A 9-minute standing ovation for the movie "Killers of the Flower Moon" at Cannes Film Festival in France
During the press conference after the presentation of the movie at Cannes Film Festival in France, Martin Scorsese was asked by the moderator:
... I saw the image this morning and your emotion at the end of the screening during the long standing ovation - was like - it was really touching. ... What was the feeling at the end of the screening yesterday?
Martin Scorsese:
It was the combination of years of work and an extraordinary warmth and I think love that was expressed. ... all of this seemed to come together in this room. It really did and I think it came from the heart.
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Video from Cannes Film Festival
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Osage singer Scott George helped compose the final song used in a dance scene featured in the film, which he collaborated with brothers Vann Bighorse (ON Secretary of Language/Culture/Education) and Osage Minerals Councilman Kenneth Bighorse Jr.
"All three of us worked together to come up with a song we could use, we looked at our traditional music and felt like it wasn’t appropriate to put those songs in there, so we decided to make our own. We worked on it a couple of months, over the phone riding back and forth to work, talking to each other, we came up with two songs, I composed one. Vann composed one, we sent them to (Scorsese) and let him choose which one he wanted.” Of the chosen song, George said “it’s talking about our people, asking our people to stand up. We know that God has gotten us this far and it’s acknowledging that, it’s saying Wahzhazhe Ni-ka-zhi: stand up … the meaning is we’re thankful that we’re here and we’ve gone this far.”