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Slate's Spoiler Specials

The Town: Slate Spoiler Special

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2010

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Slate's Dana Stevens and John Swansburg discuss Ben Affleck's The Town. WARNING: This podcast is meant to be heard AFTER you've seen the movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate's spoiler special podcast on The Town, the new Ben Affleck crime drama.

0:06.7

With me in the studio is John Swansberg.

0:09.1

Hello, John.

0:09.6

Good to be here.

0:10.8

And yes, you were born for this spoiler special because you are from Boston, born and bred, right?

0:16.7

Yes, well, I should say for people who are actually from Boston, people like to say they're from Boston, they usually mean they're from the greater Boston area. And I grew up on the North Shore. But I did live for two years in Boston proper, as they say in Boston, in Charlestown, which is where this movie takes place.

0:31.4

I guess what we most need to know is that Ben Affleck, who directed, co-wrote and stars in the movie, plays Doug McRae, who is the offspring, the son of a legendary bank robber, who's on his way to becoming a legendary bank robber, an armored truck hold-up robber himself.

0:47.0

Right. After failing in his attempt to be a professional hockey player.

0:51.1

Right.

0:51.4

And apparently he, like, had the talent, but he sort of pissed away his chances on drugs

0:55.6

and by just being a bellicose fighting guy.

0:58.4

Right.

0:59.6

And so at the beginning of the movie, he's long past the hockey career and is building

1:05.0

his bank robbery career.

1:06.7

And he's the head of this gang, the only member of which we really need to know about

1:10.0

for our purposes, although I do want to talk about the character Glonesy so I can say the name as often as possible. Yeah. And Jim is sort of the, there's a character like him in almost every gang movie, right?

1:29.0

He's the hothead guy who at any moment could go off, right?

1:32.3

The one who enjoys the violence just a little bit too much.

1:34.4

Right.

1:34.6

And indeed, in the first bank heist that we see, which is basically the first thing we see in the movie,

1:39.6

you know, there's, of course, another stock character that kind of like bank manager who is

1:44.6

maybe sort of making a move towards a silent alarm and Jim kind of, you know, delivers first

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