Below the Line: Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has created another masterpiece with his new film, Killers of the Flower Moon, a crime-thriller set in 1920s Oklahoma at a time when the Osage Nation was thriving from their discovery of oil on their lands, though as usual, many white men were trying to take what was theirs. Into this environment comes Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Ernest Burkhart, who at the suggestion of his uncle Bill Hale (Robert De Niro) marries an Osage woman, Mollie (Lily Gladstone), in an attempt to inherit the Osage money as her family begins dying off mysteriously.
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I think that this is so incredibly interesting. Especially because my great grandparents had just moved to the area to farm their own land and escape tenant farming in Tennessee. So I have access to some photos that show the lives that they lived as well as several antiques and the stories of what life was like in rural Oklahoma around this time. I honestly think that being a production designer on these kinds of movies, movies that are deeply rooted in a specific time and place, is one of the most interesting jobs in the world. You have to be both a researcher as well as a designer, balancing between creatively designing the best area for a movie to shoot in and trying to maintain historical accuracy to the time and place being presented. It is an interesting dichotomy that you would have to maintain. Especially with how deeply rooted the story itself is in the time and location.
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