Then put it in Connecticut.. We had this huge screen over the third base dugout. 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. Thats how you drive a f----n caaar, declares the getaway driver, Gloansy (played by rapper Slaine). 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. Welliver: The character Dino was a cop who grew up in Charlestown. If the world was empty, what would you do? The story was much clearer and cleaner. Hamm: We had this 15-day stretch where we had to shoot at Fenway. Slaine (Albert Gloansy Magloan): I was born in Dorchester, grew up there as a kid. They really loved the idea of putting these masked avengers in minivans. 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. WebThe Town (2010) is a heist film that follows a group of bank robbers in Charlestown, Boston, and the law enforcement personnel attempting to stop them. 2 hours ago. It was wild. But he also liked this book by Chuck Hogan. 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. 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 Then it might as well just stay a book. Itd be good to have him around for authenticity. Hes in the movie. September 2009. It eventually just blew up. As they fled with a bag of cash containing roughly $281,000 (180,000 then), another guard opened fire. Eventually, homogenization came for those tales, too. She was doing Gossip Girl, which at the time people thought like, Oh, thats just a CW Y.A. 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. The bank robbers step out of their vehicle. The story appealed to Affleck. I showed up, I did the reading. 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. 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. Every take had the same amount of tension and edge but it was just all over the place. Afflecks crew of bank robbers needed genuine local flavor. You werent sure exactly what he was gonna do, or how he was gonna behave, because it wasnt Matt Damon, whos always the hero and always wins out in the end. Affleck: The Yawkey Red Sox, Im sure, wouldve been impossible. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. Shea, 35, Stephen Burke, 42, and Michael OHalloran, 40, were convicted of racketeering, conspiracy, robbery and other offenses Dec. 22 for a series of holdups in New England and Florida. 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. Just finding a place to park the trucks. Craig: I was a struggling crime writer. He didnt want to option it himself, so they set him up with [producer] Graham King, who got the option. And she really focused specifically, not only on like, an American accent, but what it sounded like in Marblehead, which doesnt sound like Charlestown. I went in to audition. It all felt sort of very impossible and glamorous. David Fincher does an even more exaggerated version of that. The imitators that his opus spawned, however, couldnt recreate what he managed to. It is sloppy, sleazy, quickie. And a lot of older actors, [when theyre] told, Go here, do this, a lot of these guys are like, Fuck off. Particularly commercial success. He was charged with armed bank robbery and making threats. Affleck said he picked up the term from a guy at New Sullys bar:I asked, Whats the thing with the Tunies? And he said the Tunies moved in and the Townies stole all their car stereos. If they get popped, they do the time. However, everybody will want to go see it. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Hes part of John Hamms FBI crew. But one of the greatest films about Boston goes back to 1973. They were shooting a scene. The length of them runs, I would think, like 150 feet. The gang torches their escape cars and their transfer vehicles. This is based on FBI statistics at the time. He had participated in a bunch of these armored car robberies, and we had been talking for two hours, and time was almost up. He said, Theyre looking for guys like you. And so I went over and I read a few lines, they took my picture. WebThe crew consisted of Doug MacRay, Jem Coughlin, Desmond Elden, and Albert MacGloan, four veteran Charlestown bank and armored car robbers. Theyd closed off the street, working on this story that I had cooked up in my bedroom at home. That was the moment where I realized that I could differentiate one bank robbery from another. When it came time to cast The Town, Affleck had fun putting together a star-powered ensemble on a relatively limited budget. He had really bad scars. Bens standing there and hes doing his public relations things, and people are swarming him. Bill Simmons saysthere were a lot of Boston ladies like Kris in real life. It seems likely that Lively had met a few. 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.. Hall: I just remember him being so mercurial. Its a hard movie to watch. The movie opened on September 17, 2010, to overwhelmingly positive reviews and eventually grossed $154 million at the worldwide box office. The movies center is Charlestown, right across the bridge from the rest of Boston, a legend in illicit locales. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. Ex-felons are not allowed to hold even fake weapons. ], 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. 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. Cooper: I dont know Jeremys height, but Ben is a pretty big boy. It was really more of an erotic thriller: The criminal who falls in love with the captive kind of thing. He loved it, optioned it. Stockard: Ben had a good relationship with the Red Sox. The funny thing isand I found this out laterhe met John Cena for that role. In 2010, after his gang was eliminated, he fled to Tallahassee, I was doing that. I knew it was one scene and it was gonna be an important scene: [Dougs] relationship with his father. From 1874 to 1921 it is estimated that Starr robbed over 21 banks, stealing $60,000 in cash. WebBank Robbery | Detective Mehul ( ) | Hindi Paheliyan | Hindi PaheliDetective Mehul or Mehul Jasoos is the best detective in town. The Den of Geek quarterly magazine is packed with exclusive features, interviews, previews and deep dives into geek culture. Burch: When theyre down in Gate D, where the shoot-out scene was before they exited the ballpark, that was probably the most challenging part of it. Something the character of James (Jeremy Renner), aka Jem, could appreciate. Both robbers were shot, one in the back and one in the head, and the getaway driver promptly rear-ended a parked car. 