article I wrote when I heard that this theft had occurred in Sicily. Um but I will say that, you know, ever since the heist at the Louvre last October, that has served as a really strong news hook, and people are paying more attention tomuseum heist . But for those who aren't in my field, uh what what you should know is that these things happen all the
heist at the Louvre last October, that has served as a really strong news hook, and people are paying more attention tomuseum heist . But for those who aren't in my field, uh what what you should know is that these things happen all the time. And it's a good reminder to support your local cultural institutions so that they can provide first-rate
world in the past and he joins us from Amsterdam uh today. Arthur, let's start with a Sicily heist . This theft targeted some of the most important surviving works by Antella Dsina. What does the sophistication of this heist tell you about the people who may be behind it?
with a Sicily heist . This theft targeted some of the most important surviving works by Antella Dsina. What does the sophistication of this heist tell you about the people who may be behind it? Well, what I think that happened is that a couple of months ago, the Italian government announced that they had
like my birth certificate, which, you're required here to register a marriage. So everyone watched "Money Heist ," right?
like my birth certificate, which, you're required here to register a marriage. Not just "Money Heist ," where a character is gay, but more
in New York. So here we are with 40% of the art market of the world, largest consumer country, and basically, we had two guys doing all the art heist investigations, or at least coordinating them. As compared to, say, Italy, where there are 300 Carabinieri that do nothing but art theft investigations worldwide--
But she wouldn't be able to do it. The film is a heist film mixed with a dance competition. And easier to describe it, though the stories are not copied, though people will say that.
Two daring heists within just a few months have kept Italy's art world on edge. In Mesina, Sicily, thieves broke into a museum over the weekend and made
So they had to hide their pregnancies because they would get fired at the moment that their pregnancy became apparent. And it's like we have a heist novel that's basically Jane Austen writes "Ocean's 11." We have straight-up romance in one of the books.
That makes that the single largest property crime in US history. So who would think an art heist would be the single largest property crime in US history? And the other thing that's interesting about it, there's a $10 million reward for any information leading to the recovery of the paintings.
And if someone has information, those paintings could bring you a ton of money if you have the information and it turns out. So the Isabella Stuart Gardner heist is the largest art heist in US history, probably the largest-- other than Nazi looted art-- in the world. Today, it's valued at $500 million.
I say, "Even more than sex with a beautiful woman, we would love to do a heist . We wanna be a part of a heist ." And so, in the heist thing, I say the things that you need in the heist . You need like a weapons expert.
Now, why would you think Ted Kennedy from Boston would want to make it a federal crime? How many people here have heard of the Isabella Stuart Gardner heist ? There you go-- a couple of you.
in some ways, a lost chapter of "The Martian Chronicles" or something. Like, heist stories have a specific inherent structure.
So this is the problem of a burglar who has to make a decision about when to give up a life of crime. So there's a scene that happens in a lot of heist movies where the team has to sort of coax the old thief out of retirement. The thief is kind of going, well, you know, I kind of like living in my castle and trying to figure out exactly what they're going to do.
--as Jesse Pinkman on "Breaking Bad." Also won a lot of awards for that one, a lot of best supporting actor awards. And we're here today to talk about their new heist thriller, "Triple 9," out tomorrow. Exciting stuff. Welcome to Google, guys.
aspect we keep hoping that the leader will fix everything if we just put a leader in place and some leaders are really effective at that kind of stuff. Turnaround leaders all that. But it became clear that the leader is great at getting the crew together for the heist . We follow them, right? It doesn't mean they'll get away with the heist . we could have a bunch of incompetent people following somebody who's not good at anything. But on the team side, what was really interesting is
But I will tell you this. It's kind of like a bank being-- they talk about a bank heist .
No, it was great. I mean, I think that the heist was the highlight for me. Just to-- at the beginning of the movie, we're trying to rob a bank.
Altarpiece. The alarm system was not triggered and investigators are working on the initial suspicion that perhaps the paintings were stolen to order. The thieves carrying out the heist did so amid a festival bringing thousands of people to the city.
And they signed a contract with eight of the railroads on August of 1930, promising to have this ready within 16 months. In 1944, it was the scene of a payroll heist with masked bandits, submachine guns, and pistol duels in the street.
But it's "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Full Monty," if that combination can ever, ever happen. But Farah Khan thought of the film where, like a regular heist film, you have one guy-- a mastermind, so to say-- who collects people with different specialities. Someone is a lock breaker.
And Edgar, as you can imagine, is really into con games and deception. And he has a movie that's coming out next month called "Baby Driver," which is about a getaway driver for heists . So I was not surprised when he called me up and asked me to come over and teach him how a magician and a con man
That was taken, as well. Both were stolen. At the time, the highest was a $300 million art heist . That was the value of the paintings.
So I'm like, well, what if I wrote a story that's actually centered on this originally-intended-to-be a secondary character? And I'm like, well, then they'd make like a crime story, a story like, you know, a heist , a caper kind of thing. And I'm like, I feel like I could do that.
I mean, think of the race, and the chase, and the bank heist .
in some ways, a lost chapter of "The Martian Chronicles" or something. Because you can have a science fiction story that is a hardcore romance, and you can also have one that's a heist novel.
And maybe there's a scenario down here which fits to some parts of San Francisco. So another famous problem which has been analyzed in this way is one which, unfortunately, ruins the plot of a lot of heist movies. So this is the problem of a burglar who has to make a decision about when to give up a life of crime.
But there's one part of the correspondence that just, to this day, is incredible, where he wrote me and said that they were in a fire fight in the middle of the night. And he described in email that, I have this one routine that I do where I say "every guy wants to do a heist ". I say, "Even more than sex with a beautiful woman, we would love to do a heist .
And he described in email that, I have this one routine that I do where I say "every guy wants to do a heist ". I say, "Even more than sex with a beautiful woman, we would love to do a heist . We wanna be a part of a heist ." And so, in the heist thing, I say the things that you need in the heist .
anymore. I've been looking at them for 21 years now and they never seem to cease. Um although I would say that with the celebration in the city, that's not all that unusual. Often times big heists , not just at museums, coincide with holidays or some other major event that might draw police attention elsewhere.
from stealing such recognizable pieces? Well, money. And I think that, uh, I'm grateful to the BBC, uh, because you always give attention to these heists , and the more attention they get, and the more that these images are broadcast, the more difficult it is to sell them.
Singapore, which boasts one of the lowest crime rates in the world, once reported four such heists in a single week.