Breaking Bad: Gus Fring - Man as Corporation

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[@sawanpancholi7366]

ScreenPrism want hank shreder video

[@vaisnow]

ScreenPrism Hey can you do a few on Deathnote?

[@judeisurufernando674]

ScreenPrism Love the research guys. Very compelling. I'd like to suggest analysing the "Western" aspect of Breaking Bad. Vince Gilligan himself has said that he plotted it similar to a contemporary Western. I'd love it if we could dig deeper on that.

[@NuanceOverDogma]

Ugh another anti capitalist media spewing BS. So I guess Skill Share is evil & you are pimping yourself off. These terrible narrators are really lame. Let's hope ScreenPrism doesn't become a large corporation.

[@LabTech41]

I think you'd be better served by not bringing up examples of things just because the public believes it to be a certain way. If you actually read and investigated Martin Shkreli, I don't think you'd lump him in with Gus Fring.

[@PhantomSavage]

Gus isn't scary because he's well written, Gus is scary because he is real.

[@arlette3700]

What do you mean?

[@fegao3150]

@@arlette3700 Theres plenty of "legitimate businessmen" who are heads of crime syndicate who use their businesses as fronts and we dont know when we could meet them let alone accidentally get on the wrong side of them.

[@eigelgregossweisse9563]

@@fegao3150 Absolutely concur.

[@ayoubzahyo]

Which means he is well written

[@mr.obvious4810]

@@ayoubzahyo also very helpfull that his acting is amazing.

[@JohnCLewis-xk4nx]

Gus Fring, like Saul Goodman, should have a solo series.

[@debbiehariette6335]

yes!!!!

[@Beiez]

Debbie Hariette I mean to be fair Better Call Saul seems to be focussing lesser and lesser on Saul and more on Mike, Gus and the cartel, which I really love

[@debbiehariette6335]

@@Beiez hopefully it continues like that as it's really interesting (I am mid way though season 4), but I would love to see a few episodes about Gus before the cartel too

[@gregnok1975]

It soon will it is called chile con fring

[@isakts8576]

I would love that

[@kristineilochi4615]

Giancarlo Esposito should've won an Emmy for his role on "Breaking Bad."

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

Ikr! Too bad he didn't.

[@John_Smith77]

Kristine Ilochi with any luck, he could win one for BCS.

[@andrewince8824]

He's an Italian actor. Let that sink in. An Italian actor portrayed a Chilean so well, even nailed the accent and Spanish to the point most of us wholly believed him to be Chilean. If that doesn't deserve an Oscar and an independent series then what does?

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

@@andrewince8824 you mean Emmy right? Oscar is for the movies. And yes, Giancarlo Esposito is one hell of an actor. Gus Fring is one of the strongest characters in television history.

[@andrewince8824]

@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 just give him all the awards. The man is a fair dinkum legend.

[@Blackuno3]

Gus was so professional he even fix his tie in death that dedication

[@dreademperor2094]

Gotta look sharp even in death

[@xx_isabel_the_wolf_xx3869]

@@dreademperor2094 he needs to look good in the coffin one way or another even if its closed or opened.

[@Ok-cq7zq]

straightening his tie to meet the devil

[@kylesoler4139]

He wants to look good for a deal with Satan.

[@vishishify]

@@kylesoler4139 Gus would probably be running Hell in a few months

[@eidetecker]

"Gus' smile never reaches his eyes." That's a brilliant observation, AND it shows how brilliant the actor is to pull that off.

[@snicky58]

Gus was a perfect example of the phrase "dead eyes."

[@jk-wk4ls]

Ya it's called corporate smile

[@1000000man1]

Many People do it in real life. People who have to deal with customers/employers they don't like. People who feel empty or depressed and put on an outward smile.

[@extraterrestrialhorse9722]

Gus is the living embodiment of professionalism.

[@luismerced100]

Not any more :-D

[@saymyname2896]

I think gus was copied from half life.......g-man

[@tdreamgmail]

Yes, absolutely psychotic.

[@DominickDecocko]

yeah half of his face blewn off inside his grave very alive and very professional.

[@leehernandez2022]

@@DominickDecocko professionals fail too...

[@RobertoBlake]

My kinda villain, the more realistic Lex Luthor archetype

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

Very much so

[@rickardkaufman3988]

This aged well.

