Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. When I saw it, I thought, Its fine. I wound up learning a lot from how Ben did that. Crockett: The Fenway heist was really just a logistical kind of clusterfuck. 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. Its kind of like a safety thing. Ten years ago this week, Ben Affleck and his crew put on nun masks, robbed Fenway Park, and made the ultimate Boston movie. I was at that point in my career where every place I walked into I was trying to figure out how to write a robbery in that space. 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. Both robbers were shot, one in the back and one in the head, and the getaway driver promptly rear-ended a parked car. To get to Charlestown was to live free. Whats better than that? 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. 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. Dont run away from it. We love that movie, dont be afraid of doing things that they did that worked. 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. 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. He had robbed a couple of banks in Boston years before. [Through a representative, Renner declined to be interviewed for this article.]. 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. It all felt sort of very impossible and glamorous. They went to jail because there were cracks on the pavement, leaks on the street. It very much had a sense of place. What it allowed me to do is privately observe the prison population. BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. R Thriller Drama Crime Movie 2010. hd. Affleck: Im like, Why the fuck do you think people go to hockey games? Swearing and fighting. Cooper: I wanted to spend some time in Walpole [at MCICedar Junction] and just observe. 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). Burch: We did one of the premieres at Fenway. I was like, Im not gonna do another movie in Boston. The imitators that his opus spawned, however, couldnt recreate what he managed to. 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. Hamm: We had this 15-day stretch where we had to shoot at Fenway. I was only comforted by the thought that no one with a Boston accent has ever actually read the Boston Phoenix. WebBen Affleck played this real life bank robber in 'The Town'. Adrian was off the project. 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? Hes just great. In Quentin Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs (1991), the crew had color-coded names; in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid they wore 10-gallon hats. He had the beginnings of the accent, clearly he had the ability to do ita bad Boston accent would ruin that part. 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. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. Hamm: Another smart move by Ben was to populate this movie with people that have an actual, real-life connection to these things. 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. Its a fun heist movie. [Owner] John Henry visited the set. One of those characters you love to hate and find sort of intoxicating and moving; all of those things at the same time. Many of them testified that they had grown tired of a life of stealing, of drugs, of broken relationships.. Affleck: I had great stunt drivers. WebThe crew consisted of Doug MacRay, Jem Coughlin, Desmond Elden, and Albert MacGloan, four veteran Charlestown bank and armored car robbers. Affleck: There tend to be trends and people feel like at first its fresh, and then its kind of something they like, and then it becomes something that people get tired of. Or do we want to give him a chance to live and a better life? The crew at the center of The Town resembles a gang of five masked robbers who pulled holdups from 1990 to 1995. Welliver: If anything, people were kind of burned out on the New York gangster genre. The way we did that was to make the days inexpensive. He loved it, optioned it. 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. It all went to the actual production of the movie. Chay Carter (coproducer): We found a couple of real bank robbers that we did real research with, which is what these four [thieves] were based on. I dont even think they had sidewalks. According to FBI statistics 'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery capital'? Craig: We went into a bit of a quandary about the ending. 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. Honestly, people just wouldnt have liked the movie [with my ending]. Chucks such a good writer that you get the tone from his details. Affleck: Hockeys such a big thing in Charlestown. Hes been played by Johnny Depp, Warren Oates, and Lawrence Tierney. Not noir, French for black. Theres like four people in the whole bar, which is a huge bar. Bill Simmons saysthere were a lot of Boston ladies like Kris in real life. It seems likely that Lively had met a few. Then put it in Connecticut.. The way John tells the story is, Of course I do two [moves] on him and Ive got him and he cant move, and [Afflecks] like, alright, alright, alright!. No above-the-line people got paid any money. Theres two ways that this can go. Im like, You know what, if its terrible, Ill get a great story out of it. I sit down and I watch it, and it was really bewildering. She is the interloping gentry