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. And so yes, they rob Fenway, but its not like hes running across the outfield getting tackled by Tom Brunansky with a bag of money in hand. Everybody in attendance loved it; no car windows smashed or anything like that. And man, he stood up really well to Ben. 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. Adrian had wanted to do one of my books, which was kind of unadaptable because it took place over like, 30 years. 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. Needless to say, it really shook me up. Just let me go in. She opened the door and I just walked in and Ben was there and he just burst out laughing. A Boston bank robber looks for a way out of his criminal lifestyle after beginning a passionate romance with the woman that his gang briefly took hostage. Welliver: When we were doing The Town is when he was up for the role of Hawkeye. Many of them testified that they had grown tired of a life of stealing, of drugs, of broken relationships.. He gave me so much ammunition all the time to play off and to feel. In Quentin Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs (1991), the crew had color-coded names; in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid they wore 10-gallon hats. The only time I attempt it is when Im basically making fun of Ben, his character, about the Stah Mahket. Craig: I was a struggling crime writer. And someone had forgotten to tell them that we were downstairs shooting. So I read this new version of the script. Director: Ben Affleck. Affleck turns it into a redemption story which beats the bank alarm at under two hours. The romance in the middle of the film is only there to delineate the boundaries between heist film and crime procedural. He goes into the family business. Nothing kills a Boston-set movie like bad Boston accents. Crockett: I vividly remember it. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. But No R.. 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. [But] Warners gave it back to Adrian and said, You know what, shop it around. He took it to Imagine; he took it to Universal. He had participated in a bunch of these armored car robberies, and we had been talking for two hours, and time was almost up. 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. Affleck: The Bruins have been extremely shortsighted and wrong with their policy, where if theres swearing or violence, you cant use their logo. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies (not just bank robberies). So theres a whole range of accents. Maybe its not balls; maybe cocky is the right word to describe him. Hamm: We could all go, hang out at the bar; me and Rebecca, and Renner, and Titus, that whole crowd. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Affleck: In a world of increasing homogenization, having this fresh place that I think stood out, it was appealing. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. Jem spent nine years in prison for killing a local thug who was planning to kill Doug. 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. The one thing I miss about Boston is you saw a fistfight every day. I was like, Im not gonna do another movie in Boston. It all went to the actual production of the movie. There was a script written. I sort of pretended that Charlestown was still the way it used to be. I said, Look, you know, I understand that youre making this movie about robbers out of Charlestown. And he read and blew me away. Were like, Wait, hes about the right size, height, and all that other, he could be Bens stand-in. Welliver: He said, Hey, weve got great stories in this city that nobodys telling.. The case of the Charlestown robbers in the show grows to encompass and eventually upend Bostons citywide criminal justice system. Kim Mahoney of the He was not doing great [health-wise]. I wanted to be a part of that. Slaine: Im convinced my hearing is still not the same after that film. They dont rat. [Through a representative, Renner declined to be interviewed for this article.]. Its gentrified and diverse now, a local TV show host told The Christian Science Monitor. David Fincher does an even more exaggerated version of that. 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. An earlier version of this piece misspelled Roslindale. Shooting there had been a condition of Afflecktaking on the film. The way we did that was to make the days inexpensive. Afflecks big killing in The Town is Fenway Park, and over 60 years later, the take is the same. Not noir, French for black. All three were 25 or under. 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. But I certainly was familiar with his work. The car contained stolen money an You know, the Kennedys kind of had their own weird accent. The Friends of Eddie Coyle starred Robert Mitchum in the title role and Peter Boyle as a hitman who ran a bar. Slaine: Owen and I didnt have to listen to anybody. 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. 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. Hamm: I got to meet Pete Postlewaite, rest in peace, at the hotel bar. Afflecks second film as a director charts the fall of a mythic heist gang and the streets which made them. It was actually in the book. Cooper: I think he was just having a ball with this character. Burke: There were the most narrow streets you could find in the North End. In 2018, there were just over 4,000 robberies in Massachusetts compare that to 1980, when there more than 13,500. Blake Lively was sent into bars, real hoodlums were cast and a wedding party was spooked by gunfire. It is because the small community adheres to omerta, silence unto death. Slaine: I think he was just really going for authenticity. In Stanley Kubricks The Killing (1956), a marriage-minded Sterling Hayden leads a crew to take down one last racetrack for $2 million. Its a fun heist movie. [Owner] John Henry visited the set. 