[@TheCAPSLOCKrage]

Love to hate em

[@jackxiao9702]

Giancarlo should play Lex Luthir

[@Noname-ut1ye]

@@jackxiao9702 He does. He is Lex Luthor in Harley Quinn's animated series.

[@chloe_speaks2384]

"Gus sells two things. One is a popular consumer product that’s targeted at low-income populations and with long-term consumption, can contribute to disease and death. The other is methamphetamine." Best line.

[@Lektuerekurs]

The other is FRANCH 😂

[@ricemenarq6230]

*Gus Fring is CEO of Skillshare*

[@petejt]

A subsidiary of Madrigal Electromotive GmbH.

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

@@petejt lol

[@jankoleon3785]

No he's the CEO Chick-fil-A

[@mdd23330]

more like Skullshare

[@toquelau5715]

@@mdd23330 ay cee what u did there

[@futuropasado]

Also the great detail of Gus is that the first time he makes a killing personal it's where he dies. He could have killed Hector with his hitmans but he wanted to go and do it. Emotion took over there and he dies. Heisenberg was smarter then and he saw a possible flaw there.

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

I think Gus poisoning the whole drug cartel including Don Eladio in Mexico was also a personal issue,a revenge

[@zevk._.]

@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 Was a revenge, but a smart move too, the cartel was causing him problems, killing his man, "taking" his money, wipe them was a investment too

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

@@zevk._. yeah he played it smart there. But when he tried to kill Hector,he was just being impulsive. He didn't make up a plan and didn't foresee it. Actually he should've been more cautious and aware. One mistake and boom! He is dead.

[@zevk._.]

@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 Yes, killing Hector was totally precipitate, and did not take even 30% of the planning that he had to kill the Cartel. He had such a hurry, it was what have killed him

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

@@zevk._. honestly speaking, I became really sad when Gus died. Many say that he deserved to die because he killed children. But we do not know for sure if he was gonna really kill Walt's son and daughter. I mean he just threatened to kill them. Also,we don't exactly know whether he ordered to kill Tomas. Maybe those two street dealers killed him themselves to satisfy their own ego. I don't know where you are from,but in my region, everyone thinks Gus deserved to die. Even in internet I see these comments. But I don't know why,I have a feeling Gus wasn't that heartless. Maybe I am the only one.

[@deeanna8448]

Giancarlo Esposito did a phenomenal job. Gus' calm brutality was extremely chilling.

[@mkedmusa9416]

Giancarlo...would do a great job!! Followed his career!! Since Spike Lee's School Daze...you must check thst movie out! One best ever!

[@TheCaliforniaHP]

I love Gus Fring. Easily my favorite characters and a legendary villain

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

He was never a villain. He was just a professional businessman. Walter was the real villain

[@arandomguysshh8614]

@The underrated Guy, yea sure u right ,

[@jerryos356]

Stringer Bell thooo

[@Acidfunkish]

@@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805 Uh... What.

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

@@Acidfunkish yup

[@ursidae97]

It's genuinely difficult for me to not respect Gus Fring. And that's the scariest part of it all for me.

[@user-qr7eb1sf3l]

Bad people can still be likeable

[@hankwylderson7196]

OMG! Omerguy i might be a bad guy omerguy..

[@clownworldhereticmyron1018]

You can respect someone's positive qualities without endorsing their negative ones. He is an objectively brilliant and driven man, those are traits we'd admire in anyone. The application is the issue.

[@ng3933]

He's my favourite character in breaking bad

[@madeinmadras658]

Bad people also impact the world a lot. We can take the good things from them and use it for good.

[@RustCole01]

From an objective point of view, Gus was actually a fairly reasonable businessman, both in his legitimate restaurant and in the drug business. It almost never gets brought up but there are several instances in the show where Gus's employees at Pollos Hermanos demonstrate a fair amount of loyalty to him. He also appears to treat them pretty well. He gives his employees the remainder of the day off with paid overtime after the incident with Hector and then the following day he gathers his employees and fills them in on the situation. I mean, he lies about the reason but still.... Gus does seem like he aspires to be a better employer than most restaurant owners. Gus has a wild capacity for violence but he doesn't embrace it as virtue.... he uses it as a last resort. He even exhibits quite a bit of patience with Walter, who was a constant headache for him. Gus was content to allow Gale to be his cook and he probably could have run his empire without a hitch if he had never hooked up with Walt and Jesse. He even gave Walt a chance to walk away from the meth business and Walt immediately turned around and plotted to assassinate him. Gus was a bad guy, no doubt, but even with what we know as an audience, he still seems better than 90% of employers in the real world.... assuming he doesn't slit your jugular with a U-Knife

[@KD-ou2np]

Yeah unfortunately our bosses can't all be sociopathically obbsessed with running a good business.

