“Can you find the wolves in this picture?”
Our preview here
Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
Directed by Martin Scorsese and Screenplay by Eric Roth and Scorsese, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, and Jillian Dion.
Hailing from Apple Studios, Killers of the Flower Moon was produced alongside Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions and Appian Way. Producers are Scorsese, Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas and Daniel Lupi, with DiCaprio, Rick Yorn, Adam Somner, Marianne Bower, Lisa Frechette, John Atwood, Shea Kammer and Niels Juul serving as executive producers.
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“My name is Lily Gladstone, and I didn’t come to play—I came to SLAY!”
Assuredly,
BeyonceLily is about to reinvent fashion by wearing these colorful woven wool blankets.This looks like the American Epic that Marty thought he was doing with Gangs of New York. REALLY excited for this.
Just rewatched Gangs, it’s really kind of a mess.
it is, you never got the sense that Marty ever knew what the picture was supposed to be about
Looks stunning. Gladstone coming for that Oscar.
Three and a half hours is a lot to ask anyone to sit through any movie.
It’s about the same length as The Godfather Part II.
And Seven Samurai, and Lawrence of Arabia
And my mom’s time in the delivery room!
If I were a malicious person I’d say “but not as long as it took yoiur dad to make you”. Thank god I’m not a malicious person!
🙂
Just kidding, have a great weekend.
My dad’s nickname in the neighborhood was “Quicky Pete” and his name wasn’t even Pete!
Martin Scorsese has a propensity for over kill ! After the first hour of Wolf of Wall Street I got the point ! Same with that abomination The Irishman ! I felt pummeled by this trailer ! Three and a half hours of American Carnage !
And people should remember that in 1926 , a Native American filmmaker by the name of James Young Deer made a 90 minute black and white silent film called Tragedies of the Osage Hills !
Along with The Shawshank Redemption, Tragedies of the Osage Hills is the most overplayed movie in the history of cable TV.
Haters out early on this thread. Shocking!
I like it! I’m getting that same kind of upbeat Mamma Mia! vibe from the opening shot.
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This will be Marty´s “Mamma Mia!”.
I know! And then there were shades of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with Leo and the train!
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Looks fantastic. Got some There Will Be Blood vibes—which I think is one of the greatest pictures made, especially in the 21st century.
Lily looking like a strong contender, as does Leo….hopefully it can stick the landing, lots of heavy anticipation and high expectations that sometimes fails.
Lot of Scorsese haters here, he had a great decade of the 2010s—I think Wolf of Wall Street was a terrific and Hugo a masterpiece. Irishman, not so much—though I loved the Joe Pesci comeback.
I’m always here for a Scorsese film and a Leo film, add them together and it’s always a must see. Can’t wait.
The There Will Be Blood Vibes are understandable because Jack Fisk was the production designer on that AND this film.
I think Irishman was much better than people give it credit for. Pesci was absolutely terrific in it, and Pacino roped in some of his bad habits. I think the last half hour or so was some of the most interesting stuff Marty’s done in the genre. It wasn’t supposed to be Goodfellas II, and I think that got missed by some people.
SILENCE is the masterpiece that people absoutely need to revisit.
Also Heaven’s Gate vibes which was a masterpiece of monumental proportions ! As for Pesci in Irishman agree completely though i hated the movie ! I loved Silence also ! I do wonder about Thelma Schoonmaker reigning in Marty’s Freudian problem with the length of his movies . Longer isn’t necessarily better Marty !
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It feels like Labor Day around here! We get to see an advertisement for a gift we won’t get until Christmas! Hopefully I won’t be tired of it by noon. I suspect I will.
I am so glad, as a white person, I get to play “Can you find the wolf in this picture?” I am pretty sure this is an error since there are only white people in the picture! How silly!
You have to understand, I learned American History in Florida where time begins with the advent of Disney, although I’ve been hearing that might be up for revision too.
This could be #2 Directing Oscar for Marty… really easily. Lily Gladstone? Locked right away?
Still I think NGW for Picture, unless it disappoints.
The FBI did not orchestrate the Jan 6 Capitol riot.
Insurrection.
Had to look up what you mean and…wow. Amazing someone can sound so certain and well written on something so insane.
