Four men in ski masks ambushed and hijacked the Northeast Armored Transport truck Aug. 25, 1994, in a parking lot of a branch of the NFS Savings Bank in Hudson. The way we did that was to make the days inexpensive. Welliver: It [was] like doing photo shoots in front of Graceland with Elvis when Elvis was still alive. He often has a very small crew. And I say, Whats that? And they say, Thats a still of someone robbing a bank. And I said, Did they rob the bank in that skeleton mask with the dreadlocks? They said, Yeah. So I became obsessed with that mask. Shooting there had been a condition of Afflecktaking on the film. Its an action movie where you get to root for the bad guys. What is the penalty for bank robbery in mass? Its ruined my life, literally, but Im proud.. Many of them testified that they had grown tired of a life of stealing, of drugs, of broken relationships.. Hogan: I was playing on a softball team, and this friend, he works for one of the prisons here and he was walking by someones desk and they had a picture of Ben Affleck on her screen saver. I love Adrian. The Town captures the locale expertly, and the atmosphere masterfully. We had this huge screen over the third base dugout. And someone had forgotten to tell them that we were downstairs shooting. But mostly a Boston accent depends on your socioeconomic status, by and large. The full version. Director: Ben Affleck. Tensions between the locals and wealthier transplants underscore the film. "Ben Affleck Played Me". He was charged with armed bank robbery and making threats. He was in his early 20s. Hogan: I think weve played out the Irish Boston gangster thing. And I hadnt seen it with the new one tacked on. September 2009. These interviews have been condensed and edited for clarity. They dont squeal. Affleck: There have been a lot more New York city movies than there have Boston, for sure. 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. That was the moment where I realized that I could differentiate one bank robbery from another. the movie the TOWN WAS Mde after SQUARE OFF T.V 249 subscribers Subscribe 6 Share 1.2K views 1 year Id made Gone Baby Gone for $18 million. An alternate title for the film could be Ben Afflecks Boston, and no one would have had it any other way. It is also quirkily structured, vaguely biographical and personal. But it still has to be divvied up among the team. So I read this new version of the script. It all went to the actual production of the movie. I watched a screening with a different ending and it hadnt been testing well. During the Cold War he had a great joke: The Russians wont invade Boston, theres nowhere to pahk! I thought, Yup, theres a lot of truth to that. That was our greatest hurdle. It also had a scheme so ingenious that Frank Sinatra supposedly considered pulling the job over doing the film. The Boston area was prime cinematic crime fields during the early 2000s. The productions biggest scoop, location-wise, was being granted permission to shoot the Fenway Park heist scene in the real Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. They went to jail because there were cracks on the pavement, leaks on the street. He didnt want to option it himself, so they set him up with [producer] Graham King, who got the option. Or do we want to give him a chance to live and a better life? But he also liked this book by Chuck Hogan. I was doing that. Not noir, French for black. The romance in the middle of the film is only there to delineate the boundaries between heist film and crime procedural. 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. I was up there for what Im sure was a good half hour. He had really bad scars. Besides being the lovable and erudite wrinkle in the scheme, she is not a townie, someone who was raised in the neighborhood. 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.. Although it certainly felt like he was. 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. They had seen Gone Baby Gone, which opened in like sixth place to $5 million or something and wasnt seen widely. 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. 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. Afflecks big killing in The Town is Fenway Park, and over 60 years later, the take is the same. 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. soap.. 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. Then they realized that were shooting a movie. I went in to audition. It was really more of an erotic thriller: The criminal who falls in love with the captive kind of thing. I could tell it was hard on Ben because literally going out to dinner was not really an option. Ive never felt all that interested in literally translating from book to page. And so if you cant do it, just dont do it. Eventually, homogenization came for those tales, too. But the Red Sox were definitely in the spirit of, This is gonna be fun. Unfair or not, Charlestown had a reputation. WebMassachusetts, U.S., Town Birth Records, 1620-1850. This really happened it was described to Affleck by a man serving time. That was the most important part, because he could so easily lapse into clich. 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. He loved it, optioned it. The Town unfolds in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, which the prologue claims has produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than Affleck: I certainly didnt want to set myself up to fail, say yes I could do something, shortchange myself [and] produce a substandard sequence because I didnt have the time. 