Retahded Defined
Pronunciation of
"retarded" attributed to residents of the Boston area.
Our boy, Ben Affleck -- filming
his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone (opening
Oct. 15th) -- went to great lengths during production to curtail
costs. In fact, rather than hire extras, he improvised by getting locals drunk.
He explains:
Basically, what we did was,
wherever possible, we went down to locations -- say we shot in a bar -- and we
basically said, 'Whoever's at your barstool, we're gonna show up and make the
movie, stay where you are. We're gonna make the movie around you.' A lot of
times, and I'm not sure if this is legal, we were just buying people drinks.
One local in Southie saw it
like this: “Here I am mindin’ my own fackin’ bizzness, and this so-called
Hollywood directah comes up and shoves a camera in my face, says I’m gonna be
in a moovee. It was retahded. Like
I’m suppose to be impressed?! Like I don’t see that fackin’ retahd with his skeeza wife every time
I watch the Sox -- those assholes on NESN are more interested in showing his
ugly mug than the fackin’ ballgame. And I’m all like, ‘fahk you, Affleck. Take
your big-time camera crew and all your gahbge and get the fack out of my bah,
you fackin’ retahd. I don’t wanna be
in your fackin’ movee.’ That nerve of that guy -- he thinks every bah in Boston
is frickin’ Cheeahs. But, then he bought me a coupla Sams and a grinda, and I
was all like, ‘Pissah!” You were the bomb in Phantoms, yo!’”
Oh my sweet Jesus. Go ahead and read that "rundown" to yourself, out loud, in the Boston accent. And try not laughing yourself to tears. I fahkin' dare you.
Affleck really was the bomb in Phantoms.
Snoochie Boochies!!!