People wonder why no one wants to go to the movies anymore. Here you go. Maybe if the theater would offer screenings with an intermission i could spend $12 or $15 on a ticket, but im not paying that much to put myself through hours long piss holding torture. im not dehydrating before. im not going to be physically uncomfortable so I dont miss anything. i have a pause button at home.
normally i would say no to such a long film... but lets be honest: in a time of general diminishing quality in films... i can't get enough of Scorsese. make it 5 hours, i dont care... good video, btw.. well done! thx
@@FrameVoyager you should do one on that Tony Kaye film, that never came out... Black Water Transit... with Larry Fishburne and Karl Urban. sounds interesting enough... unfortunately that film never saw the light of day...
I learned about these murders through my very close friends who are now Elders of the Osage Nation; one was my roommate in college. I had the privilege of being invited to the Osage dances this year at Grayhorse as I attended in 1979. Incredible friendships with my friends from Fairfax endure until this day, 48 years later. What you don’t see is how the Osage are highly educated and influence those around them with the joy of life. My roommate became a commercial pilot and later a cattleman in Fairfax. My other friends are engineers and other professional trades. They influence the arts by attending schools in NY and Kansas City. Maria Tallchief is the United States first Prima Ballerina. There is so much more that you could learn about this amazing group of people in Fairfax.
Thanks for using a clip from my RU-vid channel explaining my time on the set as an extra! I had so much more to talk about, but I recorded that before the movie released and I wanted to be careful about what I said. I will do a Part 2 soon. Thanks again!
No problem! Appreciate you putting it out there. Always cool to find some insights like that to help shape the larger narrative! Looking forward to the next video
Speechless! Slavery, Colonialism, Colonization & Genocide are all evil things done by evildoers. For more, pls read the informative multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle"... It's on RU-vid.😔
Excellent video, always admire the amount of passion that Scorsese took with this movie. And i'm happy that Paramount Pictures and Apple TV are supporting him in giving the expensive budget that he needs, it's a lot of money but hey it's definitely a movie that we truly need 🤗
Im ALLL for longer movies. 90 minutes is a TV episode these days. And hes right - people can binge watch shit all day. 10 hours straight. Ive done it. everyone i know has done it. 3.5 hours aint shit. Thats a "smoke a blunt, cook dinner, sit down and dont move" type of movie - it just better be good and not boring
Can’t wait to see this film! I’ve been eager to see it since I’ve heard about the subject matter and all involved. I might not like all that Scorsese has made, but I appreciate his craftsmanship and dedication to film. It has been a very long time that a film involving Native Americans has circled the award season contention. In Hollywood, they are the most neglected groups of people from representation. I’m glad that they’ve decided to give them a voice in a film surrounding their history. Prieto is such a versatile cinematographer who’s already help bring Greta’s Barbie film to screen.
13:16 I am the extra with my mask down and dark brown hair on the right hand side of this picture. I worked 11 days on the film. If you want even more extra info I can gladly help with that. David Greyson, Actor/Filmmaker
I think the movie is a masterpiece and is easily my favorite of the year so far, but you feel every second of that 3.5 hours. I do not think it is too long, it is exactly the right length for me, but his intentional filming/editing style really forces the audience to sit quietly during large lengths of the film. I could literally feel the boredom in my theater set in. I was hearing yawns and sighs and people fidgeting. The marketing for this movie very much sells it as a fast paced hard edged crime drama, and that it is not. Again, it is a masterpiece, but I had quite a few people I had to report to after to let them know. Not everyone will appreciate a film like this, especially in a theater.
I’m amazed at the people who found KotFM “tedious”. I have lived in Tulsa off and on for most of my long life, so I’ve watched as we grapple as a collective community with the resurfacing of the buried history of abominations against the Greenwood neighborhood (AKA Black Wall Street) in the 1921 Race Massacre and now this travesty against Osages dating the same timeframe. What I’ve noticed is that some people will go to the greatest of lengths to distance themselves from the feelings that also surface, of blame, guilt, and shame. Rather than reflect honestly and courageously on the past and it’s flow into our current events, and how many of us have benefitted at the expense of others’ suffering, they will lie, cheat, steal, complain, explain…anything to dissociate from those feelings. Maybe there’s tedium in this movie that just eluded me; I’m a pretty patient and quiet person down for a 4 hour epic and I’m certainly biased having lived in the area for so long and become involved in some AIM actions and Indigenous ceremonies and celebrations, but I do see that some of the complaints are likely this sort of emotional distancing.
The news reel scenes were filmed with Scorsese's own hand crank Bell & Howell 2709 camera. I would have assumed they used black and white film for that, but maybe they just used the color stocks.
@@FrameVoyager My local theatre has them staggered 45 mins apart in the screen rights next door. With a 3 hr 27 min runtime, the bleeding screams of pre-teens would certainly kill the mood a hour in.
As well respected as the cinematographer (on this movie) is, I was somewhat bemused by his stating that anamorphic was chosen because of the wide landscapes - my understanding is that a great number of movies are still shot in anamorphic - irrespective of the subject matter and, in particular, whether or not the type of landscape one associates with Oklahoma is involved ? Glad to be put right (I’m a lowly enthusiast who does micro budget (save for employing my trusty Red Komodo) short movies and using spherical lenses) - if I’m out of touch with industry trends and choices by DPs of anamorphic as against spherical !