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. Affleck: The Bruins have been extremely shortsighted and wrong with their policy, where if theres swearing or violence, you cant use their logo. And I was talking to people right next to him. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. Do everything youre supposed to do, they wont be harmed.. They look at him. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. I call them No R movies, Hogan says. But it couldnt be Bruins. Forget it. Everybody wanted to cut it. 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. Free shipping for many products! Hes crazy. Hes from Modesto, and hes kind of got that bulldog, kind of dirtbag sensibility. 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. He was like, Thats me. They were about to buy it but they wanted to cut it, too. Hall: It was like being alongside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in London. Welliver: The character Dino was a cop who grew up in Charlestown. Its Renners Oscar moment. So all of a sudden, while theyre getting married, they hear gunshots at Fenway. According to FBI statistics from the same year, the entire state of Massachusetts had fewer than 3 per cent of all bank robberies nationwide. Some were ex-convicts for whom a judges permission had to be sought for them to carry weapons, even fake or unloaded ones. Hogan: Warner Bros. didnt want to make the movie for that amount. Stockard: There is this over-the-top sense to these movies. I was only comforted by the thought that no one with a Boston accent has ever actually read the Boston Phoenix. They are holding their automatic weapons and wearing their disguises. This isnt because those criminals made the sloppiest getaways. Afflecks crew of bank robbers needed genuine local flavor. When its done great its Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Yes Charestown, MA is known for Bank robbers. Rebecca Hall (Claire): I remember I had to fly to New York to meet Ben because I was based in London at the time, in the middle of this theater tour. And its absolutely authentic. The blue-collar neighborhood produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than anywhere else in the world, according to the movies prologue. 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. They were all from Charlestown. The Town is based on Chuck Hogan's 2004 novel Prince of Thieves (set, unlike the movie, in '96, when Charlestown-affiliated heists were actually at their height). Slaine: Owen and I didnt have to listen to anybody. Pulling off the heistDoug and his team steal the $3.5 million in cash amassed during a four-game series against the Yankeeswithout it devolving into a cartoonish homage to the iconic setting took precise coordination. In the film, the crew get away, largely thanks to the kind of driving that puts Daniel Craig to shame. Welliver: When we were doing The Town is when he was up for the role of Hawkeye. But it was very real. The gang torches their escape cars and their transfer vehicles. 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. Hes been played by Johnny Depp, Warren Oates, and Lawrence Tierney. 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.. 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. At heart, its a story of social mobility. Hamm: I had also seen Dahmer. Rebecca Halls character asking Douggie why the kids with whom she volunteerscall her a tunie? WebThe crew consisted of Doug MacRay, Jem Coughlin, Desmond Elden, and Albert MacGloan, four veteran Charlestown bank and armored car robbers. He flew in. The FBI says the vestibule was actually a "man-trap," designed to capture people like Hamilton. If you say its a bank heist movie, people are like, Ill see that. I think it was a great step. Hogan: Adrian really thought in more operatic terms, and he really wanted to do the book. He grew up in Cambridge,which was close enough to Charlestown for him to know a little about it. Chris Cooper (Stephen MacRay): Ben had me at prison. It was great. Shortly after 9am on August 25 1994, an armoured car pulled up outside a NFS Savings Bank in Hudson, New York. As for Affleck, the success of The Town helped advance his career as a director. It has a failed romance, a foiled heist, an unsolved crime, enough car chases for three movies, and yet is a coming-of-age film and a portrait of an eras end. Afflecks Doug MacRay, the leader of the gang, is the one whos gotten tired of the life. The annual average hovered above 10,000 for the next 15years. A Providence man who claims he's robbed at least 100 banks and that Ben Affleck's character in "The Town" was based on him was held without bail Thursday on charges of robbing two Boston banks and attempting to rob a third, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said. 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. It definitely felt like, Im getting to see something that not a lot of people get to see. So I was thrilled. Also, Starr starred in a silent movie based on his criminal activity titled A Debtor to the Law. They had to look and sound like they just rolled out of Old Sullys at 2 a.m. on a Sunday. Crockett: Pete had a reputation for being kind of a hardass. BOSTON - A Charlestown man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for bank robbery. It took him to the next level because it made him a filmmaker who also had box office appeal. All they see are yuppies. 