and renovates Dougs headspace. Ill tell you what Im gonna do. And so we were a little bit extra, extra respectful. Affleck: Jeremy came in and was just awesome. Cooper: Hes had a wonderful career, but [The Town] was a big shot in the arm for him. Thats the thing, that theres a kind of ownership and its beautiful. Director: Ben Affleck. Theres so many shots and so quickly, that at the end, OK, what happened? All three were from Charlestown. The guy that I spoke with, who was kind of our head technical adviser from the FBI, was from Nebraska. And I thought, Not only is she the best actress for the part, shes gonna be able to really surprise people.. He gets punished. I just still really thought that way. Gone Girl we shot a hundred days for a two-hour thriller. The Town unfolds in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, which the prologue claims has produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than Its not The Godfather of caper films, but it is a heist movie must-see. Needless to say, it really shook me up. They had to look and sound like they just rolled out of Old Sullys at 2 a.m. on a Sunday. He was not doing great [health-wise]. I went in to audition. Or why Affleck hired him to play a Charlestown bank robber in his new movie The Town.. 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 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. Everyone was making New York movies. Afflecks Doug almost got out of his predetermined life. (His co-star John Hamm once said thatwalking around Boston with Affleck was like walking around with the mayor.) If you say its a bank heist movie, people are like, Ill see that. I think it was a great step. They were shooting a scene. He has a certain thing in that town. Free shipping for many products! My father insisted that I go over. 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. Ben Affleck grew up in Cambridge, only a few miles away from Charlestown, but to him the distance between the two places felt vast. Afflecks crew of bank robbers needed genuine local flavor. WebWhitey Bulger and his friendss and some of the Charlestown robbers operated from Marshall Street Garage was actually in Winter Hill, Somerville. Besides being the lovable and erudite wrinkle in the scheme, she is not a townie, someone who was raised in the neighborhood. And thats just sort of the natural progression. Cooper: It was kind of this crisp evening. He saw it and he was like, This is perfect. 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. Carter: There was a guy, Joe Lawler, who was helping us. The Town (2010 Jon Hamm and Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. Affleck unequivocally contributed to that proliferation. Hes probably still there. After a seven-day trial, they were They like walking out with a little bit of hope. Hed be happy to settle down with his former hostage, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). After all, there are only so many Massachusetts-set crime stories about Irish American antiheroes that you can tell. Its a hard movie to watch. Martin Scorseses The Departed cast Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello, who was loosely based on Bulger. Then it might as well just stay a book. They wore wigs, fake bears and masks; in the film, brilliantly, these became nun masks and habits. The most notorious took place outside the NFS Savings Bank in Hudson, N.Y., on Aug. 25, 1994, when an armored car pulled up shortly after 9 a.m. Crockett: I remember being on the streets of Charlestown talking to some people. And someone had forgotten to tell them that we were downstairs shooting. Most of the heists in The Town were inspired by real crimes from that era. [Chairman] Tom Werners a friend of mine. Some residents felt it portrayed the locals as in the words of onequoted in The Christian Science Monitor, a bunch of dumb bums. 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. Welliver: It [was] like doing photo shoots in front of Graceland with Elvis when Elvis was still alive. It at least had that upswing. In 2018, there were just over 4,000 robberies in Massachusetts compare that to 1980, when there more than 13,500. 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. And to that end, its 100 percent on Ben. Shortly after 9am on August 25 1994, an armoured car pulled up outside a NFS Savings Bank in Hudson, New York. Burke: It was not on my radar at all. Theyre stopping at an exactly certain point and if they go too far, peoples lives are at stakeits a very serious thing. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies (not just bank robberies). This is their story. 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. Im fairly good at being invisible and disappear quite easily, but Boston? It definitely felt like, Im getting to see something that not a lot of people get to see. These were to prove fundamental to the films success, yielding some of its most memorable moments. It went on to make $154 million (119 million) worldwide. Burke: To go sit in the stands with Jeremy Renner in an empty stadium, it was surreal. After managing to evade a manhunt and escape to Florida, his character says goodbye to Claire via a letter. 