It’s so disappointing, so scary. Why do they refuse to accept facts?
The woman thinks Tucker Carlson “is one guy who tells the truth.” That’s truly sad.
Hey whatever happened to him? I can’t find him on TV anymore.
Did too! Trump said so and he doesn’t lie!
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I’m going to get serious for a moment because the cynic in me is really put off by this trailer, specifically by the crucial line “Can you find the wolves in this picture?” It accompanies a shot of about 20 white people as they turn to the camera. The text of this trailer is that white people were behind these horrors and everything that happened was in some way connected to greed. The entire trailer is a warning to today’s white audiences “be forewarned I am going to show that in history white people have done some awful things.” Based on Greed (but maybe not on racism, although I would argue you can’s have racism without greed)
We often get these movies set generations ago which depict white people as horribly racist people. And by any standard white people were. But we rarely get movies this prominent that show that white people are still disturbingly racist (the most recent I can think of was the Netflix series on the Central Park Five).
This allows white people a certain sense of separation from that racism and how we benefitted from that racism, and still benefit (look at all the Native American stockholders who have become Billionaires in the fossil fuels industries)
So white people get a chance to feel morally superior to their great grandparents. “Oh my, the horrors, I could never do that” as they sit on their leather couches comfortable that they are not racist themselves.
Basically these films give present day white people permission to pass it all on to the next generation.
The pretentiousness of that line really bothered me ! The white people are bad ! I’m sure they were ! When I saw Dances with Wolves I was amazed how simple minded that was . Costner’s character was the only decent white guy . The Sioux were all good and the Pawnee were all bad ! If life were only that easy ! Maybe St. Marty should have done a film about the Drexel Mission Fight which took place the day after Wounded Knee in which Custer’s Seventh Calvary were under attack by Lakota Sioux and were rescued by Buffalo soldiers of the Ninth Calvary ! A microcosm of America writ large in one story . Or maybe he could have done a story about James Young Deer the Native American filmmaker who in 1926 made a movie about the Reign of Terror in Oklahoma portrayed in Killers of the Flower Moon called Tragedies of the Osage Hills but that film was a 90 minute black and white silent film as opposed to Scorsese’s 200 million dollar three and a half hour cash grab with Oscar winning movie stars !
Yeah, that line is awful. I think this movie might be a result of 70 years of liberal guilt coming back and haunting Scorsese. An atonement of sorts.
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Finally saw Air and…
… why is this competently made movie of the week an Oscar player? I mean I was even bored at times. Too transparent that product placement is the motivation for the film itself, but on opposition to the brilliant The LEGO Movie, it doesn’t offer anything, literally anything, than Nike and MJ’s propaganda… kind of embarrassing at the key Damon’s speech about the future with an edit of actual footage of the things to come.
And don’t get me started with a Viola Davis competent and serviceable performance being noted as Oscar-worthy. Don’t deceive yourselves, she’s a player just because of her The Woman King’s snub
** / D
I agree with you about Viola Davis. Hopefully the make-up nomination will be given to something worthy.
I think Damon’s speech and the look into MJ’s future is what makes this movie an Oscar Player. I found it profoundly moving, especially when Damon discusses moments in his future that will be very hard, specifically referencing his father’s murder. I found the whole sequence to be a complete surprise, and also completely original. And it does more than tick the nostalgia bone. I found it hard not to reflect on my own life and compare my hopes and expectations with what actually occurred. While I do cry easily, this section had me tearing quite profusely.
Otherwise I completely agree with you, it was nice to see movies actually mention dollar amounts, but by the end pointing out how rich Michael Jordan was really offputting. Sure he donates SOME money to the underprivileged, but in reality he could do so much more. He’s worth billions, I bet.
And all that did was remind me how much I once despised the man. At the time his shows were well over 100 bucks a pair and back then that was an unspeakable amount of money for a pair of kid’s footwear. The amount of money he made off of poor families who revered him is pretty damn revolting. And it continues decades later. (I recently watched a “reality” show where a black man in his twenties was struggling financially but thought nothing about buying sneakers at exorbitant prices and then did nothing but laugh when confronted. It was like some weird addiction.)