Do everything youre supposed to do, they wont be harmed.. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! 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. Its not The Godfather of caper films, but it is a heist movie must-see. And that was really thrilling to respond to. 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? He contributed to Altvariety, Chiseler, Smashpipe, and other magazines. 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. And obviously it was in Bostonthat I was comfortable with. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. 371K. When he took over the project Fatal Attractions Adrian Lyne was originally down to direct local boy Affleck decided he wanted to make this as much of a Boston filmas he possibly could. Gone Girl we shot a hundred days for a two-hour thriller. 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. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . He said, Shes slightly different. Marblehead is a little chi-chi. Particularly commercial success. Norbums. He was like, Thats me. 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. The first bank robbery in Melrose was shot on location. 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. Affleck: Im glad to have worked on movies that are part of that tradition. The cunning group is robbing city banks to steal money and making the getaway with diamond Heist. Cooper: I think he was just having a ball with this character. Police Arrest Charlestown Man Following Bank Robbery - Charlestown, MA - Officers responded to the Santander Bank at 437 Rutherford Avenue early Sunday morning. 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. 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.. 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. Hes like, What the fuck are you doing? Oct 31, 2012. In 2010, estate agents were pitching waterfront redevelopments to young professionals and families. She prepped for that for God knows how long. But it couldnt be Bruins. Slaine: I think he was just really going for authenticity. The money was all on the screen. The robbers You couldve just called me.. We had this huge screen over the third base dugout. And to that end, its 100 percent on Ben. He flew in. Affleck: Id been in action sequences plenty, so I kind of knew how they worked. For example, with my brother [Casey] in Gone Baby Gone, I thought it really benefited from the fact that he wasnt so well-known. There are three tiers of cells. The Town captures the locale expertly, and the atmosphere masterfully. 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. It was kind of a moment for them. Now, William shares his story after his Caught in Providence case went viral. And well, why not nuns and tactical gear? Id go sit in Fenway and be the only guy there. Oceans Eleven set the cinematic standard for a heist team. Ben wasnt in Boston. Ill tell you what Im gonna do. And so we were a little bit extra, extra respectful. 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. Chucks such a good writer that you get the tone from his details. Jem is his right hand muscle, and unquestioning backup. ], 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. Free shipping for many products! Everyone was making New York movies. And so Adrian developed it for quite some time. But mostly a Boston accent depends on your socioeconomic status, by and large. A U.S. District Court jury delivered guilty verdicts on 54 of 55 counts, including ones charging the five in the Aug. 25, 1994, robbery in Hudson in which two After managing to evade a manhunt and escape to Florida, his character says goodbye to Claire via a letter. 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. 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. Ben Affleck (director/star): He had an adaptation that was very, very different and it was really focused on the love story. The crew at the center of The Town resembles a gang of five masked robbers who pulled holdups from 1990 to 1995. His first reaction is to take her out of the equation.. 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. It included a mastermind, a distraction, a partner, a coordinator, a backer, hacker, con man, and gadget guy. Needless to say, it really shook me up. Theres two ways that this can go. They were shooting a scene. Craig: Adrian wanted 90 shooting days and $90 [million] to do it. Hamm: It was impressive. And then he was out, so we were using him again for research. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies(not just bank robberies). Stockard: Obviously youre making a movie so you mythologize it a little bit. I knew that many of these bank robbers had gone to Catholic schools as children and been taught by nuns. David Fincher does an even more exaggerated version of that. Job. They really loved the idea of putting these masked avengers in minivans. The full version. He loves her enough not to kill her, but not enough to testify. The North End, Bostons Little Italy, is one of the citys smallest, densest, oldest neighborhoods; the asymmetrical Fenway Park, which fits snugly on a single block, is picturesque but impossibly cramped. 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. They look at him. Its an action movie where you get to root for the bad guys. But as I was signing books afterwards, I see this guy coming up. Dont run away from it. We love that movie, dont be afraid of doing things that they did that worked. Douggie, played by Affleck, is a man trying not to die on the street he was born. Hall: It was like being alongside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in London. In the 70s, New York was that. Welliver: The character Dino was a cop who grew up in Charlestown. Some residents felt it portrayed the locals as in the words of onequoted in The Christian Science Monitor, a bunch of dumb bums. Hed done his time. Then they realized that were shooting a movie. The Boston Police And they led me into this little alleyway. Its worth bearing in mind that these are state-wide statistics, which do not differentiate betweenneighborhoods. R Thriller Drama Crime Movie 2010. hd. He said, Theyre looking for guys like you. And so I went over and I read a few lines, they took my picture. 