This looks like it's going to be a great movie, a little long though, 3 1/2 hours.
Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic revisionist Western crime drama film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth, based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann. Its plot centers on a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, committed after oil was discovered on tribal land. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone lead an ensemble cast that includes Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, and Brendan Fraser. It is the sixth feature film collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio and the tenth between Scorsese and De Niro, and the eleventh and final collaboration between Scorsese and his musical partner, Robbie Robertson, who died two months before the film's release; the film is dedicated to Robertson.
Plot
Osage elders somberly bury a ceremonial pipe, mourning the assimilation of their descendants into white American society. Wandering through the badlands of their Oklahoma reservation, several Osage find oil gushing from the ground. The tribe becomes fabulously wealthy after the exploitation of oil on their lands, but the reservation laws require white "guardians" to manage their money.
In 1918, Ernest Burkhart returns from World War I to his rancher uncle William "King" Hale, who lives with Ernest's brother Byron on the reservation. Hale poses as a friendly benefactor of the Osage people, speaking their language and bestowing gifts upon them, but he secretly schemes to murder them and steal their wealth. To facilitate his plan, he tells Ernest, who works as a cab driver, to pay special attention to Mollie Kyle, an Osage whose family owns much of the oil headrights. A romance eventually develops between the two, and they are married in a ceremony that mixes Catholic and Osage religious iconography.
Hale tells Ernest that he will inherit a greater share of the headrights as more of Mollie's family dies. He has already ordered the deaths of several wealthy Osage, and continues by killing Mollie's sister Minnie with poison (the effects resembling a wasting illness) and her other sister Anna by gunshot. Lizzie Q, Mollie's mother who is herself being poisoned, blames the white residents of the reservation, as does an Osage council, which urges the members of the tribe to fight back. Lizzie Q dies in her bed, envisioning her ancestors welcoming her to the afterlife.
Hale has Ernest poison Mollie by drugging her insulin; Mollie begins to experience the same wasting illness as Minnie. He also orders the death of Henry Roan, Mollie's first husband, and kills Rita, Mollie's last remaining sister, along with her husband, by blowing up her house. Mollie now owns all of her family's headrights: upon her death, Ernest will take them himself. No outside help has yet materialized: a representative of the Osage nation seeking to lobby Congress is murdered in Washington D.C., and a private detective — William J. Burns — hired by Mollie, is beaten and chased away from the reservation by a gang of thugs (including Ernest).
Mollie decides to travel to Washington herself, in spite of her condition, and beg President Calvin Coolidge for help. Bureau of Investigation sends Agent Tom White and assistants to investigate. It is immediately obvious to the investigators who is behind the plot; Hale tries to cover his tracks by murdering several of his own hired killers, but White ferrets out the truth and arrests him and Ernest. The agents find Mollie nearly dead and get her proper medical care.
White pressures Ernest into turning state's evidence, testifying against Hale in exchange for legal protection. W. S. Hamilton, Hale's attorney, tells Ernest to swear that his confession was the result of torture, but the death of one of Ernest and Mollie's three children from whooping cough persuades Ernest to testify. Hale tries to have Ernest killed but fails. Mollie meets with Ernest one last time, but leaves unceremoniously when Ernest lies that he did not poison her.
Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic revisionist Western crime drama film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth, based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann. Its plot centers on a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, committed after oil was discovered on tribal land. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone lead an ensemble cast that includes Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, and Brendan Fraser. It is the sixth feature film collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio and the tenth between Scorsese and De Niro, and the eleventh and final collaboration between Scorsese and his musical partner, Robbie Robertson, who died two months before the film's release; the film is dedicated to Robertson.
Plot
Osage elders somberly bury a ceremonial pipe, mourning the assimilation of their descendants into white American society. Wandering through the badlands of their Oklahoma reservation, several Osage find oil gushing from the ground. The tribe becomes fabulously wealthy after the exploitation of oil on their lands, but the reservation laws require white "guardians" to manage their money.
In 1918, Ernest Burkhart returns from World War I to his rancher uncle William "King" Hale, who lives with Ernest's brother Byron on the reservation. Hale poses as a friendly benefactor of the Osage people, speaking their language and bestowing gifts upon them, but he secretly schemes to murder them and steal their wealth. To facilitate his plan, he tells Ernest, who works as a cab driver, to pay special attention to Mollie Kyle, an Osage whose family owns much of the oil headrights. A romance eventually develops between the two, and they are married in a ceremony that mixes Catholic and Osage religious iconography.
Hale tells Ernest that he will inherit a greater share of the headrights as more of Mollie's family dies. He has already ordered the deaths of several wealthy Osage, and continues by killing Mollie's sister Minnie with poison (the effects resembling a wasting illness) and her other sister Anna by gunshot. Lizzie Q, Mollie's mother who is herself being poisoned, blames the white residents of the reservation, as does an Osage council, which urges the members of the tribe to fight back. Lizzie Q dies in her bed, envisioning her ancestors welcoming her to the afterlife.
Hale has Ernest poison Mollie by drugging her insulin; Mollie begins to experience the same wasting illness as Minnie. He also orders the death of Henry Roan, Mollie's first husband, and kills Rita, Mollie's last remaining sister, along with her husband, by blowing up her house. Mollie now owns all of her family's headrights: upon her death, Ernest will take them himself. No outside help has yet materialized: a representative of the Osage nation seeking to lobby Congress is murdered in Washington D.C., and a private detective — William J. Burns — hired by Mollie, is beaten and chased away from the reservation by a gang of thugs (including Ernest).
Mollie decides to travel to Washington herself, in spite of her condition, and beg President Calvin Coolidge for help. Bureau of Investigation sends Agent Tom White and assistants to investigate. It is immediately obvious to the investigators who is behind the plot; Hale tries to cover his tracks by murdering several of his own hired killers, but White ferrets out the truth and arrests him and Ernest. The agents find Mollie nearly dead and get her proper medical care.
White pressures Ernest into turning state's evidence, testifying against Hale in exchange for legal protection. W. S. Hamilton, Hale's attorney, tells Ernest to swear that his confession was the result of torture, but the death of one of Ernest and Mollie's three children from whooping cough persuades Ernest to testify. Hale tries to have Ernest killed but fails. Mollie meets with Ernest one last time, but leaves unceremoniously when Ernest lies that he did not poison her.
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