Martin Scorsese’s newest epic Killers of the Flower Moon is out now in cinemas, bringing collectively his two biggest appearing collaborators for the primary time.

Based on the 2017 historical past e book of the identical identify, the 3-and-a-half-hour blockbuster focuses on a set of Oklahoma murders within the Osage Nation in the course of the Nineteen Twenties, which have been dedicated after oil was found on the tribal land.

Robert De Niro stars as William King Hale, a real-life political boss of Osage County, who made a fortune by means of cattle ranching and unfair commerce with Native Americans.

Meanwhile, Leonardo DiCaprio performs his nephew Ernest Burkhart, who’s married to Lily Gladstone’s Mollie, a member of the Osage Nation.

And by the sounds of it, the Titanic star took the function extremely severely, particularly throughout a painful corporal punishment scene that had a number of takes.

Around midway by means of Killers of the Flower Moon, Leo’s Ernest is led by De Niro’s Hale into the again room of a Free Mason’s lodge.

The uncle is upset that his nephew tousled throughout their plot to homicide the rich Osage household. To punish him, Hale has Ernest kneel in order that he can spank him a number of occasions with an enormous paddle.

Killers of the Flower Moon’s cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto was shocked by what he witnessed.