Killers of the Flower Moon charts #1 - What the Osage Chief thinks
In the first week Scorsese's feature-length film catapulted to #1 in Germany.
The Osage easily overtake Taylor Swift and the Trolls.
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/377387/umfrage/umsatzstaerkste-kinofilme-in-deutschland-am-vergangenen-wochenende/
The BILD (best-selling European newspaper) published a longer article with many images from the movie and the real people behind it.
What the Osage Chief thinks of Leo
Chief Standing Bear: "We're very proud of how the story is now being told."
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Mollie (Lily Gladstone) and Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio)
The screen couple could each receive an Oscar for their appearance in the XL epic.
BILD tells the real story behind the movie masterpiece and spoke to the proud descendant of the Osage chiefs. Because of the bloodbath over oil their ancestors travelled to Washington and sought help from the 30th US President Calvin Coolidge.
The FBI, which was still young at the time, made its first spectacular investigation around 1924 into numerous crimes against the reservation residents.
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Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear: Happy about the dignified film adaptation.
Chief Standing Bear (70) is today the "Principal Chief" of the Osage. The tribe still has around 25,000 members. The "Chief" is a kind of governor and takes care of his people politically. The descendant of great warrior chiefs has already met the current US President Joe Biden (80).
The Osage boss likes the movie and the interest in the topic.
"The story goes very deep. That Martin Scorsese, the best director in the world, took the time to listen to our story makes us proud. We know the stories from our elders a hundred years ago. I also heard from my parents what happened back then."
https://images.bild.de/65368f802d3c2c56aa32936d/a3ced8dc96007d9767f1eb19b830c65b,4dd33f93?w=992
Lily Gladstone on set with director Martin Scorsese
Perhaps the inglorious chapter would've been forgotten over time if Scorsese (80) and his giant duo Robert De Niro (80) and Leonardo DiCaprio (48) hadn't brought everything to the big screen in an almost three and a half hour epic.
The movie is number one in the cinema charts in Germany.
Chief Standing Bear to BILD: "Our people already went through a long period of suffering before the events in the film. 200 years of flight and expulsion. 90 percent of our nation died in the years before we settled in Oklahoma."
https://www.bild.de/video/clip/kino/killers-of-the-flower-moon-das-koennte-der-beste-film-des-jahres-werden-84586764.bild.html
THIS could be the best film of the year. (short video)
Sorry, due to limited space and time in the following just the other images with the subs.
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Chief Fred Lookout was one of the chiefs during the Osage killings in the 1920s.
He was the grandfather of Chief Standing Bear.
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Regional newspapers reported on the crimes against the Osage tribe members.
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William "King" Hale (played by Robert De Niro in the film) with his wife and daughter.
The landowner was charged with murdering Osage tribesmen.
https://images.bild.de/65368f802d3c2c56aa32936d/4aabe266288ccdb2cdd75f36474fa08b,bb22313b?w=992
Ernest Burkhart with his Osage wife Mollie
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Chief Standing Bear (r.) a few years ago with the then US Vice President Joe Biden
https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/killers-of-the-flower-moon-was-der-echte-haeuptling-der-osage-von-leo-haelt-85848620.bild.html
October 29, 2023