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SayHeyyShohei posted...

What I don't get is, why does the movie make the white actors who portray the killers who genocided the town as the stars? Why couldn't Scorsese and the marketing company focus on the victims and cast well known actors in those roles?

Scorcese literally rewrote the script when he realized and acknowledged it had too much of a white-written lean to it and then had the actual Osage tribe this movie is about dictate most of it from their very own perspective & narrative.

I was hearing a member of the tribe talk about it (he was in the lobby during the showing on a live call into one of my progressive pundits who has a regular and weekly segment with him and a native woman from a Canadian tribe talk about issues and things from the Native perspective) and he was talking about how tribal elders were tearing up and it was hard to watch because within the first 15 minutes it's very brutally honest in its telling.

It's probably one of the most honest stories from their own perspective and narrative we'll get from Hollywood.

I'm guessing the reason they're the "stars" is because they're the bad guys. This is based off an actual event that happened after all and even from the previews I could clearly see the white people were not meant to be portrayed as heroes or saviors. Other than maybe LeoDio, and I don't know what accuracy if any his character brings to it.

Also, all the Osage characters are actual Osage tribe members. From the guy I learned that the old Hollywood standard was to bronze Italians to avoid using actual Natives.