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GEOFFREY STANDING BEAR, chiefofthe Osage Nation, is about to get changed into his tuxedo, bow tie and traditional blanket for the London premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon. This will be the fifth time he’s seeing the three-and-a-half-hour movie. “You need to see it more than once to get the depth.” Mind you, the second time, at the Cannes film festival, he couldn’t really pay attention. “It was hard to concentrate on the film because I was always looking at famous people,” he says, laughing. Like who? “I saw Cate Blanchett. She was right there. I just wanted to go up to her and say, ‘Hey, do you have an elven gift for me?’ But I thought I better be quiet, I’m gonna embarrass people. But, you know, I’m sitting next to Robert De Niro – that’s pretty famous.”
Chief Standing Bear, a serene, healthy-looking man of 70, seems to