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. His father, Stephen MacRay (Chris Cooper) was a thief, just like his father, and all of Dougs friends were thick with thievery. The one thing I miss about Boston is you saw a fistfight every day. But instead, Affleck went with something more bittersweet. The Friends of Eddie Coyle starred Robert Mitchum in the title role and Peter Boyle as a hitman who ran a bar. As they fled with a bag of cash containing roughly $281,000 (180,000 then), another guard opened fire. And we got in the car and kept going. I totally put that directly in the movie. Ex-felons are not allowed to hold even fake weapons. Now, William shares his story after his Caught in Providence case went viral. Affleck: In a world of increasing homogenization, having this fresh place that I think stood out, it was appealing. I dont know exactly what happened, but I know that the option was running out. David Crockett (producer): They read, and not saying who she was or what she was in, she did the [Boston] accent. 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. They get their tips and kick up to local crime lord Fergus Fergie Colm, played by veteran character actor Pete Postlethwaite. Im mighty proud of where I come from, he says. Affleck was determined to make sure that his main cast could at least pass as true Massholes. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. Welliver: The upside of that is everybody is rooting for him. 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. This database contains birth information from several towns included in the Massachusetts (U.S.A.) Town Vital I had a darker ending in it, like a real 70s ending, where Doug dies. Id made Gone Baby Gone for $18 million. So unexpected. Affleck turns it into a redemption story which beats the bank alarm at under two hours. So I read this new version of the script. The bank robbers step out of their vehicle. Affleck: Those little streets created something visually interesting that you dont see in many car chases. The actor who played James Jem Coughlin, Dougs ex-con buddy, however, wasnt from Boston. 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! Whats the best way to get there?. So theres a whole range of accents. And it is a bit like visiting royalty there, for me, in a way that I dont get in any other town or city in the world. So all of a sudden, while theyre getting married, they hear gunshots at Fenway. He made my job easy. Theres a lot of different stories to tell. Matheson: I will never forget sitting there with some felt and scissors at 3 or 4 in the morning. ], 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. Jon Hamm (FBI special agent Adam Frawley): I knew he had some serious Boston cred. 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. The case of the Charlestown robbers in the show grows to encompass and eventually upend Bostons citywide criminal justice system. Kim Mahoney of the Hogan: I had a friend who worked at Fenway Park, who snuck me in while they were shooting that whole sequence. There was a script written. Hes like, What the fuck are you doing? Suspects at large after $100K stolen from North Side bank: authorities. He loves her enough not to kill her, but not enough to testify. Were like, Wait, hes about the right size, height, and all that other, he could be Bens stand-in. 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. Its not wedding bells which break up the old gang in Ben Afflecks The Town, its witness protection. Affleck: He played that so deftly, and made that scene work so well, when hes sort of smiling and laughing, but theres so much menace underneath it. And they told us all these stories, and all these fascinating things, and built up what this mythology was. 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. But it really wasnt. But it still has to be divvied up among the team. At heart, its a story of social mobility. Hamm: It was impressive. Burke: Ive heard people say, Oh, we dont sound like that! And Im like, I dont think you guys really listen to yourselves. He was a local hockey star who got drafted by the NHL, but started beating on his own teammates and got sent back home. 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. As for Affleck, the success of The Town helped advance his career as a director. If they get popped, they do the time. The Town was originally set to be a three-and-a-half-hour-long epic directed by Fatal Attractions Adrian Lyne. And I said, Is there anything just weird or strange or unexpected or bizarre in the course of this? And I mean, the guy had lived a pretty bizarre life. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. 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. WebThe acquaintance, Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr., was a Vietnam veteran, a helicopter pilot, and an avid and capable skydiver. 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. So we had access to all of the underneath [of it], because thats where we shot a lot of it. Its worth bearing in mind that these are state-wide statistics, which do not differentiate betweenneighborhoods. In my imagination, hes always been Ben Affleck. It was taking a period of time that had passed and pretending it was still a reality. Job. The cunning group is robbing city banks to steal money and making the getaway with diamond Heist. Two armored car guards were shot to death in New Hampshire in 1994 during one of the robberies. And Major League Baseball was open to itthat was what I was really afraid of. 