Movie Analysis : ' Boys Don 't Cry '

The film “The Brandon Teena Story” followed the story of Teena Brandon’s, who went by the name Brandon, death in Nebraska. Brandon lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, as a male, despite him being born as a female, at the start of the film. The audience was informed that Brandon had been behaving, acting, and living as a male for years. Brandon’s mother, Joann Brandon, had previously sent Brandon to counseling to treat his attempts and ideas about suicide, and presumably his gender dysphoria. However, after returning from counseling, Brandon’s want of being of man was only solidified. In the middle of November 1993, Brandon moved to Falls City Nebraska. It was in Falls City, Nebraska where Brandon met and befriended ex-convicts Tom Nissen and

The movie Mean Girls is set in a high school setting. The movie starts with a new girl coming to the school as a first time public school student. Cady, the new student, is immediately accepted into a group of friends, but later invited to another. The first clique she joins pushes her to become friends with the second group. This subsequently led to a typical high school drama scene. The ways these high school students go about their normal life seem very alike to the “typical” high school. Even though the movie Mean Girls by Mark Waters, uses humor to portray some questionable realism, it effectively depicts characteristics of ordinary high school life and uses realistic characters.

The hate crime of Brandon brought national attention to the ideal and possibility that someone would want to change their gender. For many people, this was their first time even hearing about trans people and the violence against trans people. After his death, his identity was challenged and argued even though there are quotes from him saying he felt like a man trapped inside a woman's body. As Karina Eileraas puts it “Transgender violence targets both men and women, but Brandon Teena's case highlights its particularly brutal effects on FTM transgender individuals. Boys Don't Cry provides a clear political incentive to integrate feminist, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender concerns in the analysis of violence against women...Serious risks accompany any attempt to invest the body with particular 'truths' about gender and sexuality”. Brandon was not fully accepted in life or given the support he needed but he is remembered in death and his story continues to inspire many people whether trans or not.

The idea that gender inequality is still something that is a big issue in the modern era is shocking. Many women and men work at the same jobs and even do many things the same but women and men are not the same not only in individual’s eyes but countries as well. Many believe that changing the way counties think about genders will force or make a movement for the new ideas of gender inequality to be scratched off the list of issues of today. Lisa Abend’s article “Boys Won’t Be Boys”, talks about the idea of Sweden making these needed changes to achieve this goal. This article uses allusions, ethos, and logos to prove that Sweden is on the path of changing the idea of gender inequality to something humanism.

The film, Boys Don't Cry, Kimberly Pierce's brilliant work of 1999, is the true story of, Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, played by Hillary Swank, who created a male identity for herself. Brandon was born in 1972 and died at the hopelessly young age of 21. The actual story takes place within the last two weeks of Brandon's life, in 1993. The movie, a dramatized documentary, was released in 1999. Brandon is a transgendered individual; he was born a female, but feels that he would be happier living as a man. She leaves her brother and hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, where everybody knows her as Teena, to start a new life as Brandon. Brandon ends up in Falls City and his short life, as a man, begins. It is in essence, the epitome of

The Kimberly Pierce film “Boys Don’t Cry” identifies the undesirable influences that the societal dominance of masculinity has on the structure of sexual identities. The film is an adaptation of the true story of a female to male transsexual named Brandon Teena, who was violently raped and murdered in Falls City, Nebraska in the year 1993. Set in a laboring-class American setting, the film is the depiction of Brandon looking to isolate himself from the constraints of sexual identity that is recognized by the inhabitants of Lincoln, Nebraska. After he is evicted by his cousin, due to the continual threats of bodily injury he receives from neighboring men, Brandon seeks comfort from an alcoholic beverage at the local bar. It is here where Brandon meets a girl named Candace, and her two friends John and Tom.

In the very first scene of the movie Boys Don’t Cry, we see three immediate characteristics that contribute to Brandon Tenna’s new body image. The first action you see is Brandon fixing his collard flannel shirt, he then continues to fix his hair by licking his hand then flattening the top, and finishes the scene by stuffing his blue jeans with a sock. If we look at this scene in this detail we can notice a few key concepts that effect Brandon’s life, and one of those is Brandon’s strive for acceptance. Brandon’s acceptance was achieved by changing his body image from that of a female to that of a male. By wearing different clothes and acting a different as a male would, Teena Brandon has become Brandon Teena; this is not only an outward projection of body image, but also an internal acceptance of his own body image. Even though Brandon portrays a male to society, when he is found out to be a biological female, he is now portraying his body image to make a stand for survival. Brandon’s acceptance in society as a male is turned into survival when people turn against him when he is labeled, once again, as a female.

