Point Break: Amsterdam

A trio of wily Amsterdam-dwellers plan a blood-diamond bank-robbery of a demo baron's safe-box to create anti-terrorism dimension.

A political adventure tale set in Amsterdam and inspired loosely by the Western film Point Break (Patrick Swayze)! 

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Amsterdam is a nice place in Europe, offering travelers an unusual window into European culture/life, and it's where blood-diamond piracy traffic from conflict-zones like Sierra Leone have become an investment for corrupt Euro-barons linking to complicated European places where economic exploitation can fertilize the criminal underworld (e.g., Northern Ireland).

Three Amsterdam dwellers are book-store employees who're planning a bank robbery of the Euro-baron Goldfinger's blood-diamond safe-box. These dwellers, thieves, are Amlan and Marcus and Raki.

The bank safe-box where Baron Goldfinger stores his Sierra Leone blood-diamonds will reroute to places like British Columbia and Northern Ireland, and it's a well-secured area in the Amsterdam bank, requiring our 'point-break' book-store thieves (Amlam/Marcus/Raki) to perform a rather theatrical/skilled bank robbery in modern Europe.

In other news, the new blood-diamond subject film from the West, Blood Diamond (Leo DiCaprio) will be screened in Amsterdam movie theaters, and Amlan and Marcus and Raki plan on attending one of these screenings and enjoying the rich media offerings in modern times regarding globalism-capitalism intrigue!

The Amsterdam bank is a very impressive building, and the point-break book-store thieves (Amlan/Marcus/Raki) stake-out the bank ahead of diamond-heist day and note its traffic patterns on a Friday afternoon and the levels of inside-outside security and the frequency of passing patrolling Amsterdam police.

BANK MANAGER: Business that day at our bank on the day of the heist-invaders was rather normal and customary!

AMLAN: We get our bank-robbery aesthetics/philosophy from JM Barrie's Peter Pan and what it says about customs-dance.

The bank-robbers (Amlan/Marcus/Raki) walk into the Amsterdam bank on heist-day and are in costumes/masks and are wielding a briefcase full of toy water-guns and explain to the bank manager that they're part of a new theatrical toy-store enterprise in Europe performing street-shows about diamond merchants in Europe and use their prop water-guns as part of the storytelling about liquid money. They request access to the safe-box area where the famous Goldfinger stores his valuables simply so that they may take iPhone snapshots of the safe-box area.

They're escorted to the safe-box area by the single guardsman (Leo) and once inside, they request that the two individuals who're also doing business/motions in the safe-box area complete their task before they take their theater photos for their street-show linked to their toy store. Once the safe-box area is clear, the bank-robbers (Amlan/Marcus/Raki) reveal to the single escorting guardsman (Leo) that the toy water-guns in their briefcase they brought with them are actually filled with hot acid and intend to burn into Goldfinger's safe-box and swap his piracy-gems with toy diamonds in their briefcase. They tell Leo this 'mission' is a special/secret prepaid Interpol-relations operation drawing out media comments from Goldfinger about the dangers of unmonitored diamond movements in the modern globe in this time of blood-diamond smuggling and tell Leo to dance in front of the security-camera while they complete this gov't-task. They do the deed and switch the Goldfinger diamonds with toy gems in their briefcase and tell Leo to remain in the safe-box area while they sneak out the bank bathroom window.

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond mining/smuggling from African 'conflict-zones' today threatens the world-diamond exchange!

The guardsman was instructed in the Amsterdam bank by the 'point-break' robbers (Amlan/Marcus/Raki) to explain to the bank manager once they made their gov't-getaway to report to the media that Goldfinger's to inspect the safe-box switch operation and comment in the press about diamond monitors working with insured-gem reporting regarding piracy troubles linking to Northern Ireland and British Columbia.

AMLAN: Once we place the toy gems in Goldfinger's safe-box, we made our way to an Interpol-relations station for transfer.

AMSTERDAM POLICE: We're currently in the process of investigating the links between the theater-stuntmen and Interpol.

The point-break robbers made their getaway that glorious heist-day in Amsterdam in a river-tourist boat and made their transfer/deposits through Interpol-relations for their new Zurich account in Switzerland, noting the special dazzle required in this age to perform a media-stunt drawing in more stern monitors for piracy-gems corrupting European commercialism in great places like Amsterdam (Netherlands), where tourism must be safeguarded from the 'aura' of modern piracy/terrorism!

AMLAN: We got some inspiration from a seminal work examining political paradigm parallels regarding economics-dilemmas!

The point-break thieves (Amlan/Marcus/Raki) make their way to the Amsterdam airport after they quit their book-store positions and take a special KLM flight to Switzerland and wait for the right media-headlines regarding Goldfinger's required distances...and gossip.

AMLAN: Hopefully, this 'Robin Hood action' reminiscent of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys will remind us of Euro-dollars (KLM).

This is a modern 'folk-tale' about the vigilance and intrigue linked to blood-diamond work and infiltrations, performed by rich and organized bodies such as the magnificent Interpol (Europe). What's the kind of imagination now that fertilizes/catalyzes anti-terrorism derivations? What do you think?

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)