[@MrPooly1459]

Yeah well just make sure not to become useless or a problem to him and you should be able to continue being alive.

[@storiesfromher20s]

Perhaps this is exactly what the writers want us to believe; that he’s a good boss. But no amount of PTO can or should make up for the murders hes committed. None of that discounts his sociopathic tendencies. He was patient with Walt because Walt WAS the business and Gus had already been exposed. This might be a if you cant beat em, join em situation in that sense. Had Walt been replaceable, the story would likely have been different. This is kinda like saying “ya, amazon exploits workers and creates dangerous working conditions, but hey at least they give those with client facing roles unlimited PTO and wellness days.” Gus is still a horrible human being and boss for his bottom line.

[@yuryyatsynovich]

Wow, deciphering the meaning of the Gus' half-face scene is impressive

[@gloverdragon6854]

wasn't difficult to "decipher" though...the guy was masking his "ugliness" behind a well groomed and trust worthy, well mannered outer appearance. both sides of him were out on display when he walked out of that explosion

[@harrystyles7466]

Thats true but their interpretation isnt the only one. You can take it as a refernce for Gus's character also without making it about politics.

[@MackeyDeez]

Gus Fring is the archetype of how a crime lord should operate. By passing yourself off as a humble and benevolent business man will make it hard for people to question your character. Al Capone used to operate soup kitchens during the great depression

[@Sernival]

"The capitalist model appears attractive for a while" Mike: WE HAD A GOOD THING WITH FRING

[@katb8061]

Gus was the most phenomenal, memorable, and chill-inducing villain I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing, not just in Breaking Bad but all shows in general. There was something both magnetic and horrifying about his character (and the actor's performance of course) that has stuck with me even after all these years. From a show that excelled in creating fascinating characters, Gus was truly a crowning achievement. Anyway I'm really enjoying these BB videos! I hope you'll make some for Better Call Saul too at one point, or at least about Saul himself

[@calum1495]

He's like Marlo Stanfield if he grew up and became really, really competent

[@Turtle1631991]

I always felt gus was tragic character in the story. He basically had clean, well oild business operation which while ethically dubious was still more civilised than what the cartel does. That is until two self destructive morons crossed his way just ready to pull him down with them. Poor guy. :-D

[@RLH-xv4ld]

Among all characters, I adore him the most.

[@Brandonhayhew]

Gus is better then Walter, in every way. When Gus died his empire that he built, died with him. Gus greatest villian in TV show.

[@MidTierVillain]

Calum Elliott he’s like a more business savvy Stringer Bell.

[@rileyfreeman7122]

the biggest mistake gus ever made was not killing walter with that box cutter

[@RatatRatR]

And frankly I didn't think there was a believable reason for him not to, at that point. The story just needed Walt to prevail.

[@AlejandroCastilloRapper]

RatatRatR Gus needed him dude

[@Orion_Fritz]

@@RatatRatR Except for the fact that Gus needed a cook, and every other option was compromised?

[@michiefukyu9172]

Actually its when gus wasnt careful enough when he went to the retirement home

[@themanwithnoname7486]

@@michiefukyu9172 yes he should have noticed that he just noticed walt tried to kill him at hospital parking lately, hector going to dea it is kinda suspicious

[@prettybullet4646]

One of the most chilling scenes is in Season 4 when Gus calmly and quietly changes into a hazmat suit and cuts Victor's throat.

[@dreademperor2094]

Had the same reaction as Walter, Jesse, and Mike

[@lapacesiaconvoi]

maybe they weren't told ahead of time what was going to happen. the director might have instructed everyone individually and not allow them to talk about it. it makes a shocking reaction more genuine. however i am not even an actor and if i was in that room, i'd react like they did.

[@TatersUnited]

Gus Fring is one of the most terrifying characters I’ve ever seen.

[@scottyi88]

It's either i'm partially OCD or that I just love how neatly and organized gus does things in the show. It is very satisfying watching how gus places things and put them in a neat, professional and organized way.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Seems meditative to me. Call it OCD, organizing his clothes gives him time to organize his thoughts.

[@blondeepartygirl]

No I totally agree I love it!

