If you had to be a career criminal, which life of crime would you choose?
I ask this because I saw The Counterfeiters over the weekend and really enjoyed it. It’s about Jewish concentration camp prisoners who printed fake currency for the Nazis. Why did I enjoy it so much? Because I love forgery and counterfeiting.
If I had to live my life over as a criminal, I would be a counterfeiter. I love the challenge and the skill of it. You have to be a true artist. It appeals to me. The satisfaction of producing an undetectable fake.
It would be a very satisfying crime to execute successfully. A good counterfeiter has to look on his work with pride. You need to be a perfectionist. But don’t boast about it.
Early in the movie, we see the main protagonist, putting together a fake Argentinean passport, and I was just so excited to watch the photo substitution. I think the 1930s were a golden age of passport fraud. It used to be so easy to do.
I liked Catch Me If You Can for the same reasons. I love fraudsters.
Over the pass couple weeks, I’ve been working (legitimately) on some documentation about passport fraud. (In short: we’re against it!!) I get such a kick reading about stuff like photochromic ink and intaglio printing. I read it all and think: Oooh, I want to do this! Somehow, I don’t think that’s the goal of the documentation.
2 comments:
would the job call for dancing w/christopher walken?
Wow. Suddenly it is even more of a dream job.
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