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60 of 96 · most liked first"Boys Don't Cry:" A very important if flawed movie, historically speaking, and also personally responsible for pushing every Millennial trans man's transition back by about 15 years
unlabelledView post →Possibly the most widely known movie like this was about Brandon Teena, a trans man, called Boys Don't Cry. And the filmmaker very much altered the facts for the film to minimize Brandon's transness. it was more about cis people's feelings about the murders than it was about Brandon himself.
unlabelledView post →Boys Don't Cry isn't a bad movie, I understand that it's important to trans film history (though I don't think any trans people were involved in making it) but it is so often the first story about a trans man that newly out/closeted trans men see Which is actually not great
unlabelledView post →"Corrective rape" is literally trying to rape someone straight, or to punish them by raping. The movie "Boys Don't Cry" was about Brandon Teena, a trans man who was a victim of "corrective rape,' before he was murdered.
unlabelledView post →I can still see his every feature. He was so cool for the three seconds the camera panned to him. Then the movie came out. I was working at a grocery store that has a small VHS rental section. I watched every movie that came in. It was 2000. I rented Boys Don't Cry. I rented it EIGHT TIMES.
unlabelledView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 6 - A song with the same title as a book, film or tv show The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
unlabelledView post →HBD superlesbian Christine Vachon, the prolific independent film producer known for her work w/ directors like Todd Haynes and Larry Clark, BOTD in 1962, turning 63 today. Her extensive filmography includes acclaimed films like Kids, Boys Don't Cry, Far from Heaven, and Carol
unlabelledView post →The first trans man I ever heard of was Brandon Teena, the murder victim from that Boys Don't Cry movie. Then basically no others until Chaz Bono.
unlabelledView post →I LOVE this movie. I have a massive soft spot for it bc early transition I got exposed to Boys Don't Cry, which fucked me up, but by comparison, this was such a sweet trans story, and I think it added a hopefulness to being trans that early 20s me needed to see.
unlabelledView post →This reminds me of the film Boys Don't Cry which I got sick to my stomach while watching. I don't ever wanna see that movie again & I don't wanna hear that this wasn't a hate crime. Only hate would cause some1 to torture, sexually assault & dismember a human being. We lift your name, Sam Nordquist .
unlabelledView post →Boys Don't Cry. Best movie folks she see exactly once and never again.
unlabelledView post →1/ Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
unlabelledView post →HDB Chloë Sevigny!! MCCT5 5)Zodiac (Fincher) 4)Melinda and Melinda (Allen) (3)Demonlover (Assayas) 2)Boys Don't Cry (Peirce) 1)Last Days of Disco ( @whitstillman.bsky.social More: @annebillson.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no... HW Vail: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
unlabelledView post →The Cure's Boys Don't Cry is used in new He-Man film. "Even Adam outside his He-Man persona has an '80s theme. Reflecting his softer side, The Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" plays over a montage of him failing to fit in on Earth."
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand. Oysters Boys Don't Cry* I Kissed A Girl† * It was brilliant but devastating † The Katy Perry one, not the Jill Sobule one (RIP)
unlabelledView post →THIS!! Most LGBTQ+ & Black people Already Knew this. For those cis-het white people who don't believe it, I have a couple assignments for you. Go watch the movie Boys Don't Cry. Yes, yes, it was made 25yrs ago. Still relevant! TW: omfg violence/rape/slurs..
unlabelledView post →Trivial Oscar fact I just remembered: If Demi Moore wins Best Actress, she'll be the 10th performer to win an acting Oscar for a female-directed film after: Marlee Matlin (CHILDREN..LESSER GOD) Holly Hunter/Anna Paquin (THE PIANO) Hilary Swank (BOYS DON'T CRY) (cont.)..
unlabelledView post →It didn't. It sucks that precautions have to be taken, but I come from the Boys Don't Cry (movie) era, and I always advise young people and people who are still dating to be cautious. I don't think it's victim shaming to say "it's dangerous out there, be careful"!
unlabelledView post →Yup. When I started figuring myself out at age 26 in 2009, I'd never HEARD of trans men before, & the only movie with one was Boys Don't Cry, in which a cis woman plays a real-life trans man who was gang-raped and murdered when outed. Plus HRT & GAS weren't covered by insurance bc there was no ACA.
