How and why was Windsor Tower, one of the most iconic skyscrapers on the Madrid skyline, destroyed? Accident or sabotage? These and many other questions their creators tried to answer. “The Curse of Windsor” (complete in HBO Max premieres on Sunday the 12th DMAX in two groups, this Sunday and the next Sunday), not only will you know all the known details of the event, but also A galaxy of theories and urban legends that continue to feed the collective imagination almost two decades later.our national pop culture.
Raul Calabria (director and screenwriter) and Victor Morilla (producer and responsible for the plot and development of the project) did not want to exclude anything or anyone to stay with a single version. Array is based on references firefighters participating in the extinguishing attempt (including first in, J.A. Gomez Milara) and that they left the building before it collapsed; the journalists that they dropped everything to close the case and continued the case; the experts they investigated the causes of the fire; HE lawyer recording famous silhouettes appeared late at night and even architects who designed the tower, but also a parapsychologist or psychologist conspiracy expert.
a giant in flames
night February 12, 2005, an overwhelming sight hung all of Spain in suspense: Windsor Tower burned before our eyes. The disturbing repercussions of the 9/11 disaster and the trauma of the 11-M that occurred just a year ago, not far off geographically. “I remember looking horrified,” she says Marta Gonzalez Novo From Cadena Ser “I remember the dust, I remember the smoke… The first hours of the night were very sad.”
‘The Curse of the Windsor’ is actually pretty funny. “You can ethically afford the game,” says Calàbria, as you don’t regret the deaths. play with ‘true crime’ example where the victim is a building. And within this proposition, a Cluedo game with a singular board: “AZCA financial complex where the burning building, BBVA headquarters or Villarejo office come together in the same area”adds to further the broad scope of the case.
Everything continues to point to a poorly extinguished cigarette butt, the burning of a trash can as the source of the disaster. But the series reminds us why some won’t settle for such a simple oversight as an explanation. There are a lot of interesting elements in the game. “This story makes us reflect on many things in the recent history of this country,” explains Morilla. “From A family of millionaires born under the Franco regime [los Reyzábal, dueños de un imperio inmobiliario cuya guinda era la torre Windsor] much alleged banking conspiracy [se teorizó sobre si el incendio fue provocado para eliminar documentos clave para una investigación en marcha sobre FG Valores, la sociedad de bolsa de Francisco González]passing lots of paranoia and conspiracies including ghosts“.
Some myths, like the mysterious blue flames or that button in the basement of the building, are questions that the ‘Curse of Windsor’ finds answers to. But for Silhouettes appearing in a window in godless hours, when the building is already completely evacuated, there is still no logical explanation. Who were they? How did they enter? Calàbria assures: “There was a version, according to some experts, that these silhouettes became fiery, literal and metaphorical.” Morilla adds: “The hypothesis that these were firefighters’ reflexes calmed the public for a while, but was finally officially rejected at the judge level. And then?”
Always Villarejo
It would be reductive to describe ‘The Curse of Windsor’ as a documentary: it’s a ‘thriller’ with a more twisted plot than any fictional attempt. Also, a postmodern pop experiment where they intersect William James’ multiverse, Schrödinger’s cat paradox, ’70s ‘healing’, some real ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘This place smells like death’, the movie Tuesday and Thirteen (to name it somehow). In it, former commissioner Villarejo played Frankenstein, who in the journalist’s description (conspiracy expert) “king of the sewers, the man who knows all the secrets, almost a supervillain”. Christmas Ceballos.
For a time Villarejo was considered the possible architect of the fire commissioned by the BBVA, which, according to a certain theory, would have required the destruction of dangerous information. Calàbria and Morilla came to talk to this omnipresent man in dark intrigues. “He never denied being involved in the case,” says Calàbria. “All he wanted from us was that we could join ‘later’. But ‘later’ didn’t quite come.”