[@lolahernandez6871]

Tell Hector in Better Call Saul 😂😂 when he brings the money rolled up in elastics to the Don. 😂😂😂

[@ethanhawkins3391]

What did we do to deserve these recent Breaking Bad analysis videos? Keep posting them they’re amazing!

[@NgataNare]

What did we do to deserve this channel. 🙌

[@randomplaceinruralamerica9618]

“It’s not personal…it’s just business” A phrase that embodies Gus

[@OmniversalInsect]

And going against that was the end of him

[@mehulpatel5051]

I fall in love with his professionalism! His working style and accent of talking superb! I started this series again because of Gus!

[@luisleal2940]

Your Breaking bad characters analysis just proves this is one of the best series ever made !

[@gdnygma490]

The wire bro .... have you seen it ?

[@MrBibi86]

so very true.. look at how they summed up large corporations in one character. I never thought of Gus this way before.

[@luisleal2940]

Is it coming home ?

[@Clemente-rr7uh]

A melhor de sempre na minha honesta opinião

[@jamiespamister5711]

These Breaking Bad videos are some of your best work, ladies! They're nice to have until BCS comes back in 5 months.

[@thetake]

Thanks! We'll be making videos on BCS, too

[@jamiespamister5711]

Oh Yeah, that'll be a great source for new killer content!

[@Golden_Rabbit]

Joseph Belk better call saul

[@Lurco8]

Can't wait! So far really solid work, every one of your Breaking Bad analyses.

[@astridediva]

Gust is my favorite character. I’m amazed by how he can stay calm even when he’s in danger. I’ve heard that super nice people are often the angriest people. Gust is the definition of that !!! He k?led an entire crowd without panicking or getting angry. I have yet to see another villain

[@AngieAJ]

Gus/Gustavo**

[@aluz4753]

I just finished watching Breaking Bad for the first time yesterday, and your videos have been an exceptional help in understanding the underlying themes of the show that I didn't catch at first glance. Your videos are so professionally done. They get right to the point, and construct a clear-cut, logical, and detailed argument for each point. Fantastic stuff!

[@aluz4753]

I eventually will watch it again, but for now I'm still in awe at my first viewing experience

[@chalke007]

i did the same . first time 10 hours b4

[@rgreen8760]

Having a good understanding of disordered psychology really helps understand the genius of this show. Jesse's moment of telling walt (even after being "saved") to tell Jesse he wants him to shoot him is something best understood from a keen psychological understanding.

[@shaheer_04]

terrifying character, and a beautiful portrayal by Giancarlo Esposito. his work in The Mandalorian is amazing as well.

[@jadinrosh7112]

Aside from his flippancy at killing children, I liked Gus. He was cool, logical, efficient and unemotional in his dealings. Way better than Jesse and especially Tuco. I was sad when he died.

[@J__C__]

Jadin Rosh The newest happenings in BCS have made this all much more interesting.

[@gloverdragon6854]

to be fair, it wasn't a flippant remark when he threatened walts kids, it was his final move on walt and also he never said he would kill them, he said he would IF walt didn't stop interfering with his business. a final ultimatum. also its unclear if gus had tomas killed by those Mexican gang bangers...however on the flip side, walt did poison brock.

[@hectorgarza8540]

@@gloverdragon6854 from watching better call Saul i think gus would order a hit on a kid. But at least walter didn't kill brock.🤣

[@isaacman112]

dragon dragons threatening to kill innocent people isn't much better than actually being about to do it.

[@Konoronn]

Yeah, it was bad that he was flippant about killing children. All the adults were fine though, because they're not children.

[@fairfight9857]

My favorite character after Walter. Very calm, controlled, detailed & unemotional yet very creepy. That moment where he calmly changed his clothes before suddenly killing Victor shocked me the most. Giancarlo really deserved an Emmy for his portrayal of Gus.

[@MrBraddles3128]

Okay so I just realised that when Gus is missing half of his face and moves his eye(s), you can actually see the muscle moving behind where his right eye should be and it’s perfectly synchronised with his left eye. That’s attention to detail right there.

[@davidm1818]

Makes video explaining the critiques of capitalism in television. Has advertisement at the end promoting a business that can teach you to start your own business. Not knocking the vid, it was great just thought this was funny.