unlabelledView post →A whole lot of people missed the film Boys Don't Cry (or the case it was based on) and it shows. (NOTE: cIf you already understand that *all* trans people are vulnerable to violence you do NOT need to go through watching it, but if you deny it I wanna Ludovico your ass in front of it)
unlabelledView post →the movie Boys Don't Cry. I know it's strongly disliked now but at the time it really opened my mind and made me think about a lot of things. I was in high school, took myself to see it after reading about it in Entertainment Weekly.
unlabelledView post →On September 13, 1999, Boys Don't Cry was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
unlabelledView post →Happy Birthday to the incredible Peter Sarsgaard, Emmy-nominated actress of stage, film, and television actor, celebrated for roles in BOYS DON'T CRY, KINSEY, JARHEAD, ELEGY, AN EDUCATION, OPRHAN, LOVELACE, BLUE JASMINE, DOPESICK, PRESUMED INNOCENT, and on stage in UNCLE VANYA, HAMLET, and more.
unlabelledView post →Why are some people saying "There were no trans people before 10 years ago?" Are they completely culturally illiterate? Did they misunderstand "Killer Queen" by Queen as being about Elizabeth II? Have they never heard of the movie "Boys Don't Cry"? Did they miss every day of history class?
unlabelledView post →I remember. I also remember the movie Boys Don't Cry. Powerful.
unlabelledView post →"Boys Don't Cry" was my first ever exposure to any trans guy character at all, in a college film class, but he was discussed as simply "a lesbian in disguise" so I didn't see myself in him. Not having any mirror for who I was was a pretty serious obstruction; I was suicidal until my 40s.
unlabelledView post →20 movies Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just an image. 2. Boys Don't Cry #FilmSky #Movies #20moviechallenge
unlabelledView post →Name 10 movies you've seen on the big screen (original or re-release): Ex Machina Godzilla Logan WALL-E Spider-Man The Simpsons Movie The Matrix Boys Don't Cry Million Dollar Baby Midsommar
unlabelledView post →Boys Don't Cry is an important movie to trans history ofc, I just have a complicated relationship with it
unlabelledView post →Even More Films Big Boys Don't Cry (2020). Directed by Steve Crowhurst This is a grim tale starring Michael Socha, surely one of the UK's best actors. He plays Paul Connolly, on whose book the film is based. We flash back to his time at a children's home where he and others were abused. Grim.
unlabelledView post →I learned of Brandon's murder from the movie, Boys Don't Cry. The Norm MacDonald meme rings a bell, but I had no idea of its hateful origin.
unlabelledView post →Added This Week: Leap of Faith, That Night, Boys on the Side, Empire Records, Breaking Up, The Horse Whisperer, The Out-of-Towners (1999), Boys Don't Cry, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Plus a lot of Canadian movies I can't fit in this post. letterboxd.com/mrcoat/list/...
unlabelledView post →I saw the movie Boys Don't Cry when it came out.
unlabelledView post →Something unusual I noticed today: The Oscar-winning movie "Boys Don't Cry" is suddenly unavailable everywhere. Either Searchlight/Disney has lost the rights or some music rights issues have popped up.
unlabelledView post →Choose 20 movies that stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just pictures. Day 4/20 - Boys Don't Cry (1999) #FilmSky 🎥📽 #MovieSky #moviechallenge
unlabelledView post →When I was 16 years old, I attended a (highly controversial in the state of North Carolina 💁♀️) film series on gender and sexuality. We watched Ma Vie en Rose and Boys Don't Cry. I went into that room not knowing what transgender meant. I left with a better understanding than SO MANY PEOPLE it's WILD.
unlabelledView post →Boys Don't Cry. Great movie, but it's terrible because sad and angry. I really can't watch it again.
unlabelledView post →I rewatch a lot of movies, but some of the most influential on me I have never and probably will never see more than once. Like Possum, absolute masterful horror around CSA. Don't know that I could bear a second watching. Boys Don't Cry. Come And See, the greatest war film ever made.
unlabelledView post →Kimberly Peirce, among others, talked about stuff like that in "This Film Is Not Yet Ratedl regarding "Boys Don't Cry." They got an NC-17 rating because Chloe Sevigny wiped her lips after performing oral sex on Hillary Swank. But soon after Swank being beaten to death was not a problem.
