The tandem they form Dani de la Torre and Alberto Marini It seems unstoppable within the television fiction of our country. After creating together Unittheir first joint series, and to expand their entire intricate geopolitical universe in The Kabul Unitnow they come together again to continue digging into the sewers of society but, on this occasion, from a totally different point of view: that of the mafias that operate in the city of Marbella and that turn this Malaga town into a melting pot of elements crazy in which the luxury further vulgar mixes with the criminality covert
“We were looking for a story that connected with the present and we ran into him article that they had written Nacho Carretero and Arturo Lezcano about the functioning of the mafias in Marbella. They also wanted to do something audiovisual with that material, so we were clear about it and there we went to talk to everyone, with goodwith badwith policewith lawyers and with those responsible for the criminal organizations“, Beto Marini tells Infobae Spain.
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The screenwriter and director Dani de la Torre admits that these types of stories, those of gangstersare not usually related to our country and, however, there they had a story in the purest style Martin Scorsesewith bullies hired, cars high-end, brands and its own code, a kind of ‘status quo’ that cannot be altered if we want to maintain balance and not start with the vendettas‘.
To narrate all this intricate grid of relationships between drug traffickers of all nationalities, they decided that the protagonist would be a lawyer that moved through all those murky environments and had a notion diffuse of the morality.
This is how the character of Caesar was born, whom he embodies Hugo Silva, and which is based on a real subject that they met during their journey. “He was a bit of the driver within the plot (real and fictional) although the real one never so explicitly crossed the line that separates him from becoming a gangster. But he was in contact with the police, he had to defend drug traffickers, he was a true public relations in the nightclubs. We found it ideal to tell this story,” continues Marini.
“What surprised us is that the businesses there illegal They were not hidden, they could be done in broad daylight. The code of conduct was to explicitly demonstrate the can and the money. There is some excessive, extreme in that entire universe. Besides, ‘the bad guys’ didn’t hide, they liked to tell us their stories.”
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Were you ever afraid in that environment? “Only when they left us the bill for some margaritas and some nachos at a club. When we saw what it cost, we started to tremble,” jokes De la Torre.
The series contains several peculiarities. Among them, the character of Caesar breaks the fourth wall to go counting to the viewer, at all times, what is happeningexplaining in a way detailed each of the itemsas well as the clans mafia members and the bosses with whom he has contact, at the same time profiles all the paraphernalia that move around them. The way in which they operate to introduce the drug in our country, since port until the consumersall one structure of the most complex that cannot have cracks.
In addition to this narrative framework that comes directly from the journalistic chronicle with the touch scoundrel given by Hugo Silva, Marbellathe series of Movistar Plus+becomes a real carousel of situations runaway in which the ambition is the protagonist, as well as the need to pretend in a universe in which the money it’s everything.
You can tell that the creators have had fun playing with all these crazy elements without ever losing track of what they were telling. That’s why, MarbellaIn addition to being a thriller playful and rascalis also a reflection on rot of one society hypocrite in which all levels are involved within a systemic corruption.
