Taking a cue from the movie's upcoming infamous spanking scene between Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, someone should tell whoever let Martin Scorsese take three and a half hours to retell "The Flower Moon Killers" . You could read David Grann's book, about an audacious 1920s conspiracy to steal resources from the Osage people through murder, in less time, and you would learn a lot more about how J. Edgar Hoover and the newly formed FBI used this. case to establish its place in American law enforcement.
Of course, we are talking about film legend Martin Scorsese. For years, he battled studio executives who told him what to cut, going toe-to-toe with Harvey Weinstein on "Gangs of New York." He has now earned the right to tell stories as he sees fit. The problem is that, at 206 minutes, "Killers of the Flower Moon" isn't so much an epic movie as it is a miniseries. There's nothing wrong with that, except that it's destined for the big screen, where Apple has committed to releasing it this fall. At about two hours, “Killers” would be a kill, while longer than “The Longest Day,” most people will wait to watch it at home.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese, David Grann
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone
That's why someone needs to stand up and tell Marty to get a handle on things. They should have done it before he started filming, as pacing is built in and Scorsese's projects don't compress well after the fact. As it stands, “Killers” remains a compelling true story, one that Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth transformed from a typical detective story about white saviors to a more morally thorny look at how white culprits planned and carried out carry out the crime. murders. Stylistically, it seems like a young man's movie. It's riveting from the start, the palpable tension methodically echoed in Robbie Robertson's steady score. But it goes on and on until everyone we care about is dead, dying, or behind bars, and there's still almost an hour to go.
Years earlier, the U.S. government had forced the tribe to give up their ancestral lands and move to undesirable lands in Oklahoma, where they became rich virtually overnight when oil was discovered beneath their feet. An early scene of the discovery of the first jet is reminiscent of "There Will Be Blood," in the same way that the splash between De Niro and DiCaprio is reminiscent of that film's ending at the bowling alley, although I'm afraid "Heaven's Gate" is the most appropriate comparison: a morally Indignant look back at a slow-motion massacre scene that gets so bogged down in the details that it loses the thread.
Scorsese speaks of prosperous times for the Osage people, who had become the richest Americans per capita, thanks to the countless oil derricks that cover their barren lands. That made them obvious targets to be exploited. Early on, the director draws a direct line between the Osage murders and the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, referenced in old newsreels: both cases in which white supremacists couldn't stand to see others prosper, counting on a legal system biased to cover them. their crimes.
But this is not the story of a murder. Taking a page from “Goodfellas,” Scorsese reviews a half-dozen suspicious deaths early on, dismissed without investigation, including a “suicide” in which we see someone shoot an Osage woman in the chest and then restage the scene by placing the gun close to her. hand.
That's the climate in which DiCaprio's character, an opportunistic World War I veteran named Ernest Burkhart, moves to Fairfax, Oklahoma, where he soon finds himself participating in assassinations. Ernest's first stop off the train is his uncle William "King" Hale's house, where the well-connected rancher welcomes him to town, happy to have the perfect scapegoat.
Ernest doesn't realize it, but the plan is already in motion. For it to work, King needs his nephew to marry Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), an Osage woman who is too smart not to recognize a gold prospector, but too trusting to imagine how sinister her suitor's intentions may be. Almost immediately, her family members begin to die from suspicious causes. One sister succumbs to a strange "debilitating illness," another is discovered with a gunshot wound to the back of the head, and the third dies in an explosion so large it shatters every window for a mile.
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