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Someone needs to make a "fan cut" and edit this movie into "J. Edgar" (2011)

posted 2 years ago by ReelReviews14 (1221)
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J. Edgar (2011) starring Leonardo DiCaprio
PLOT SUMMARY: Early in his career, J. Edgar Hoover fixates on Communists, anarchists, and any other revolutionary taking action against the U.S. government. He slowly builds the agency's reputation.

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) starring Leonardo DiCaprio
PLOT SUMMARY: Members of the Osage tribe in northeastern Oklahoma are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major FBI investigation directed by a 29-year-old J. Edgar Hoover.

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Yup, you would have Leonardo DiCaprio investigating HIMSELF! Now THAT would actually be entertaining! (FAR more so than either movie is on its own!)

[–] roger1 (4026) 2 years ago

I can't remember: were the Osage Native American murders part of the "J. Edgar" movie plot?

I know that those murders WERE a segment in the episode film "The FBI Story" starring James Stewart in 1959...

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Yup, you would have Leonardo DiCaprio investigating HIMSELF! Now THAT would actually be entertaining! (FAR more so than either movie is on its own!)

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It is now part of the "movie lore" on Killers of the Flower Moon that Leo was originally offered the role of the FBI agent investigating the murders, but decided to ask for the role of one of the villains(a conflicted one.) So indeed he would be investigating himself.

Jesse Plemons, the rather unattractive but talented character guy, got the FBI guy role. Evidently, with Plemons in the part, the villains considerably underestimate the character. Figures.