Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

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February 18th, 2021, 9:48 am
Meth Damon Rises
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Allstar wrote:
February 18th, 2021, 2:23 am
Not even news on a new Scorsese film can wake up this dead forum. LOL.. come on people!
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Incredible

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Speaking to French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma earlier this month, Scorsese said, “Leonardo DiCaprio will play the main role, Bob (De Niro) will return to play William Hale, the” king of the Osage hills “, the man responsible for most of the murders. The rest will be Native American actors. It’s so interesting to think about the mentality that leads us to this. The history of civilisation goes back to Mesopotamia. The Hittites are invaded by another people, they disappear and later, it is said that they have been assimilated, or rather, absorbed. (…) It is fascinating to see this mentality which is reproduced in other cultures, through two world wars. And which is therefore timeless, I think. Finally, this is the film that we are going to try to make. ”
https://hero-magazine.com/article/16544 ... ower-moon/

THR saying Plemons was the lead and Leo took a more secondary role was quite lazy reporting since Scorsese himself said Leo is the main character.

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Vader182 wrote:
February 17th, 2021, 9:32 pm
I am anticipating this motion picture


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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is “One for the Ages,” Says Writer Eric Roth
“I think this is my fifth year or six year on it. And there were some changes that came about that were interesting about what Leonardo was going to play in it. I think in the long run — we all had our moments of trying to figure out how best to portray things because the story is so impactful — and I think we ended up with exactly the right material and that Marty made the right decisions. I just think he's going to make — and obviously I would say this — but I think [of] all my work, this one could be one of the great movies. I really mean that. I think it has all the ingredients, which I don't want to jinx it, but the story is so important.”
“I know Marty's trying to make a movie that's probably the last Western that would be made like this, and yet, with this incredible social document underneath it, and the violence and the environment. I think it'll be like nothing we've ever seen, in a way. And so this one is, to me, one for the ages.”
“I mean, people will be in suits and things because it's 1921. It's during the prohibition, but the ethos I think is very Western. And also, I think Western justice, about how they said that you couldn't find 12 white men to convict a white man of killing a native American. You’d have a better chance of having them convicted of kicking a dog. And that's kind of the feeling on that. And then also, you have these incredible people, the Osage family that a character comes and marries into, and who's a villain and who isn't. And then into that comes a kind of heroic guy — Tom White, his name was, who Jesse Plemons is playing — who was in the Texas Rangers, and you couldn't get more Western than that.”
Given the rumors that DiCaprio had switched to a supporting role, I asked Roth if Plemons is now the lead of the film, and he clarified that Plemons and DiCaprio’s parts are about equal screentime – it’s just that one is the “hero” and the other character is more complicated:

“I wouldn't say [Plemons is] the lead. I would say that he was the designated hero. But yeah, I think that's fairer because I think the parts are pretty equal and they were always equal to a certain extent, and Leo's part is very complicated and very interesting. It's a smart part for a smart actor to play. I mean, if Montgomery Clift was alive, I think he might think of playing him.”
https://collider.com/killers-of-the-flo ... interview/

Super exciting stuff. DiCaprio switching from White to Burkhart will probably end up being one of the smartest decisions of his career.

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I honestly don’t know much about this project, but it sounds hype as fuck. Leo is a GOAT. Besides J Edgar, dude ain’t lost in forever.

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April 9th, 2021, 11:49 am
I honestly don’t know much about this project, but it sounds hype as fuck. Leo is a GOAT. Besides J Edgar, dude ain’t lost in forever.
I would really recommend the book. Can even get the audiobook for free with free trial of audible if you’re into that.

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This is a milestone in the way that the Irishman was by uniting De Niro-Pacino-Scorsese-Pesci-Keitel just by having DiCaprio and De Niro share the screen in a Scorsese movie. Him finally having his two biggest muses in one film is a big deal. Hopefully it ends up being more engaging and less awkward than the Irishman.

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