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. As I got older I lived in [Jamaica Plain], West Roxbury, where my son was born. So thats cool. They stole their tunes., The interviews also gave The Town an on-tap supply of authentic extras. I knew that many of these bank robbers had gone to Catholic schools as children and been taught by nuns. 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 In the 70s, New York was that. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. [It was] probably the most intense production that weve had at the ballparkfrom both an overall action perspective, but also the grandeur of it. Carter: They were looking at Chris Pine in the very beginning, because of course Star Trek had just come out. By contrast, Afflecks Doug MacRay heads a four-man gang. Some residents felt it portrayed the locals as in the words of onequoted in The Christian Science Monitor, a bunch of dumb bums. Affleck: I had great stunt drivers. It was taking a period of time that had passed and pretending it was still a reality. I lived in South Boston, Roslindale. They dont squeal. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. Hamm: Theres nothing weirder than an empty stadium. Free shipping for many products! The only time I attempt it is when Im basically making fun of Ben, his character, about the Stah Mahket. Yeah, dont do the accent. I said, Well, wait, this show takes place in Boston and this guy is from Boston. He went, Yeah, yeah, but you know, we dont do the accent. I was kind of, Well, whats the fucking point of basing this in Boston? Welliver: The upside of that is everybody is rooting for him. How are you gonna figure this out because you want to drive an armored car out of one of our gates? Hogan: I think weve played out the Irish Boston gangster thing. Jem would rather battle it out with the law than go back to prison. And more than anything, just from a noise standpoint, it was kind of unique. Ten years ago this week, Ben Affleck and his crew put on nun masks, robbed Fenway Park, and made the ultimate Boston movie. And obviously it was in Bostonthat I was comfortable with. Around 3 p.m., two armed men robbed the Hingham Institution for Savings on Charles Street, according to police spokeswoman Rachel McGuire. It definitely felt like, Im getting to see something that not a lot of people get to see. Hes maybe four people away. Hall: It was like being alongside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in London. He has that capacity, and I think that makes him a classic American filmmaker. We all want to be from Douggies Charlestown and we all know its a fantasy. It was like a different world, the actor and filmmaker says. 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. In one of his final roles, Academy Awardnominated English actor Pete Postlethwaite plays Fergus Fergie Colm, a menacing mob boss/florist who gives Doug orders while chomping gum and stripping roses. Everybody wanted to cut it. ). Cooper: I wanted to spend some time in Walpole [at MCICedar Junction] and just observe. I call them No R movies, Hogan says. He was with his mother. 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. Ben Affleck (director/star): He had an adaptation that was very, very different and it was really focused on the love story. Affleck: When this movie came out, the Boston Phoenix review said it had horrible Boston accents. We all want to chortle,like Jem,there goes college soccaaar, while shooting a guy we dont like in the knee. But No R.. At heart, its a story of social mobility. I thought I had something to add to it. WebThe acquaintance, Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr., was a Vietnam veteran, a helicopter pilot, and an avid and capable skydiver. You woke me up.. 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. This week marks the 10-year anniversary of The Town, Ben Afflecks Oscar-nominated crime thriller about a group of bank robbers in Charlestown who target Fenway Park for one final score. Crockett: He knew from the beginning that [Magloan] was gonna be Slaine. We did not have legal clearance to use the logo. Hes like, What the fuck are you doing? FBI responds to bank robbery on NW Side. For the film, Affleck talked to locals, visited the maximum-security prison MCICedar Junction, and consulted with the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force in Boston. 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. Ben Affleck made a minor heist movie classic with The Town, a thriller which shines light on the legendary history of Boston's Charlestown. Job Type:Part-Time. I had a darker ending in it, like a real 70s ending, where Doug dies. 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. 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. The violent film starring Jeremy Renner, John Hamm and Ben Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. Claire represents the real problem at the center of the proceedings. 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. And I thought, Not only is she the best actress for the part, shes gonna be able to really surprise people.. He set the bar with those filmsyou [must] reach a modicum of the depth and the artistry of those films if youre going to do a Boston film. 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. I was playing a character that was from Boston and I worked really hard on the accent and went in and did my first rounds and the director said, That was great. Stockard: Do we want to punish this person or do we not? WebDoug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. Douggie, played by Affleck, is a man trying not to die on the street he was born. He grew up in Cambridge,which was close enough to Charlestown for him to know a little about it. Its not The Godfather of caper films, but it is a heist movie must-see. They have an allegiance which goes from womb to tomb, and sperm to worm. Jems family took Doug in after his mom deserted him, and his father fell apart for a little while. 