They like walking out with a little bit of hope. But he also liked this book by Chuck Hogan. In 2010, Affleck directed The Town, a drama about a gang of Charlestown armored car robbers. There have been dozens of films and television shows filmed in the Bay State over the last decade, but by the time the 2010s came to a close, the popularity of the No R genre had faded. I could tell it was hard on Ben because literally going out to dinner was not really an option. Affleck: Typically people you saw who did it badly would err on the side of doing the Kennedys. With the premiere of The Town 10 years ago, the No R genre peaked. Thats the thing, that theres a kind of ownership and its beautiful. Ben Affleck made a minor heist movie classic with The Town, a thriller which shines light on the legendary history of Boston's Charlestown. Cooper: He got me about five [recorded] voices and one in particularthis one of somebody who had done timewas just so full of character and I just loved it, and so thats what I glommed onto. BOSTON - A Charlestown man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for bank robbery. Welliver: If anything, people were kind of burned out on the New York gangster genre. There was one of my endings and Ben wrote a couple endings, and thats Bens ending that they used. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. I dont even think they had sidewalks. It all went to the actual production of the movie. 2 hours ago. Did they know that this was in the plans?. 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. Oceans Eleven set the cinematic standard for a heist team. But they said, We have this project that we think youd be right for. Two armored car guards were shot to death in New Hampshire in 1994 during one of the robberies. These interviews have been condensed and edited for clarity. It took him to the next level because it made him a filmmaker who also had box office appeal. 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. Hes maybe four people away. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . He was able to hold his own with a lot of those dudes who are the real deal. And they said, We like what you did, we think youre a good director and we believe in you. And I was kind of struck by the enthusiasm they had considering for the most part, Hollywood operates based on success. The gentrification of Charlestown is the huge pile of rotting wood fueling The Towns bonfire of crime. But the Associated Press, which broke the Coyman story, reported Burke is also from Charlestown and was sent to prison in 1988 for six bank robberies in Florida. In so many ways, the project came along at the exact right time. Like you didnt know what they were gonna do. But if Charlestowns present reality as a yuppie stronghold is easy to establish, its past status as a mythical crime mecca is difficult to entirely dismiss. She was doing Gossip Girl, which at the time people thought like, Oh, thats just a CW Y.A. Claire represents the real problem at the center of the proceedings. I had a darker ending in it, like a real 70s ending, where Doug dies. Robert H. Brady, 42, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to five years in prison and three years of supervised release. Affleck gives the gang its last hurrah on-screen. Welliver: The character Dino was a cop who grew up in Charlestown. Thats how you drive a f----n caaar, declares the getaway driver, Gloansy (played by rapper Slaine). That was sort of the trick. So thats cool. 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. Theres two ways that this can go. He loves her enough not to kill her, but not enough to testify. This database contains birth information from several towns included in the Massachusetts (U.S.A.) Town Vital Affleck: Hockeys such a big thing in Charlestown. Honestly, people just wouldnt have liked the movie [with my ending]. McCoy, 29, was reportedly a member of the Utah Air Welliver: The upside of that is everybody is rooting for him. It really wasnt gonna work. WebBank Robbery | Detective Mehul ( ) | Hindi Paheliyan | Hindi PaheliDetective Mehul or Mehul Jasoos is the best detective in town. The Town unfolds in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, which the prologue claims has produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than In the film, the crew get away, largely thanks to the kind of driving that puts Daniel Craig to shame. Affleck: The Red Sox were really smart and understood how vital and central their organization was and is to the city, and they loved the idea of it. Hes just great. Or why Affleck hired him to play a Charlestown bank robber in his new movie The Town.. 371K. And that looks like a detail youd come up with writing a script. An alternate title for the film could be Ben Afflecks Boston, and no one would have had it any other way. 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? 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 What is the penalty for bank robbery in mass? Welliver: When we were doing The Town is when he was up for the role of Hawkeye. And I said, Yeah, its just so great that he can come back and do this and dig in. Martin Scorseses The Departed cast Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello, who was loosely based on Bulger. Rebecca Halls character asking Douggie why the kids with whom she volunteerscall her a tunie? Stockard: Ben and I went and spent a day with this FBI task force. In Stanley Kubricks The Killing (1956), a marriage-minded Sterling Hayden leads a crew to take down one last racetrack for $2 million. