Michael Cieply: My Wish For ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’–A Bit of Real Oklahoma
deadline.comFor those who treasure a sense of place in movies, the new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, a film set for release by Paramount in October, brings a flicker of hope. (Pete Hammond’s Cannes review is here.) True, it looks a little stagey, like Gangs of New York but out on the prairie.
Still, for a few fleeting seconds—wedged among a scowling De Niro, a maundering DiCaprio and all those mortified Native people–tantalizing traces of the real Oklahoma peep through.
Acres and acres of buffalo grass. Old brick facades. The kind of sky that hangs over Pawhuska and Bartlesville, where a 1982 tornado marched right up Frank Phillips Blvd.
to the doorstep of Phillips Petroleum. Maybe, just maybe, this film will find it: That wondrous, increasingly rare, cinematic sensation of actually being there.
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