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Killers of the Flower Moon
The true story of the Osage Indians, oil, greed and murder most foul in Osage County, Oklahoma, 1923.

Now I understand why Martin Scorsese said 'NO' to intermissions, the slowly building despair of the Osage Tribe propels the film forward, an intermission would break the mood. We get to know the characters and their loving families, when everyone around Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone) start dying we feel their heartbreak.

Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie meet and fall in love when he is driving a cab. Ernest is back from the war and his kindly Uncle William Hale (Robert De Niro) takes him under his wing.




Ernest slowly finds out not everything is as it appears in the Osage Nation, which is to his liking.



The film's story line differs from the book by refocusing the narrative to the Osage Nation and the White people around them rather than the FBI. 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is endorsed by Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear of the Osage Nation.

Jesse Plemons' FBI agent Tom White appears in the last act and plays a pivotal role.




Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Robert De Niro
Lily Gladstone
Brendan Fraser
Jesse Plemons
John Lithgow
Jason Isbell
Sturgill Simpson

A podcast about Jack Fisk, the man behind the meticulous set design is required listening in order to understand all the minute details that went into creating 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/podcasts/the-daily/fisk-killers-of-the-flower-moon.html

"One winter day in February 2021, Jack Fisk stood before Hometown with Martin Scorsese, explaining how beautiful it could be. For much of the last week, he and Scorsese had been walking around Pawhuska, scouting set locations for the director’s 28th feature film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The film, which is based on David Grann’s best-selling book, chronicles the so-called 1920s Reign of Terror, when the Osage Nation’s discovery of oil made them some of the richest people in the world but also the target of a conspiracy among white people seeking to kill them for their shares of the mineral rights.

"To render the events as accurately as possible, Scorsese had decided to film the movie in Osage County. It would be a sprawling, technically complicated shoot, with much of the undertaking falling to Fisk. Unlike production designers who use soundstages or computer-generated imagery, he prefers to build from scratch or to remodel period buildings, and even more than most of his peers, he aspires to exacting historical detail. His task would be to create a full-scale replica of a 1920s boom town atop what remains of 2020s Pawhuska."

The small bladders at RT only give the film 93%
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/killers_of_the_flower_moon

The 3hr 26 minute runtime may appear to be long but because Scorsese is still in top form and the all the actors' performances are A+ the hours fly by, De Niro is at his manipulative best. Like Mom always said before you went on a trip "Do you have to pee?" Always listen to Mom.


Trailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0si5bSd6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFoIg72KGIk

 

[S Clark]

My wife is part Osage, and is on the tribal roles.  This story of greed and evil is one well known to all Osage descendants. 
When they were forced from their homes in Kentucky to a reservation in Oklahoma, the one of the firsts thing they did when they hit oil was to send there kids to law school.  It's the only reason they weren't pushed off again.   Some of that oil is still pumping.