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. He loves her enough not to kill her, but not enough to testify. It went on to make $154 million (119 million) worldwide. It at least had that upswing. BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. Thats the thing, that theres a kind of ownership and its beautiful. Find out more, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, That's how you drive a f----n caaar: the second bank robbery was based on the 1995 Harvard Square heist, The moment when a cop sees a carload of nun-masked robbers and turns away was based on real life, Affleck sent Blake Lively to hang out in Charlestown bars to prepare for her role, Ben Affleck directs Jon Hamm on the set of The Town, Close, review: a soul-scorching portrait of boyhood friendship and loss, Whats on TV tonight: Stephen Fry: Willem & Frieda Defying the Nazis, Anorexic and more, When are the Oscars? Slaine: Ive seen other cuts of the ending, like the one they put out, the extended version. 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 Some of the scenes were shot on the real crime locations depicted. Cooper: I dont know Jeremys height, but Ben is a pretty big boy. I didnt know, physically, how I wanted the character, but I knew that I wanted a guy who was really unpredictable and scary and you felt nervous when they were on screen. Cooper: It was kind of this crisp evening. Thats how you drive a f----n caaar, declares the getaway driver, Gloansy (played by rapper Slaine). In adapting the script, itself adapted from Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves, Affleck and Aaron Stockard (with whomhe also worked on Good Will Hunting and Gone Baby Gone) changed the cinema setting of the second heist to an armoured-car robbery and car chase based on a real incident that took place in Harvard Square. I said, Im so sorry to bother you Mr. Postlethwaite, but Im on the movie, sorry we dont have any scenes together, but Im so excited to be in a movie with you. I gushed for a while, and he just smiled as broad as he could, and hes like, Come on, come on, sit down, have a drink. I was like, Well, its 11 in the morning.. Affleck also embarked on a series of interviews with locals, including convicted robbers and members of the FBI violent crimes force. We all want to drive a f----n caaar like Gloansy. A long moment passes with intensity. Just let me go in. She opened the door and I just walked in and Ben was there and he just burst out laughing. I sort of pretended that Charlestown was still the way it used to be. The Town is loosely based on Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves. Published in 2004 and set in the 90s, it follows a team of stick-up men led by Doug MacRay, a washed-up NHL draft pick and recovering addict whose traumatic childhood has led him to follow his incarcerated father into the family business. 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 Did they know that this was in the plans?. It very much had a sense of place. Then put it in Connecticut.. Its not a super cheap movie but its not expensive like a studio movie. Hamm: We could all go, hang out at the bar; me and Rebecca, and Renner, and Titus, that whole crowd. Tuesday October 30, 2012. Oct 31, 2012. FBI responds to bank robbery on NW Side. The film makes Jem out to be the loose cannon in the arsenal, but he makes criminal sense. Slaine: I think he was just really going for authenticity. After a seven-day trial, they were Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves opens with a toast: To Charlestown, our one square mile of brick and cobblestone. 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 2000s, critically acclaimed, Irish Americancentered crime dramas like Clint Eastwoods Mystic River, Martin Scorseses The Departed, and Afflecks Gone Baby Gone had turned the Massachusetts capital into a Hollywood hot spot. But it isnt. [Lively did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article. Jem would rather battle it out with the law than go back to prison. Carter: That scene at the end, where you see [Jem] running across the street trying to get away from the cops, and the cars, obviously those are stunt drivers, theyre stopping really quick. Affleck: Im glad to have worked on movies that are part of that tradition. They were shooting a scene. Hamm: I met with Ben and he was like, You know, I think were gonna have plenty of Boston accents in this. I was like, You know what, youre absolutely right. Once I started meeting all the Federal agents in the [FBI] office, very few of them are actually from Boston. 2023 date, start time and how to watch, From the stripper to the slap: the worst moments in Oscars history, Pedro Pascal is the best actor on TV even behind a mask. And she really focused specifically, not only on like, an American accent, but what it sounded like in Marblehead, which doesnt sound like Charlestown. How are you gonna figure this out because you want to drive an armored car out of one of our gates? And a lot of older actors, [when theyre] told, Go here, do this, a lot of these guys are like, Fuck off. You definitely get more of that in BPD and the local cops. But what about in the 1980s and early 1990s? In all of his years of being a criminal, he robbed two banks and seven armored cars, plus robbing Fenway Park during a baseball game. 