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. I was doing that. 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 By contrast, Afflecks Doug MacRay heads a four-man gang. I was fine with that. I feel like were still in the black. Craig: I was a crime writer already. 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. Unlike them, Doug had a chance at success, a chance to escape following in his father's criminal footsteps. Ten years ago this week, Ben Affleck and his crew put on nun masks, robbed Fenway Park, and made the ultimate Boston movie. The car contained stolen money an 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: I got to meet Pete Postlewaite, rest in peace, at the hotel bar. In so many ways, the project came along at the exact right time. Ill do that., My place in Connecticut is only three hours from Boston, so I just, on a whim, jumped in the car, drove up to Boston, went to the production office and walked in, and David Crockett, one of the producers, and Chay were like, Hey, what are you doing? And I said to Chay, Oh, Im Detective such and such. And she was like, You fucker. I said, Is he here? And she said, Yeah, hes down doing auditions downstairs., I kind of slipped in and waited in line and then said to the production assistant, Dont say my name. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. And someone had forgotten to tell them that we were downstairs shooting. He had robbed a couple of banks in Boston years before. I dont think you know how you sound. Actors tell me that thats one of the toughest ones they have to do. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. However, everybody will want to go see it. 2 hours ago. The movies center is Charlestown, right across the bridge from the rest of Boston, a legend in illicit locales. 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. 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. 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. Its not the same town as it was in the early 1990s and the 1980s.. Affleck: Jeff Robinov and [worldwide marketing president] Sue Kroll were working at Warner Bros. at the time, and they asked to have a meeting with me. 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. In Black Mass, Johnny Depp plays South Boston mobster James Whitey Bulger, an Irish gangster who informed on the Italian mob to the FBI. 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. I thought I had something to add to it. They get their tips and kick up to local crime lord Fergus Fergie Colm, played by veteran character actor Pete Postlethwaite. Jem would rather battle it out with the law than go back to prison. I could tell it was hard on Ben because literally going out to dinner was not really an option. Many of them testified that they had grown tired of a life of stealing, of drugs, of broken relationships.. 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. Hogan: I think weve played out the Irish Boston gangster thing. 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. As they fled with a bag of cash containing roughly $281,000 (180,000 then), another guard opened fire. Welliver: I still think that The Town and Gone Baby Gone, thats the bar. Because of oversaturation in the last decade, Boston movies have been rightfully skewered. Hall: It felt like cinema in the classic sense. And was critically acclaimed. He poses as a florist, just like Dean OBanion, the Irish gang leader who celebrated St. Valentines Day with Al Capone in Prohibition Chicago. Its this movie and its already got a script. Its fucking brilliant. Stockard: I think the rule that Ben and I always kind of operated with, was like, Look, there are people like me and you who are very much from Boston who dont talk like that. Its not some weird thing that someone from Boston doesnt have a Boston accent. I had never even been in a drama class or nothing like that. Then it might as well just stay a book. Its just great that hes from here and hes back. And this woman looked at me and shes like, Hes not from heah! OK, hes from, like, three miles away. 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. Affleck: Its parochial and kind of a small town in some ways. Crockett: I vividly remember it. Honestly, people just wouldnt have liked the movie [with my ending]. 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. After a seven-day trial, they were That would be the equivalent of approximately $5 million today. By the way? 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. Crockett: The Fenway heist was really just a logistical kind of clusterfuck. Carter: There was a guy, Joe Lawler, who was helping us. 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 FBI figures reveal significantly higher crime rates pre-gentrification. 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. So he uses them in that way. [Through a representative, Renner declined to be interviewed for this article.]. He didnt want to option it himself, so they set him up with [producer] Graham King, who got the option. After all, there are only so many Massachusetts-set crime stories about Irish American antiheroes that you can tell. It was taking a period of time that had passed and pretending it was still a reality. 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.. It was wild. We had bank robbers, we had career criminals, people that couldnt show up certain days because theyd be violating their parole. