Killers Of The Flower Moon And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The compelling new film Killers of the Flower Moon is a sweeping three-and-half-hour-long crime saga, romance and Western. Directed by Martin Scorsese, it's told through the lens of a marriage in 1920s Oklahoma. It stars Lily Gladstone as an Osage woman and Leonardo DiCaprio as the low-level white thug who professes to love her. But he continues to do the bidding of his uncle (Robert De Niro), who's stealing from and murdering her people.

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0:00.0	The compelling new Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon is a sprawling, sweeping
0:10.0	three and a half hour long crime saga romance and Western.
0:13.3	It's told to the lens of a marriage.
0:15.8	Lily Gladstone plays an Osage woman and Leonardo DiCaprio is the low-level white
0:20.5	thug who professes to love her.
0:22.3	Meanwhile he continues to do the bidding of his uncle. level white thug who professes to love her.
0:22.8	Meanwhile, he continues to do the bidding of his uncle,
0:25.2	the crime boss who's stealing from and murdering her people.
0:29.1	I'm Aisha Harris.
0:30.1	And I'm Glen Weldon, and today we're talking about
0:32.2	killers of the Flower Moon on pop culture happy hour from NPR.
0:35.2	Here with me in Aisha today is Sam Yellow Horse Kessler, a producer for NPR's planet money.
0:40.6	Welcome back, Sam.
0:41.3	Hi, Glenn.
0:42.0	Also here with us is film critic and senior film programmer at the Jacob Burns Film Center, Monica,
0:46.2	Castillo.
0:47.2	Hey, Monica, welcome back.
0:48.2	Hello, glad to be back.
0:49.2	Glad to have you.
0:50.2	Killers of the Flower Moon depicts the systemic exploitation and slaughter of members of the Osage Nation by whites.
0:56.0	Lily Gladstone plays Molly an Osage woman in 1920s Oklahoma.
1:00.0	The Osage are at this point a wealthy people having struck oil at the turn of the century
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