Prieto used the Alexa for low light work same as he did with Silence. It’s film for daylight stuff and some sets and digital for lower light work. It’s really obvious too in some scenes. They’re not really doing anymore to match the digital to the film footage except a LUT.
I've heard Tarantino say in an interview before that he considers himself one of the only true directors to shoot on film, because many, and he named Scorsese as an example, shoot night scenes on digital, because they're so hard to light for film. That may answer your question about the digital camera listed on iMDB.
@@FrameVoyager I loved the grainy B&W. I just hated the direction and editing. There was no subjective vs objective Pov like nolan said , it was a mess.
Good epilogue. Yes, this is a white-man’s story told with reverence. They tried their best to depict the white history carefully overlayed with the Osage travesty. In this civil war the indigenous people lost.
The movie was pretty slow, I didn't find it boring, but I think a lot of people will. The ending was a bit goofy, but I get it. I think it would've been much better as a miniseries. It was good, but it's not as eventful as the trailer made it seem.
I gotta say, Leo + DeNiro brilliant in this film. Tho it's a bit of a shame that Jesse Plemons didn't get more screen time or development. It was a really interesting way to come at this story from that perspective. A bit jarring even, cause were so used to seeing Leo as the good guy, yet here he is basically the villians lacky.
When was the last time you watch a movie as good as INCEPTION,SE7EN,FIGHT CLUB,LA CONFIDENTIAL, PSYCHO,HEAT, MATRIX,SINCE THE BIRTH OF NETFLIX, APPLE TV, AMAZON PRIME,DISNEY, ALL THE MOVIES AVERAGE
Oppenheimer, Dune, Everything Everywhere all at once, the whale, etc. Recency bias is real when it comes to movies. Just as many duds in the past around all of the classics
A 3.5h movie about the murder of Indians from the point of view of a white guy directed by a white guy. I’m sorry but this ain’t it chive. How did this cost $200M? This is not a $200M dollar script. Even accounting for building all the sets and casting Leo and De Niro this is at most a $100M movie. Even if you factor in Covid $200M is completely bananas for this script.
I saw it in theaters. Didn't have to leave my seat. However, there were older people who got up at least three times, one man getting up a few times to take business calls and another woman who was reading the subtitles out loud to her grandson who was staring at snap chat. Attention spans are dead. Old people shouldn't be allowed in theaters and businessmen should stick to business. There were about 12 people in the theater. It was a shame. Great film. They did the book and culture justice.
We didn't need Leo playing a FBI agent working for J Edgar Hoover especially when he already literally played J Edgar himself a few years back...Leo was smart finessing Marty into letting him play a dimwit character especially considering Leo is the greatest actor of this generation & he already played super intelligent characters so many times , its a breath of fresh air to see a veteran actor play that type of role rather than the normal dimwit character that actors do to get Known in Hollywood....which Leo also did in thre past already in order to build his early career back in the day like the character he played in Gilbert Grape!!!! Its extremely rare to see such a seasoned masterclass actor to take on a role like that especially when he doesn't even have to
@@PrimePhilosophy well at first all I know is it was a story about J Edgar Hoover's POV I believe with Dicaprios signed to play that part (or the Jesse Plemons part) but 2 years into writing the script Dicaprio talked Scorcrse into having it rewritten the way we know it now and they had to start all over again.
@@agitatedmongoose sounds like they have money to burn. I have a feeling this will be boring compared to Scorcese's other films.. kinda like Oppenheimer vs Nolans other work.
@@PrimePhilosophy Well after the Irishman which to me is Scorcese's only really truly bad film I wasn't expecting him to bounce back so fast (not a huge fan of Gangs Of New York as it's just too big and too much or even Wolf Of Wall Street which I enjoyed a lot but seemed like another director trying to be Scorcese and failing).
@@FrameVoyager I just never got into the movie, i somewhat found the story to be interesting. But not compared to some of his other movies. Also i couldnt stop looking at Leo's upside down smile, I swear he had two facial expressions: his frown and him looking worried. Guess i just had too high expectations?
Disappointing that when you mentioned "A-list" cast, you deliberately left out Lily Gladstone., this shows again , how whitewashed you are in the conscious bias your script it. #TOTALBALONEY
Given that this video was released before the film, what else has she done to be considered an A-list actress in the industry before this film? She is probably going to get nominated for this performance for sure. But saying "A-list" actor doesn't even really mean a "good or great" actor. Mark Wahlberg would be considered an A-list actor. I'd say he's a fairly average actor. And while I'd agree there has always been a disparity of representation in film, in this case, it wouldn't make sense to describe her as an A-list actor. Rising star or Breakout star is likely a better term to describe her. So no, I'm not whitewashing anything with that terminology. You could make a valid point that the film does that in general considering all of the white A-list actors on this, but to say I'm showing a white-washed conscious bias in the script because I didn't call Lily Gladstone an "A-list" actress, especially since there is no credible way to point to that, is kinda low. If you want to point out the fact that her not already being an "a-list" actress is because of that bias, you have a much stronger point.
I just can’t take this video seriously with over the top film grain effects you’ve applied to these images. It shows a fundamental lack of respect for the content that undermines your critical analysis.
Lmao, ok 😂 We use the film grain because images and videos you can't always find high quality versions of, so instead of just showing pixelated footage the film grain cuts down on that. I'm not sure how that means I'm disrespecting the content lol