Martin Scorsese on Oscar front runner Killers Of The Flower Moon: Violence on screen serves a purpose

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The auteur feels muting the murders committed against the Osage people would hurt the film's purpose. Read more at straitstimes.com.

But he also makes cultural films that portray life in a non-white community, which have nothing to do with the Italian- or Irish-American criminal underworld viewers have become so familiar with.

“You can sweep it under the rug and say it never happened. But it won’t go away. You have to know what humans are capable of doing,” he adds. Scorsese also spoke about why, in adapting the 2017 book Killers Of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI by American journalist David Grann, he had a change of heart about the direction the story was going.

And upon discussing with lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Scorsese came to the conclusion that the relationship between DiCaprio’s Ernest, a WWI veteran, and Mollie, an Osage woman played by Lily Gladstone, would unlock the film.“The heart of the film is the love story,” Scorsese says, and so, despite having worked on it for several years, the film-maker scrapped the screenplay in favour of a rewrite that placed the police investigation in the background.“Come on.

 

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