He was with his mother. I dont even think they had sidewalks. Hall: Youd be shooting this tiny little intimate scene, Ben and I, and Id look to my left and there were but thousands of people watching the set. It was like a different world, the actor and filmmaker says. The Town is loosely based on Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves. And I still am. Location scouting was uppermost in his mind. Its this movie and its already got a script. According to FBI statistics Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies (not just bank robberies). 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. You dont know where they come from. They like walking out with a little bit of hope. Which was nice. Hall: I wouldnt really say I did a Boston accent. [The Town] is not just entertainment and popcorn. Afflecks big killing in The Town is Fenway Park, and over 60 years later, the take is the same. Upon his exit, the bank employees activated Susan Matheson (costume designer): Ben at one point wears a zip-up track jacket that looks like a Bruins jacket. The feds, they get shuffled around all over the country. Oceans Eleven set the cinematic standard for a heist team. When its not, its predictable and obvious and trite. Stockard: Ben and I went and spent a day with this FBI task force. They are holding their automatic weapons and wearing their disguises. How are you gonna figure this out because you want to drive an armored car out of one of our gates? Id go sit in Fenway and be the only guy there. 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. It later served as inspiration for the Massachusetts natives third book. It eventually just blew up. He claims that Ben Affleck played him in the movie, but now this former bank robber i. 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. He was a local hockey star who got drafted by the NHL, but started beating on his own teammates and got sent back home. Yes Charestown, MA is known for Bank robbers. The sentence subtly shapes the viewers response to the daytime bank heist thatstarts the film. Well, not take notes, because you couldnt bring in a pencil. No above-the-line people got paid any money. He was definitely a bad guy and was going to take as many people with him as he could, but you still kind of went, You know what, this is a kid that came along, and in a different environment he wouldve been a different person but he is a product of all of this dysfunction and horror that hes grown up in. Its brilliant. And I was like, Why are the people who live here letting us do this? Theyre stopping at an exactly certain point and if they go too far, peoples lives are at stakeits a very serious thing. They wore wigs, fake bears and masks; in the film, brilliantly, these became nun masks and habits. Crockett: He knew from the beginning that [Magloan] was gonna be Slaine. Stockard: Ben had a good relationship with the Red Sox. Every take had the same amount of tension and edge but it was just all over the place. Aaron Stockard (cowriter): Ben called me up and said, I know what I want to direct next. Stockard: There is this over-the-top sense to these movies. See more. He was in his early 20s. When I was a kid, I was scared to go there. Three friends and acquaintances who had lied on the stand before testified against the five, along with four convicted bank robbers from Charlestown. In 2010, estate agents were pitching waterfront redevelopments to young professionals and families. Affleck was born in Berkeley, California but grew up in Cambridge, also across the Charles River from Boston but far removed from the inner-city neighborhood of the film. 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. They went to jail because there were cracks on the pavement, leaks on the street. You couldve just called me.. BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. But he could not have been happier to be there. The top of his head was really messed up. Afflecks reluctant bank robber Doug desparately wants to redefine himself as a serious Hollywood player after misfires like Gigli and Jersey Girl. Its like 50 percent of why people buy tickets. In 2018, there were just over 4,000 robberies in Massachusetts compare that to 1980, when there more than 13,500. Hes been played by Johnny Depp, Warren Oates, and Lawrence Tierney. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. Welliver: He said, Hey, weve got great stories in this city that nobodys telling.. This shooting game is the newest brilliant sneaking FPS game. Director: Ben Affleck. Its not the same town as it was in the early 1990s and the 1980s.. Hogan: Warner Bros. didnt want to make the movie for that amount. And I remember immediately getting on Google Maps and looking at the North End, because they had described a robbery that had taken place [there], and being like, They robbed this thing here, and they had to get to that bridge there. So we basically mapped out where this little route was. Its something Ive seen other directors do. Claire foretells the doom of Charlestowns criminal culture. 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. Dillinger assembled a crack team and he himself would hop over the bank booths like a jack-rabbit, hence his nickname. The guy that I spoke with, who was kind of our head technical adviser from the FBI, was from Nebraska. But the machines they use to clean the streets are very loud and we were cleaning the streets at like 7 in the morning and out of this apartment building comes Jonathan Papelbon. Walking in I was feeling kind of glib. If they get popped, they do the time. Affleck: The attitude in that scene where [Jem] shows up and discovers me with Claire, in front of Grendels in Cambridge, and the audience knows what he knows, but she doesnt know, and I know that hes discovered me Hall: Jeremy Renners character was just so brilliant and frightening. [It was] probably the most intense production that weve had at the ballparkfrom both an overall action perspective, but also the grandeur of it. We all want to be from Douggies Charlestown and we all know its a fantasy. WebWhitey Bulger and his friendss and some of the Charlestown robbers operated from Marshall Street Garage was actually in Winter Hill, Somerville. And man, he stood up really well to Ben. 