The name of the work that will be addressed is Money Heist; its original name is La Casa de Papel. This audiovisual work is a Spanish television series created by Álex Pina. It is owned as a work for hire by Netflix Worldwide Entertainment as its Copyright Claimant. Money Heist was created in 2021, and its date of publication when it received the copyright registration is September 3, 2021.
Inspiration
In Money Heist, a group of criminals guided by a smart and fatherly figure is planning the greatest robbery in Spain. At the same time, the reason why this work was chosen is its powerful message hidden behind a crime drama. This audiovisual work is infused with essential themes of friendship, love, bravery, and resistance. Although its reality is fictional, it addresses the current issues of people’s fighting for their civil rights, liberation, anti-capitalism, anti-authoritarianism, and police abolition. In addition, the robbers’ every new activity may be regarded as a symbol of defiance. They show how wealth creation is superficial and how easily class hierarchies may be redistributed. The work demonstrates that poverty may cause people to do illegal things to climb the socioeconomic ladder in their belief that money is able to solve almost all problems.
In general, Money Heist may attract particular attention from the perspective of art for its intriguing plot full of twists and seamless images. It goes without saying that the work was positively accepted both by critics and the public all over the world. People not only watch it globally – they are motivated by this work to take action in defending their freedoms. Thus, eye-catching costumes of robbers and the “Bella Ciao” song are currently used during various protests.