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. In the 70s, New York was that. 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. I knew it was one scene and it was gonna be an important scene: [Dougs] relationship with his father. And I was talking to people right next to him. Hall: It felt like cinema in the classic sense. He poses as a florist, just like Dean OBanion, the Irish gang leader who celebrated St. Valentines Day with Al Capone in Prohibition Chicago. 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. At one point we even had Brad Pitt ready to do it so it was really close. One of those characters you love to hate and find sort of intoxicating and moving; all of those things at the same time. The only time I attempt it is when Im basically making fun of Ben, his character, about the Stah Mahket. 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. He gets punished. I just still really thought that way. I showed up, I did the reading. Its Renners Oscar moment. 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. They happened to be casting this action movie across the street from where I live. 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. 2 hours ago. All three were from Charlestown. The Town (2010 Jon Hamm and Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. He saw it and he was like, This is perfect. And we got in the car and kept going. I totally put that directly in the movie. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. And Major League Baseball was open to itthat was what I was really afraid of. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . They wore wigs, fake bears and masks; in the film, brilliantly, these became nun masks and habits. He was a local hockey star who got drafted by the NHL, but started beating on his own teammates and got sent back home. Thats what makes it great. Salon Professionals. Slaine: Ive seen other cuts of the ending, like the one they put out, the extended version. IS Charlestown MA known for Bank robbers? The annual average hovered above 10,000 for the next 15years. 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. He is the TV Editor at Entertainment. Affleck: I had great stunt drivers. I thought I had something to add to it. Its ruined my life, literally, but Im proud.. I kind of got to tiptoe around and watch them shooting from afar without them knowing I was there. Afflecks Doug MacRay, the leader of the gang, is the one whos gotten tired of the life. It is also quirkily structured, vaguely biographical and personal. If you say its a bank heist movie, people are like, Ill see that. I think it was a great step. Im mighty proud of where I come from, he says. 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. For example, with my brother [Casey] in Gone Baby Gone, I thought it really benefited from the fact that he wasnt so well-known. Affleck: There have been a lot more New York city movies than there have Boston, for sure. This is their story. Affleck: In a world of increasing homogenization, having this fresh place that I think stood out, it was appealing. Ben Affleck (director/star): He had an adaptation that was very, very different and it was really focused on the love story. 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. And well, why not nuns and tactical gear? It included a mastermind, a distraction, a partner, a coordinator, a backer, hacker, con man, and gadget guy. I had a darker ending in it, like a real 70s ending, where Doug dies. Theyre incarcerated. It was concealing a character-based drama centered around themes that I was interested in, particularly the theme of children paying for the sins of their parents, Affleck says. Affleck: There did kind of get to be a glut of Boston movies, and everybody did a Boston accent. Its a fun heist movie. [Owner] John Henry visited the set. Thats how you drive a f----n caaar, declares the getaway driver, Gloansy (played by rapper Slaine). Unfair or not, Charlestown had a reputation. We all want to be from Douggies Charlestown and we all know its a fantasy. Forget it. In Quentin Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs (1991), the crew had color-coded names; in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid they wore 10-gallon hats. And more than anything, just from a noise standpoint, it was kind of unique. 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? Robert Brady, 40, was arrested in Charlestown shortly after he allegedly robbed the branch at 11:21 a.m. Its been in development here for a while. Burke: It was not on my radar at all. He had participated in a bunch of these armored car robberies, and we had been talking for two hours, and time was almost up. soap.. For his turn as Jem, Renner was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, though he lost out to Christian Bale, who played the troubled brother of boxer Micky Ward in yet another movie set in Massachusetts: The Fighter. The car chases get stuck in traffic, and the dialogue comes directly from testimony. Around 3 p.m., two armed men robbed the Hingham Institution for Savings on Charles Street, according to police spokeswoman Rachel McGuire. 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. Or why Affleck hired him to play a Charlestown bank robber in his new movie The Town.. Burch: We did it during off days. 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. Ive never felt all that interested in literally translating from book to page. It was like a different world, the actor and filmmaker says. 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. 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. Hamm: Another smart move by Ben was to populate this movie with people that have an actual, real-life connection to these things. Location scouting was uppermost in his mind. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. From 1874 to 1921 it is estimated that Starr robbed over 21 banks, stealing $60,000 in cash. 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. And he got really excited. The sentence subtly shapes the viewers response to the daytime bank heist thatstarts the film. He humanized that character in that moment. It all went to the actual production of the movie. The Town unfolds in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, which the prologue claims has produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than Its gentrified and diverse now, a local TV show host told The Christian Science Monitor. 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. