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The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist
- PhantomGremlin 7y agoI thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Like a real-life Ocean's Eleven.
- atmosx 7y ago..and as often happens, they got caught using the most dullest of possible scenarios.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoWas really let down by the stupidity of it, I was under the impression these guys were professionals.
- pachico 7y agoThe style and rhythm of this article is superb. I wish they did a movie about it.
- lucb1e 7y agoDare I ask, did you read the article? :D > There is also a third book, written by yet another journalist, and just this year, a major film was released in Argentina, heightening national interest in the caper all the more. [...] > But there's also this: If they hadn't been collared, there'd be no books, or movies. [...] > Beto sold the rights to his name to the producers who made the film and he visited the set a few times. He pulls out his phone to show me a photo. It's of him, dressed for a small but important role—as the cop who pulls over the actor playing Beto, who in the movie version is definitely making a run for it with his mistress. Edit: much further down the name is also mentioned: > El Robo del Siglo (“The Robbery of the Century”), the big movie dramatizing the heist
- pachico 7y agoYes, let me rephrase "I wish there was a decent movie about this written by the same person who wrote this article". I am actually originally from Argentina and knew about this case.
- lucb1e 7y agoAh, fair enough. For what it's worth, they do say one of the gang hopes to make a tv series and documentary about it. I don't know about a tv series (that sounds expensive) but a documentary can be made expensively or cheaply and still be pretty good so that might make it, if they're serious about it.
- pachico 7y agoIt is true that during the last decade documentaries have raised their level a lot, however it won't be as entertaining as a series, right? Who knows, Netflix has knocked at the door of much worse stories than this, haven't they?
- pachico 7y agoAnd since wishing is free, I wish it was a movie directed by Spike Lee, following the same rhythm of Man Inside.
- anonu 7y ago> After the movie, he hopes to produce a nine-part Spanish-language TV series about the heist. Isn't this loosely the plot of the Netflix show Money Heist (casa de papel in it's original Spanish)? There's already a show! Otherwise it's a really strange coincidence that many of the plot points line up. Or, its just standard practice to want to dig yourself out of a bank you just robbed.
- mrleinad 7y agoMoney Heist is complete fiction, that's the difference.
- toyg 7y agoReminds me of something I read by David Simon (author of The Wire and a crime-beat journalist): police like to think they are smarter than criminals, and often are, but not always.
- solids 7y agoThey even had time to leave a note for the police: “En barrio de ricachones, sin armas ni rencores, es sólo plata y no amores”
- gus_massa 7y agoBad manual translation: > In the neighborhood of ricachones[filthy rich men], > without weapons or grudges, > it is only silver[money] and not love[feelings]. Note that all the part of the original end with ___o?es, so it has rhyme in Spanish. > En barrio de ricachOnEs, > sin armas ni rencOrEs, > es sólo plata y no amOrEs.
- tuesday20 7y ago* Why, he wonders, do people care so much for these stories?* I can’t understand this either. I have a curiosity about heists too, but the max I’d do is watch an occasional movie or read an article. Ask for photos? What are they gonna do, frame and hang it at home? Even worse is the public’s interest on serial killers, especially in the US. There are so many movies, books, shows on them!! Women write letters to these guys. It’s like these guys have celebrity status. This strikes me as weird.
- Shivetya 7y agosufficiently large populations leave rooms for many view points and with a very well connected society people of similar interest can more readily find each other. subjects that would die or not even gain traction can now find exposure which does give them this opportunity. it is the same mechanism by which people can now challenge news articles and the claims of people in power.
- kragen 7y agoDillinger and Robin Hood were celebrities before the internet and before the Green Revolution.
- S_A_P 7y agoIsn’t this a similar plot to the inside man by spike lee? That movie came out around the same time as well. 2006
- t_mann 7y agoQuite endearing Sunday afternoon read. The complete absence of violence makes it easy to sympathise. It seems they hold no grudges amongst each other too, which is remarkable given the sums involved.
- sireat 7y agoSuch a brilliantly insane plan: Pretend to have a "Dog Day Afternoon" type of scenario when you really have a "Red Haired League" underneath. So so many things that could go wrong and some actually did. Also reminds a bit of misdirection in first "Die Hard" and yes also a bit of "Man Inside". Add in a bit of Rammstein's "Ich Will" type of use of publicity.