An Ingenious Criminal Engineering: La Casa de Papel

Another successful production that attracted attention with its theme similar to Ocean's Eleven was the series called L a casa de papel, which was broadcast on the Spanish channel Antena3 in May last year.

More than an ordinary robbery story
Another successful production that attracted attention with its theme similar to Ocean's Eleven was the series called La casa de papel, which was broadcast on the Spanish channel Antena3 in May last year.
Another successful production that attracted attention with its theme similar to Ocean's Eleven was the series called L a casa de papel, which was broadcast on the Spanish channel Antena3 in May last year . La casa de papel , produced and written by Alex Pina , has an extraordinary scenario that constantly renews and questions the idea of ​​robbery throughout the series, multi-dimensional characters that change from moment to moment, the right questions asked at the right time, its criticism of the capitalist system and its difficult to predict situations. With its ingenious fiction, it stands out as one of the most striking productions of recent years.
Promising the audience more than a simple robbery story, the series features the main characters, consisting of a uniquely talented team of 9 people who say they will " not steal anyone's money ", using a robbery to make it look like a failure for their real goal, its original theme, ever-increasing dose of tension and ever-changing psychological states. It deserves attention with its viewing pleasure that pushes the audience to take positions with alliances and expectations.
The main feature that makes La Casa de Papel different from an ordinary robbery story is that it is based on an idea that took decades to plan and does not actually aim to steal anyone's money.
The main feature that makes La Casa de Papel different from an ordinary robbery story is that it is based on an idea that took decades to plan and does not actually aim to steal anyone's money. In the series, the character we watch with the nickname Professor (Alvaro Morte) decided to rob the Royal Mint of Spain after a painful event in his childhood .
The Professor, whose basis was the idea of ​​reckoning with the capitalist system, which he found inhumane, and who matured this idea over the years, finally took action to turn his idea into action and reached out to eight experts in their field and made a job offer.

• Among them are bank robber Tokyo (Ursula Corbero), elite jewel thief Berlin (Pedro Alonso), forger and forgery expert Nairobi (Alba Flores), software and computer genius Rio (Miguel Herran), prospector Moscow (Paco Tous) and his quarrelsome son Denver ( The team, which includes Jaime Lorente) and two former Serbian soldiers Helsinki (Darko Peric) and Oslo (Roberto Garcia Ruiz), who stand out with their gun-handling skills and obedience, constitute the characters who were brought together within the plan and chose city names as nicknames.

As in Tarantino 's Reservoir Dogs , when you focus on the main idea of ​​the series in which each character uses nicknames and get to know the members of the team, it becomes clear why they chose city names. Because every information obtained about the characters, from their temperament to their reflexes, from their past to what they desire after the robbery is completed, deepens this meaning.


The leader of the team, Professor, is a ghost name who has not renewed his identity since he was 19 years old and has no record in the system . The Professor is a genius criminal engineer who explains his perfect plan in full detail to his team in a secluded vineyard house for five months . The smooth functioning of the plan, every step of which the professor has ingeniously devised for decades, largely depends on the characters not sharing information about their personal and private lives among themselves and not engaging in emotional relationships. In this way, the Professor aims to create a protection shield against himself, the characters against each other and all kinds of external factors against the characters he brings together.
When the day of action finally arrives, we see that the robbery takes place in the first episode. The police are not aware of the robbery. When it is time to leave the mint, the police arrive. The real story of La Casa de Papel, which takes it from being an ordinary robbery story, begins at that moment.

When the team takes action, their primary goal is not to deviate from the plan even in the most negative and hopeless situations and not to spill a single drop of blood on anyone, including the hostages. Because the Professor calculates that, step by step, all the hostages and the public will side with him, thanks to his clever moves and skillful manipulation of the police, intelligence and media with plans B and C. He thinks that a single drop of blood will ruin all his plans.

