There were no police, you just did what you had to. One of the most accurate scenes in the movie is the burning of Darien, Georgia, on June 11, 1863. The film as a whole is solid; its a dark and dreary depiction of the rough side of Boston, and follows in the likes of the departed and other Irish crime films. When Frawley learns that Claire quit her job, he wiretaps her phone, reveals Doug's true nature to her, and threatens to prosecute her as an accomplice after realizing that she is seeing him. [30][32] The film makes reference to the definition of "Toonies" during one of Doug and Claire's dates. Soon a romance grows between them, which Doug hides from the gang. William Munny was an outlaw and killer who was the title character played by Clint Eastwood. The following is an edited version of the interview that Rance held with The Christian Post ahead of the Jan. 30 release of "New in Town": CP: The plot for the movie was based on a true story you heard from someone you met quite a while ago. Survival growing up depended on the people around you. After a rough heist and kidnapping of a bank teller, MacRay wants a chance to leave the Town all behind and disappear before things get rough. In fact, in recent years, many realtors have been selling properties to working middle and upper class socialites because of its “safe streets” and close proximity to the harbor and downtown Boston. While Run borrows from real-life cases, it is not based on a single true story. [17], On February 5, 2012, to promote the upcoming The Town: Ultimate Collector's Edition set, the AMC Loews Boston Common theater hosted an "exclusive engagement" of The Town (Take 2), wherein three showings of the film were shown with the alternate ending featured in the new home media release. The True Life Tragedy of “The Town” Ben Affleck directs and stars in the gritty Boston crime flick “The Town.” The movie circles around a band of modern-day bank robbers who were all born and raised in the blue collar neighborhood of Charlestown in south Boston. When a terrible famine gripped the town of Wimbe, Kamkwamba … [14] The Town grossed $92.1 million in the United States and Canada with an additional $61.8 million in other territories for a total of $154 million worldwide on a production budget of $37 million. He also recounts his chance to be a professional hockey player which he threw away for a life of crime, following in his father's footsteps. The actual Phantom attacked eight people in or near the town of Texarkana, Texas, which is on the Texas border with Arkansas. [9], Filming began in late August 2009 in Boston. Most of these professionals live in a 1-square-mile neighborhood called Charlestown." Charlestown is well known to be a rough neighborhood, and as the characters say, it is home to the last tough white people. The Town is a 2010 American crime thriller film co-written, directed by, and starring Ben Affleck, adapted from Chuck Hogan's 2004 novel Prince of Thieves. [25] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film an A+, noting that he found the film incredibly similar to Michael Mann's Heat, which he described as "one of [his] favorite movies of all time. They are brought in and interrogated by Frawley, but he fails to get any confessions and is forced to release them. He is taken in by the community, rough though it may be, and lives for years with his friend Jem (Renner) and his father, known affectionately as “The Florist,” a cover for him being the contact for multiple jobs. The film premiered on September 8, 2010 at the Venice Film Festival before being released in the United States on September 17, 2010. Doug tells Jem that he wants to back out with the group's next heist at Fenway Park; angered, Jem beats Doug and tells him he is too deep into his life to be able to walk away. Doug flees, donning an MBTA uniform and escaping on a train. hide. Watching from across the street via binoculars, Doug sees that the FBI are with her as she tells him to come over. Frawley spots Jem and they exchange gunfire, in which Jem is wounded in the leg. This thread is archived. Even Fern's fictional backstory is based on real-life events. Filming also took place at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, for casino scenes,[13] Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Cedar Junction in Walpole, Massachusetts, for use of their visiting room, and at Anderson Regional Transportation Center in Woburn, Massachusetts, for the ending Amtrak scenes. Jem, determined not to go back to prison and out of ammunition, commits suicide by cop by running out of cover with his guns unloaded and is killed. The Town is a 2010 American crime thriller film co-written, directed by, and starring Ben Affleck, adapted from Chuck Hogan's 2004 novel Prince of Thieves. His plan works, and she decides not to tell the police. According to Deadwood historian Jerry Bryant (via HistoryNet ), one of the first Chinese residents who came to the town in 1876 was Di Lee, and she was so beautiful she quickly earned the nickname "The China Doll." Archived. Based on actual events, it received praise from critics for its direction, screenplay, editing and the performances of the cast (particularly Renner) and grossed $154 million worldwide. He spent years in prison for that crime, a crime committed with the best of intentions using only what was known to a kid in the town. Flummerypost. At the end of her rope, drugged up and in the hospital after a car accident, she faces giving up information on the heist or losing her daughter to child services. While Affleck had grown up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he barely knew the harsh inner-city environment of Charlestown. While the film stands on its own merit, the true story that inspired the film is equally as interesting. "[24] Justin Chang wrote in Variety that the action scenes strike "an ideal balance between kineticism and clarity" aided by cinematographer Robert Elswit and film editor Dylan Tichenor. A good portion of Irish mobsters settled in the predominantly blue-collar Irish and somewhat neglected strip of land in Boston harbor known as Charlestown. Based on a true story. By Daily … According to Frawley, the elder MacRay