Scorsese at his best for a true tale of hideous heartland crimes
A screenwriter associate of mine recently said that Martin Scorsese is bad at storytelling. By this, he meant that the director ofis more interested in character and incident than he is in narrative structure. His films are often more collages than they are linear progressions, and sometimes they overstay their welcome , he lays out a true crime tale of race, greed, and betrayal.
The victims were the wealthiest members of the small community of Fairfax: members of the Osage tribe, forced off of their lands in Kansas by the federal government and on to the barren scrub of Oklahoma, only to strike it rich when they found oil. In the late 1910s and early 1920s they became the target of petty criminals and stickup men, but worse and more insidiously by William King Hale, played by De Niro.
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