“Leonardo DiCaprio’s killers of the Flower Moon: Hollywood acknowledges White atrocities on Native Americans”, First Post, October 18, 2023:
“You know, you got a nice colour of skin. What colour would you say that is?” Leonardo DiCaprio as the White protagonist Ernest Burkhart asks Mollie, a Native American woman he’ll eventually marry, in Martin Scorsese’s new film, Killers Of The Flower Moon.
“My colour,” replies Mollie, played to perfection by Lily Gladstone. You note the assertion of pride in the words as she lightly stresses on “my” preceding “colour”. It is a pride that Hollywood rarely accorded to the Native American identity, for long generically labelled as ‘Red Indian’.
With time, Hollywood, in a reflection of the American society it primarily caters to and also represents, has entered a phase where the industry wants to acknowledge the wrongs inflicted in real life by the nation’s forefathers, particularly the White entitled male, upon other communities……”
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