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Who Needs Scorsese? The Osage Can Tell Their Own Stories
And they don’t need the $200 million the Hollywood director got to make Killers of the Flower Moon.
That's a wrap.
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Only a director of Martin Scorsese’s status could eschew exploitation and abuse privilege in the same movie. His Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, displays unusual sensitivity in the depiction of the Osage community in which its story is set. This represents a welcome evolution from the racial stereotyping that has long blighted Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans.
But the movie, Apple Inc.’s most ambitious big-screen bet yet, is also an advertisement for Hollywood’s other troubling tendencies, such as extravagant spending and an over-dependence on stars.