[@LeosGuitar]

I think there's a duplicity on it: telling that businesses are mostly a bad thing, and then saying Why don't you start up? I consider that those who criticize capitalism don't understand that there are institutions which protect individual liberties and rights. Capitalism is NOT an equivalent to Law of the Jungle. Neoliberalism is just a "straw man" which is used by statits (don't care if right or left wing) in order to aggrandize their political power and diminish our liberties. That's why we usually hear things like "too much liberties have led us to the crisis".

[@nekrataali]

Neoliberalism is a wide ideology that is/was followed by everyone from Rothbard to Obama. It was first implemented under Woodrow Wilson, became the predominant ideology of capitalists under FDR, and has since created its own left and right wing factions...from American Democrats to Margret Thatcher to Anarcho-Capitalists. It differs from Classical Liberalism (an ideology held by Locke, Adam Smith, and the founding fathers), which asserted that the invisible hand would guide economic decisions. Neoliberalism asserts competition will guide economic decisions and states should do whatever fosters the healthiest competitions. But anywho, Capitalism, no matter which ideology you fall under, creates catch-22s where you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I'm sure Screen Prism would like to just create content for every day of the week as a non-profit. At the end of the day, however, motherfuckers gotta eat. You take money whenever someone is just handing it out lol.

[@LeosGuitar]

I do not think there's too much difference between Classical Liberalism and what you called "Neoliberalism": they both believe that the most moral system is a free society within the state should not repress individuals liberties, both civil and economic liberties. Capitalism is the "economic part" of Liberalism, that could be summarized in: "protection of private propierty" and economic freedom. In a capitalist society, individuals compete with each other, but, also, they cooperate with each other (companies, businesses, KZbin Chanels) in order to present the best product-service to the customer. Is capitalism encouraging people to break bad and damage other individuals' liberties? Dunno, but one thing is certain: there are (must be) institutions which protect INDIVIDUAL (not collective) liberties. Maybe Neoliberalism could be defined as an ideology that just focuses on the efficiency of the capitalist system (even Marx would recognize such thing). But NO ONE has indentified him-herself as a neo-liberal. It has been always politicians or academic leftist who have created this "straw man" in order to explain (INADEQUATELY) the social reality.

[@samholik8127]

Eric Vargas hit the nail on the head

[@nekrataali]

Marx already asserts the issue isn't any specific ideology under capitalism, but rather capitalism itself with concepts such as absentee ownership, wage labor, and the price of good determined by their exchange value, rather than how they're used. Obviously, many people disagree with this, but I don't think if Marx had lived long enough to see capitalism during the 1930s that he would have changed his mind to agree that Neoliberalism is an ideology that focuses on efficiency of the capitalist system. Rather, I think he'd double down and say it's an ideology that focuses on correcting the inefficiencies of capitalism. But also I'm serious about the whole invisible hand thing: Smith thought a divine power (God, karma, or whatever) would literally guide the economy to be the most useful. Later liberals, like Keynes and Rothbard, would say the economy was grounded in the actions of people.

[@yagomi32]

that analysis was impeccable, Gus was my favorite villain in BB.

[@mankytoes]

Gus is one of my favourite villains in screen history.

[@pranavmanie1479]

man, my favorite thing about Gus is that he wasn't always this ruthless. that backstory of his with his partner is one of the best pieces of backstory I've ever seen in a show. instantly humanizes someone who's been cold and calculating. and explains so much of his ruthlessness despite that moment being so emotional. genius writing

[@wattsnottaken1]

3:55 I loved how this hurt Walt’s ego so bad 😂. “I don’t think we’re alike at all Mr. White”

[@matthewlewis8757]

Two birds with one box cutter

[@screwballprotagonist4381]

Gus Fring is Stringer Bell if he was able to succeed in legitimizing his drug operation

[@jbvo6037]

Gus is a genius. String is a fucking psuedo intellectual 🤣

[@patrickalcantara1790]

Not even close

[@TotallyNotALolicon]

I guess you could say he was Two Faced I’ll leave now

[@plmokm33]

This video: capitalism is evil Also this video: "Hey check out this service where you can learn how to start your own business!"

[@helloeditor9376]

@💧🐍 They didn’t really say capitalism was evil, but that we shouldn’t let corporations put peoples wellbeing at risk for profit and also the lack of accountability when a corporation messes up.

