OLIVER STONE Criticizes Breaking Bad Finale


Film Title: Savages

Utilizing as little tact as possible, director Oliver Stone cast a derisive comment or two towards the finale of Breaking Bad. The film maker was mid-rant, rambling about the unfortunate (and unrealistic) portrayal of violence in summer blockbusters like Man of Steel and The Dark Knight Trilogy, when his eyes turned towards our precious little Vince Gilligan and his meth intwined drama.

Oliver Stone said:

“I don’t know if you saw the denouement [of Breaking Bad], I happen to not watch the series very much, but I happened to tune in and I saw the most ridiculous 15 minutes of a movie – it would be laughed off the screen.”

“Nobody could park his car right then and there and could have a machine gun that could go off perfectly and kill all of the bad guys! It would be a joke,”

“If people think that bringing a machine gun to your last meeting is a solution to a television series that’s very popular, I think they’re insane. Something’s wrong. It’s not the world we know.

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Well, well, well Mr. Stone… those are some fighting words where I’m from. Not only that, those are some fighting words from a dude who’s spent his whole career in comparably “un-realistic” territories, so it’s a bit hypocritical if you think about it.

If we take a quick gander at Stone’s filmography, we’ll see a fair share of masterpieces (and an equal amount of duds… Alexander I’m looking at you), and almost all of them relish in a bit of violence. But if we’re hunting for the most absurd, most unrealistic themes in Stone’s work, I should probably mention his fetish with inaccurate bio-pics, as well as his obsession with inauthentic silver screen sex. As both violence and carnal acts compliment each other, I would think that Stone’s unrealistic portrayal of “naughty times” is as big of a cinematic sin as Breaking Bad‘s violence.

But don’t get me wrong, I enjoy both Bad’s violence and Oliver Stone’s bow-chicka-wow-wow scenes.

SOURCE: FORBES