Chatting with Enterprise Insider, “Killers of the Flower Moon” cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto revealed that the spanking scene wasn’t at all times a part of the film. “I do not suppose that was within the first script. That was one thing that was added, and it is stunning within the movie,” he famous.
Certainly, the punishment for DiCaprio’s character is each stunning and a bit of bit humorous, however nonetheless unsettling. It permits Hale to indicate his energy over Ernest in essentially the most primitive of the way. It is not as threatening as pointing a gun at his face, however the humiliation could even be more practical. In any case, Ernest is aware of that Hale is not going to kill him as a result of he is an integral a part of rounding up as a lot Osage wealth as he can. So the one option to get by way of to him is with an old school spanking.
When it got here to truly filming the scene, DiCaprio had safety within the type of padding on his butt, however Prieto stated that it nonetheless gave the impression to be moderately intense:
“I do bear in mind doing them fairly just a few instances and pondering, ‘Oh, that should harm.’ There was some padding on his butt. However you would inform De Niro was actually hitting him. Leo is sport for a lot. He’ll do something.”
There’s an opportunity that De Niro might need been understanding some frustrations that he and Scorsese had with DiCaprio’s tendency to improvise dialogue throughout manufacturing.
A Wall Avenue Journal Journal profile discovered Scorsese remembering the irritation that DiCaprio would often trigger on set by improvising strains. Scorsese recalled, “Now and again, Bob and I might take a look at one another and roll our eyes a bit of bit. And we would inform [DiCaprio], ‘You do not want that dialogue.'”
Maybe the quantity of improv DiCaprio tried was sufficient to warrant an actual spanking? Naughty, naughty!
