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Look, I love Scorsese movies. A lot. Like a lot a lot. But as someone who is constantly advocating for Native creatives to be given the opportunity to tell their own stories ESPECIALLY for the screen, I’m not super duper stoked for this new project.
Yes, he is involving the Osage Nation. Yes, he cast Lily Gladstone. But the source material he is adapting is from a white perspective. And Scorsese is also white.
This doesn’t mean the project is doomed but it also raises a bunch of questions.
This doesn’t mean the project is doomed but it also raises a bunch of questions.
The film will be good because Scorsese is a great filmmaker. I’m not questioning the actual ability of filmmaking that is possible. But it does sadden me that Native filmmakers constantly have to prove that our stories have an audience in order to get funding or big names
involved yet when a white director is interested and several big name actors get attached it gets a huge budget and so much attention while still erasing the Native experience.
The entire situation that led to the Osage murders (yes, multiple Osage women disappeared and turned up dead) ties this whole historical narrative into the current MMIWG2ST movement and is evidence that Native women have been targeted for violence since European contact.
ANYWAY! I doubt this thread is going to change the production. But please, research the Native perspectives with this in mind prior to seeing the film. And uplift the Native creatives involved in the production who surely will be left in the shadows of the big names.
