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Director Martin Scorsese will soon see the release of his twenty-seventh filmKillers of the Flower Moon. The crime drama stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone and will explore the true events behind the serial killings of the members of the Osage tribe.
Based on the non-fiction book by David Grann, Scorsese has claimed that the film would attempt to deviate from the ‘white savior’ trope employed in the book and tell the story more from the perspective of the Osages. However, one of the Osage consultants on the film has raised concerns about the film’s intention after its Los Angeles premiere.
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What IsKillers of the Flower MoonAbout?
Martin Scorsese’scrime dramaKillers of the Flower Moonis based on the ‘Reign of Terror’, a period in the 1900s when many Osage nation tribespeople were mysteriously killed. The tribe was situated in Oklahoma, on land that was oil-rich and had many affluent Osage Indians who had made a fortune from the oil money.
The film follows the FBI investigation of the series of murders, led by agent Tom White, who is played by Jesse Plemons. The character was initially supposed to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio, when the script was still in its nascent stages and when it was exploring the birth of the FBI. However, this direction was soon changed by Scorsese.
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Scorsese mentioned that he and screenwriter Eric Roth had first written a usual story of murder and investigation from an outsider’s perspective. But the duo reportedly felt that they were making it all about the white guys and hence overhauled the entire direction of the script. The director said toTimemagazine,
“After a certain point, I realized I was making a movie about all the white guys. Meaning I was taking the approach from the outside in, which concerned me.”
The central characters in the film areLeonardo DiCaprio’sErnest Burkhart, Robert De Niro’s William Hale, and Lily Gladstone’s Mollie Burkhart. Mollie is an Osage Indian who marries a white man, Ernest, a World War I veteran and Hale’s nephew. Relatives of Mollie’s are murdered during the ‘Reign of Terror’. Scorsese and Eric Roth reportedly changed the central theme of the script to reflect the relationship between the Burkharts.
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Criticism Faced By Martin Scorsese After The Film’s Premiere
Killers of the Flower Moonwill be released on October 20 across the world and the film had its Los Angeles premiere earlier this week. While the film has been raking in praise ever since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, the recent premiere has reportedly drawn criticism from a member of the Osage tribe.
Christopher Cote, a language consultant on the film recently raised concerns about the film’s narrative and how it is not from the Osage perspective. Cote reportedly had issues with making the plot center around Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart’s apparent love for Mollie Burkhart.
Cote, who was a consultant on the film mentioned that after watching the film he had strong opinions on it and mentioned toThe Hollywood Reporter,
“I think in the end, the question that you can be left with is: How long will you be complacent with racism? How long will you go along with something and not say something, not speak up, how long will you be complacent? I think that’s because this film isn’t made for an Osage audience, it was made for everybody, not Osage.”
Cote also went on to appreciate Martin Scorsese for doing a great job at representing the Osage nation.
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Nishanth A is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows with over 2,000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years and a scriptwriter at various corporations before that, working on educational content. With a Communications, English Literature, and Psychology triple major, Nishanth usually covers news and analyses on Star Trek, particularly Strange New Worlds and The Next Generation; Doctor Who, the DCU, and more.A Nolan fan, Nishanth spends his time exploring the filmographies of various directors with an auteurial style or can be found making short movies of his own. He has also contributed as a feature writer for Film Companion, focusing on the South division.
