🎧 Murder, But Make It Funny
'Breaking Bad' as a comedy? How Hollywood reduces, reuses and recycles ideas
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According to Karl Marx, “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.” And in the eyes of Rob Long, so, too, does material in the entertainment industry. When something works as a drama, for example, people will try to find a way to jigger it into a comedy (cue the side-splitting version of Breaking Bad). Most film…