Ill use them because Im from Boston to get into Fenway. And this was toward the end of the shoot. Theres two ways that this can go. They look at him. So many broke the code, shattered the code. Its a fun heist movie. [Owner] John Henry visited the set. This shooting game is the newest brilliant sneaking FPS game. It was really more of an erotic thriller: The criminal who falls in love with the captive kind of thing. Thats how you drive a f----n caaar, declares the getaway driver, Gloansy (played by rapper Slaine). But it still has to be divvied up among the team. Carter: They were looking at Chris Pine in the very beginning, because of course Star Trek had just come out. They get their tips and kick up to local crime lord Fergus Fergie Colm, played by veteran character actor Pete Postlethwaite. It went on to make $154 million (119 million) worldwide. Hogan: Dick Wolf from Law & Order somehow read [the book] early. But one of the greatest films about Boston goes back to 1973. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. Five men accused of a series of bank and armored car robberies around New England were convicted yesterday on charges that will send them to prison for life without parole. Although we dont have the exact figures for Charlestowns crime rate in the 90s, statistics suggest that there was indeed a surge in the rate of robberies in An alternate title for the film could be Ben Afflecks Boston, and no one would have had it any other way. Thats what happened. The Town captures the locale expertly, and the atmosphere masterfully. Hall: I wouldnt really say I did a Boston accent. It was concealing a character-based drama centered around themes that I was interested in, particularly the theme of children paying for the sins of their parents, Affleck says. When fans of The Town think of Charlestown, they think of banks and bars and punchlines. When Doug wakes Jem up in the middle of the night to do some damage and ask no questions, the only thing his friend wants to know is which car they should take. It had to feel like Bruins. It took him to the next level because it made him a filmmaker who also had box office appeal. WebCharlestownis the oldest neighborhoodin Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Honestly, people just wouldnt have liked the movie [with my ending]. Its just great that hes from here and hes back. And this woman looked at me and shes like, Hes not from heah! OK, hes from, like, three miles away. In 2018, there were just over 4,000 robberies in Massachusetts compare that to 1980, when there more than 13,500. Affleck: He played that so deftly, and made that scene work so well, when hes sort of smiling and laughing, but theres so much menace underneath it. Affleck: Its parochial and kind of a small town in some ways. Itd be good to have him around for authenticity. Hes in the movie. 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. Matheson: Weve had this official tour [of Bostons FBI office] and as were leaving, I notice a picture across the room, pasted to the wall, of a person in a mask, from the CC TV. The robbers were waiting. We literally took over Fenway. Her words had already come true. ). I was cutting out pieces of felt while Gina [Rhodes] was stitching themmaking, by hand, the fake Bruins logo. Douggie, played by Affleck, is a man trying not to die on the street he was born. Something the character of James (Jeremy Renner), aka Jem, could appreciate. Good God, some of them may still be there today. Stockard: There is this over-the-top sense to these movies. The money was all on the screen. I had a darker ending in it, like a real 70s ending, where Doug dies. The Den of Geek quarterly magazine is packed with exclusive features, interviews, previews and deep dives into geek culture. Affleck: What I liked about [the book] was that it was similar to [Dennis Lehanes] Gone, Baby, Gone in that I both could use the bones and the structure of the story and there was good dialogue and interesting characters in there, but also they kind of inspired me to create more and add on to it. Its gentrified and diverse now, a local TV show host told The Christian Science Monitor. As robbers in Halloween masksbrandish machine guns and snarl at the terrified staff in heavy Boston drawls Everybody on the f----n flaar! you wonder: is this just an average day in Charlestown? Hogan: I went in to go see it in a screening room in Manhattan like two months before it came out. Some of the scenes were shot on the real crime locations depicted. Affleck also embarked on a series of interviews with locals, including convicted robbers and members of the FBI violent crimes force. NO NAME GANG: CHARLESTOWN bank robbers. And then a few months later I got a call and they were like, Oh, we want you to come back in and audition for the director. I show up at this office in Cambridge to go in and read and all of a sudden I see