"Powerful Osage drama already generating Oscar buzz, praise for authenticity"
"Spellbinding, heartbreaking and exhaustingly researched, director Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating epic look into the mass murders of the Osage over oil rights in the 1920s opens Oct. 20 in wide release across the United States.
Even getting the story to the big screen was not without drama – requiring a rewrite of the entire script, a change in the lead role from hero to villain for one of the movie’s biggest stars, recreation of a 100-year-old town, the hiring of dozens of Osage extras, a pandemic shut down, and finally a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France to rave reviews and a nine-minute standing ovation.
Is it worth the hype? The 3½ hour, $200 million answer is yes.
This is a director at the top of his game who humbly realized the story he originally meant to tell — about the White savior FBI coming into town to find the killers and clean up the murders — wasn’t the story he wanted to tell."
Sandra Hale Schulman writes for ICT October 19, 2023.
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"Oklahomans Concerned Law Impacts Teaching Of Osage Murders" (Oklahoma Voice/ICT)
https://ictnews.org/news/oklahomans-concerned-law-impacts-teaching-of-os...
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