This is driving my boss crazy,and therefore me: why are they the Boondock Saints when they don’t live in the boondocks? What is the origin of their name.Need answer fast!
Never seen anything that tells why the name. I imagined that the brothers seemed to be from the boondocks, or they were considered to live in the figurative boondocks of Boston. Possibly it was just cool sounding.
My boss and her husband are arguing about this. I tried to give her that explanation, or that maybe the name of the bar or their neighborhood was the Boondock. But it’s not covered on the wiki, the fan sites, the interviews, anywhere.
The Billy Joe Royal song “Down in the Boondocks”
lyric “people put me down because that’s the side of town I was born in”
I guess meaning the bad part of town, like “the other side of the tracks” a modern day Robin Hood type story.
To me, ‘boondocks’ has always meant ‘out in the sticks’ – a poor, rural area. I never associated it with a city until I saw The Boondock Saints. But while the film doesn’t take place in actual ‘boondocks’, it does take place in an area that is a virtual city-equivalent. I took the title as a bit of literary license.
I’m pretty sure that they’re never actually referred to as The Boondock Saints in the movie. I think it’s just “The Saints.”
It’s not the name of a bar or neighborhood that I’m aware of. Duffy and his brother had a band called Brood before the movie was made, and they changed the name to Boondock Saints for the move.
I think its a figurative reference to the poorer part of town, and a word that sounds good, and modifies the word Saints in juxtaposition.
BTW: I loved the original, not too thrilled with the sequel.
It means as much as Reservoir Dogs does.
No idea. But according to Merriam-Webster, the primary usage is “rough country filled with dense brush.” I can see how you might equate that to a rough neighborhood.
Remember the brothers were working-class heroes after they killed the mobsters in self defense. Very blue-collar area, the urban equivalent of the boondocks.
The “Boondock” in the title is meant to be a way of poking fun at Boston. Boondock has come to be used when describing a city or town that is unrefined, backwards, or unsophisticated, as well as the original deifintion of the word.
Boston is viewed as classless and uncultured by many residents of larger, younger, or more business-centric metrpoles or more “urban” cities.
I saw that movie a long time ago but I’m pretty sure it had dogs swimming around in a reservoir.