[@jaisipani7513]

"You know how they say it's been a pleasure, it hasn't" -Mike

[@seanc1094]

I knew him First as “Bug Out” from “Do The Right Thing” and From His Role In “Fresh” and Now he’s Adam Clayton Powell In “Godfather of Harlem” ...Mr Esposito is a Criminally Underrated Actor 🙌🏾 💙

[@asfrmaster2011]

Screenprism is amazing. Your analysis of various films and shows are in-depth and well thought out. Seriously well done. Maybe you guys should do fight club or the matrix? Or even Mr. robot

[@SweatedPear]

These videos are so well put together. They're so entertaining! Keep up the good work. 🙂

[@matthiascerebri3315]

You simply nailed it. The only question is: What events of his childhood, youth and start of his campaign made him the man he is?

[@kaybee1567]

"Gus's two faces are capitalism's two faces". Well done! This is a very well thought-out and supported analysis. Loved it.

[@Brandonhayhew]

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Gus is like Walter they too had created an empire, but when Gus died his empire too died with him.

[@shadow3799]

Biggest flaw about this video is that it's only viable if the consumer want it.

[@superflux1654]

I always wondered how they make him look so young in the scene with Eladio and Hector?

[@bikemaurice1953]

Gus Fring's class and sophistication are refreshing to experience in the base and sociopathic nature of the criminals around him

[@cosmojenkins3020]

Bike Maurice Which makes him the most dangerous psychopath of all. He’s smart, he’s charismatic, he’s manipulative, and he’s violently ruthless.

[@sirjames3494]

Gus is my favourite villain of all time because of how unique, cunning and calculating he is

[@feelsokayman3959]

My favourite character of the show. From the very first scene I saw this guy there was something special about him, I instantly respected and idolised him.

[@cinemaocd1752]

"Gus sells two things, one is a popular consumer product, targeted at low income populations, which with long-term consumption can lead to disease and death; the other is meth." SLOW CLAPPING at that.

[@youtubeepicuser4209]

How about you make drugs a corporation-led industry that doesn’t strike fear by making drugs illegal...? Also, when your customers are happy with you, you get more of them and they stay longer. Their well-being comes first for every good company.

[@monroecorp9680]

Why on Earth would you want these customers staying longer? Their well-being and their consumption of the commodity are irreconcilable.

[@stanpines9011]

​@@monroecorp9680 you get what he means. you want customers to come back, don't you? the best way to give those customers a feeling of well-being is to actually treat them well.

[@jaywhatever2949]

P.S, if you can convince the general public that they're your friend, your product sells better. That's the motivation for them to act like this. Corporations aren't people, but hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people who were hired for the sole purpose of figuring out how to make profit, cut down on costs, and generate positive public image. Morality gets lost somewhere in there, because the job these thousands of people were hired for is not to be good, but to make money. Corporations aren't necessarily evil, but they aren't moral either. They'll do what is necessary to improve, even if it comes at a cost to others, so long as it's legal (or at least legally grey). If you believe they're good, their advertising propaganda has worked on you. Family owned small stores and businesses, businesses with under a few hundred people working for them may truly want to help customers, but as profit margins increase and more people are hired for the express purpose of generating success, that stops mattering. Support your local mom & pop shops. These billion dollar companies influence culture and politics and while I wont suggest not using their products, because that is impractical, I will suggest that you should try to shop at local family owned stores (not chain stores) more often. Supporting the oligopolies in place now will eventually ruin our future.

These are drug dealers 😒

[@stefannita3439]

yeah this might be true in a world where there aren't 7 billion people running around. If government regulations weren't a thing you can be sure McDonalds would just sell you straight up cancer. Capitalism does not give a single fuck about people, and this was already proven as early as the industrial revolutions when we had children working 14 hour shifts in factories.

[@zzeettyyaa]

Gus in Breaking Bad: "I don't believe fear to be an effective motivator" The Dentist in PAYDAY 2: "Fear, as you surely know, is a powerful motivator"

[@bluisbgzzz2066]

I think fear is a powerful motivator as a short time measure, but in the long run is not so effective.

[@manuj2868]

bluisbg Zzz fear should be used in controlled doses. A little scare from time to time is good to remind your men that you don’t fuck around. However, if you constantly use fear, your men will rebel against you. This is why dictatorships (along other reasons) usually fail over time.

[@jackxiao9702]

It is a powerful temporary motivator. But it creates huge risks. Trust is actually the greatest motivator. If you Trust someone to lead and work in your mutual interest, that is the longest lasting and most effective. With a little bit of fear of betraying the boss as a spice.

