The 2019 meeting “became a touchstone” for Scorsese: “I kept returning to it again and again for sustenance, for inspiration, for particular details.”
to express their concerns that he would be the next in a long line of white Hollywood filmmakers to distort Indigenous history on the big screen. , which is based on the true story of the Reign of Terror, which lasted from 1921 to 1926. After oil was discovered below the reservation in 1897, some tribal members became among the richest people in America, since each Osage had been granted 657 acres of land.
When Scorsese agreed to make the film adaptation, there was a palpable sense of concern in the Grayhorse community, the smallest of the three districts in thethat is central to the story. Wilson Pipestem, an Osage attorney who organized the letter inviting Scorsese to the dinner, says their message was straightforward: “You need to listen to us.”
“My heart is in the right place,” Scorsese said. “I hope I can give you that sense of knowing that what you’re giving to me, in my hands, that I’m going to try better than my best, I can tell you that. We’re working as hard as we can … we won’t be finished with it until it’s right, I can promise you that.”
“You feel like you watched an Osage film,” Gray says. He and several other descendants of Osage people portrayed in the film were flown to New York City earlier this year for a private screening. “The white savior narrative isn’t really there. And it’s been replaced largely by the Osage.” Looking back, Gray believes that the Grayhorse community’s letter “worked.” And Scorsese, for his part, says that on the night of the 2019 dinner, Gray “used an expression — ‘make it right’ — that spoke volumes to me.”
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