Reginald Rose’s play, Twelve Angry Men, examines not only character but America’s judicial system as well. It is a jury’s responsibility to find the defendant guilty beyond reasonable doubt; if there is not proof beyond reasonable doubt, it is the jury’s duty to find the defendant not guilty. However, not all doubt can be eliminated. The motif of doubt is introduced by the Eighth Juror. The Eighth Juror establishes doubt in his peers through the symbolism in the switchblade knife he obtained.

It was the first mainstream film to present a lesbian romance as sincere and loving…” (Hollinger 141). Both these films presented the innocent love of women who also faced judgment, abuse, and were struggling to break out of the problems and boundaries society placed on them. The film Boys Don’t Cry was based on the true story of Brandon Teena. Brandon was murdered because of her sexuality.

Boys Don’t Cry, a movie released in 1999, tells a story of events that took place in Nebraska during 1993. The movie chronicles the story of Teena Brandon, a 20-year old female to male transgendered person, who moves from Lincoln to Falls City, Nebraska, a small, rural town. He moves to Falls City to escape the sexual/gender oppression and violence he experienced in Lincoln. From his arrival in Lincoln, Brandon dresses and socializes as a male. He makes a group of friends, girls and men.

The movie ‘Miss. Evers’ Boys’ highlights the story of a medical and ethical dilemma faced by a nurse in the early-mid 1900’s in a study on syphilis. Faced with a decision to continue supporting the doctors on their quest to study syphilis in African American men, the nurse, Eunice Evers, decides to continue helping the men in the study, devoting her life to the cause. Many problems will surface from this decision, but Nurse Evers remains a caring and loyal nurse. The story may sound like a romanticized life tale, however, the ‘Tuskegee Study’, as it became known, has a nightmarish history and violates multiple laws, both of the Catholic Church and of the government.

In the case of Spargo’s interpretation of Foucault the hegemonic ideal sexual subject is that of a straight man, who is presumably white and middle class. According to Foucault the category of homosexual emerged in the 19th century out of the development of the field of sexology, when medicine replaced religion as the primary producer of discourse on sexuality, and enforcer of (hetero)sexual norms . Foucault argues that despite their relative position individuals categorised as homosexual were able to create their own discourse (or counter-discourses) to the narrative on unnaturalness promoted by sexology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thus finding agency within constraining discourses . In this way sexuality and sexual subjects are constructed, understood and questioned through the discourse produced by those individuals and institutions with access to power.

This film provides a number of practical themes that arise in everyday life that include: moral courage, critical thinking, the value and importance of human life and varying stereotypes. One of the main topics in the film involved organized communication within a diverse group.The purpose of this paper is to analyze the importance of cooperative communities while providing different aspects of leadership.

The film Boyhood takes its audience on a unique journey of human development as it is captured over time and presented in the span of the film. Boyhood follows the life of a young boy named Mason, Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) and his family over the course of 12 years. The same amount of time that it took to make this film, giving it a unique and creative perspective. The film focuses on how time progresses, social conditioning, and the how the small things in life are what make up the bigger picture. Boyhood’s director Richard Linklater reminds his audience that they have very little control over what happens in their lives, since it moves at its own pace. We can see time changing through current events, popular songs, hair styles, and fashion rather than a time stamp. As an audience we see how the days linger but the years fly by. The characters have no control over time. It does not matter if they want to slow it down or speed it up, time moves at its own pace.

Homosexuality is defined as a predominant sexual attraction to persons of the same gender. For example, men being sexually attracted to other men and women being sexually attracted to other women (Exodus Global Alliance, 2017). Heterosexuality however, is the opposite of homosexuality. A heterosexual person has a sexual attraction to a person of the opposite sex, as opposed to an individual of the same sex. In Western society, heterosexuality has been constructed to be viewed as the norm, this however was not always the case. Sociologist Michel Foucault coined the term ‘homosexuality’ arguing that homosexuality was not discovered but produced. “Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul.” Following on from the invention of the term known as homosexuality, medical doctors invented a counter-position, heterosexuality. Although same-sex relationships existed prior to the invention of this terminology, it encouraged people to identify themselves and others differently (Angel Daniel Matos, 2013). As a result, the judgment of gender and