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. According to FBI statistics from the same year, the entire state of Massachusetts had fewer than 3 per cent of all bank robberies nationwide. Hogan: Warner Bros. didnt want to make the movie for that amount. Blake Lively was sent into bars, real hoodlums were cast and a wedding party was spooked by gunfire. 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. What if something happens to you? But hes so agile, and hes so athletic, and he has no fear, just absolutely no fear. Chuck Hogan (author, Prince of Thieves): When the book came out, I was scheduled to do a reading at the Charlestown Public Library. What it allowed me to do is privately observe the prison population. 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. Forget it. Theyre so proud of him and theyre so happy. I look over and its Pete, and hes having his breakfast, and hes reading the paper, and I hadnt met him before because I didnt have any scenes with him. I dont know exactly what happened, but I know that the option was running out. Who was in which car?, Burke: I remember we were all standing around and they were like, Oh yeah, were gonna blow this thing. There was a van parked there and they fucking blew it up. But not everyone was happy with the image of Charlestown given toa generation of moviegoers. They wore wigs, fake bears and masks; in the film, brilliantly, these became nun masks and habits. Stockard: Do we want to punish this person or do we not? 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. And in an exciting way. He came over and he was a little bit shy but she was speaking for him. 10 Patty Hearst Affleck said he picked up the term from a guy at New Sullys bar:I asked, Whats the thing with the Tunies? And he said the Tunies moved in and the Townies stole all their car stereos. And he read and blew me away. And I still am. And for better or worse, it was also a hit thatin addition to tax incentiveshelped temporarily cement Massachusetts as Hollywood East. I said, Im so sorry to bother you Mr. Postlethwaite, but Im on the movie, sorry we dont have any scenes together, but Im so excited to be in a movie with you. I gushed for a while, and he just smiled as broad as he could, and hes like, Come on, come on, sit down, have a drink. I was like, Well, its 11 in the morning.. Stockard: Ben and I went and spent a day with this FBI task force. 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. Tyre marks matched those found in Houston, and five men were eventually convicted. Whats better than that? In 2010, Affleck directed The Town, a drama about a gang of Charlestown armored car robbers. He was in his early 20s. 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 MacRay is a narcissist who uses Jems sister Krista (Blake Lively) for bathroom quickies, and Claire as a loophole. Jason Bourne kills the bad guys. In my imagination, hes always been Ben Affleck. So all of a sudden, while theyre getting married, they hear gunshots at Fenway. Hes just great. Salon Professionals. And man, he stood up really well to Ben. As I got older I lived in [Jamaica Plain], West Roxbury, where my son was born. 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. But it was very real. Affleck: The Red Sox were really smart and understood how vital and central their organization was and is to the city, and they loved the idea of it. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. 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. The Town was initially supposed to end with Doug paying for his sins with his life. In the 2000s, critically acclaimed, Irish Americancentered crime dramas like Clint Eastwoods Mystic River, Martin Scorseses The Departed, and Afflecks Gone Baby Gone had turned the Massachusetts capital into a Hollywood hot spot. An earlier version of this piece misspelled Roslindale. Affleck: Rebecca worked just as hard on the accent. Hogan: I had a friend who worked at Fenway Park, who snuck me in while they were shooting that whole sequence. Director: Ben Affleck. I said, Look, you know, I understand that youre making this movie about robbers out of Charlestown. Affleck: Hockeys such a big thing in Charlestown. Then put it in Connecticut.. Walking in I was feeling kind of glib. This makes it a mini-epic. WebThe crew consisted of Doug MacRay, Jem Coughlin, Desmond Elden, and Albert MacGloan, four veteran Charlestown bank and armored car robbers. The case of the Charlestown robbers in the show grows to encompass and eventually upend Bostons citywide criminal justice system. Kim Mahoney of the Rebecca Halls character asking Douggie why the kids with whom she volunteerscall her a tunie? Affleck had a personal stake in the film that went beyond proving himself as a sophomore director. Download Bank Robbery missions 2017 and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. He goes, Yeah, you know, Ill tell you, Ty. Welliver: He said, Hey, weve got great stories in this city that nobodys telling.. The guests ran for cover. The Town is loosely based on Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves. They have an allegiance which goes from womb to tomb, and sperm to worm. Jems family took Doug in after his mom deserted him, and his father fell apart for a little while. 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. Thats how you drive a f----n caaar, declares the getaway driver, Gloansy (played by rapper Slaine). I came back and met with Ben, and I was so excited. Unfair or not, Charlestown had a reputation. 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. Hogan: I went in to go see it in a screening room in Manhattan like two months before it came out. It had to feel like Bruins. 