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. But instead, Affleck went with something more bittersweet. The team, while sporting nun costumes and masks, quickly attempts to make an escape from downtown Boston to the bridge and beat the police department to the closing. 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. 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. Its ironic that by the time the film came out, the process was largely complete. Did they know that this was in the plans?. WebThe crew consisted of Doug MacRay, Jem Coughlin, Desmond Elden, and Albert MacGloan, four veteran Charlestown bank and armored car robbers. Ben Affleck grew up in Cambridge, only a few miles away from Charlestown, but to him the distance between the two places felt vast. There was a script written. 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. WebBen Affleck played this real life bank robber in 'The Town'. Theyd closed off the street, working on this story that I had cooked up in my bedroom at home. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. But mostly a Boston accent depends on your socioeconomic status, by and large. Some residents felt it portrayed the locals as in the words of onequoted in The Christian Science Monitor, a bunch of dumb bums. 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. It was wild. CONCORD, N.H. -- A friend of two accused bank robbers testified yesterday as a prosection witness about a car found burning in Revere, the night of a 1994 robbery. Every large theft needs an inside man, but Inside Man (2006), directed by Spike Lee, had Clive Owen as a bona fide genius. Funny enough, I have shot in Boston twice since then. Jon Hamm (FBI special agent Adam Frawley): I knew he had some serious Boston cred. 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. Hes probably still there. Burke: Ive heard people say, Oh, we dont sound like that! And Im like, I dont think you guys really listen to yourselves. 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. 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. Welliver: So, when [Jem] gets killed at Fenway, when the cops dump him and [theres] that brilliant thing of him reaching down and taking a sip of the soda behind the mailbox, it was a little bit of, Top of the world, ma! Its heartbreaking. Needless to say, it really shook me up. Theyre locked, loaded, and trained in automatic weapons, and launder their take immediately. By the time Affleck directed and starred in the film, Bostons oldest neighbourhood, a small squarish outcrop situated north of the Charles river, was no longer the crime capital of America. The film makes Jem out to be the loose cannon in the arsenal, but he makes criminal sense. Eventually, homogenization came for those tales, too. Affleck: When this movie came out, the Boston Phoenix review said it had horrible Boston accents. 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. It at least had that upswing. Affleck also embarked on a series of interviews with locals, including convicted robbers and members of the FBI violent crimes force. Hes been forever. In my imagination, hes always been Ben Affleck. And I said, Yeah, its just so great that he can come back and do this and dig in. [Through a representative, Renner declined to be interviewed for this article.]. 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. 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.. Hamm: Another smart move by Ben was to populate this movie with people that have an actual, real-life connection to these things. Also, Starr starred in a silent movie based on his criminal activity titled A Debtor to the Law. MacRay is pulled between the devil and angel who sit on his shoulders: Jem, who spent nine years in prison for killing someone who was supposedly planning to kill Doug; and Claire, the bank manager Doug falls for after a job. Stockard: Obviously youre making a movie so you mythologize it a little bit. Blake Lively was sent into bars, real hoodlums were cast and a wedding party was spooked by gunfire. Carter: A woman named Ginaya Green, who was a 20-something- year-old, born and raised in Charlestown, let me come and take photos of her bedroom, and her house, and her decor. Hes crazy. Hes from Modesto, and hes kind of got that bulldog, kind of dirtbag sensibility. The Town was initially supposed to end with Doug paying for his sins with his life. 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. 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. So thats cool. Craig: I was a crime writer already. 