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. He loved it, optioned it. Just finding a place to park the trucks. Hes like, What the fuck are you doing? We did not have legal clearance to use the logo. This really happened it was described to Affleck by a man serving time. And she really focused specifically, not only on like, an American accent, but what it sounded like in Marblehead, which doesnt sound like Charlestown. Burch: We did one of the premieres at Fenway. In real life, they were not so lucky. And a lot of older actors, [when theyre] told, Go here, do this, a lot of these guys are like, Fuck off. Citizens Bank, located at 315 Hanover St., was robbed at 9:10 a.m. and a Santander Bank at 287 Hanover St., was robbed a mere 4 minutes later. Although we dont have the exact figures for Charlestowns crime rate in the 90s, statistics suggest that there was indeed a surge in the rate of robberies in 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. Affleck: Im glad to have worked on movies that are part of that tradition. Affleck: The Yawkey Red Sox, Im sure, wouldve been impossible. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Cooper: I think he was just having a ball with this character. Jem spent nine years in prison for killing a local thug who was planning to kill Doug. Adrian was off the project. You woke me up.. The Boston Police Cooper: I dont know Jeremys height, but Ben is a pretty big boy. Hall: I just remember him being so mercurial. He also made sure to populate the movie with people who didnt have to fake their Boston accents. To Charlestown, our one square mile of brick and Youve got nothing to do, its like, Lets go try out an awesome restaurant. I felt bad that Ben didnt get to have that experience. And they said, We like what you did, we think youre a good director and we believe in you. And I was kind of struck by the enthusiasm they had considering for the most part, Hollywood operates based on success. I remember the librarians called me the day before, just to confirm. Provo, UT, United States () -Provo Towne Center 1200 Towne Centre Blvd Ste B. Also, Starr starred in a silent movie based on his criminal activity titled A Debtor to the Law. Shortly after 9am on August 25 1994, an armoured car pulled up outside a NFS Savings Bank in Hudson, New York. He was like, Thats me. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. 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. Id made Gone Baby Gone for $18 million. Craig: [Jeff] Robinov, [the president] at Warners, really wanted to make the movie. Hed done his time. Did they know that this was in the plans?. The robbers were waiting. He also ran afoul of the law himself, recruiting real ex-cons as extras and giving them guns. 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: Owen and I didnt have to listen to anybody. They ran mass auditions of up to 1,000 people at a time, Affleck recalls. The length of them runs, I would think, like 150 feet. Witt: Its not like New York or Los Angeles where you have wider streets. [Chairman] Tom Werners a friend of mine. To observe this life. 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. So he uses them in that way. Hes maybe four people away. Affleck: Jeremy came in and was just awesome. 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. First of all, it was about 20 pages shorter. 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. 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!. Its fucking brilliant. It is sloppy, sleazy, quickie. Hamm: It was impressive. The bank robbers step out of their vehicle. 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. Hall: I wouldnt really say I did a Boston accent. 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.. Its worth bearing in mind that these are state-wide statistics, which do not differentiate betweenneighborhoods. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies(not just bank robberies). He was not doing great [health-wise]. My father insisted that I go over. They really loved the idea of putting these masked avengers in minivans. The Boston area was prime cinematic crime fields during the early 2000s. 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. 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. When I saw it, I thought, Its fine. I wound up learning a lot from how Ben did that. Affleck: I [set] that movie in the 2000s, but it was really about the 80s and 90s in Charlestown. Not noir, French for black. 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. Itd be good to have him around for authenticity. Hes in the movie. Because of oversaturation in the last decade, Boston movies have been rightfully skewered. Staging a chase scene in the North End was difficult, but shooting a robbery inside and around Fenway Park was unprecedented. Thousands. Jem is furious when he finds Doug cozying up to Claire, the bank manager who could finger them to the Feds. Chuck Hogan (author, Prince of Thieves): When the book came out, I was scheduled to do a reading at the Charlestown Public Library. Well, not take notes, because you couldnt bring in a pencil. And I just came over to him and I was biting my tongue. "Ben Affleck Played Me". Affleck: Id been in action sequences plenty, so I kind of knew how they worked. But No R.. Hes not someone that blends in easily. Its not the same town as it was in the early 1990s and the 1980s.. David Fincher does an even more exaggerated version of that. 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! This database contains birth information from several towns included in the Massachusetts (U.S.A.) Town Vital 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.. Ben Affleck grew up in Cambridge, only a few miles away from Charlestown, but to him the distance between the two places felt vast. Rebecca Halls character asking Douggie why the kids with whom she volunteerscall her a tunie? Jon Hamm (FBI special agent Adam Frawley): I knew he had some serious Boston cred. But he pointed out the quote. But what about in the 1980s and early 1990s? [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. And hes like, Wheres that from? And shes like, Oh, he was here. Its not wedding bells which break up the old gang in Ben Afflecks The Town, its witness protection. The Town captures the locale expertly, and the atmosphere masterfully. Hes probably still there. [Lively did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article. 