![]() “A lot of Osage women were marrying white men who really came to prey on them, to take over their headrights and seize their oil money. ![]() ![]() “Ernest and Mollie really represented how twisted and complex some of this stuff was, culturally,” DiCaprio tells Deadline. The final version of the film, written by Eric Roth and Scorsese, is more of a complex love story between DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart and his wife Mollie ( Lily Gladstone), an Osage woman who has become wealthy thanks to oil money. It felt too much like an investigation into detective work, rather than understanding from a forensic perspective the culture and the dynamics of this very tumultuous, dangerous time in Oklahoma.” In a recent interview with Deadline, DiCaprio said that original drafts of the script, which focused on White and the investigation, “just didn’t get to the heart of the Osage. But the fact that Plemons only briefly appears in the trailer is no accident. ![]() Grann’s book, with the subtitle The Birth of the FBI, is framed like a detective story, with FBI agent Tom White (played in the movie by Jesse Plemons) arriving in the Osage Nation to solve the murders of multiple Native people who were entitled to the profits from the oil discovered underneath their land. ![]()
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