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 Theres two ways that this can go. From 1874 to 1921 it is estimated that Starr robbed over 21 banks, stealing $60,000 in cash. But it really wasnt. Carter: Hes 6-foot-3. And well, why not nuns and tactical gear? Nothing kills a Boston-set movie like bad Boston accents. Cooper: It was kind of this crisp evening. He has a certain thing in that town. Job. Martin Scorseses The Departed cast Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello, who was loosely based on Bulger. Welliver: When we were doing The Town is when he was up for the role of Hawkeye. But what about in the 1980s and early 1990s? Hogan: I had a friend who worked at Fenway Park, who snuck me in while they were shooting that whole sequence. Robert Brady, 40, was arrested in Charlestown shortly after he allegedly robbed the branch at 11:21 a.m. The cunning group is robbing city banks to steal money and making the getaway with diamond Heist. Its gentrified and diverse now, a local TV show host told The Christian Science Monitor. In Quentin Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs (1991), the crew had color-coded names; in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid they wore 10-gallon hats. Suspects at large after $100K stolen from North Side bank: authorities. And Ben Affleck was incredibly famous already. 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. 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. Hed be happy to settle down with his former hostage, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). The crew at the center of The Town resembles a gang of five masked robbers who pulled holdups from 1990 to 1995. Crockett: I remember being on the streets of Charlestown talking to some people. And to that end, its 100 percent on Ben. He had the beginnings of the accent, clearly he had the ability to do ita bad Boston accent would ruin that part. "Ben Affleck Played Me". 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. And thats just sort of the natural progression. The romance in the middle of the film is only there to delineate the boundaries between heist film and crime procedural. He loves her enough not to kill her, but not enough to testify. Affleck: The Yawkey Red Sox, Im sure, wouldve been impossible. It is because the small community adheres to omerta, silence unto death. the movie the TOWN WAS Mde after SQUARE OFF T.V 249 subscribers Subscribe 6 Share 1.2K views 1 year Honestly, people just wouldnt have liked the movie [with my ending]. 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. The gentrification of Charlestown is the huge pile of rotting wood fueling The Towns bonfire of crime. They get their tips and kick up to local crime lord Fergus Fergie Colm, played by veteran character actor Pete Postlethwaite. So I read this new version of the script. Hogan: Adrian really thought in more operatic terms, and he really wanted to do the book. Carter: There was a guy, Joe Lawler, who was helping us. And they were like, Just so you know, weve had some calls and threats of violence. People didnt know what the book was, I think they were expecting something that would really knock Charlestown. September 2009. U.S. Attorney Michael Connolly said at a news conference at the time, Once Upon a Time in America Is a Movie That Can Never Be Too Long, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone Proves a Little Less is Infinitely More, Heist Review: Netflix Doc Appreciates That Crime Pays, Shazam! It also had a scheme so ingenious that Frank Sinatra supposedly considered pulling the job over doing the film. FBI responds to bank robbery on NW Side. [1] Originally called Mishawumby the Massachusetttribe, it is located on a peninsulanorth of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins the Mystic Riverand Boston Harborwaterways. He gave me so much ammunition all the time to play off and to feel. One of those characters you love to hate and find sort of intoxicating and moving; all of those things at the same time. He was doing a long sentence. That was the most important part, because he could so easily lapse into clich. Welliver: The upside of that is everybody is rooting for him. They had to look and sound like they just rolled out of Old Sullys at 2 a.m. on a Sunday. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. And obviously it was in Bostonthat I was comfortable with. 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. Chuck gets credit for that. Al Pacinos Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon wants enough money to give a better life to his wives. Then they look up to find a Boston cop reading a newspaper in his police car. Whats the best way to get there?. Affleck unequivocally contributed to that proliferation. 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. It took him to the next level because it made him a filmmaker who also had box office appeal. Id made Gone Baby Gone for $18 million. 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 I call them No R movies, Hogan says. Heres how it works in fucking Charlestown: Youre born in Charlestown, you play fucking hockey and you rob. And I went, OK, that sums it up.. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. He said, Shes slightly different. Marblehead is a little chi-chi. 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. 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. Police Arrest Charlestown Man Following Bank Robbery - Charlestown, MA - Officers responded to the Santander Bank at 437 Rutherford Avenue early Sunday morning. They had seen Gone Baby Gone, which opened in like sixth place to $5 million or something and wasnt seen widely. Theres a lot of different stories to tell. I feel like were still in the black. 