[@soumyasishbhattacharyya2805]

I was rather sad that Gus was dead. He was never the villain. His brother got killed in front of his eyes. From there, building an entire drug kingdom single handedly and also becoming the owner of a food chain-he did it due to sheer determination and hard work. He was extremely professional. Didn't harm anyone until they were harmful to him in his logic. I sometimes think Walter was the real villain in the show.

[@DvornyashkaDiaries]

Actually Gus was very healthy and reasonably in the way he approached his revenge plan, not making it his top priority and achieving it without threatening his other plans.

[@rangshinadakro6319]

One of the best villain.

[@marvinyoung7545]

I actually had a very positive perception of Gus' character. In reality, the street pusher with poor impulse control exists more frequently and is subject to emotional cues or consuming their own product. Gus on the other hand displayed a measure of temperance necessary for a long - lasting and stable market. Mike says it best when he gets fustrated with Walt. Walt was a short lived impulse driven overly aggressive market that was unsustainable

[@robert5897]

Profit does not only happen in capitalism. It happens in every economic system. The difference is that in capitalism, you have to offer something valuable to the public and actually create wealth to profit.

[@willjust7099]

Most faithful associate. Mike?

[@willjust7099]

But regardless amazing video

[@mai5513]

Gus killed his most loyal partner because he was spotted in a crime scene. I thought Gus killed him because he's giving Walt a new opportunity to keep cooking.

[@luismerced100]

Victor became a liability, and was now a danger to the business.

[@RuinZvfx]

Just finished rewatching season 4, what a day for this to drop.

[@ECL28E]

This is what I want as a Batman villain. A drug kingpin/arms-dealer without any of the ego or impulsiveness of Two-Face, Penguin, Black Mask, or the Joker. A quiet, coldly-calculating mastermind who's a master at hiding in plain sight.

[@marchelmberger6249]

Gus is by far my favorite character on the show. Giancarlo Esposito as an actor plays a huge part in that as well

[@soumita2sweet]

Giancarlo Esposito really nailed this character! He's a real good actor!

[@CG_Element]

Gus really was an amazing character.

[@umarrashid1259]

Gus hated Hector so much he wouldn’t die in the same room as him

[@werbnnerf]

Gus is a character that displays perfect modeling capabilities. He has the foresight to examine thousands of moves ahead and meticulously plans for the single elegant, all encompassing solution. This level of precision is originally thought to be motivated by greed or money, but we later find out that it's personal. And it's this that is the catalyst for what Gus Fring truly is: someone who believes in Patience as a virtue and will execute a decades long plan for revenge. Truly his self-discipline is remarkable. How the fuck did you get all that capitalist nonsense out of this?

[@PatrickHogan]

Great video, but being similar chemically doesn't make them similar. For example, water is H2O and peroxide is H2O2, but I would certainly not consider them similar.

[@kevinmccray1648]

Patrick Hogan Taken orally 20 milligrams of methamphetamine is nearly identical to 20 milligrams of amphetamine sulphate.Source: prescribed Desoxyn. It actually feels cleaner than the Adderall I used to take.

[@nzeckner]

And Cl and NaCl are one molecule apart, but I wouldn't put chlorine on a steak.

[@uppercutgrandma4425]

But...but... they had a graphic!!!

[@nm9688]

Well to be fair those are inorganic compounds while the ones in the video were organic

[@youtubeepicuser4209]

When you study pharmacodynamics, you see that medications in the same family interact with your body similarly because the core effects usually have to do with chemically similar structures. For instance, “benzodiazepines,” anxiolytic drugs like Xanax and Valium, consist of a benzene (benzo) ring, accompanied by two (di) sets of adjacent nitrogen atoms separated by carbon (azo), in two 7-membered (epi) that not chemically the same (ine). Shorthand, it’s a benzene ring connected to a diazepine ring. Anything with that will give you anxiolytic, alprazolam- or lorazepam-like effects. And, as stated above, inorganic compounds can’t be spoken about the same way organic compounds can.

[@chaosrex1487]

What gets Gus killed is the tiny bit of humanity that's still in him, that he needs to be the one to kill Hector. The only part of him that's still driven by any kind of emotion, his hatred, is what is his undoing. Walt may have killed him, but Gus was more successful than Walt ever was, and his empire lasted hundreds of times longer.

[@user-wt9ps3mx8t]

I don’t think you can really enjoy how good breaking bad is without watching videos like this

[@capo328]

These videos are fantastic. Please do one about The Young Pope. I think there's plenty there for you to point out that most people miss.

