Gwen Araujo and Brandon Teena Gwen Araujo Gwen Araujo (Edward Araujo Jr.) was born February 24‚ 1985. She was an American teenage pre-operative transgender woman. She was born in Newark‚ California. Gwen Araujo was murdered by four men: Jose Merel‚ Jason Cazares‚ Michael Magidson‚ and Jaron Nabors because the men did not like that she was born a man. Two of the four men had a romantic relationship with Araujo (Jose Merel and Michael Magidson). The murder happened October 3‚ 2002. On October
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BOYS DON’T CRY versus THE TEENA BRANDON STORY I have chosen to write about the difference between fact and fiction between a documentary and a docudrama. Between how important getting information out to the public and what sells to the viewing public for entertainment. I would like to state that I feel quite fortunate that I watched the documentary‚ “The Teena Brandon Story”‚ first then I watched the movie‚ “Boys Don’t Cry”. I had viewed the movie years ago; I had heard that this movie was a
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was a girl who successfully passed herself off as a boy. Brandon Teena depicts the life and death of a young woman who believed that she should have been born a man. Teena concealed her female gender and successfully convinced almost everyone she knew that she was really a male‚ while living in a small town in Nebraska. At first‚ as I was watching the movie‚ I was confused as to why Teena wanted to dress up at as a man and be called Brandon. I thought that maybe she was just lesbian and that she
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is a film about the real life of Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena was a young transgender individual from Nebraska that was murdered after the discovery of his being transgender. Brandon Teena found a group of friends after a bar fight that got out of hand and found a home like atmosphere in their presence. However‚ his new found friends did not know that he was born a woman and Brandon Teena does his best to keep his identity a secret. Unfortunately‚ Brandon Teena has had some problems with the
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did at the end of this movie. I know that this movie was supposed to be based on the true story of Teena Brandon‚ however‚ after watching this movie‚ I looked up the true story and it turned out that the movie was really faithful to the actual real life events that occurred. At first‚ as I was watching the movie‚ I was confused as to why Teena wanted to dress up at as a man and be called Brandon. I thought that maybe she was just lesbian that didn’t like dressing like a girl and wanted more of
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SUMMARY The film opens with Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) driving in the night. He is going with his cousin‚ Lonny (Matt McGrath)‚ an older boy who is gay‚ to a skating rink. Lonny warns Brandon against behaving dangerously. Brandon ignores him and enters the rink‚ which seems magical to him. There Brandon meets with a girl. Later‚ we see them kissing outside her home‚ and Brandon chivalrously tells her he won’t leave until he knows she is safely inside. But later‚ Brandon is chased by a group of young
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Brandon Teena confessed in the movie that he has “gender identity disorder” he is biologically a female‚ but lived as a male. Today‚ “gender identity disorder” is called gender dysphoria. The name was changed because with time the LGBTQ community as evolved. Being transgendered is no longer labeled as a disorder. According to WebMD “People who have gender dysphoria feel strongly that their gender does not match their biology.” In Brandon’s case who’s biologically a female‚ has the sex organs and
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Other comments celebrated Beggs’s courage and perseverance. Over the last couple of years‚ The transgender debate has heated up. In 1999‚ Kimberley Peirce and Any Bienan co-wrote the movie‚ Boys Don’t Cry‚ a story about a transgender male named Brandon
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create these. ‘Boys Don’t Cry is about a woman named Teena Brandon‚ AKA Brandon Teena‚ who is having a sexual identity crisis. ‘He’ wants to become a boy and does everything he can to make his look resemble that of a young man. The film follows Brandon as ‘he’ makes new friends and manages to fool a lot of people. Performances in this film are key in provoking an emotional response‚ especially in some of the final scenes of the film when Brandon is sexually assaulted and eventually murdered by two
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Hilary Swank. Their film‚ the autobiographical “Boys Don’t Cry‚” about transgendered murder victim Brandon Teena‚ was such a small production that Swank confided to CBS that she earned only $3‚000 for her Oscar-winning performance. According to “Boys Don’t Cry” director Kimberly Peirce‚ whose story was a main feature of “This Film is Not Yet Rated‚” while the MPAA took issue with the scene where Teena is gang-raped by his eventual murderers‚ their primary complaint was with the consensual sex scene
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