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. When we started, I said, I need a driver whos Charlestown born and bred. Interestingly enough, my driver was a guy named John Fidler who was a major suspect in many bank robberies, and also bread truck robberies. 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. After a seven-day trial, they were convicted on 54 of 55 counts of robbery, including one which resulted in the death of two armored car guards. To Charlestown, our one square mile of brick and But he also liked this book by Chuck Hogan. WebCharlestownis the oldest neighborhoodin Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. The movie opened on September 17, 2010, to overwhelmingly positive reviews and eventually grossed $154 million at the worldwide box office. Afflecks crew of bank robbers needed genuine local flavor. 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. Staging a chase scene in the North End was difficult, but shooting a robbery inside and around Fenway Park was unprecedented. In the history of crime, the best crew was headed by John Dillinger. He was given just 13 days, during which the sound of automatic gun fire spooked a wedding party that had hired Fenway as a venue and were apparently not made aware that there was also a film shoot in progress. The length of them runs, I would think, like 150 feet. The 1995 article in The Boston Globe, which inspired the films prologue, actually noted more armored car robbers are traced to Charlestown than any other neighborhood in the country. Ex-felons are not allowed to hold even fake weapons. The film makes Jem out to be the loose cannon in the arsenal, but he makes criminal sense. 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. WebWhitey Bulger and his friendss and some of the Charlestown robbers operated from Marshall Street Garage was actually in Winter Hill, Somerville. That was the moment where I realized that I could differentiate one bank robbery from another. Theres something so tomb-like and archaic about Fenway. Its not just an accent, its more of an attitude. These were to prove fundamental to the films success, yielding some of its most memorable moments. When its done great its Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. You didnt really know what was coming. It at least had that upswing. I kind of got to tiptoe around and watch them shooting from afar without them knowing I was there. I call them No R movies, Hogan says. Hes probably still there. 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? They dont rat. The 6-foot-tall Dorchester-born rapper is an intimidating physical presence with a raspy grumble of a voice flavored with a thick Boston accent. So unexpected. Stockard: The movie that we thought about was [Michael Manns] Heat. And I said, Yeah, its just so great that he can come back and do this and dig in. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. A man who was in the square at the time recalls thinking: Whoscrazy enough to pull off a bank robbery at noon in Harvard Square? Charlestown guys. Crockett: I remember being on the streets of Charlestown talking to some people. Welliver: When we were doing The Town is when he was up for the role of Hawkeye. 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. He robbed banks but let the civilians in the banks keep their money. From 1874 to 1921 it is estimated that Starr robbed over 21 banks, stealing $60,000 in cash. Something the character of James (Jeremy Renner), aka Jem, could appreciate. They think theres no more serious white people in Charlestown, says local girl Kris (Blake Lively) early in the film. 'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery capital'? Her words had already come true. Matheson: I will never forget sitting there with some felt and scissors at 3 or 4 in the morning. 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. 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. 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. Every take had the same amount of tension and edge but it was just all over the place. But John is obviously a much bigger guy. Afflecks reluctant bank robber Doug desparately wants to redefine himself as a serious Hollywood player after misfires like Gigli and Jersey Girl. 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 Im gonna do a movie about Iran.. 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. See more. To observe this life. The Town unfolds in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, which the prologue claims has produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than Affleck: That was fascinating. Cooper: Hes had a wonderful career, but [The Town] was a big shot in the arm for him. I love Adrian. According to the Associated Press, Shea, along with Patrick McGonagle, Michael OHalloran, Stephen Burke, and Matthew McDonald, were all from the same Its kind of like a safety thing. 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. Everybody wanted to cut it. It was really more of an erotic thriller: The criminal who falls in love with the captive kind of thing. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. The Ringers Bill Simmons, who lived in Charlestown for eight years, said on The Rewatchablesthat, of all films, this one makes me the most nostalgic for Boston. The bars in the film are real Charlestown bars:Old Sullys (for townies), where Douggie and Jem meet early on, and New Sullys (for yuppies), where Hamms FBI officer approaches Niki. You woke me up.. The cunning group is robbing city banks to steal money and making the getaway with diamond Heist. Affleck: In a world of increasing homogenization, having this fresh place that I think stood out, it was appealing. Culture Editor Tony Sokol is a writer, playwright and musician. 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