There's a show on Netflix called "Money Heist" and we break up laughing every time it pops up. Because, like... as opposed to what?
Apparently it's a Spanish import and the original name would translate as "House of Paper". Probably too close to "House of Cards" for comfort.
Apparently it's a Spanish import and the original name would translate as "House of Paper". Probably too close to "House of Cards" for comfort.
The titular Money Heist is infiltrating a mint to print millions of Euros, so nothing's missing and no one knows any crime happened. So the title does kind of make sense, despite the seeming redundancy.
To be clear to everyone commenting with other heists... sure. But money (and things equivalent to or which you intend to leverage to get money) is default. You don't have to say "money heist". If you heist monkeys, that's a monkey heist. If you heist money, that's just a heist.
So, anyway. Some alternate titles we came up with thirty seconds after reading the 'kipedia article:
- Making a Mint
- Coining It
- To Coin a Phrase
- License to Print Money
- Eurolling In It
- Making a Fortune
- Making a Mint
- Coining It
- To Coin a Phrase
- License to Print Money
- Eurolling In It
- Making a Fortune
I'm probably going to watch it because heist, but I wish they would have known who I was, thought I was good at naming things, and asked me to name it before they settled on an English-language title for it.
(Alternately they could have just left the Spanish-language name in Spanish, because I feel like it's intelligible to the average English viewer?)