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. When fans of The Town think of Charlestown, they think of banks and bars and punchlines. But how many people, speaking frankly, want to see a movie about a child murderer? Theres something so tomb-like and archaic about Fenway. Welliver: I had an experience several years before for a David Kelley show called The Practice which took place in Boston. Hogan: I had a friend who worked at Fenway Park, who snuck me in while they were shooting that whole sequence. Some of the scenes were shot on the real crime locations depicted. Cooper: Hes had a wonderful career, but [The Town] was a big shot in the arm for him. There was a script written. Adrian had wanted to do one of my books, which was kind of unadaptable because it took place over like, 30 years. All three were 25 or under. Its this movie and its already got a script. A decade after establishing his Boston bona fides by cowriting and appearing in Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, he was offered a chance to adapt Prince of Thieves for the screen. I feel like were still in the black. After shooting one guard outside the car and one inside the bank, they escaped in a rental truck. WebIn a stroll of Charlestown on a sunny day, its hard to believe this tiny Boston neighborhood could be the bank robbery capital of America the Warner Bros. hype about Ben Yes Charestown, MA is known for Bank robbers. After all, there are only so many Massachusetts-set crime stories about Irish American antiheroes that you can tell. In 2010, Affleck directed The Town, a drama about a gang of Charlestown armored car robbers. And so they said they had this script based on this book, and I said, OK, let me look at it. I read the adaptation, and it had been developed by Adrian Lyne, who I just worked with. Who was in which car?, Burke: I remember we were all standing around and they were like, Oh yeah, were gonna blow this thing. There was a van parked there and they fucking blew it up. 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. Forget it. 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. One of those characters you love to hate and find sort of intoxicating and moving; all of those things at the same time. Suspects at large after $100K stolen from North Side bank: authorities. Or why Affleck hired him to play a Charlestown bank robber in his new movie The Town.. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. 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.. I watched a screening with a different ending and it hadnt been testing well. Hes probably still there. Slaine: Owen and I didnt have to listen to anybody. BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. All three were from Charlestown. 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. Im mighty proud of where I come from, he says. 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. I was cutting out pieces of felt while Gina [Rhodes] was stitching themmaking, by hand, the fake Bruins logo. Another botched job referred to in the film the one for which Douggies father (Chris Cooper) was sent down for life for killing two guards was also inspired by a notorious bank heist gone wrong. Theres a lot of different stories to tell. McCoy, 29, was reportedly a member of the Utah Air Not noir, French for black. If the criminal culture that The Town associated with Charlestowns Irish-Catholic working-class community ever existed, it had dwindled away with the neighbourhoods traditional residents. Chris Cooper (Stephen MacRay): Ben had me at prison. It was great. Tuesday October 30, 2012. Pretty much everyone on the set was an ex-con of some sort,Jeremy Renner told the LA Times. Affleck: In a world of increasing homogenization, having this fresh place that I think stood out, it was appealing. Salon Professionals. Afflecks second film as a director charts the fall of a mythic heist gang and the streets which made them. IS Charlestown MA known for Bank robbers? Its kind of like a safety thing. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. Do everything youre supposed to do, they wont be harmed.. Crockett: I vividly remember it. The way we did that was to make the days inexpensive. Jem is furious when he finds Doug cozying up to Claire, the bank manager who could finger them to the Feds. 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. And then he was out, so we were using him again for research. Crockett: I remember being on the streets of Charlestown talking to some people. The Friends of Eddie Coyle starred Robert Mitchum in the title role and Peter Boyle as a hitman who ran a bar. Shooting there had been a condition of Afflecktaking on the film. Which I like, and its good, but I want to sort of put our perspective on it.. Ben Affleck grew up in Cambridge, only a few miles away from Charlestown, but to him the distance between the two places felt vast. Burke: It was not on my radar at all. No above-the-line people got paid any money. 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. Like you didnt know what they were gonna do. Unlike them, Doug had a chance at success, a chance to escape following in his father's criminal footsteps. I had never even been in a drama class or nothing like that. Affleck: The only other thing Ill say about the chase sequence, it definitely reminded me of Jimmy Tingle in the 80s. I love Adrian. Which was nice. So I read this new version of the script. The budget that we had previously was too high for us to make it. And then I realized, Maybe they think I can make movies more on the cheap.. 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. Jason Bourne kills the bad guys. Affleck: The Bruins have been extremely shortsighted and wrong with their policy, where if theres swearing or violence, you cant use their logo. This is their story. Affleck: The hothead friend. Whats better than that? The Boston area was prime cinematic crime fields during the early 2000s. 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. 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). Gone Girl we shot a hundred days for a two-hour thriller. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies (not just bank robberies). Theres so many shots and so quickly, that at the end, OK, what happened? The film makes Jem out to be the loose cannon in the arsenal, but he makes criminal sense. When its done great its Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. You can come over to my house for dinner. It was just short of, If you need protection, were here for you. It was incredible. Chuck gets credit for that. Craig: We went into a bit of a quandary about the ending. Theres two ways that this can go. After a seven-day trial, they were Did they know that this was in the plans?. That was the most important part, because he could so easily lapse into clich. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. Affleck: Im like, Why the fuck do you think people go to hockey games? Swearing and fighting. 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