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Where Was 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Filmed?
20.10.2023 - 12:35 / cntraveler.com / Robert De-Niro
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon has been heralded as one of the first major motion pictures to authentically depict Native American erasure. With help from cultural consultants and the blessing of tribal elders, the film tells the horrific history of the Osage people, who in the 1920s became the targets of murder, violence, and theft after valuable oil reserves were discovered beneath their Oklahoma reservation.
The film features an all-star cast, including breakout Blackfeet/Nimíipuu star Lily Gladstone as resilient Mollie Burkhart, Leonardo DiCaprio as indolent Ernest Burkhart, Robert De Niro as conniving William Hale, and an impressive supporting ensemble of Indigenous talent. But the land itself—the cause of all this turmoil—is equally as integral to the story as these real-life figures portrayed onscreen.
To do the story justice, Scorsese knew he needed to shoot the film where these atrocities played out: in Oklahoma’s Osage County. He hired renowned production designer Jack Fisk (The Revenant, There Will Be Blood, The Thin Red Line) to rebuild the place described in journalist David Grann’s book of the same name. It was a realm characterized by culture clashes, as the Osage—then the richest people per capita on the planet—tried to navigate a new existence between their traditional world and the white one being built around them. Fittingly, Fisk weaved together important Indigenous environs and nuanced small-town settings.
As Killers of the Flower Moon hits theaters, Fisk discusses the research that drove his process, the important collaboration with Osage artists, and the lesson he hopes audiences take away from the film. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
How did you recreate 1920s Osage County?
Marty and the Osage Nation wanted to shoot the film where the story actually took place. So that was a huge advantage, because Osage County has the great American prairie and even some buildings left from the 1920s. There’s also so much heritage from all the Native tribes of Oklahoma that just permeates through the soil. The prairie is so vast and timeless that it makes you feel very small in this great world.
Right in Pawhuska there’s the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, where they have reintroduced buffalo, so there are hundreds of them all around. What I loved most about the prairie was how it changed color. In the winter it’d be red, in the spring it’d be green, then in summer it’d be yellow. It was so alive and exhilarating. We were given so many beautiful things with that location that you couldn’t recreate in Los Angeles, Atlanta, or anywhere else.
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