Ben Affleck walk in. I remember one day going to set because he and Ben were doing that great scene where it ends up with them having a fight. So unexpected. Its an action movie where you get to root for the bad guys. Welliver: He said, Hey, weve got great stories in this city that nobodys telling.. Well, not take notes, because you couldnt bring in a pencil. Affleck: With Jeremy Renner, somebody said to me, Theres this guy, hes got this movie coming out that you should see, its supposed to be really good. Adrian was off the project. Slaine: When he cast me in Gone Baby Gone I had no acting experienceand I wasnt the only one. Eventually, homogenization came for those tales, too. Did they know that this was in the plans?. And we got in the car and kept going. I totally put that directly in the movie. Maybe its not balls; maybe cocky is the right word to describe him. Chief Judge Frank Caprio#CaughtInProvidence#thetown#bankrobber See less Comments Most relevant Connie Ann My husband and I watched the movie right after I saw the Providence clip. There are three tiers of cells. Hall: Hes just a very good storyteller. It kind of had a post-apocalyptic feeling to it. And was critically acclaimed. In Black Mass, Johnny Depp plays South Boston mobster James Whitey Bulger, an Irish gangster who informed on the Italian mob to the FBI. Citizens Bank, located at 315 Hanover St., was robbed at 9:10 a.m. and a Santander Bank at 287 Hanover St., was robbed a mere 4 minutes later. The length of them runs, I would think, like 150 feet. It is because the small community adheres to omerta, silence unto death. Jem would rather battle it out with the law than go back to prison. He often has a very small crew. In the 70s, New York was that. I dont even think they had sidewalks. If they get popped, they do the time. We all want to chortle,like Jem,there goes college soccaaar, while shooting a guy we dont like in the knee. Craig: I lived in Somerville for a while in the 90s. Ex-felons are not allowed to hold even fake weapons. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. First of all, it was about 20 pages shorter. When we started, I said, I need a driver whos Charlestown born and bred. Interestingly enough, my driver was a guy named John Fidler who was a major suspect in many bank robberies, and also bread truck robberies. He also ran afoul of the law himself, recruiting real ex-cons as extras and giving them guns. Im mighty proud of where I come from, he says. Two armored car guards were shot to death in New Hampshire in 1994 during one of the robberies. Stockard: Ben and I went and spent a day with this FBI task force. Or do we want to give him a chance to live and a better life? We did all that kind of stuff. Ben wasnt in Boston. Theyre so proud of him and theyre so happy. Hamm: I had also seen Dahmer. The first bank robbery in Melrose was shot on location. The Town was originally set to be a three-and-a-half-hour-long epic directed by Fatal Attractions Adrian Lyne. An earlier version of this piece misspelled Roslindale. I look over and its Pete, and hes having his breakfast, and hes reading the paper, and I hadnt met him before because I didnt have any scenes with him. Ill tell you what Im gonna do. And so we were a little bit extra, extra respectful. WebBen Affleck played this real life bank robber in 'The Town'. Chucks such a good writer that you get the tone from his details. And then we put her and her cousin in the movie. Nothing kills a Boston-set movie like bad Boston accents. The cunning group is robbing city banks to steal money and making the getaway with diamond Heist. I said, Really, Ive got to drive all the way to fucking Boston to get a meeting with you? He looked at me and went, Youre crazy. I said, No, Im not. He said, So, you really want to be in this film? I went, Yeah. And then he went, Dino? I went, Yeah. He went, OK. Now, William shares his story after his Caught in Providence case went viral. However, everybody will want to go see it. Slaine (Albert Gloansy Magloan): I was born in Dorchester, grew up there as a kid. He heard stories about Charlestowns reputation for bank robberies and its strict code of silence. Jem is furious when he finds Doug cozying up to Claire, the bank manager who could finger them to the Feds. Hamm: He is a favorite son of Boston for a very good reason. It later served as inspiration for the Massachusetts natives third book. No above-the-line people got paid any money. We went back to his hotel room right after. [Chairman] Tom Werners a friend of mine. See more. The bank robbers step out of their vehicle. Hall: It felt like cinema in the classic sense. It was like a different world, the actor and filmmaker says. In real life, they were not so lucky. Thats the one moment that gives you a glimpse into how damaged and how profoundly broken Jem is. It all felt sort of very impossible and glamorous. He has that