La Casa de Papel, aka Money Heist, is the current most favorite and famous show across the world. Thirty-eight episodes have already streamed on Netflix and fans are anxiously waiting for its fifth season. Alex Pina is the director of this Spanish show that made people go crazy. Here are some interesting facts about Money Heist that most of the fans don’t know.
Facts About Money Heist
The cast comprises of Alvaro Morte as the Professor, Itziar Ituni as Lisbon, Pedro Alonso as Berlin, Jamie Lorente as Denver, Darko Peric as Helsinki, Ursula Corbero as Tokyo, Enrique Arce as Arturo Roman and Alba Flores as Nairobi who died in the last season which a little unexpected for the fans.
Just in a little time, the film describes the show’s sudden increase in fame and rise in popularity. But more surprisingly it also plunges into the cultural influence of this production that was nearly forgotten to television history. Throughout the globe, Money Heist‘s iconography has been practiced in rallies and revolutions, from France to Iraq.
The interesting facts about La Casa de Papel:
‘Money Heist’ was doomed to flop ere Netflix picked it up. The producers and actors had already believed the series was a flop when Netflix came along and took it. Netflix added La Casa de Papel, retitled as Money Heist in the United States, to its library with small advertisement. And this unique heist play proved to be one of Netflix’s most energetic ventures.
Even though Money Heist has constantly been a universally focused play, the series never left Spain in its first season. All of those foreign territories were recreated by some dedicated set artists and a lot of CGI. Now that Money Heist is one of Netflix’s most successful series, its budget has grown remarkably. Season 2 is as universal as the gang’s code names.
The artists get the script of each episode only when they were shooting, and therefore the actors have no idea about the next scene they are going to perform.
It had to be a short series with two parts, and Netflix took the series and cut-short into 22 episodes.
The notorious Mask with its twisted moustache pays tribute to Salvador Dalí. He was a famous Spanish artist renowned for his surrealist paintings and his anti-modern capitalist opinions.
Tokyo is inspired by the character Mathilda from the film Leon: The Professional.
Nairobi quotes about the scene from Quentin Tarantino’ debut, Reservoir Dogs when she reproaches to Berlin about shooting rather than cutting their ear.
As the series has earned more and more fan following, more stars and celebrities from every profession have dressed their own red jumpsuits and Salvador Dali masks. But the two most prominent names obsessed with the production many be horror writer Stephen King and the Brazilian soccer player Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior. Neymar even made a cameo as a priest in Part 3 of Season 2.
In Season 1 when the team first discovers dirt in the Mint of Spain, they start singing the Italian song “Ciao Bella.” That dirt represents the first hope that they really will be able to escape with their money. Later “Ciao Bella” is repeated this again as The Professor somberly sings it with his brother Berlin (Pedro Alonso). It’s then that the song becomes a symbol of victory amid insurrection.
Long before it was spurring fictional robbers on Netflix it was motivating real protestors. During World War II “Ciao Bella” was used to gather the antifascist revolution in Italy.
