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Killers Of The Flower Moon marked the sixth collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. The epic crime drama film is written by Scorsese and Eli Roth and is an adaptation of the 2017 nonfiction namesake book penned by David Grann.
The film revolves around the killings of several Osage family members in the 1920s when oil was found in the region. Killers Of The Flower Moon was released on October 20, 2023, and ended up grossing $158.8 million at the box office.
When Leonardo DiCaprio explained a scene from Killers Of The Flower Moon
In a video for Vanity Fair, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone gave a breakdown of several scenes from their film Killers Of The Flower Moon. DiCaprio went on to talk about a particular scene where his character, Ernest Burkhart, is talking to Mollie Burkhart (played by Gladstone). Talking about the scene, DiCaprio says,
"He does no work. Is it just the fact that he's a little bit slow and dim that he doesn't know anything about his uncle or the fact that he talks about the fact that he's a businessman when he really has no business? He's barely a cab driver at that point. But he's putting on a show. He's peacocking for her. He's making himself out to be something that he's not."
More about Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers Of The Flower Moon is the sixth film of the Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration after The Departed, Shutter Island, Gangs of New York, Wolf of Wall Street, and The Aviator.
The producers of the film include Scorsese, Dan Friedkin, Daniel Lupi, and Bradley Thomas. It had its world premiere at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, followed by a theatrical release on October 20. The film received positive reviews and received multiple nominations at the Academy Awards. Gladstone won a Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe for her performance. Other cast members of Killers of the Flower Moon include,
- Robert De Niro as William King Hale
- Jesse Plemons as Thomas Bruce White Sr
- Tantoo Cardinal as Lizzie Q
- John Lithgow as Peter Leaward
- Brendan Fraser as W. S. Hamilton
- Cara Jade Myers as Anna
In a BFI interview, Scorsese revealed how the book affected him to make Killers of the Flower Moon. He said,
"So I’m reading Killers and I’m saying to myself, “That’s interesting, because this actually takes place in the 1920s.” The more I got into it, the more I became fascinated by the stories of the Texas Rangers and, primarily, then, the culture of the Osage Nation, and I decided to try to pursue it. And Eric Roth and I got together; I think it was January 2017. It was the first day that Trump was in office and he did all these executive orders. We were sitting there watching, and then we were working."
Scorsese initially wanted to make Killers Of The Flower Moon before The Irishman. However, De Niro convinced him to make the crime film first because it would require time for the de-aging. The writing of the film took place during the pre and post-production of The Irishman.
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