Hollywood took a liking to working class Boston in the late ‘90s thru 2000s. So saw the rise of Matt Damon, Ben and Casey Affleck and anyone else who could do the accent. Plus the rise of films based in lower to middle class Massachusetts communities. Has it reached saturation point? I am tired of the accent, for one thing. There is a Gillette ad on tv with a Boston narrator that is irritating af.
shareLive in Boston....there’s some saturation. Late 90’s early 2000’s Boston was still rather gritty blue collar Irish Catholic...particularly Southie and Charlestown. In the past 15-20 years it has gentrified a lot.
Now they’ll just do Boston movies about hipsters, yuppies and various LGBTQ characters. The old tough guys are mostly gone. The Irish mob sold out to real estate developers and rich yuppies. They moved to Weymouth and Cape Cod to retire.