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. WebWhitey Bulger and his friendss and some of the Charlestown robbers operated from Marshall Street Garage was actually in Winter Hill, Somerville. When I saw it, I thought, Its fine. I wound up learning a lot from how Ben did that. The blue-collar neighborhood produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than anywhere else in the world, according to the movies prologue. As robbers in Halloween masksbrandish machine guns and snarl at the terrified staff in heavy Boston drawls Everybody on the f----n flaar! you wonder: is this just an average day in Charlestown? It was as simple as that. Cooper: I wanted to spend some time in Walpole [at MCICedar Junction] and just observe. Stockard: Ben had a good relationship with the Red Sox. This isnt because those criminals made the sloppiest getaways. 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. After managing to evade a manhunt and escape to Florida, his character says goodbye to Claire via a letter. 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. I went in to audition. And Blake spent some time with her. Every take had the same amount of tension and edge but it was just all over the place. I liked the way it was released, man. That was the most important part, because he could so easily lapse into clich. Ben wasnt in Boston. Also, Starr starred in a silent movie based on his criminal activity titled A Debtor to the Law. The movies center is Charlestown, right across the bridge from the rest of Boston, a legend in illicit locales. Crockett: Pete had a reputation for being kind of a hardass. 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. Thats the one moment that gives you a glimpse into how damaged and how profoundly broken Jem is. And was critically acclaimed. And there were probably a couple of guys there who were still robbing banks.. FBI responds to bank robbery on NW Side. Theyre both from Boston and theyre doing the whole Boston thing, and Ben being Ben, in a very playful way, tries to like, wrestle him. I was cutting out pieces of felt while Gina [Rhodes] was stitching themmaking, by hand, the fake Bruins logo. Hes maybe four people away. 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. Cooper: I dont know Jeremys height, but Ben is a pretty big boy. He didnt want to option it himself, so they set him up with [producer] Graham King, who got the option. 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 This makes it a mini-epic. We did all that kind of stuff. Did they know that this was in the plans?. He was quite clear. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. Something the character of James (Jeremy Renner), aka Jem, could appreciate. 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. 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. 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. 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. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. Al Pacinos Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon wants enough money to give a better life to his wives. 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. But he also liked this book by Chuck Hogan. 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. 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. Oceans Eleven set the cinematic standard for a heist team. In 2010, after his gang was eliminated, he fled to Tallahassee, As for Affleck, the success of The Town helped advance his career as a director. 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. 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. It included a mastermind, a distraction, a partner, a coordinator, a backer, hacker, con man, and gadget guy. When youre underneath in the concourse space, you could drop a keg at one end of the ballpark and have it reverberate all the way around. This database contains birth information from several towns included in the Massachusetts (U.S.A.) Town Vital They are holding their automatic weapons and wearing their disguises. 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. Its ruined my life, literally, but Im proud.. 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. And we saw the film for the first time and I must say: I was across the aisle and up two or three rows from Jeremy, and I dont know if Im letting the cat out of the bag, but I think he was thrilled watching that film. If the world was empty, what would you do? The full version. And he got really excited. 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. 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. It can be a terrible experience, meaning you can interrupt somebody when theyre trying to have a nice moment, or they can be pleasant. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. After all, there are only so many Massachusetts-set crime stories about Irish American antiheroes that you can tell. WebBank Robbery | Detective Mehul ( ) | Hindi Paheliyan | Hindi PaheliDetective Mehul or Mehul Jasoos is the best detective in town. When I was a kid, I was scared to go there. Two armored car guards were shot to death in New Hampshire in 1994 during one of the robberies. Just because the echo in the ballpark. Theres so many shots and so quickly, that at the end, OK, what happened? Besides being the lovable and erudite wrinkle in the scheme, she is not a townie, someone who was raised in the neighborhood. Doug MacRay ( Ben Affleck) is not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. Provo, UT, United States () -Provo Towne Center 1200 Towne Centre Blvd Ste B. Craig: I was a crime writer already. BOSTON - A Charlestown man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for bank robbery. 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