Scorsese and his team met with members of the tribe on multiple occasions and ultimately worked with them to ensure that the depictions of Osage people and culture felt as true to life as possible.
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 true story about the 1920s Osage murders based on David Grann's best-selling book of the same name, plenty of Osage people were skeptical.
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.'As an Osage, I really wanted this to be from the perspective of Mollie and what her family experienced,' Christopher Côté, an Osage language consultant on the film, told The Hollywood Reporter at the Los Angeles premiere this week.
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