Killers of the Flower Moon with Martin Scorsese and Ti West (Ep. 435)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Director Martin Scorsese discusses his new film, Killers of the Flower Moon, with fellow Director Ti West in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Scorsese discusses lifting dialogue from real historical accounts when working on the script and its structure, speaking with current Osage tribal members to include their suggestions and accounts, and the fashioning of the title sequence and how a hundred-year-old camera was used in the crafting of it. The film tells the story of the true, serial murders of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, which came to be known as the Reign of Terror. Set in 1920s Oklahoma and told through the impossible romance of Ernest Burkhart and Mollie Kyle, the film depicts the systematic conspiracy and murders, which spark a major F.B.I. investigation. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2023/November2023/KOTFM_QnA_1023.aspx

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0:00.0	And so they got up and made speeches.
0:02.0	They talked about what happened to their grandparents, to their uncles, to their aunts.
0:07.1	And one woman got up and she says, it was Margie Burkart, I think.
0:13.8	Yeah.
0:14.6	So she's related to Ernest, see.
0:17.4	But she got up and she said, you got to remember.
0:20.0	Yes, there were villains villains they were bad guys
0:21.6	they were good guys said but mollie and ernest were in love Hello, and welcome back to the Directors' Cut, brought to you by the Directors' Guild of America.
0:48.8	In this episode, members of the Osage tribe are murdered under mysterious circumstances,
0:54.0	sparking a major FBI investigation, in director Martin Scorsese's crime drama,
0:59.0	Killers of the Flower Moon.
1:01.4	Set in 1920s, Oklahoma, and told through the impossible romance of Ernest Burkhart and Molly Kyle,
1:08.0	the film depicts the true serial murders of members of the oil wealthy Osage
1:12.2	nation, which came to be known as the reign of terror. In addition to Killers of the Flower
1:18.5	Moon, Scorsese's many directorial credits include the DGA Award nominated features, taxi driver,
1:24.8	Raging Bowl, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Wolf of Wall Street,
1:29.7	and the Irishman, the DGA Award-nominated documentary, George Harrison, living in the material
1:35.6	world, the DGA award-winning pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire, and the DGA and Academy Award-winning
1:42.8	feature The Departed. In 2003, Scorsese was honored with the DGA and Academy Award-winning feature The Departed.
1:50.2	In 2003, Scorsese was honored with the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award in feature film.
1:56.0	Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles,
2:00.6	Scorsese spoke with director Ty West about filming killers of the flower moon listen on for their
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