Brandon Teena

the life of a transgender person, Brandon Teena, and his life and eventual murder. The film begins with Brandon and his cousin Lonny at a skating rink, where Brandon meets a young girl. Later they are seen making out as he drops her off at her house, it cuts to Brandon being chased by people who are apparently related to the girl yelling homomorphic slurs and threatening her. Her and her cousin, who is also gay hideout in their trailer and it is relived that Brandon is not a boy but actually a girl

The film is based on the real story of Brandon Teena from Lincoln, Nebraska. Brandon (Hilary Swank) was born as a girl, and since early childhood he acted and dressed as a boy. He was attracted to other girls but he denied being a lesbian. The movie begins when Brandon is driving at a high speed, and in the next scene, he has his hair cut and puts a sock in his jeans. He looks like a real boy, but his cousin does not approve his behavior. However, Brandon is happy to feel like a boy, and he makes

GENDER STEREOTYPE (Masculinity) Mass media and film play a huge role in this world. It is a way of entertainment to a wide range of audiences across the world. Audio visuals have the capability to manipulate and alter people’s minds by showing certain criteria which people themselves have created. This has started to change people’s perspective towards a lot of things in their surroundings. The word ‘stereotype’ is a dangerous one. It can easily play with people’s minds and make them think in

attracted to other girls but he denied being a lesbian. The movie begins when Brandon is driving at a high speed, and in the next scene, he has his hair cut and puts a sock in his jeans. He looks like a real boy, but his cousin does not approve his behavior. However, Brandon is happy to feel like a boy, and he makes the acquaintance of a girl, Candace (Alicia Goranson). Then, after a little fight with a girl’s suitor, Brandon meets her friends, Tom (Brendan Sexton III) and John (Peter Sarsgaard). With

society’s norms. Brandon continuously battles with rejection, acceptance, and performing masculinity. Foucault writes, "those who relate their change of sex belong to a world that is strongly bisexual; and their uneasiness about their identity find expression in the desire to pass over to the other side– to the side of the sex they desire to have and in whose world they would like to belong" (Foucault 1980: 14). A scene that best exemplifies Foucault’s statement is when Brandon is hanging out with

The diversity of human population increases every day. With freedom, people have the will to express themselves in different aspects of a region, beliefs, or sexual orientation. Most recently, there has been an increase in cases of gay people in America, and the world over. Debate rages whether being gay is caused by hormones, genes, social and environmental factors or a combination of all these factors. Regardless of the cause, the general population is gradually accepting the gay community in the

based around Brandon Teena, who is a young female-to-male transgender who flees his hometown because his biological identity had been revealed. He relocates to a small town in Nebraska, where he has the opportunity to start over. He becomes very popular very fast. Brandon meets tons of new people in his new town, and loves to go out drinking with the guys, and is an immediate charm to women, as they are only used to the inconsiderate, wild men that make up a great deal of the town. Brandon quickly becomes

"You robbed me of something very precious and I will never forgive you for that. Mr. McKinney, I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life and may you thank Matthew every day for it." Those were the words said by Dennis Shepard at the sentencing of Aaron McKinney, one of the men who tortured, robbed, and murdered his son Matthew Shepard. He was given a life sentence. States must inflict a harsher punishment for people who commit gay violence crimes because over

accepts him for who he is, so then he moves out to start a new-better life. Teena, known as Brandon, falls in love with a women who accepts him for who he is. He is convinced that he has found what he was always searching for; acceptance by a girl, and being able to change his identity without people knowing that he is a she. When his two guy friends find out that he is a transgender he faces his consequences. Because Brandon refuses to perform the gender assigned to him at birth, he is punished through

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