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. I walked the city for something like two, three hours, and by the end of it, I realized two things: The first thing was, I really like the movie and I cant wait for it to come out. 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. The two banks All three men were arrested and sent to prison. We had bank robbers, we had career criminals, people that couldnt show up certain days because theyd be violating their parole. 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. And this was toward the end of the shoot. Afflecks reluctant bank robber Doug desparately wants to redefine himself as a serious Hollywood player after misfires like Gigli and Jersey Girl. But he could not have been happier to be there. Crockett: As he puts it, you have so many fame chips you can use. 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. No above-the-line people got paid any money. Welliver: The character Dino was a cop who grew up in Charlestown. Its an action movie where you get to root for the bad guys. Martin Scorseses The Departed cast Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello, who was loosely based on Bulger. 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. How are you gonna figure this out because you want to drive an armored car out of one of our gates? Jem would rather battle it out with the law than go back to prison. It has a broad appeal. 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. After all, there are only so many Massachusetts-set crime stories about Irish American antiheroes that you can tell. 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. 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 The former bank robber-turned-aspiring-movie producer who tried to claim it is back to prison. Douggie, played by Affleck, is a man trying not to die on the street he was born. 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. 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. But as I was signing books afterwards, I see this guy coming up. They dont rat. 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. Stockard: Do we want to punish this person or do we not? In 2010, estate agents were pitching waterfront redevelopments to young professionals and families. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. Extremely plausible. And I still am. Theres so many shots and so quickly, that at the end, OK, what happened? Affleck: Its parochial and kind of a small town in some ways. 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. WebThe Town. ], 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. Those are the blueprints, thats the template. They were excited. Everyone was making New York movies. They set up a date and Jeremy Renner and I both arrived at Walpole to go through the screening. But not everyone was happy with the image of Charlestown given toa generation of moviegoers. The feds, they get shuffled around all over the country. Crockett: Pete had a reputation for being kind of a hardass. In 2018, there were just over 4,000 robberies in Massachusetts compare that to 1980, when there more than 13,500. In Black Mass, Johnny Depp plays South Boston mobster James Whitey Bulger, an Irish gangster who informed on the Italian mob to the FBI. Chris Cooper (Stephen MacRay): Ben had me at prison. It was great. Chuck gets credit for that. 'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery capital'? Crockett: Gone Baby Gone, which I did with him, was a relatively small movie. FBI responds to bank robbery on NW Side. BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. The first or second take that he did, Jeremy wanted to do it on his own. I was fine with that. I was like, Im not gonna do another movie in Boston. Hes been played by Johnny Depp, Warren Oates, and Lawrence Tierney. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. the movie the TOWN WAS Mde after SQUARE OFF T.V 249 subscribers Subscribe 6 Share 1.2K views 1 year I was up there for what Im sure was a good half hour. Carter: Ben actually went and sat down with the guy that his character was based on, and was able to see him and take notes in person. 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. To get to Charlestown was to live free. 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 I think its ripe for the picking. Affleck: When this movie came out, the Boston Phoenix review said it had horrible Boston accents. 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. And someone had forgotten to tell them that we were downstairs shooting. Cooper: I wanted to spend some time in Walpole [at MCICedar Junction] and just observe. And I thought, Not only is she the best actress for the part, shes gonna be able to really surprise people.. BOSTON - A Charlestown man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for bank robbery. Alexander Witt (second-unit director): We talked and we said, Lets do it as classic as possible.. Affleck: The hothead friend. But one of the greatest films about Boston goes back to 1973. Hes been forever. I dont think you know how you sound. Actors tell me that thats one of the toughest ones they have to do. Because along with watching the movie, I was working hard to process it. Welliver: Weve got a couple of great little homages to The Friends of Eddie Coyle when theyre in Fenway: You live at such and such a street Thats completely Alex Rocco talking to the bad guy and hes saying like, We have your wife and your children are in the house. Ben wasnt in Boston. As I got older I lived in [Jamaica Plain], West Roxbury, where my son was born. NO NAME GANG: CHARLESTOWN bank robbers. His father, Stephen MacRay (Chris Cooper) was a thief, just like his father, and all of Dougs friends were thick with thievery. We all sat there, and he did it. Ben Affleck made a minor heist movie classic with The Town, a thriller which shines light on the legendary history of Boston's Charlestown. The movies center is Charlestown, right across the bridge from the rest of Boston, a legend in illicit locales. Stockard: Its a little weird being a piece of that, as somebody who wrote two of those movies. And I was like, Who the hell is this guy? I dont know exactly what happened, but I know that the option was running out. So I was thrilled. The car contained stolen money an 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. 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. Stockard: The movie that we thought about was [Michael Manns] Heat. 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.. 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