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After nearly a decade, one of cinema’s most iconic filmmaking duos is back together again. “Killers of the Flower Moon” sees Martin Scorsese return to cinemas for his first film since 2019’s “The Irishman,” along with the two actors whose screen presence has helped define his filmography. The first is Robert De Niro, his longtime muse since his breakout film “Mean Streets” in 1973. The second is the much younger Leonardo DiCaprio, who reunites with the older statesman 10 years after “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
Scorsese is no stranger to building up a production posse of frequent collaborators (see his consistent editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who he’s worked with on over 20 of his films). And there are many actors who made frequent appearances in his work, including Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel. But De Niro and DiCaprio are his two clear muses, serving as the leads in 15 of his 26 narrative feature films between the two of them. Technically speaking, the three first worked together in 2015 on te short film”The Audition,” which was made to advertise a casino resort. But “Killers of the Flower Moon” will mark the first time the trio has produced a proper feature.
It’s not the first time DiCaprio worked with De Niro. In fact, a big reason why Scorsese ended up casting DiCaprio in 2002’s “Gangs of New York,” their first film together, is that the star came with the ringing endorsement of Scorsese’s trusted friend. In 1993 and 1996, De Niro and DiCaprio starred together in the dramas “This Boy’s Life” and “Marvin’s Room.” As Scorsese recalled in a recent interview with GQ: “[De Niro] then called me and said, at one point, he just made a film called ‘This Boy’s Life,’ and he was working with this kid that he cast named Leo DiCaprio. He said, ‘He’s very good, you gotta do work with him someday.’ And Bob never really used to tell me that, work with somebody, you know, just we’d go from picture to picture if we worked together.”
DiCaprio and Scorsese’s work together has frequently been compared to the director’s long-running work with De Niro, as almost a 21st century version of that original partnership. But across six films with Scorsese, DiCaprio has definitively established himself as a collaborator in his own right — putting on many of his greatest performances in Scorsese joints. Read on for a brief history of the dynamic duo’s film collaborations, from “Gangs of New York” to what’s set to come after “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Source: Indiewire
Leonardo DiCaprio may be the star of Martin Scorsese’s latest film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” but he is most certainly not its hero.
Based on the book of the same name by David Grann, “Killers” tells the true story of the murders of members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma by White settlers in the 1920s after recently discovered oil makes the Osage people some of the richest in the country.
DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, a man who marries an Osage woman named Molly Kyle, played by Lily Gladstone, and becomes involved in the dark plot to not only murder her family, but poison her as well.
Originally, the movie hewed closer to the book’s focus on the federal investigation into the deaths, but as Scorsese and his team worked on the story, the focus shifted to the relationship between Ernest and Molly, and the impact on the Osage people.
Source: Foxnews
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto told Insider in a new interview that Leonardo DiCaprio wore butt padding for the scene in which Robert De Niro has to repeatedly spank him. Prieto recalled watching the scene on set and thinking, “Oh, that must hurt.” He commended DiCaprio for being open to try anything Scorsese asked him to during production.
“I don’t think that was in the first script,” Prieto said of the spanking scene. “That was something that was added, and it’s shocking in the film.”
“I do remember doing them quite a few times and thinking, ‘Oh, that must hurt,’” Prieto added. “There was some padding on his butt. But you could tell De Niro was really hitting him…Leo is game for so much. He’ll do anything.”
Source: Variety
Source: NYPost
Martin Scorsese’s 27th feature film — an urgent, devastatingly bleak crime drama about colonialism and murder — arrives right in time to rattle the collective Australian psyche in the aftermath of the Voice referendum.
Killers of the Flower Moon is the story of the systematic fraud and killings of members of the Osage Nation, an Indigenous community in Oklahoma whose oil wealth made them one of the world’s richest per capita populations in the early 20th century.
But, as the film’s shocking string of crimes proves, there isn’t a resources boom big enough to safeguard you from genocidal violence.
Inspired by real events and based on journalist David Grann’s non-fiction book of the same name, Killers sees Scorsese once again burrowing into the underbelly of American history with a morality tale of greed and political power.
It is also, perhaps more than usual for Scorsese, an attempt to commemorate the dignity and resilience of the story’s innocent victims.
Having consulted extensively with the Osage Nation, the film is spoken in both the English and Osage language, and there are many local First Nations performers on screen.
Source: abc.net.au
In an exclusive interview with CNN Español, filmmaker Martin Scorsese describes his longstanding relationship with actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