capacity, and I think that makes him a classic American filmmaker. Afflecks reluctant bank robber Doug desparately wants to redefine himself as a serious Hollywood player after misfires like Gigli and Jersey Girl. Location scouting was uppermost in his mind. [It was] probably the most intense production that weve had at the ballparkfrom both an overall action perspective, but also the grandeur of it. It was actually in the book. Both robbers were shot, one in the back and one in the head, and the getaway driver promptly rear-ended a parked car. And I thought, Not only is she the best actress for the part, shes gonna be able to really surprise people.. Craig: I was a struggling crime writer. Theres a lot of different stories to tell. It was taking a period of time that had passed and pretending it was still a reality. Ten years ago this week, Ben Affleck and his crew put on nun masks, robbed Fenway Park, and made the ultimate Boston movie. Its not The Godfather of caper films, but it is a heist movie must-see. We all want to be from Douggies Charlestown and we all know its a fantasy. Crockett: [Lively] would go out every night and hang out with Townies. Its worth bearing in mind that these are state-wide statistics, which do not differentiate betweenneighborhoods. He wanted to tour the prison and see it. And the guy said, Oh, the guy who wrote the book that that movies based on is on my softball team. And she said, Dennis Lehane is on your softball team? And thats when I was like, Its a small circle here.. And Ill tell you why: Nobody was rooting for Jon Hamm and the cops. Ill do that., My place in Connecticut is only three hours from Boston, so I just, on a whim, jumped in the car, drove up to Boston, went to the production office and walked in, and David Crockett, one of the producers, and Chay were like, Hey, what are you doing? And I said to Chay, Oh, Im Detective such and such. And she was like, You fucker. I said, Is he here? And she said, Yeah, hes down doing auditions downstairs., I kind of slipped in and waited in line and then said to the production assistant, Dont say my name. Theres something so tomb-like and archaic about Fenway. We all sat there, and he did it. She was doing Gossip Girl, which at the time people thought like, Oh, thats just a CW Y.A. Shooting there had been a condition of Afflecktaking on the film. He saw it and he was like, This is perfect. He said, Shes slightly different. Marblehead is a little chi-chi. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. Id been in good ones and bad ones, but I knew that it took time, that they were the result of the assembly of a lot of little pieces. He gave me so much ammunition all the time to play off and to feel. Affleck had a personal stake in the film that went beyond proving himself as a sophomore director. The imitators that his opus spawned, however, couldnt recreate what he managed to. The way we did that was to make the days inexpensive. Fury of the Gods Brings Back the "Shazamily": Inside DC's New Superhero Adventure, Scream 6's Brutal NYC Trip: "You Can't Trust Anyone" This Time, Cocaine Bear Is Not Just About a Killer "Coked-Up" Bear, It's Also an "Underdog Story", How Marvel's Wastelanders Podcast Created an Exciting Story with No Visual Safety Net, The Town: Ben Afflecks Heist Movie Love Letter to Boston. But instead, Affleck went with something more bittersweet. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . Affleck: I was very self-conscious about being limited to being the Boston guy. I thought I had something to add to it. For example, with my brother [Casey] in Gone Baby Gone, I thought it really benefited from the fact that he wasnt so well-known. To Charlestown, our one square mile of brick and He knows how to get a story from one place to another and connect all the dots in between so that you are in it and immersed in it and believe it and its thrilling and its really entertaining, as well as being serious. Claire foretells the doom of Charlestowns criminal culture. And so, constantly, Ben and I are trying to make it as real as possible. Then it might as well just stay a book. Besides being the lovable and erudite wrinkle in the scheme, she is not a townie, someone who was raised in the neighborhood. Were like, Wait, hes about the right size, height, and all that other, he could be Bens stand-in. I lived in South Boston, Roslindale. 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.. It was as simple as that. You didnt really know what was coming. I think its ripe for the picking. I kind of got to tiptoe around and watch them shooting from afar without them knowing I was there. After a seven-day trial, they were Claire represents the real problem at the center of the proceedings. I showed up, I did the reading. 