You know, the Kennedys kind of had their own weird accent. I dont even think they had sidewalks. Determined to get a better grip on the place, he brought in another local, his old school friend Stockard, and began an intensive period of research. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. WebBen Affleck played this real life bank robber in 'The Town'. And I just came over to him and I was biting my tongue. Burch: We did one of the premieres at Fenway. Cooper: Hes had a wonderful career, but [The Town] was a big shot in the arm for him. Its not wedding bells which break up the old gang in Ben Afflecks The Town, its witness protection. That was the moment where I realized that I could differentiate one bank robbery from another. The Town took $23.8 million (18.4 million) at the box office on its opening weekend, from a budget of just $37 million (28 million). A U.S. District Court jury delivered guilty verdicts on 54 of 55 counts, including ones charging the five in the Aug. 25, 1994, robbery in Hudson in which two Affleck: Im glad to have worked on movies that are part of that tradition. But he pointed out the quote. Jem is also Riff to Dougs Tony in West Side Story. At one point we even had Brad Pitt ready to do it so it was really close. Her performance was savaged by some critics it features the Bride Wars of Boston accents, Wesley Morris wrote in the New York Times but history has been kinder to her. Affleck: Id been in action sequences plenty, so I kind of knew how they worked. They blew it up and both sides of the street, all the brick buildings were totally covered in soot. Hogan: I think weve played out the Irish Boston gangster thing. In March 1995, two men held the guard of an armoured car at gunpoint as he tried to delivercash to a branch of the Bank of Boston on Massachusetts Avenue. Carter: There was a guy, Joe Lawler, who was helping us. But it couldnt be Bruins. The Ringers Bill Simmons, who lived in Charlestown for eight years, said on The Rewatchablesthat, of all films, this one makes me the most nostalgic for Boston. The bars in the film are real Charlestown bars:Old Sullys (for townies), where Douggie and Jem meet early on, and New Sullys (for yuppies), where Hamms FBI officer approaches Niki. The guy that I spoke with, who was kind of our head technical adviser from the FBI, was from Nebraska. It very much had a sense of place. Yes Charestown, MA is known for Bank robbers. After a seven-day trial, they were convicted on 54 of 55 counts of robbery, including one which resulted in the death of two armored car guards. Doug MacRay ( Ben Affleck) is not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. Slaine: I worked at Fenway Park when I was a kid, so to go in there and be shooting machine guns was pretty cool, pretty surreal. The city also set the scene for Clint Eastwoods Mystic River, and Afflecks directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, both based on books by local crime novelist Dennis Lehane. Whats better than that? Its an action movie where you get to root for the bad guys. Referring to a location as a vital character in a movie is a clich, but in the case of The Town, its impossible not to. The car contained stolen money an And we saw the film for the first time and I must say: I was across the aisle and up two or three rows from Jeremy, and I dont know if Im letting the cat out of the bag, but I think he was thrilled watching that film. I had an interesting moment with him at one point, we were in the car and I said, Whats the deal? And he called me Ty, as all the guys did because they didnt want to say Titus. Theyre locked, loaded, and trained in automatic weapons, and launder their take immediately. Slaine: I was hanging with Gronkowski, and hes like, Dude. Hes like, The Town, is there going to be a sequel? He was like, You gotta do it, you gotta be in the sequel. I said, Dude, I died at the end.. Burke: There were the most narrow streets you could find in the North End. Slaine: Ive seen other cuts of the ending, like the one they put out, the extended version. Ex-felons are not allowed to hold even fake weapons. The Boston Police They went to jail because there were cracks on the pavement, leaks on the street. Thats what makes it great. Affleck: Typically people you saw who did it badly would err on the side of doing the Kennedys. It is because the small community adheres to omerta, silence unto death. Its gentrified and diverse now, a local TV show host told The Christian Science Monitor. Its this movie and its already got a script. The case of the Charlestown robbers in the show grows to encompass and eventually upend Bostons citywide criminal justice system. Kim Mahoney of the And on Afflecks instructions, Blake Lively, a California girl, spent three months hanging around with locals in bars and apartments to prepare for her role. Shortly after 9am on August 25 1994, an armoured car pulled up outside a NFS Savings Bank in Hudson, New York. He didnt want to option it himself, so they set him up with [producer] Graham King, who got the option. Slaine: Im convinced my hearing