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . Shortly after 9am on August 25 1994, an armoured car pulled up outside a NFS Savings Bank in Hudson, New York. He gets punished. I just still really thought that way. Everyone was making New York movies. The guy that I spoke with, who was kind of our head technical adviser from the FBI, was from Nebraska. He had participated in a bunch of these armored car robberies, and we had been talking for two hours, and time was almost up. Affleck was determined to make sure that his main cast could at least pass as true Massholes. To get to Charlestown was to live free. And I hadnt seen it with the new one tacked on. And obviously it was in Bostonthat I was comfortable with. Hes like, What the fuck are you doing? I said, Look, you know, I understand that youre making this movie about robbers out of Charlestown. Theyre incarcerated. The car contained stolen money an It at least had that upswing. 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. What it allowed me to do is privately observe the prison population. R Thriller Drama Crime Movie 2010. hd. Even the prison is real: the scene in which Douggie visits his father was shot on location at the maximum security MCI-Cedar Junction, the first time anything had been filmed there. It just read like a good old-fashioned, kind of 70s cop movie, where the good guys are the bad guys and the bad guys are the good guys. Chuck gets credit for that. If possible, its really great to hire people with whom an audience isnt overly familiar, because audiences have developed expectations and kind of anticipate what an actor might do if theyve seen them a bunch. 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. Violence, unsolved murders . It is because the small community adheres to omerta, silence unto death. Hall: I wouldnt really say I did a Boston accent. And well, why not nuns and tactical gear? Affleck: Because it was the first time I was gonna star and direct, and because I didnt have a lot of money to pay a bunch of stars, I had the luxury of being able to just cast the best actors. Hall: Hes just a very good storyteller. Free shipping for many products! Hall: It was like being alongside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in London. But wrapping that in the sort of candy shell of a heist movie. Beyond the flashy heists, The Townrenamed because Prince of Thieves had already been used as the subtitle of Kevin Costners version of Robin Hoodis a movie about fate, loyalty, and morality, and how those things commingle. 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. In 2010, estate agents were pitching waterfront redevelopments to young professionals and families. Affleck had a personal stake in the film that went beyond proving himself as a sophomore director. Cooper: Hes had a wonderful career, but [The Town] was a big shot in the arm for him. Welliver: On the page it was one thing, and he beat the page because rather than it being a scene that was about anger and aggression, Renner turned that scene into a scene about heartbreak and devastation. The Boston Police BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. He has that capacity, and I think that makes him a classic American filmmaker. Affleck: My favorite moment in the movie, cinematically, came directly from a conversation I had with a guy who was in MCI-Norfolk at the time. Needless to say, it really shook me up. So we had access to all of the underneath [of it], because thats where we shot a lot of it. I showed up, I did the reading. Colm bribed a man on the inside to show the crew into the basement of the stadium, where they would enter the cash room and steal $3,500,000 in gate money (money spent on beer, food, admissions, etc. Its not The Godfather of caper films, but it is a heist movie must-see. Walking in I was feeling kind of glib. Or do we want to give him a chance to live and a better life? The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. And he read and blew me away. Job Type:Part-Time. Not noir, French for black. And she really focused specifically, not only on like, an American accent, but what it sounded like in Marblehead, which doesnt sound like Charlestown. 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. By the way? Hes probably still there. 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. It kind of had a post-apocalyptic feeling to it. Craig: [Jeff] Robinov, [the president] at Warners, really wanted to make the movie. The imitators that his opus spawned, however, couldnt recreate what he managed to. . When I got there, I went up on the walkway, on the first-base side, looking down. UPDATE: Ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. They were all from Charlestown. Thats where I got my best stuff. Two guards -- Lawrence Johnson, 57, and Ronald Normandeau, 52 -- were shot to death while delivering money to the bank for North East Armored Transport Inc. of Manchester, N.H. They look at him. ], Affleck: Having been through an experience myself where I felt that people had a sense of me that wasnt really fair, Im very sympathetic to and interested in people who are, I think, sort of pigeonholed. Chris Cooper (Stephen MacRay): Ben had me at prison. It was great. Affleck: Im like, Why the fuck do you think people go to hockey games? Swearing and fighting. I knew it was one scene and it was gonna be an important scene: [Dougs] relationship with his father. He flew in. Matheson: I will never forget sitting there with some felt and scissors at 3 or 4 in the morning. Its not just an accent, its more of an attitude. In 1995, The Boston Globe reported that the neighborhood was a community to which more armored car robbers are traced than any other in the country, according to FBI statistics. Hogan recalls reading that and filing it away. 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. These were to prove fundamental to the films success, yielding some of its most memorable moments. 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. 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. Rob Dobi Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves opens with a toast: Raise a Glass. 