[@Ciciulins]

Today is my 27th birthday and this video is really a great gift :))) your channel is very insightful and interesting!

[@roispro]

Ciciulins holy shit today is also my birthday! Happy birthday man!

[@sakhilenkomo6073]

Welcome to the 27 Club! The good one.

[@rexlongfellow]

Neoliberalism sounds like a concept Ron Swanson would love. #ParksAndRec

[@thetake]

No doubt about it!

[@chrisnesbitt3978]

The way this video stripped it to core is absolutely insane! Keep up the good work

[@edwardmwai4969]

I feel like the begining of his end began when he decided to go against his own code of never working with junkies. Jessie's actions led to the escalation of events that eventually led to Gus's demise.

[@boardwalk942]

2:06 two drug lords talking business a foot away from a bunch of cops...

[@imfiveone7158]

Gus is my favorite character! this analysis was impecable

[@benjaminhertzog5951]

Hector made Gus, he should be given more credit. Also, I would love a Gale spin-off series.

[@madelinegarber7860]

Gus Fring is probably one of my favorite villains and TV characters of all time. He’s the embodies the flaws of capitalism while always being pragmatic and efficient and professional. He was terrifying but he was smart as a whip. He was probably my favorite character in Breaking Nad.

[@zlac]

In comparison with everyone else, Gus was pretty much almost legitimately a good guy in that show!

[@LouiseAndersen1991]

Could you guys make a video of Bobby Axelrod from Billions? Because the videos you make are awesome and this is one of my absolut favorite channels

[@1796matrix]

I just found your channel but I really like your content! Thank you

[@beatricekiddo8531]

Walter is weak he’ll never be Gus !!! Long live G

[@Spathephoros]

Just for context, hydrogen peroxide "is very close to water, chemically"... Saying adderol is close to meth chemically tells you nothing significant about it, and serves only to equate two things that aren't the same in your mind. It's called a false equivalence fallacy, used to manipulate the listener.

[@IgiWhiteman]

On the other hand, when Gus was around on he was on good terms with Walt, everything was fine. As a viewer immersed in the show, it was the only time I felt kind of safe along with the main characters. Everyone was prospering. Then it just all went to s**t.

[@jackxiao9702]

It was Gus' fault, he tried to kill Walt once Gale's training was complete.

[@cooldude8551]

4:59 The difference is they can't talk to a manager

[@wonka2671]

“You don’t want to face-off against me.” - Walter White

[@f9oeks965]

When did he say that

[@scumfuckk]

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[@f9oeks965]

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[@itz_migzz4446]

"ill stuff u in a barrel, and make a DUDE SMOOTHIE"

[@Zygothdarkknight]

Gus Fring and the Salamancas need their own shows / spin off.

[@helio2942]

Gus threatens to kill family Channel: so this is the problem with private property

[@LoriWolfcat]

“Gus’s warm and cordial exterior reminds us of companies consumer friendly speak in their advertising and PR Campaigns, but that down to earth rhetoric is often at odds, with their coldly profit driven agendas.” Cut to 13:49 😑 Why can’t there be 1 video where someone Actually likes the product? And a KNOWN one.

[@MrJIGSAW3d]

I really love how this video turned from analyzing a character to demonizing capitalism with nothing but biased and vague statements

[@og4407]

And tops it off with a sponsorship 🤔

[@ezraprzytyk]

Your missing the point

[@eunicedeshps2773]

Gus Fring is scary. The ultimate killer. Cold.. Unfeeling, Heartless.. Thoroughly professional. Suave and smooth.

[@TititoDeBologay]

There’s also that underlying motivation of “I’ll show them and prove them wrong”. When Fring and his partner come to Eladio & Co, as an young,ambitious and upcoming with a new products. A bit like so many young entrepreneur face a bunch of oligopolic like investors. He was slighted, his lover killed, his product probably stolen and put under the thumb a bunch of ungrateful assholes. There are so many people out there entrepreneur or employees wo experiences that.

[@abramsullivan7764]

I want a show about Gus Fringe.

[@jaymcd8577]

From watching both BB and Better Call Saul I can see that being a drug lord for Guss was originally personal. He could be a wealthy man just with his fast food business alone, any one whose watched both will know what I'm talking about.

[@sofyanjamal4980]

in the end of the 2 season and all the 3 season gus said more than once to Walt that he can't trust a drug addict but when he needed Jesse he couldn't care about his drugs addiction that shows that gus is willing to sacrifice his believes over his self-interest