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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. He robbed banks but let the civilians in the banks keep their money. Its ironic that by the time the film came out, the process was largely complete. Job. Its not The Godfather of caper films, but it is a heist movie must-see. 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.. We did not have legal clearance to use the logo. Affleck didnt just direct, he played the lead alongside a cast of present and future superstars and locals. Theres two ways that this can go. . But I certainly was familiar with his work. 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. I was like, Im not gonna do another movie in Boston. [The Town] is not just entertainment and popcorn. Then it might as well just stay a book. And hes like, Wheres that from? And shes like, Oh, he was here. Id go sit in Fenway and be the only guy there. And this was toward the end of the shoot. She prepped for that for God knows how long. I wanted to be a part of that. Hes probably still there. He has that capacity, and I think that makes him a classic American filmmaker. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Dont run away from it. We love that movie, dont be afraid of doing things that they did that worked. Matheson: I will never forget sitting there with some felt and scissors at 3 or 4 in the morning. Ten years ago this week, Ben Affleck and his crew put on nun masks, robbed Fenway Park, and made the ultimate Boston movie. The second thing was, I realized what a fool I was to think like, Oh, if its bad Ill have a story. I realized that I wouldve been crushed if that movie was bad. Cooper: Hes had a wonderful career, but [The Town] was a big shot in the arm for him. And I was like, Why are the people who live here letting us do this? The FBI reports agents today arrested Anthony M. Hamilton, 24, of Charlestown, on charges he held up a Malden Citizens Bank branch in December, then shot his way out of a locked vestibule. WebCharlestownis the oldest neighborhoodin Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. The guy that I spoke with, who was kind of our head technical adviser from the FBI, was from Nebraska. Affleck had a personal stake in the film that went beyond proving himself as a sophomore director. In 2010, estate agents were pitching waterfront redevelopments to young professionals and families. He contributed to Altvariety, Chiseler, Smashpipe, and other magazines. Upon his exit, the bank employees activated 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. R Thriller Drama Crime Movie 2010. hd. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. I showed Ben the skeleton and Ben said to me, How can we make it look tougher? And I said, Why dont we put them in tactical gear? And so that started this riff, this juxtaposition of skeletons and tactical gear. 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. The gentrification of Charlestown is the huge pile of rotting wood fueling The Towns bonfire of crime. The whole reason Matt and I wanted to do Good Will Hunting was kind of as an acting reel so that we could get jobs as actors. According to FBI statistics With the premiere of The Town 10 years ago, the No R genre peaked. And he got really excited. He was quite clear. He goes, Yeah, you know, Ill tell you, Ty. To observe this life. 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! Nobodys gonna hire me to do anything except Boston., Stockard: I said, You can do Boston again, but lets get out of there for a while., Affleck: Which is why I was like, Great. It was taking a period of time that had passed and pretending it was still a reality. The actor who played James Jem Coughlin, Dougs ex-con buddy, however, wasnt from Boston. So we wrote parts for characters with Boston accents because we thought that was something that we could do well and that you saw done badly. Three friends and acquaintances who had lied on the stand before testified against the five, along with four convicted bank robbers from Charlestown. MacRay, who is a recovering addict with mommy issues, is more of a sociopath than Jem, who is only living the way the streets taught him. 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. Jem spent nine years in prison for killing a local thug who was planning to kill Doug. If the Herald said that, I mightve taken it more personally. He had participated in a bunch of these armored car robberies, and we had been talking for two hours, and time was almost up. Those are the blueprints, thats the template. The robbers All three were 25 or under. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies(not just bank robberies). Norbums. I kind of got to tiptoe around and watch them shooting from afar without them knowing I was there. It was actually in the book. Affleck turns it into a redemption story which beats the bank alarm at under two hours. Its this movie and its already got a script. Hamm: I got to meet Pete Postlewaite, rest in peace, at the hotel bar. So many broke the code, shattered the code. On Feb. 7, 2019, Brady pleaded guilty to bank robbery. And I thought, Not only is she the best actress for the part, shes gonna be able to really surprise people.. Because of oversaturation in the last decade, Boston movies have been rightfully skewered. 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. 371K. Its a hard movie to watch. And Im like, Whoa, so he must be the director.. I thought I had something to add to it. He said, Shes slightly different. Marblehead is a little chi-chi. 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