DiCaprio And Scorsese Bless Hollywood

When Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese combine their forces together, nothing can go wrong.

At least, not in the filmmaking realm. The two meet again to portray real-time events of an American crime. Titled Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, the movie comes after Scorsese’s Netflix project The Irishman, starring fan favorite Robert De Niro. Let’s get back to Scorsese’s other project, though. According to a Variety article, he hired one of the world’s best actors to play a serial killer. (DiCaprio playing an insane maniac with a potentially rugged beard? Uh, yes. Let me grab my popcorn.)

“The story, set in the 1920s, focuses on a string of murders of members of the Osage nation in Oklahoma after oil was discovered beneath their land. The chilling series of slayings was one of the fledgling FBI’s first major homicide investigations,” the article states. DiCaprio specializes in characters whom struggle with mental illness. He played in Shutter Island (directed by Scorsese) as a criminally insane patient, but he also acted in other movies that focused on mental health, as well. 

In Revolutionary Road, his character deteriorated under the stress of children, work, and wife. Or think about his depiction of Howard Hughes in the movie The Aviator. The genius cracked under pressure towards the ending; his OCD bested him. But DiCaprio slayed his role, no matter how much of a toll his body and mind took. Even in his latest movie, The Revenant, he did what other people would dare not risk, like surviving in a sub-zero climate.

So, who knows what lengths DiCaprio will reach with his upcoming film. Between his acting abilities and Scorsese’s brilliance, they can’t produce anything but another blockbuster. They’re just a match made in Hollywood!