Boys Don't Cry

The novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel can be compared to different types of media such as films, TV serials or literary forms as novels, short stories, comics, etc. But, the most suitable comparative media form is film. Film is a visual presentation of fictional or nonfictional narrative that makes the audience go through an emotional trauma. The film, which complemented Night by Elie Wiesel because of the similarity of themes, is Boys Don't Cry Directed by Kimberly Peirce. Their plots are different. But, both begin with the very idea of dehumanization - human tend to physically, emotionally or sexually torture a fellow human being. The other theme in common is the instinctual struggle to survive - how people overcome many hurdles of life to get…

“Boys Don’t Cry” was written by Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen and is based on the true story of Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena was born Teena Brandon, in Lincoln Nebraska. He is a transgender male and none of his family or people from his home town understand. In the opening scene Brandon is going on a date. Things go very well and when he takes the girl home they kiss. Unfortunately, some guys find out and chase Brandon back to his cousin’s house shouting obscenities, threatening him, and…

In Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 movie, Boys Don’t Cry was based on real life events of Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) who is a young female-to-male transgender individual. In the opening scene of Boys Don’t Cry, Brandon leaves his hometown because his ex-girlfriend’s brother discovers that Brandon is biologically a female. In the same night, Brandon gets into a bar fight where he met John (Peter Sarsgaard) and Tom (Brendan Sexton III). Eventually, Bandon ends up traveling with Tom and John to a small…

Per Reporter: Brandon's mother (Kelsey) introduced him to marijuana and alcohol. Kelsey gives parties to Brandon and his teenager's friend (unknown). Kelsey provides them with the alcohol and pot (marijuana). The police were called to the home several times concerned the parties. One time Kelsey did not open the door until Brandon hid the bone (glass looking pipe to smoke marijuana in). Brandon no longer wants to parties and do drugs. When Kelsey gives the teenagers parties at home; Brandon and…

and complete silence and darkness sets the background. As Scoot awakens she gasps for air and you can hear her heart pounding and she frantically looks around. Music continues to play while Sully tried to force the door open and knock on the fiberglass. Complete silence takes over when the scene changes to Scoot. They nly thing we hear are her breaths. When Scoot breaks free, loud cheerful music is played. Bright lights shine into her eyes forcing her to squint as she leaves through the…

How Guy Codes Affects the Growth of Boys The rules that boys and men are told to follow fall under the “guy code”. The code tells males of any age to act and be strong, tough, powerful, aggressive, dominant, and so on. The truth about the guy code is that it damages males in an emotional way. Since they are always told to follow the guidelines, males cannot always show their true feelings. Showing any type of emotion or doing any action that is not masculine will result them in being judged by…

On the other hand Gus a speaker from Batyr asked us what does the phrase “be a man” or “men don’t cry” actually mean. This introduced a new topic where boys shouldn’t be ashamed of being humans because at the end of the day we all have issues in our lives that many aren’t open to talk about and struggle to share, so crying is what we are left doing but even something like that can bring males to shatter into a thousand pieces. They were always told to “man up” because apparently that’s not what…

My grandma had 5 kids, four females and one male. My grandma has about 14 grandchildren and our of those 14 grandchildren there are only 4 males. My cousin is only 9 years old and he is the oldest. Growing up around nothing but girls, he sometimes acted in a feminine way. Me being the second oldest grandchild, when he was around as a younger boy, I made sure I didn’t act to “girly” and allow him to think this is the way he should act. For a period of time, he was the only boy with about seven…

I remember numerous accounts throughout grade school when the teacher would need assistance moving something heavy. Without a doubt that wretched, infamous phrase would seep from my teachers mouth. "Can any strong boys help me carry these?" At first, I accepted it after having gender roles shoved down my throat for most of my life. But more recently, as I've grown into who I am today, I wish I challenged my teachers whenever they'd say this. Why is it that they only wanted the boys? Did they see…

For my writing prompt, I chose the topic of gender. I watched Kimberly Pierce’s Boys Don't Cry because it was based off true events and actually showed the challenging situation where someone's gender did not conform to societal expectations in the year 1993. This movie emphasizes three main sociological concepts: how your sex doesn't always match your gender, society fears what they do not understand, and how there are advantages of being one gender and not the other as a result of society’s…