While “Killers of the Flower Moon” isn’t from Mollie Burkhart’s perspective, Osage Nation consultants provided input on how the Osage language, wardrobe and customs are portrayed in the film adaptation.
From the White savior narrative at the heart of “Dances With Wolves” to the Indigenous stereotypes in “The Last of the Mohicans,” Hollywood doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to portrayals of Native Americans. So when it was announced that Martin Scorsese would be directing “Killers of the Flower Moon,” a story about the 1920s Osage murders based on David Grann’s best-selling book of the same name, plenty of Osage people were skeptical.
” Scorsese and DiCaprio eventually decided that the heart of the film was instead the relationship between Mollie and Ernest Burkhart — the Osage woman whose family members were mysteriously dying off and her White settler husband. DiCaprio was recast as Ernest Burkhart, while Jesse Plemons was brought in to play the FBI agent. “Killers of the Flower Moon” still centers largely on a White man — a point that some Osages have criticized.
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