Dread permeates from the final, foreboding Killers Of The Flower Moon trailer
Martin Scorsese’s latest can’t get here soon enough
Film News Killers Of The Flower Moon
With just about a month until The Killers Of The Flower Moon hits theaters, the good people at Apple took time away from releasing another incremental iPhone upgrade to release a more substantial final trailer for Martin Scorsese’s latest. His adaptation of David Grann’s bestseller recently received a wide theatrical release, thanks in part to studios’ unwillingness to settle the SAG-AFTRA strike pushing several tentpole movies to evacuate to the fall calendar. The new trailer gives an even deeper and more sinister look at the plot.
Based on the latest spot, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) returns from war to Osage County, Oklahoma, to live with his uncle William Hale (Robert De Niro), a cattleman and millionaire. Hale lets Burkhart in on a little scheme, encouraging his nephew to marry into the Osage Nation and stake a claim on the Nation’s oil, which made the tribe unspeakably wealthy. At the time, the Osage Nation was among the most prosperous and richest people in the U.S. thanks to that oil, and white interlopers wanted a piece. But the real conflict begins when Ernest falls in love with Osage woman Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), complicating the plan. The two marry as a series of murders against the Osage begins, bringing the primordial FBI to their doorstep.
More than in previous spots, this final trailer foregrounds the sinister atmosphere and atrocious violence of this true story. Instead of playing Jesse Plemons’ “see about these murders” line for laughs, like in the initial clips, the trailer uses it to set up the Reign of Terror that plagued the Osage from 1921 to 1926. The trailer permeates dread through the screen.
Killers Of The Flower Moon opens in theaters everywhere on October 20. However, despite the movie being a co-production between Apple and Paramount, there is no date set for the film’s Apple TV+ premiere.
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I can only say good things about this particular work. This is a subject that rarely gets attention. The Osage can have more of their story told, despite certain of our resident greys that may come and try to convince everyone that nobody hurt any of the Osage for their oil.
Can’t speak directly to the Osage, but anytime I look into any Native history it’s just a depressing litany of people being repeatedly lied to, stolen from, and taken advantage of, and at the beginning of the story they start out as a bunch of folks who where doing their thing on land they’ve been living for generations and at the end of the story a lot of them are dead and most of the rest of them are poor.
It would take a special type of delusion to believe nothing bad was done to the Osage. Thematically it wasn’t that different from what happened to Native Americans all over the country, but the absurd wealth the Osage had was unique. Like burning money because they couldn’t find ways to spend it unique. Osage county was the wealthiest in the nation.
It is like a sequel to There Will Be Blood and I am here for all of it.
Word is that Scorsese originally wanted Dicaprio for Jesse Plemmons’ part, which he was much more age-appropriate for, but he begged for the more emotionally interesting guy who was in his 20s during these events.
To be fair, people back then looked a lot older than they were.
At least it’s a part where the character’s age doesn’t really matter. Plus DiCaprio’s natural charisma makes him a good choice of protagonist – you want to root for him even as everything’s going to shit.
I think the word you were look for was “emanates”, not “permeates”.
I think it’s interesting that although Lily Gladstone gets a big review quote here, and that she was listed equally in the first trailer, it’s still only the two men who get their names before the title in this one.
Business as usual.