hijacked a "bread truck" (armored car) up to New Hampshire, and when one of the guards saw his face, he executed both of them with their own weapons. The town of Silent Hill, West Virginia is actually Centralia, Pennsylvania. During their peak, the Town’s Irish mob was one of the most influential organized crime syndicates in the nation, along with the Sommerville “Winter Hill Gang,” a rival Irsih gang from north Boston. Charlestown’s Irish population wasn’t always as tame as it appears now. The paper reported there is some sense of rivalry between Townies, people who lived in the historically Irish-Catholic neighborhood for decades, and "Toonies", largely white-collar workers who arrived with gentrification, but most of that has died down. William Kamkwamba is a 31-year-old engineer and author from Kasunga, Malawi. As a viewer, you often find yourself morally conflicted, hating the FBI and sympathizing with the criminals, only to have it flipped back to reality when you realize how heartless these criminals are and that the FBI is doing what every citizen would want them to do. “Fire in the Sky” is a 1993 film based off of a book by Travis Walton of the same name, which explains his encounter with an alien craft in 1975. At Fenway Park, Doug and Jem enter disguised as Boston police officers, steal $3,500,000 in gate cash, and prepare to escape in an ambulance, disguised as paramedics, but the FBI, having received information from Doug's ex-girlfriend and Jem's sister Krista (whom Frawley had threatened with prosecution as an accomplice), surrounds Fenway's perimeter. Frawley deduces that Claire tipped off Doug, but doesn't arrest her because her choice of words was circumstantial. [25] The film also takes influence from Boston bank robbery film The Friends of Eddie Coyle; several scenes in The Town, including the release of the blindfolded hostage to walk to the water's edge, mirror sequences in this film. In addition, MacRay receives pressure from the Florist to do another job, but he refuses because there is too much heat on them currently; the FBI is nipping at their heels and has already put the heat on them a couple of times in interrogations. The True Story & Real History of Silent Hill While the environment of Silent Hill seems as though it could only exist in nightmares, it is actually a very real place with a devastating history. However, this film all but ignores the great majority of the residents of Charlestown, past and present, who are the same good and true people found most anywhere,"[31] to whom the film is dedicated. It is home to the world’s largest number of carjackings, kidnappings, and armed robberies, and needless to say, crime is a part of life here, passed on from generation to generation. Shocked to discover that her lover was one of her assailants, she is forced to cooperate with the FBI and breaks up with him. [6] Given screenwriting attempts by Turner, Hogan himself and screenwriter Peter Craig did not manage to build a script that fit Warner's requirement for a standard two-hour length movie with a $37 million budget. Bruce Johnston, Sr. was born in 1939 and grew up in a large family in rural eastern Pennsylvania. She in turn tells Doug that she saw a tattoo on one of the robbers, and he realizes that she can identify Jem and send them all to prison. Take the case of MacRay. [7] By 2008, The Town was decided as the title and Ben Affleck, fresh off his directorial debut in Gone Baby Gone, was brought in to serve as star, director and co-writer. At one point there had even been plans to completely demolish Charlestown. One would think that after the first heist, you could have enough money to disappear and get out for good. The extended/unrated version is a Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy bundle which includes 28 minutes of additional footage, taking the runtime to over 153 minutes. In the early 1990s, an increase in the number of bank and armored car robberies by Townies focused attention on Charlestown. Doug MacRay (Affleck) is the mastermind of the troupe’s many successful robberies, assisted by he muscle of his longtime friend James “Jem” Coughlin (Jeremy Renner). The true story behind Henri Charrière, the French convict who is the inspiration behind 'Papillon' Henri Charrière's 1969 autobiography 'Papillon' went on to become a best-selling novel in France at the time. HBO's new murder mystery Mare Of Easttown isn't a true story, but it sure feels like one. But instead of solely relying on the content of the novel for the movie, Ben Affleck, who is both the director and actor in the movie, did a lot of his own research to make the film look more realistic. [citation needed], The film took #1 at the box office during its opening weekend, taking in $23.8 million. A bully from the town wanted to take care of MacRay, which in Charlestown doesn’t mean taking your lunch money. Earlier that day, the intersection of Tremont and Avery streets was temporarily renamed "The Town Take 2 Place" in a small ceremony, attended by Welliver and Boston city officials. share. … Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. So despite how much determination one has to get out of the Town, it is never just that easy. But the florist sends a message to MacRay that if he doesn’t do this last job, his pretty little bank teller girlfriend will meet her demise. After the repeal of prohibition and the fall of the mob giants, much of organized crime found new homes throughout the country. [22] In his review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott commented on the opening heist, "That sequence, like most of the other action set pieces in the film, is lean, brutal and efficient, and evidence of Mr. Affleck's skill and self-confidence as a director. The film ends with a written disclaimer: "Charlestown's reputation as a breeding ground for armed robbers is authentic. ( Log Out / Change ). It also stars Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Goerge Carroll, Pete Postlethwaite (in what would prove to be his final screen performance), and Chris Cooper, and follows a group of Boston bank robbers who set out to get one final score by robbing Fenway Park. 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