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The chorus of this line, which appears to be from a children’s book, is one of many hauntings in the first trailer of the series. Martin Scorsese‘S Flower Moon Killer, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend and will hit theaters in the fall. adapted from David GrannIn his book, the story expands from a vivid true crime story—focusing on a series of unexplained deaths in the oil-rich Osage Nation in the early 1920s—to an indictment of how The American West was built. As the trailer clearly states, through footage of white Oklahomans looking coldly at the camera, “Greed is a bloodthirsty animal.”
Grann’s book, with subtitles The Birth of the FBIframed as a detective story, with FBI agent Tom White (played by the actor in the film Jesse Plemons) to the Osage Nation to solve the murder of many natives, who profited from the oil discovered beneath their land. But the fact that Plemons only appeared briefly in the trailer is no coincidence. In a recent interview with Deadline, DiCaprio said that the initial draft of the script, which focused on White and the investigation, “didn’t get to the heart of Osage. It’s more of an investigation into detective work than a forensic understanding of the culture and dynamics of this dangerous, very tumultuous time in Oklahoma.
Final version of the film, written by Eric Roth and Scorsese, is a more complicated love story between DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart and his wife Mollie (Lily Gladstone), an Osage woman who became rich on oil money. DiCaprio told Deadline: “Ernest and Mollie really represent how twisted and complicated some of these things are, culturally. “A lot of Osage women were married to white men who actually came hunting them down, to take over and take their oil money. And yet, at the same time […] They still love each other. It’s the twisted complexity that makes this a truly dark American story.”
With Deadline, Scorsese spoke more about how his film responds to the American Western cinema tradition and how the Osages helped propel him to put the love story at the center. He also reflects on his long career and what might happen next: “I’m old. I read things. I see everything. I wanted to tell stories, and there was no time left.”
