Pressing pause on 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' and rethinking Scorsese's latest

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon is everything an Oscar contender might be - long, epic, morally complicated and expensive. Yet, while many movie-goers left theaters moved, others called the film a problematic disaster. Today on the show, we hear what the movie got wrong and how it fits into a broader history of Native Americans on screen. To unpack this, Brittany Luse is joined by Robert Warrior, a literature and professor and an Osage Nation citizen, Liza Black, a Native American and Indigenous Studies professor and Cherokee Nation citizen, and Nancy Marie Mithlo, a gender studies professor and Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache citizen.

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0:15.0	Hey, I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR,
0:22.0	a show where we talk about what's going on in
0:24.7	our culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:28.9	And a warning to listeners, this episode includes mentions of racialized violence and murder.
0:35.0	Today we're talking about Martin Scorsese's latest film,
0:39.0	Killers of the Flower Moon,
0:41.0	and why some American audiences are leaving the Oscar contender deeply disappointed
0:46.4	and even hurt.
0:47.4	I had a one word which was just disaster.
0:50.2	I think it worked as a piece of filmmaking, yes, but I think there's a lot that's missing.
0:56.0	It's an intriguing film.
0:58.0	I had some serious issues with storytelling and what gets left out of the story.
1:02.0	For those of you who may be unfamiliar, out of the story.
1:02.6	For those of you who may be unfamiliar,
1:04.2	killers of the Flower Moon is the most recent entry
1:07.0	into Scorsese's catalogue of aggrieved white male characters.
1:12.0	It stars two of Marty's favorites, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert
1:15.7	DeNiro as well as the dazzling Lily Gladstone, an American epic about greed,
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