Hey all of you out there soaking up my blog, here is something new.
I am going to do a movie review for the movie The Town. This will not be your everyday type of review. Why you ask? Because it is coming from me.
The Town
Starring: Ben Affleck, John Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Blake Livley and a bunch of other people.
So this story is about four guys from Charlestown (where my mother is originally from) who are bank / armored truck robbers. They know what they are doing, partly because, Charlestown produces more bank robbers than any place else in the world!
Well, at one such robbery, they take the branch manager hostage. Ben Affleck decides to stalk her, then fall in love with her.
There is alot of action, and a TON on decent Bostonian accents throughout this film.
All in all a decent movie.
Now, let me get to what I really want to talk about, that this movie set off in me.
The way women from Massachusettts are portrayed in Hollywood.
They are for the most part portrayed as filthy, skanky, whores. They sleep in their makeup, never brush thier hair, and are uneducated and crude. Now, I understand that not all the women are portrayed like this, but take a look back at some films showing the lovely women of Massachusetts.
Gone Baby Gone - Skanky uneducated whores, horrible mother.
The Departed - Need I say more
Fever Pitch - With the exclusion of Drew Barrymores who was not originally from Boston, all the ladies in this movie seem pretty skanky. Remember the ladies that sit near them at every game???
Mystic River - Watch it! Sean Penn is amazing, but again with the skanks!
The Crucible - Arthur Miller changed the story of the Salem witch trials around a bit... The main finger pointer Abigail Williams, is the original Massachusetts skank. No she doesn't wear makeup, but she has half the town killed for witchcraft just to get her grubby little hands on a man old enough to be her father.
The Perfect Storm - They made Diane Lane skanky.... if you can wrap that around your pipe and smoke it.
The Pregnancy Pact - A made for TV movie about the girls of Gloucester who decided to all get knocked up at the same time in high school.
Is this a good enough example for you??? These are just ones I have seen.
It is bad enough that New Englanders are tortured throughout life with this horrible dialect, but please Hollywood, please stop with the skanks!!!
My Nana Barbara is an amazing woman who has spent her life in Charlestown, and never once has she acted like a skank, or looked like one. My parents grew up in Massachusetts, not nasty skanks. I spent my childhood living in Mass, I don't feel I am skanky. My oldest daughter was born there, at five years old, she shows no signs of nasty.
Maybe, next time I will write about how all people from New Hampshire are portrayed as backwoods hicks!!!!
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