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! I was fine with that. The only time I attempt it is when Im basically making fun of Ben, his character, about the Stah Mahket. After managing to evade a manhunt and escape to Florida, his character says goodbye to Claire via a letter. Affleck: Id been in action sequences plenty, so I kind of knew how they worked. Ben wasnt in Boston. Chucks such a good writer that you get the tone from his details. Im mighty proud of where I come from, he says. Now, William shares his story after his Caught in Providence case went viral. And there were probably a couple of guys there who were still robbing banks.. Many of them testified that they had grown tired of a life of stealing, of drugs, of broken relationships.. For instance, the shot in which a cop supervising a traffic stop takes one long look at a carload of nun-masked robbers and turns the other way? An alternate title for the film could be Ben Afflecks Boston, and no one would have had it any other way. And so, constantly, Ben and I are trying to make it as real as possible. Affleck: Its parochial and kind of a small town in some ways. 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. Affleck: Hockeys such a big thing in Charlestown. Ben Affleck (director/star): He had an adaptation that was very, very different and it was really focused on the love story. Hes maybe four people away. They think theres no more serious white people in Charlestown, says local girl Kris (Blake Lively) early in the film. And I was like, Who the hell is this guy? In March 1995, two men held the guard of an armoured car at gunpoint as he tried to delivercash to a branch of the Bank of Boston on Massachusetts Avenue. Its a hard movie to watch. 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. 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. Burch: We did one of the premieres at Fenway. Dont run away from it. We love that movie, dont be afraid of doing things that they did that worked. Hes just great. 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. Colin Burch (vice president of marketing and broadcasting, Boston Red Sox): We had filmed a number of movies before at Fenway, starting with Fever Pitch, and we did Ted, and RIPD, and Moneyball. 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. I came back and met with Ben, and I was so excited. Tuesday October 30, 2012. Its fucking brilliant. Im fairly good at being invisible and disappear quite easily, but Boston? He heard stories about Charlestowns reputation for bank robberies and its strict code of silence. Even with the shorter length hes afforded, Affleck tells multiple stories. Then put it in Connecticut.. I said, Is there any way in hell that you can imagine that someone would ever rob a bank if theyre from Charlestown dressed as a nun? And the FBI agent I was meeting with turned to me and said, You know what, thats not a bad idea at all. And thats where that idea started. Affleck: Those little streets created something visually interesting that you dont see in many car chases. Afflecks Doug almost got out of his predetermined life. These interviews have been condensed and edited for clarity. He also made sure to populate the movie with people who didnt have to fake their Boston accents. Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves opens with a toast: To Charlestown, our one square mile of brick and cobblestone. 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. 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. And in an exciting way. 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. Craig: I hadnt really processed the new ending. The crew at the center of The Town resembles a gang of five masked robbers who pulled holdups from 1990 to 1995. I was like, Im not gonna do another movie in Boston. Crockett: Gone Baby Gone, which I did with him, was a relatively small movie. But I certainly was familiar with his work. In Black Mass, Johnny Depp plays South Boston mobster James Whitey Bulger, an Irish gangster who informed on the Italian mob to the FBI. It is sloppy, sleazy, quickie. Affleck: Jeremy came in and was just awesome. It was actually in the book. So I was thrilled. I said, Look, you know, I understand that youre making this movie about robbers out of Charlestown. Crockett: I vividly remember it. He said, Theyre looking for guys like you. And so I went over and I read a few lines, they took my picture. Affleck: I [set] that movie in the 2000s, but it was really about the 80s and 90s in Charlestown. I wasnt really in the movie world. He contributed to Altvariety, Chiseler, Smashpipe, and other magazines. Affleck: The only other thing Ill say about the chase sequence, it definitely reminded me of Jimmy Tingle in the 80s. It was taking a period of time that had passed and pretending it was still a reality. She is the interloping gentry and renovates Dougs headspace. Burke: I was at a point where I was still looking for what I was gonna do with my life. Cooper: I wanted to spend some time in Walpole [at MCICedar Junction] and just observe. Or do we want to give him a chance to live and a better life? He goes into the family business. [Chairman] Tom Werners a friend of mine. The robbers He is the TV Editor at Entertainment. All they see are yuppies. 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. We all sat there, and he did it. In 2010, Affleck directed The Town, a drama about a gang of Charlestown armored car robbers. Ten years ago this week, Ben Affleck and his crew put on nun masks, robbed Fenway Park, and made the ultimate Boston movie. 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. The FBI says the vestibule was actually a "man-trap," designed to capture people like Hamilton. 2 hours ago. I wanted to be a part of that. Download Bank Robbery missions 2017 and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Hamm: He is a favorite son of Boston for a very good reason. 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. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. After a seven-day trial, they were When I got there, I went up on the walkway, on the first-base side, looking down. 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