{"id":19014,"date":"2023-05-20T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/20\/martin-scorsese-has-never-made-a-movie-like-killers-of-the-flower-moon\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T19:45:00","slug":"martin-scorsese-has-never-made-a-movie-like-killers-of-the-flower-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/20\/martin-scorsese-has-never-made-a-movie-like-killers-of-the-flower-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese Has Never Made a Movie Like \u2018Killers of the Flower Moon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Over the course of a storied career, the director Martin Scorsese<\/strong> has used gangsters\u2014particularly those connected to the Mafia\u2014as a way to talk about America. Coded in the ring-a-ding patter and bloody outburst of Goodfellas<\/em> or Casino<\/em> is a simulacrum of our country\u2019s make-or-break greed, its manic excess, its ornate history of violence. Though he has made other kinds of movies, Scorsese has returned to the criminal fringes again and again, seemingly unable to shake his fascination with America\u2019s dark economy.<\/p>\n

With 2019\u2019s The Irishman,<\/em> it seemed that maybe Scorsese was closing a loop<\/a>, crafting a wintry portrait of a gangster at his end. But for his next act, the director has merely gone further back in time to examine another organized brutality. With Killers of the Flower Moon,<\/em> which premiered here at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, Scorsese adapts David Grann<\/strong>\u2019s nonfiction bestseller, a chronicle of the murders of Osage people in 1920s Oklahoma. Over three and a half hours, Scorsese maps out a sprawling injustice, adding another piece to his grand collage of a nation\u2019s cruelty.<\/p>\n

Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong> plays Ernest Burkhart, a World War I veteran of simple aims who has arrived in Osage County to work for his uncle, William Hale, a wealthy and respected rancher played with creeping slime by Robert De Niro.<\/strong> Hale isn\u2019t in the oil business, but he\u2019s surrounded by its wealth. The Osage people have discovered oil on their land, and have been granted access to much of its profits. Their home is one of the most monied places per capita in the world, its residents chauffeured around in fancy cars, bedecked in fine furs and jewelry on their way to and from well-appointed homes.<\/p>\n

The Osage oil boom was a rare instance of Native Americans finding themselves in control of resources, which of course was anathema to many of the white people flocking to the county to work the oil fields. Their barely clandestine efforts to steal this Native wealth are grimly laid bare in Killers of the Flower Moon,<\/em> perhaps Scorsese\u2019s most tragic, condemnatory film to date.<\/p>\n

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