is still not the same after that film. Neighborhood of Boston, yet lopped off every map of the city like a bastard cropped out of a happy family portrait. With a relatively modest budget of $37 million, he made a classic heist flick thats well, porn for New Englanders: the heavy Boston accents; the scene in a Dunkin Donuts; and, oh yeah, the fact that a crew of robbers takes down Fenway Park. All three were from Charlestown. She was doing Gossip Girl, which at the time people thought like, Oh, thats just a CW Y.A. I was only comforted by the thought that no one with a Boston accent has ever actually read the Boston Phoenix. All three men were arrested and sent to prison. But as I was signing books afterwards, I see this guy coming up. He was with his mother. Norbums. It kind of had a post-apocalyptic feeling to it. He came over and he was a little bit shy but she was speaking for him. the movie the TOWN WAS Mde after SQUARE OFF T.V 249 subscribers Subscribe 6 Share 1.2K views 1 year He was kind of hemming and hawing a little bit and I said, Look, unless they make you wear the fucking purple outfit and the mask, you gotta do this. He went, I know.. If the Herald said that, I mightve taken it more personally. Hes crazy. Hes from Modesto, and hes kind of got that bulldog, kind of dirtbag sensibility. Hamm: Another smart move by Ben was to populate this movie with people that have an actual, real-life connection to these things. The cunning group is robbing city banks to steal money and making the getaway with diamond Heist. When I was a kid, I was scared to go there. It had to feel like Bruins. But they liked it and they wanted to meet with me, and I was like, of course. I was willing to meet with anyone who was interested in hiring me as a director. I walked the city for something like two, three hours, and by the end of it, I realized two things: The first thing was, I really like the movie and I cant wait for it to come out. Afflecks second film as a director charts the fall of a mythic heist gang and the streets which made them. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Its ruined my life, literally, but Im proud.. Affleck: Blake Lively took the train from New York. So I leave the movie theater and Im really kind of numb, trying to figure it out. His father, Stephen MacRay (Chris Cooper) was a thief, just like his father, and all of Dougs friends were thick with thievery. But how many people, speaking frankly, want to see a movie about a child murderer? Welliver: Weve got a couple of great little homages to The Friends of Eddie Coyle when theyre in Fenway: You live at such and such a street Thats completely Alex Rocco talking to the bad guy and hes saying like, We have your wife and your children are in the house. Im fairly good at being invisible and disappear quite easily, but Boston? Also, Starr starred in a silent movie based on his criminal activity titled A Debtor to the Law. Cooper: I think he was just having a ball with this character. Theres a lot of different stories to tell. This is the script I want. And I said, Adrian, this is gonna be a three-and-a-half-hour movie. Hes like, Well, if Scorsese can make a three-and-a-half-hour movie, I want to.. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. Titus Welliver (Officer Dino Ciampa): I called the production office and I got [Carter] on the phone and I pretended I was a Boston detective. Thats the one moment that gives you a glimpse into how damaged and how profoundly broken Jem is. And we had a lot of days for a movie that was relatively inexpensive. As for Affleck, the success of The Town helped advance his career as a director. Particularly commercial success. According to the Associated Press, Shea, along with Patrick McGonagle, Michael OHalloran, Stephen Burke, and Matthew McDonald, were all from the same CONCORD, N.H. -- A friend of two accused bank robbers testified yesterday as a prosection witness about a car found burning in Revere, the night of a 1994 robbery. Nothing kills a Boston-set movie like bad Boston accents. Affleck: The Yawkey Red Sox, Im sure, wouldve been impossible. Funny enough, I have shot in Boston twice since then. This database contains birth information from several towns included in the Massachusetts (U.S.A.) Town Vital NEW YORK -- The mystery began when a Boston ex-con dropped dead on a New York train platform with a backpack stuffed with $180,000. WebThe Town. Bill Simmons saysthere were a lot of Boston ladies like Kris in real life. It seems likely that Lively had met a few. Thats my quote that you used in the book. I was like, Oh man, whats up? He was excited. It all went to the actual production of the movie. It is also quirkily structured, vaguely biographical and personal. He was like, Thats me. We all want to be from Douggies Charlestown and we all know its a fantasy. I keep waiting for someone of color, anyone whos not like me, this sort of Irish American crime writer, to figure it out and write another great Boston crime movie that doesnt look like all the ones weve seen. 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