--- title: Breaking Bad Was Inspired By Pulp Fiction description: Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan did everything but say Quentin Tarantino's name to acknowledge his admiration for the prolific director. canonical: https://time.com/4081446/breaking-bad-inspired-by-pulp-fiction/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-21T18:55:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:13.714Z og:title: See All The Ways Breaking Bad Was Inspired By Pulp Fiction og:description: Mr. White isn't the only Tarantino reference in the show og:url: https://time.com/4081446/breaking-bad-inspired-by-pulp-fiction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5527af9f5c448c0/69886945cd1bba72bc6fdbfa/pulp-fiction-breaking-bad1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: pulp-fiction-breaking-bad og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See All The Ways Breaking Bad Was Inspired By Pulp Fiction twitter:description: Mr. White isn't the only Tarantino reference in the show twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5527af9f5c448c0/69886945cd1bba72bc6fdbfa/pulp-fiction-breaking-bad1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See All The Ways _Breaking Bad_ Was Inspired By _Pulp Fiction_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 21, 2015 6:55 PM UTC  Pulp Fiction; Breaking Bad Pulp Fiction; Breaking BadMiramax Films; AMC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 21, 2015 6:55 PM UTC Quentin Tarantino is the one who knocks. Breaking _Bad_ creator Vince Gilligan did everything but say Tarantino’s name to acknowledge his admiration for the prolific director during the show’s five-season run. Gilligan’s Emmy-winning show was well-known for paying homage to Tarantino’s films, and a new video makes it _crystal_ clear how much. And while the most transparent reference is probably the show’s use of Walter’s nickname Mr. White, a moniker originally made famous by the 1992 flick _Reservoir Dogs,_ the Tarantino work most often alluded to seems to be _Pulp Fiction._ To illustrate the abundant number of visual parallels between the works, [Jorge Luengo Ruiz](https://vimeo.com/jorgeluengoruiz) created the compilation video of side-by-side scenes from the two. Set to the tune of Dick Dale’s surf rock cover of “Misirlou,” the video depicts similarities such as the use of out-of-the-trunk camera angles, the resemblance between the characters Mia Wallace and Jane Margolis, and the way the drug injection scenes were filmed. Now we fully expect there to be some sort of Heisenberg reference in Tarantino’s upcoming film, _The Hateful Eight_. 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