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. 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 But it couldnt be Bruins. Burch: We did it during off days. We went back to his hotel room right after. [Lively did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article. Hogan: I went in to go see it in a screening room in Manhattan like two months before it came out. Hogan: Adrian really thought in more operatic terms, and he really wanted to do the book. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies(not just bank robberies). And in an exciting way. Chuck Hogan (author, Prince of Thieves): When the book came out, I was scheduled to do a reading at the Charlestown Public Library. I lived in South Boston, Roslindale. The story appealed to Affleck. They dont squeal. 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. He was kind of hemming and hawing a little bit and I said, Look, unless they make you wear the fucking purple outfit and the mask, you gotta do this. He went, I know.. He goes, Yeah, you know, Ill tell you, Ty. Rob Dobi Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves opens with a toast: Raise a Glass. 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. 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. Director: Ben Affleck. The gang torches their escape cars and their transfer vehicles. But they said, We have this project that we think youd be right for. It was really more of an erotic thriller: The criminal who falls in love with the captive kind of thing. He didnt want to option it himself, so they set him up with [producer] Graham King, who got the option. This really happened it was described to Affleck by a man serving time. Owen Burke (Desmond Elden): I was going to a community college in Charlestown, I was working under the table, I had just gotten past some legal trouble in my teenage years. I came back and met with Ben, and I was so excited. The Boston Police 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. We literally took over Fenway. Location scouting was uppermost in his mind. 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. Hamm: Theres nothing weirder than an empty stadium. Affleck didnt just direct, he played the lead alongside a cast of present and future superstars and locals. The car chases get stuck in traffic, and the dialogue comes directly from testimony. When I got there, I went up on the walkway, on the first-base side, looking down. This is the script I want. And I said, Adrian, this is gonna be a three-and-a-half-hour movie. Hes like, Well, if Scorsese can make a three-and-a-half-hour movie, I want to.. Its called The Hurt Locker. The only thing that I had seen of him was the Jeffrey Dahmer movie, which couldnt have been more different from what I wanted. The film makes Jem out to be the loose cannon in the arsenal, but he makes criminal sense. 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 feds, they get shuffled around all over the country. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. Affleck also embarked on a series of interviews with locals, including convicted robbers and members of the FBI violent crimes force. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . But he pointed out the quote. 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. Slaine (Albert Gloansy Magloan): I was born in Dorchester, grew up there as a kid. I knew it was one scene and it was gonna be an important scene: [Dougs] relationship with his father. They had seen Gone Baby Gone, which opened in like sixth place to $5 million or something and wasnt seen widely. Its not a super cheap movie but its not expensive like a studio movie. This is based on FBI statistics at the time. Because along with watching the movie, I was working hard to process it. 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! [Adrian Lyne did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article.]. Which I like, and its good, but I want to sort of put our perspective on it.. Craig: I was a crime writer already. Theyre locked, loaded, and trained in automatic weapons, and launder their take immediately. Crockett: As he puts it, you have so many fame chips you can use. Hamm: He is a favorite son of Boston for a very good reason. Thats what happened. It is sloppy, sleazy, quickie. I was up there for what Im sure was a good half hour. I watched a screening with a different ending and it hadnt been testing well. Affleck: Blake Lively took the train from New York. 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. Hes crazy. Hes from Modesto, and hes kind of got that bulldog, kind of dirtbag sensibility. These words flash up on screen at the opening of Ben Afflecks 2010 crime thriller,which follows a crew of Boston robbers as they rise fromlocal bank jobs to a hit on Fenway Park. The story was much clearer and cleaner. Im gonna do a movie about Iran.. Jem spent nine years in prison for killing a local thug who was planning to kill Doug. And obviously it was in Bostonthat I was comfortable with. And so if you cant do it, just dont do it. In the 70s, New York was that. This makes it a mini-epic. The car contained stolen money an Burke: There were the most narrow streets you could find in the North End. Stockard: Do we want to punish this person or do we not? But it was very real. 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