When a pregnant woman breaks water , this means that the sac that holds the baby and amniotic fluid has burst , signifying that she will soon begin labor. Near a shoreline, a surf is said to break when it nears the shore and topples over. Those extended senses all suggest some kind of important transition, where something "breaks" in the primary sense.
Here are some more, which are closer to "breaking bad". To break free is to cross a barrier or burst through a bond that had previously constrained you; to escape. To break news is to tell someone the news for the first time. When the news itself is breaking , it's happening right now.
When a storm breaks , a downpour of rain suddenly begins. The break of day is the moment when the Sun first appears above the horizon. To break even is to have your gains and your losses come out equal "even". If you are playing billiards, and the ball breaks left , that means it turns to the left instead of going straight.
Now are you starting to see how "break" stretches from its primary meaning toward something like "become"? The senses along the way are not completely forgotten; they're still suggested or evoked. But as the article notes, Gilligan's definition doesn't do justice to the full meaning of the term, which is probably impossible to define precisely.
In the first episode, Jesse uses the phrase to refer to Walt's inexplicable change from a straitlaced, middle-aged high-school teacher into a budding criminal. That's the theme of the entire series, of course. So, breaking bad suggests something of the change of course of "breaking left" in pool, something of the transition into chaos of a "breaking" surf, and something of the end result as in "breaking even".
I can see why a translator would choose not to translate it, favoring instead a completely different title. What makes the title so expressive in English—the simultaneous resonance of many senses of break —makes it impossible to translate directly to another language. The term "breaking bad" in current culture relates to a television show titled "breaking bad". In the show a mild mannered chemistry teacher become a drug dealing person to be feared.
I am not sure if you need raising hell defined. But thefreedictionary gives several defintions. Yes, that Time magazine article lists all sorts of connotations for the term. But I would trust that the show's creator, head writer and executive producer is more of an authority on the term's meaning than the writer of that article.
If the show's creator, head writer and executive producer says breaking bad means raising hell , it is time to to stop over-thinking the issue and accept what he says. How many times do we get a firm word on what an expression means from the person who uses that expression? Many times we have to guess. In addition, sometimes a phrase means one simple thing raising hell and does not have to carry every single possible connotation of the phrase. Thus to ferret out every possible connotation or use of what breaking can mean is misguided.
EDIT: Of course there is the possibility that as the show progressed the meaning of the term as used by the show's writers might have widened to take on other connotations. His methods, however, make it impossible for anyone to stay on his side by the end. By the end of the series, Walt is willing to stop at nothing to achieve total dominance in the drug game.
Jesse, meanwhile, internally struggles with guilt over the crimes he commits. In the final season, Walt finally admits that he continued pursuing power and money not for his family, but for himself. Heisenberg was on the same level as Scarface in the end. Vince Gilligan had specific goals for Walter White.
View this post on Instagram. It also doesn't help that his brother in law is in the DEA. Bryan Cranston, known as the wacky father and only saving grace of that disgraceful malcolm in the middle show, plays Walter to perfection. If you haven't seen this show Breaking Bad, on AMC on sunday nights. Sometimes, life forces you to cross the line. You're going about your normal everyday routine, when suddenly something truly awful happens and all that pent-up rage you feel about your job, your marriage, your very existence, is released with unstoppable fury.
Some call it "reaching the breaking point "; others call it " breaking bad. Breaking Bad v.
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