This article containsKillers of the Flower Moonspoilers.
Silence greets Ernest Burkhart when he enters a meeting with the business leaders of Osage County, Oklahoma.
But he can be pushed only so far.
If the leaders do not want Ernest to testify against his uncle, they must be subtle.
But the quiet breaks when W.S.
Hamilton, the lawyer for Hale and Ernest, stands before the man and lays things out plainly.
If you do that, you will be murdering your uncle!
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Frasers take on Hamilton is incongruous with the rest of the film.
Its big, loud, and wholly artificial.
And most of the film meets that expectation.
DiCaprio works against his movie star charisma to portray Ernest as a dour doofus.
Fraser is having none of it.
The score drops out, leaving only the soft rumbling of the crowd, which itself fades into silence.
At least until Hamilton bellows, I demand to confer privately with Mr. Burkhart!
Which is, of course, the point.
Loudly Rejecting Realism
Fraser is hardly the only surprising face inKillers of the Flower Moon.
Scorseses appearance and Frasers performance work in tandem to underscore one of the main themes of the movie.
Frasers performance has a similar, but less subtle, effect.
As Scorsese toldVariety, he cast Fraser to play a lawyer precisely because of the actors size.
[H]e had that girth, Scorsese enthused.
Hes big in the frame at that time.
That girth and boisterousness helps add another wrinkle to the lack of reality that Scorsese maintains throughout the film.