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. Rebecca Halls character asking Douggie why the kids with whom she volunteerscall her a tunie? And they told us all these stories, and all these fascinating things, and built up what this mythology was. Hamm: I got to meet Pete Postlewaite, rest in peace, at the hotel bar. And it is a bit like visiting royalty there, for me, in a way that I dont get in any other town or city in the world. Tyre marks matched those found in Houston, and five men were eventually convicted. A woman who saw it speeding past reported it to the police, who matched the report to a truck rented the day before in nearby Medford by a man already suspected of a string of robberies. I love Adrian. Affleck was determined to make sure that his main cast could at least pass as true Massholes. Affleck: Im like, Why the fuck do you think people go to hockey games? Swearing and fighting. Affleck: The day that were shooting the shoot-out with Jeremy, where he gets killed out in front of the McDonalds behind Fenwaywhen you do these stunts with cars, you have to really clean the streets immaculately because these drivers are precision drivers. Slaine: I think he was just really going for authenticity. [Adrian Lyne did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article.]. The Town may have taken a small place with a complicated history and declared it a cesspool of violent criminals but they arent dumb ones. Craig: I was a crime writer already. Welliver: It [was] like doing photo shoots in front of Graceland with Elvis when Elvis was still alive. They are holding their automatic weapons and wearing their disguises. The movies center is Charlestown, right across the bridge from the rest of Boston, a legend in illicit locales. Chris Cooper (Stephen MacRay): Ben had me at prison. It was great. Numerous career bank robbers threw in the towel and testified in this trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Connolly said at a news conference at the time. And so I think at first we were sort of like, Oh, how can we not be Heat? And at some point we said, Look, embrace Heat. They stole their tunes., The interviews also gave The Town an on-tap supply of authentic extras. After shooting one guard outside the car and one inside the bank, they escaped in a rental truck. BOSTON - A Charlestown man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for bank robbery. 10 Patty Hearst Affleck: The Yawkey Red Sox, Im sure, wouldve been impossible. He claims that Ben Affleck played him in the movie, but now this former bank robber i. Suspects at large after $100K stolen from North Side bank: authorities. 'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery capital'? Robert Brady, 40, was arrested in Charlestown shortly after he allegedly robbed the branch at 11:21 a.m. Everybody in attendance loved it; no car windows smashed or anything like that. My father insisted that I go over. The blue-collar neighborhood produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than anywhere else in the world, according to the movies prologue. You definitely get more of that in BPD and the local cops. And hes like, Wheres that from? And shes like, Oh, he was here. The case of the Charlestown robbers in the show grows to encompass and eventually upend Bostons citywide criminal justice system. Kim Mahoney of the Blake came in and read the scene and was amazing. BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. But as I was signing books afterwards, I see this guy coming up. But they said, We have this project that we think youd be right for. Especially when youre in a park thats not open to the public. They blew it up and both sides of the street, all the brick buildings were totally covered in soot. Hall: I remember going to the premiere and a group of Charlestowners were there and they all said to me, You ever come back to Boston, well get you a car. When I got there, I went up on the walkway, on the first-base side, looking down. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . Dont run away from it. We love that movie, dont be afraid of doing things that they did that worked. 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. The North End, Bostons Little Italy, is one of the citys smallest, densest, oldest neighborhoods; the asymmetrical Fenway Park, which fits snugly on a single block, is picturesque but impossibly cramped. But the sketchy details and the cast of characters sound like a story line from The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a classic movie about low-level wiseguys in the Boston underworld, or the sequel to The Town, the Ben Affleck movie based on a group of Charlestown bank robbers. Crockett: Pete had a reputation for being kind of a hardass. As I got older I lived in [Jamaica Plain], West Roxbury, where my son was born. Afflecks Doug almost got out of his predetermined life. Affleck: That was fascinating. Free shipping for many products! She prepped for that for God knows how long. Affleck never had so much