Martin Scorsese is widely recognized for crafting films centered on gritty criminal underworlds and the lavish lifestyles of their gangster overlords, from Mean Streets (1973) to The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and, most recently, The Irishman (2019). However, Scorsese's latest crime epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, veers away from many of the venerable filmmaker's customary tropes.