{"id":4846,"date":"2010-09-26T01:55:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T05:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2018-02-17T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T20:35:43","slug":"ben-afflecks-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4846","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck’s Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Town<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is one of my all-time favorite crime movies<\/strong>.\u00a0 Ben Affleck<\/strong>, as director<\/strong> and star<\/strong>, surrounded himself with a great cast [Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper<\/strong>] and terrific story [and adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s Prince of Thieves<\/strong><\/a>].<\/p>\n

Part of the reason that I love The Town<\/strong><\/a> so much is that it feels real<\/strong>.\u00a0 This was Affleck’s goal<\/strong> in both casting the roles<\/strong> and filming<\/strong>.\u00a0 When casting the female lead<\/strong>, Affleck<\/strong> said it was really important…<\/p>\n

…that she feel like a real person. If you dropped a very recognisable Hollywood whoever-it-is or starlet that everyone knows into that role, somebody who depends on a certain kind of acting that was sort of \u201crecognizable\u201d, the immediately the audience would know \u201cOkay, it will be hard for her, but then she\u2019ll come back and she\u2019ll be winning and we\u2019ll all go home happy\u201d and it would allow the audience to feel comfortable…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Affleck <\/strong>believes that his decision to use security camera footage<\/strong> also helped with the feel that the robberies were real…<\/p>\n

…The security camera footage, I wanted to use so that the audience would subconsciously feel as if it were more realistic. I think we\u2019re actually used to seeing crime and violence through that prism, that 15 frames per second, no sound, black and white security stuff. So when you see that happen, \u201cthis feels real\u201d and then you cut into the 35 stuff and maybe at some level in your mind you\u2019re feeling like it\u2019s more kind of authentic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read more about Ben Aflleck’s contributions<\/strong> to the success of The Town<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>at Bleeding Cool’s post<\/strong>.<\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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