Martin Scorsese discusses how the story for #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon came together. #Shorts #GQ

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00:00 Eric Roth and I went through a process of a few years

00:03 of pulling the script together and the story.

00:05 And there was some wonderful things in it.

00:06 We got it to a point where we said,

00:07 let's sit down and read this thing.

00:09 I got some friends and we sat down and Leo was there.

00:11 Eric was good, but Leo came to me,

00:13 he said, "Where's the real heart of this picture?"

00:16 I said, "The heart is with this guy, Ernest,

00:19 and his wife, Molly."

00:20 Then I said, "Oh yeah, the story really is

00:23 the relationship of Ernest and Molly and the betrayal."

00:25 I said, "The only problem there is that

00:27 it's a creative problem, which is you take the script,

00:28 you turn it inside out.

00:30 And how much of procedural do you need?

00:31 Not very much."

00:32 It started to come together.

00:33 It gave me the direction that I felt comfortable in.

00:37 The other way I've seen that kind of move

00:39 is I enjoy doing and imagine doing.

00:40 Horses and running and Western tropes,

00:42 in a way, they call it.

00:43 I would love that, but I've seen it,

00:44 and they did it so much better.

00:46 Everybody else does it better.

00:47 So here, though, you're in the house

00:49 and there's a husband and wife,

00:50 and this guy is dodgy.

00:53 He's being manipulated by this sort of angel of death,