AMC has released a new poetic, ominous "Breaking Bad" teaser that features Walter White (Bryan Cranston) reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias."
Cranston reads the poem in White's gravelly voice as time-lapse shots of the New Mexico desert, Walter and Jesse Pinkman's Rv and the White flash across the screen.
Ozymandias was the name that the Romans called Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. The poem tells the story of an empire that has collapsed over time, which mirrors a likely theme of the final "Breaking Bad" episodes: Walter White's inevitable fall from atop the meth trade.
Poetry played a large role in where "Breaking Bad" left off. At the end of the first half of Season 5, Walter's brother-in-law, DEA Agent Hank Schrader, discovered his secret "Heisenberg" identity by reading an inscription in Walt Whitman's "Leaves Of Grass."
Below, you can give "Ozymandias" a read, courtesy of The Literature Network:...
Cranston reads the poem in White's gravelly voice as time-lapse shots of the New Mexico desert, Walter and Jesse Pinkman's Rv and the White flash across the screen.
Ozymandias was the name that the Romans called Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. The poem tells the story of an empire that has collapsed over time, which mirrors a likely theme of the final "Breaking Bad" episodes: Walter White's inevitable fall from atop the meth trade.
Poetry played a large role in where "Breaking Bad" left off. At the end of the first half of Season 5, Walter's brother-in-law, DEA Agent Hank Schrader, discovered his secret "Heisenberg" identity by reading an inscription in Walt Whitman's "Leaves Of Grass."
Below, you can give "Ozymandias" a read, courtesy of The Literature Network:...
- 7/30/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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