5 money lessons to learn from Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
movie has just been released in theatres (last week in the US and this Friday in India) and before you know it you will all be watching this jaw-dropping masterpiece that brings back the Scorsese magic. The complete title of the book is ‘Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And the Birth Of The FBI’. The romance of the phrase Flower Moon coupled with words like ‘Murders’ as well as ‘FBI’ meant I had to click on the bookselling app online and buy the book.
Some might say that the subject has little relevance to us in India and that only die-hard fans of the filmmaker will enjoy the film, but all you have to do is open your eyes to the political scenario in our country and find unbelievable parallels. This story is about ‘white’ settlers who pushed the Osage tribe of Native Americans (who lived in the fertile Kansas) to the barren lands of Oklahoma. Fortunately for the Osage, Oklahoma had one of the largest oil deposits and they struck black gold.
Simple tribesmen (2,229 of the original people) suddenly became the richest people in the world. Their oil wealth attracted all kinds of crooks and swindlers to their home in Fairfax. One ‘white’ friend of the Osage - cattle rancher William Hale (played brilliantly by Robert De Niro) - with the help of his nephews had spun a web of evil that involved systematically killing the Osage for the property rights to their oil.
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