to him and eventually she longs for escape now all of these meanings coalesce in the most striking example of blue in the show when schuyler fakes a suicide attempt and their pool as walt talks about his chemotherapy she stairs in the water longing for purity and escape my head was in schuyler's lap and just asking her this could all be over from the moment she submerged we're in this cocoon with her the scene is only filmed from beneath the water her dress surrounds her like the petals of a flower and without a word spoken the colors convey exactly how she feels and what is that above her holding her down that's a mass of green the color of money greed and jealousy it's no accident that this color is most often worn by walt it's the color of his apron in his early cooks and the golden moth barrels used to make the math are numbered with the html code for green walt shows his greed by wearing a green shirt when he kills gus， i won and it demonstrates his jealousy and granite state when he sees gretchen and elliot on tv the vomino's pest control tents were yellow and green showing that they made their money from selling meth and the stripes on the rv were yellow green and orange standing for meth money and you know marryment for the rv and build it into something completely different you know like a like a doom buggy but green is also the civil of growth and change when jesse isn't rehab the people in recovery all wear green and the series is all about walter's growth and change another reason he's associated with green holly is named for an evergreen plant and her full name can be interpreted as eternal purity， which brings us to one of our final colors white this means innocence obviously the protagonist in his family are named after this color showing their innocence when the series begins however， they live on negro a royal lane spanish for the black stream showing that the whites are moving down a dark path one of the most famous visuals from breaking bad is walt cooking in his tidy wides the creators wanted this to look like a diaper symbolizing the walt is stepping into this world like a pure newborn baby the only character who consistently wore white was combo now he was no angel after all， he was a meth dealer， but he was nonviolence and in his own childish way， he was like a big kid and at the ending of el camino， jessie is wearing a white knit sweater while surrounded by white snow showing that his inner goodness has finally prevailed and he's living a clean life now contrast this with his wardrobe in season three which was often grey grey symbolizes depression so it's the color he wears while mourning for jane in the final episode， walt jr is wearing head to toe gray as well the collar also implies guilt and revenge， but the most telling example of gray in the show is the name of walt and elliot its company gray matter shorts black alter white so together they became gray matter technology secuta walt's primary motivation in breaking bad is the greed and jealousy he feels about losing out on a billion dollar fortune with a p so grey matter fills walt with fillings of depression and guilt over leaving his company and he wants revenge against gretchen and elliott for taking credit for his work you and finally there's black which represents death secrecy and all around evilness moss wears black when he kills combo jane always wears black for shadowing her death and gus publicly wears a bright yellow shirt， but when dealing with the cartel he wears black elliot and gretchen's last name schwarz is german for black now this implies that they kept secrets from walt and eventually betrayed him， but black is mostly associated with walter's alter ego heisenberg and his iconic pork pie hat heisenberg isn't really a person at first he's an invention for walt to hide behind until eventually he becomes him you can observe this transformation in one of the show's most famous scenes notice schuyler is wearing white blue to contrast with his red shirt in this scene she's afraid that walt is in over his head and her whole family is going to be killed well， i think you're scared walt is wearing red to show that he is part of the criminal underworld， so we have someone pure schuyler appealing to the inner goodness of a crook， but then he stands and like a snake shedding its skin reveals that he has no inner goodness underneath the criminal exterior he's actually an evil man a man who feels powerful by frightening his wife guy opens his story and gets shot and you think it out of me no， i am the one who knocks nisstance we were kids we've always associated certain characters with different colors if you think about it most iconic characters can be associated with a strong single color this way we subconsciously associate that character with warmth， purity or evil breaking bad uses colors to subtly indicate how a character feels in a given scene， but also how each character relates to one another take a look at our caller will again and remember where each character fell jesse is yellow representing the meth trade he is furthest from purple the color of marie because she has no association with the meth business at all she is also the common link between hank and schuyler walt is green and he sits between the meth business of jesse and the pure family life of schuyler hank is orange which sits between yellow and red showing that he's associated with violence and the meth business for spiritually he's the opposite of schuyler what maybe won't want to die like a man all right i don't want him to die at all where she was able to be corrupted by walt hank's world view could never change but hey， don't take my word for it rewatch the series and pay attention to the details in every scene look at what the characters are wearing and ask yourself what does their clothing say about them and how they interact with others see a good show is fun to watch but a great show like breaking bad rewards us for watching again and again and again if you have any questions about colors and a breaking bad scene and what they represent please let me know in the comments and if it's your first time here please subscribe for screencrush i'm ryan ary。