fun, One blue-collar Boston neighbourhood has produced more bank robbers and armoured-carthieves than anywhere in the world: Charlestown.. That was the most important part, because he could so easily lapse into clich. Hamm: It was impressive. Its this movie and its already got a script. Im like, You know what, if its terrible, Ill get a great story out of it. I sit down and I watch it, and it was really bewildering. UPDATE: Ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. I sort of pretended that Charlestown was still the way it used to be. WebFind many great new & used options and get the best deals for Lego Jail Prisoner Robber Crook Minifigure Lot of 12 w/ Accessories Town City at the best online prices at eBay! So I read this new version of the script. And I got a call saying that [Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal director] Adrian Lyne had read it and really wanted to do something with it. Crockett: I vividly remember it. The Boston area was prime cinematic crime fields during the early 2000s. Boston Police report arresting Thomas Hickey, 49, of Charlestown, for a Nov. 30 bank robbery on Austin Street in which he allegedly pushed an elderly man who was in line before him out of the way at a teller window.. Police report arresting Welliver: If anything, people were kind of burned out on the New York gangster genre. The sentence subtly shapes the viewers response to the daytime bank heist thatstarts the film. WebAccording to lore, when the Boston Police Department hears of a bank robbery happening in the city, the first thing they do is close the Charlestown bridge. At heart, its a story of social mobility. Affleck: There have been a lot more New York city movies than there have Boston, for sure. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. And well, why not nuns and tactical gear? And everyone was like, Ah, you cant, really. Particularly commercial success. And more than anything, just from a noise standpoint, it was kind of unique. The 1995 article in The Boston Globe, which inspired the films prologue, actually noted more armored car robbers are traced to Charlestown than any other neighborhood in the country. Everyone was making New York movies. They like walking out with a little bit of hope. The cunning group is robbing city banks to steal money and making the getaway with diamond Heist. 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.. In Quentin Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs (1991), the crew had color-coded names; in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid they wore 10-gallon hats. Carter: Hes 6-foot-3. Thats my quote that you used in the book. I was like, Oh man, whats up? He was excited. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! In the film, the crew get away, largely thanks to the kind of driving that puts Daniel Craig to shame. A long moment passes with intensity. I dont think you know how you sound. Actors tell me that thats one of the toughest ones they have to do. Ben Affleck grew up in Cambridge, only a few miles away from Charlestown, but to him the distance between the two places felt vast. For his turn as Jem, Renner was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, though he lost out to Christian Bale, who played the troubled brother of boxer Micky Ward in yet another movie set in Massachusetts: The Fighter. Im gonna do a movie about Iran.. The 6-foot-tall Dorchester-born rapper is an intimidating physical presence with a raspy grumble of a voice flavored with a thick Boston accent. In addition to including the statistic about Charlestowns armed-robbery predilection, the preface of Prince of Thieves features a quote in The Globe by an anonymous Townie. In my imagination, hes always been Ben Affleck. Some were ex-convicts for whom a judges permission had to be sought for them to carry weapons, even fake or unloaded ones. Carter: Ben actually went and sat down with the guy that his character was based on, and was able to see him and take notes in person. A Boston bank robber looks for a way out of his criminal lifestyle after beginning a passionate romance with the woman that his gang briefly took hostage. The Town unfolds in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, which the prologue claims has produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than The first or second take that he did, Jeremy wanted to do it on his own. It can be a terrible experience, meaning you can interrupt somebody when theyre trying to have a nice moment, or they can be pleasant. They had to look and sound like they just rolled out of Old Sullys at 2 a.m. on a Sunday. He loves her enough not to kill her, but not enough to testify. And then she recorded her voice, read some of the pages, so that we shared that with Blake Lively, so she could try to get the accent down. Thousands. 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