“Breaking Bad‘s” Bryan Cranston, as Walter White (chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin), recites Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” as landscape images of New Mexico and closer-to-home images of White’s neighborhood float by.
This is another one of AMC’s new teaser trailers for the final season of “Breaking Bad,” premiering August 11. Both evocative and simple, the teaser features the show’s Walter White as narrator, reciting the sonnet in its entirety, in order to portray just how similar their stories are.
This is not the first time “Breaking Bad” has tapped renowned works in its promos. After all, this season’s tagline is taken from the 1980s classic “Fame.”
Follow along with Walt during the teaser trailer with the “Ozymandias” text in full below:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away”.
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