Ben Affleck has represented his hometown of Boston in many of his films. But after a while, he felt that it was important to move beyond his home when developing his movies. Ben Affleck believed that he had to get out of Boston for his movies Affleck reignited his career by directing two highly acclaimed movies in very familiar territory.
Both Gone Baby Gone and The Town took place in Boston. But initially, Affleck was reluctant to do The Town because it hit too close to home. “I was actually hesitant purely because of that.
I had done my love letter to Boston with Gone Baby Gone , and I didn’t want to repeat myself,” Affleck once told Movies.ie . “But the story got to me.
I just loved the characters here, the journey they go on. You just feel it in your bones, and it makes the whole process so much easier. And satisfying.
I had a lot of fun making this movie.” However, Affleck decided that The Town needed to be the last film he directed in Boston for a while. “I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence,” Affleck told Rolling Stone in 2012.
“I honestly felt like I would kind of end up being pigeonholed as Boston Crime Guy – not that there aren’t interesting and good movies to be made in the crime genre in Boston, but I wanted to tell different stories.” This led Affleck to do one of his most successful films in Arg o , whic.