If you haven’t seen ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ yet and don’t want to know about the cameo at the end of the 206-minute true crime drama, don’t read on at this time. After the actual plot takes place for more than three hours in 1920s Oklahoma, the film jumps in the final minutes to the stage of a live podcast recording, in which a radio announcer (Larry Fessenden) and his colleagues talk about the Exploring the aftermath of the Osage killings.
In this final installment of “Killers Of The Flower Moon,” viewers are informed about what happened next for William Hale (Robert De Niro), Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie (Lily Gladstone) after the terrible events in Fairfax. The last word goes to Martin Scorsese, the film’s director, who reports on Mollie’s fate in a trembling voice. A very emotional, albeit surprising, moment.
That’s behind the cameo
In conversation with the industry newspaper Larry Fessenden has now opened up about how Martin Scorsese’s cameo appearance at the end of “Killers Of The Flower Moon” actually came about – its use was not an idea of the “GoodFellas” creator:
In fact, you can feel the emotions that Martin Scorsese had during his scene very well in the film. It is a humiliating moment in which – as Fessenden also says in his interview – anger and sadness are very clear. It is also important that Scorsese gets the last spoken word, but the film ends with a so-called ‘pow-wow’. Members of indigenous tribes dance and sing proudly because of their cultural connection.
“Killers Of The Flower Moon” is currently showing in German cinemas. The film will soon be available exclusively on AppleTV+.