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FEATURE
TELLING TALES
LEGENDARY FILMMAKER MARTIN SCORSESE ON HIS EPIC CRIME DRAMAS, FREQUENT COLLABORATORS, AND THE ART OF AUTHENTIC STORYTELLING
By Marriska Fernandes
E VER SINCE HE WAS A KID, MARTIN SCORSESE HAS LOVED
westerns. Those wild, gunslinging films of the Golden Age of Hollywood not only nourished him as a filmmaker, but also inspired him to dive deeper into real-life history. The latest of Scorsese’s sweeping epics, Killers of the Flower Moon, is perhaps the most powerful and resonant of his career — and one he strived to make with the utmost respect.
It all began in 2017 when Scorsese read David Grann’s best-selling Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. He was immediately intrigued by the true-life tale that details the tragedy of the sinister, systematic killings of members of the Osage Nation, in early-1920s Oklahoma, after oil was struck on their hitherto unwanted land. The 81-year-old
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