Killers of the Flower Moon | 'True Voices' - Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone - video Dailymotion

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Mastering the Osage language was crucial for Killers of the Flower Moon. Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, and language teacher Christopher Cote discuss weaving Osage into the story.  At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder. Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), “Killers of the Flower Moon” is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal. Also starring Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, and Jillian Dion, Killers of the Flower Moon is directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Scorsese, based on David Grann’s best-selling book.  Hailing from Apple Studios, Killers of the Flower Moon was produced alongside Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions and Appian Way. Producers are Scorsese, Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas and Daniel Lupi, with DiCaprio, Rick Yorn, Adam Somner, Marianne Bower, Lisa Frechette, John Atwood, Shea Kammer and Niels Juul serving as executive producers.

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00:00 We're making a film about an historical event

00:02 that is central to the Osage history.

00:05 So, of course, it's important we spoke that language.

00:08 (SPEAKING OSAGE)

00:11 What was that?

00:13 This is 1920s, where people were still speaking

00:15 the Osage language daily.

00:16 We wanted to be as authentic as possible.

00:19 And using the duality of both English and Osage

00:22 was a symbol of the enmeshment of the two cultures.

00:25 (SPEAKING OSAGE)

00:28 We need the shots.

00:30 Language and culture are inseparable.

00:32 You understand the way people operate

00:34 through their language.

00:35 Speaking Osage changed the way that I even moved as Mollie.

00:40 It took months to get comfortable

00:42 with a different pace of speaking.

00:44 (SPEAKING OSAGE)

00:49 Working with Robert De Niro, he is very serious about it.

00:52 (SPEAKING OSAGE)

00:55 So, we met every day, getting the gestures right.

00:58 And the voice right.

00:59 (SPEAKING OSAGE)

01:02 They got very comfortable with the words,

01:04 the sounds, the rhythms.

01:06 And in some cases, I didn't even put subtitles on the scene

01:09 because you know what's going on.

01:10 (WHISPERING)

01:12 ♪ ♪

01:14 We're deeply committed to staying true

01:16 to the reality of the world in which this story unfolds.

01:20 (SPEAKING OSAGE)

01:23 ♪ ♪

01:26 (upbeat music)

01:28 [MUSIC]

Killers of the Flower Moon | 'True Voices' - Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone

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