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. You definitely get more of that in BPD and the local cops. The Town (2010 Jon Hamm and Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. Just let me go in. She opened the door and I just walked in and Ben was there and he just burst out laughing. They went to jail because there were cracks on the pavement, leaks on the street. We went back to his hotel room right after. She is the interloping gentry and renovates Dougs headspace. Affleck: I was able to get access to the FBI and the division that chased and caught most of these armored car robbers, particularly in Charlestown. 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. But how many people, speaking frankly, want to see a movie about a child murderer? That was the moment where I realized that I could differentiate one bank robbery from another. Hamm: He is a favorite son of Boston for a very good reason. They were excited. Heist movies are filled with criminals who want to pull one last big job and settle down. IS Charlestown MA known for Bank robbers? David Crockett (producer): They read, and not saying who she was or what she was in, she did the [Boston] accent. As they fled with a bag of cash containing roughly $281,000 (180,000 then), another guard opened fire. We all want to be from Douggies Charlestown and we all know its a fantasy. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. Affleck unequivocally contributed to that proliferation. It definitely felt like, Im getting to see something that not a lot of people get to see. This shooting game is the newest brilliant sneaking FPS game. Many of them testified that they had grown tired of a life of stealing, of drugs, of broken relationships.. It was as simple as that. Everywhere we went people were so excited to see him. Some were ex-convicts for whom a judges permission had to be sought for them to carry weapons, even fake or unloaded ones. Peter Craig (cowriter): Theres a really great detail that I always loved where Doug just sticks his gun in one of those portholes in the armored car, and so the bullets like ricochet and rattle around in there. It was kind of a moment for them. When he took over the project Fatal Attractions Adrian Lyne was originally down to direct local boy Affleck decided he wanted to make this as much of a Boston filmas he possibly could. There are three tiers of cells. Burch: We did one of the premieres at Fenway. I lived in South Boston, Roslindale. They stole their tunes., The interviews also gave The Town an on-tap supply of authentic extras. Theyre both from Boston and theyre doing the whole Boston thing, and Ben being Ben, in a very playful way, tries to like, wrestle him. 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. I love Adrian. This is based on FBI statistics at the time. And so, constantly, Ben and I are trying to make it as real as possible. 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.. 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! Affleck didnt just direct, he played the lead alongside a cast of present and future superstars and locals. Stockard: There is this over-the-top sense to these movies. Its like 50 percent of why people buy tickets. And man, he stood up really well to Ben. We all want to drive a f----n caaar like Gloansy. He is the TV Editor at Entertainment. FBI figures reveal significantly higher crime rates pre-gentrification. But John is obviously a much bigger guy. All three were from Charlestown. The Friends of Eddie Coyle starred Robert Mitchum in the title role and Peter Boyle as a hitman who ran a bar. Unlike them, Doug had a chance at success, a chance to escape following in his father's criminal footsteps. So unexpected. The Towns numbers may not add up, but the atmosphere it creates seems genuinely authentic to the old Charlestown and to its proudly Irish, proudly blue-collar inhabitants. I wrote the book, then I went away for a while, then I worked on the script for a year, then I went away for a while, then other people wrote the script. The Town captures the locale expertly, and the atmosphere masterfully. He was quite clear. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ Three men who were convicted in a deadly string of bank and armored car robberies after prosecutors finally broke the ``code of silence in Witt: You dont want to go, like, Quantum of Solace at the beginning where you really dont even know where you are, where you shot it. Theres so many shots and so quickly, that at the end, OK, what happened? After shooting one guard outside the car and one inside the bank, they escaped in a rental truck. The movie opened on September 17, 2010, to overwhelmingly positive reviews and eventually grossed $154 million at the worldwide box office. WebDouglas "Doug" MacRay is a former career criminal and professional bank robber from Charlestown, Boston, which was the bank robbery capital of the world. Tuesday October 30, 2012. This really happened it was described to Affleck by a man serving time. And was critically acclaimed. 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. He didnt want to option it himself, so they set him up with [producer] Graham King, who got the option. Oct 31, 2012. 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 bank robbers, who were very much an element of life in the neighborhood for decades, have been gone for 15 years, replaced by a new Charlestown where gentrification has taken hold and the more accurate stereotype of the moment is: Oh, you must be a yuppie. Its not a super cheap movie but its not expensive like a studio movie. And we got in the car and kept going. I totally put that directly in the movie. When fans of The Town think of Charlestown, they think of banks and bars and punchlines. You dont know where they come from. This shooting game is the newest brilliant sneaking FPS game. 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. Affleck: The Yawkey Red Sox, Im sure, wouldve been impossible. Dont run away from it. We love that movie, dont be afraid of doing things that they did that worked. Hes part of John Hamms FBI crew. Welliver: He said, Hey, weve got great stories in this city that nobodys telling.. The sentence subtly shapes the viewers response to the daytime bank heist thatstarts the film.
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