When the day of action finally arrives, we see that the robbery takes place in the first episode. The police are not aware of the robbery. When it is time to leave the mint, the police arrive. The real story of La Casa de Papel, which takes it from being an ordinary robbery story, begins at that moment . There is a slight conflict with the police, the money taken is left outside the mint and they are returned inside the mint, giving the impression that they could not escape.
Because their main goal, determined from the very beginning, is the idea: " We will carry out the biggest robbery in history, but we will not steal anyone's money, we will print our own money ." And the amount of “ untraceable money ” to be printed is also quite high: 2.4 billion euros.
The most vital element of the series: Time
The moment when the team imprisons themselves in the mint with the 67 hostages they hold, after their move to mislead the police and gain time to reach the main goal, is actually the beginning of a tension that will keep the audience glued to the screen.
Because the team at the mint is now already heading towards their target with the mind games their outside leader, the Professor, will play with the police and intelligence and his moves to gain more time. Thus, time, the most vital element of the series, begins to tick. Their goal is to spend at least 10 days in the mint, preventing the police from intervening.
Things don't go as planned
La casa de papel, which was built on a robbery attempt that was disguised as a " failure " in order to hide the real purpose, gains a multi-dimensional content as the door of the mint closes. Undoubtedly, the biggest part of this is the main characters who endanger the perfect plan with their mistakes as time progresses and the tension level increases.
La casa de papel, which was built on a robbery attempt that was disguised as a "failure" to hide the real purpose, gains a multi-dimensional content as the door of the mint closes.

It should be underlined that the characters in the series are quite realistic. No character, including the security forces and hostages, is completely good or bad. And even if it is during a robbery attempt, we witness the different stories, dramas or fun situations of each of them.

Just like in everyday life. Characters who are liked or hated are constantly changing. But as the characters get to know each other more closely, the questions among themselves increase; loves, angers and hatreds are formed; tension rises; There are conflicts of interest. The characters rip off each other and engage in a struggle for power and power. In this situation, exactly what the Professor does not want happens. Moreover, the Professor , who is on guard against the team he has established , makes the mistakes he asks his team not to make, especially the female police chief Raquel Murillo (Itziar Ituno) , and realizes that no plan will work perfectly, no matter how perfectly it is designed, due to many variables, things will not go as planned. While revealing the story, it also brings with it many unexpected developments in the course of the series.
In La Casa de Papel, we listen to the story narrated by Tokyo's character in a voiceover, and watch it with flashbacks and flashforwards that are occasionally used.
On the other hand, constantly changing psychologies, emotional intensities, reflexes, reckoning with the past, anxiety about the future and designs create a viewing pleasure for the audience that allows intense psychological readings through the characters. Thus, with changing characters and increasing questions, the audience is faced with different situations and stories that open the door to new questions each time.
Because we do not have any cartoonish characters with fixed characters.. This includes the hostages' relationships with each other and with the main characters. Therefore, just as alliances change in the face of every change, the audience is also skillfully manipulated and pushed to choose a side through questioning and is given expectations.
The right questions and system inquiry
Another change that is constantly witnessed in La Casa de Papel is the new answers sought depending on the new conditions. Because in the series, questions about " who actually is" the good and the bad are constantly renewing themselves.

• On the other hand, is the incident before us a robbery or what exactly? Who actually is the culprit? Who is actually stealing whose money? Are states, banks, global oligarchs or a group of people who want to print their own money to blame? If the excess money to be released to the market will cause the euro to lose value, how should we name those who caused the euro's depreciation? Who is right, who is wrong? Whose life is valuable? Elites or ordinary people? And it opens the door to a powerful system inquiry accompanied by many more questions.

In the series where the audience is constantly kept on edge, the tension that emerges from the clash of minds of all parties trying to manage each other's characters, desires and expectations, remains fresh. It should be especially noted that La Casa de Papel always manages to ask the right question at the right time, even though the accounts and characters are constantly changing and uncertainties increase moment by moment.
In La casa de papel , which resembles a chess game in which time is the most important element, we listen to the story narrated by the Tokyo character accompanied by a voice-over , and watch it with flashbacks and flashforwards that are occasionally used .
La casa de papel, a mini series consisting of two seasons, is a first-class crime engineering watch with its uniquely talented team, original script that is difficult to predict, ever-increasing tension and action, excellent editing and strong system questioning that makes its presence felt in every sense, from the costumes used to the music chosen. A series that everyone should not miss.

Source:
https://www.gzt.com/nihayet/dahiyane-birsuc-muhendisligi-la-casa-de-papel-3545246