unlabelledView post →1999 hand's down best movie year of my adult life. Also saw Magnolia, eXistenZ, Fight Club, Election, Boys Don't Cry, Ghost Dog, The Insider, Office Space, and Galaxy Quest in the theater that year.
unlabelledView post →-For Colored Girls -Boys Don't Cry -This movie I watched on Netflix in like 2016 that I can't remember but their was a scene so egregious I'm still mad about it.
unlabelledView post →Insert a movie into another movie The Lost Boys Don't Cry
unlabelledView post →9/ With help from the Sundance Institute's Filmmakers, Writers and Producers Labs in 1997, Peirce completed the feature film in 1999. Upon its release, Boys Don't Cry became one of the most acclaimed and talked about films of the year.
unlabelledView post →The very dark and controversial movie Boys Don't Cry is sort of what brought this problem into cis public consciousness. While Kimberley Pierce earnestly based the film on the true story of trans man Brandon Teena, the movie drew a lot of controversy by casting Hilary Swank as the lead. (mtc...)
unlabelledView post →Again, Disclosure says all this but hence you often have cis men portraying trans women on screen, perpetuating bullshit thus. You have a comparative ignoring, generally, of trans men. Save for...that's right, Boys Don't Cry—a movie about a trans man killed for existing, based on real life. Cool.
unlabelledView post →Right, but I think giving her a second Oscar without having a critical acclaimed performance in a film after Boys Don't Cry was a choice... But it's true, it's mostly a “one and done” for the majority of the nominees and winners.
unlabelledView post →Trans women are demonized, trans men are invisibilized. The first time most people in the general public ever heard of the idea of a trans man was witb "Boys Don't Cry" in the 90s and that fucking movie thinks Brandon Teena was a cis lesbian.
unlabelledView post →That joke did strike many as harsh, since one of the people to whom Norm Macdonald was referring was Brandon Teena, the trans man who was raped by John Lotter and Tom Nisse and who was the subject of the movie "Boys Don't Cry." Macdonald never apologized for this.
unlabelledView post →As much as Norm's delivery of that line was amazing back in the day, the context of that image is awful: He's making fun of Brandon Teena, the trans man whose rape and murder was the basis for the movie "Boys Don't Cry".
unlabelledView post →I saw the title of your upcoming book BOYS DON'T FRY yesterday, and the first place my brain went was to the film BOYS DON'T CRY... which is very much *not* kidlit-territory... and then I realized that no one under 40 would have been old enough to see that film when it was in theaters (1999)!
unlabelledView post →On September 2, 1999, Boys Don't Cry was screened at the Venice Film Festival.
unlabelledView post →Exactly why I agree with you, and feel it's a beautiful framed episode, with a horrible ending, but in someways I feel that makes it more tangible, since we had cases like the movie Boys Don't Cry, and other Trans Visibility around the same time.
unlabelledView post →Correction: The Cure's Boys Don't Cry is used in new Masters of the Universe film.
unlabelledView post →That movie was so good! I was going to watch it again a few years ago, but just couldn't. It's one of those movies like " Boys Don't Cry" that once is enough+ you don't forget. 😭😱
unlabelledView post →From 2001, Ed presented classical radio in HK & Australia. He got Aus citizenship in 2010 & in 2014 wrote his 1st book 'Cadence: Travels with music - a memoir' abt cycling thru Pakistan. On that 2013 trip, he had a "total beam of light" moment watching Boys Don't Cry. He realised he was a man... 3/7
unlabelledView post →Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, with a still. 57/50 Film: Boys Don't Cry (1999) Director: Kimberly Peirce #filmsky #filmchallenge #films #classicfilms #movies #moviesky
unlabelledView post →American trans murder victim Brandon Teena was BOTD in 1972. His gang rape and murder in 1993, aged 21, brought attention to hate crimes against trans people, inspiring the Oscar-winning 1999 film “Boys Don’t Cry”. #brandonteena #bornonthisday #trans #transhero #transmartyr #boysdontcry
unlabelledView post →#WICKED FOR GOOD is a crowd pleaser! Got to see it last night with a Q&A with playwright and screenwriter Winnie Holzman and co screenwriter Dana Fox - bonus it was moderated by Kimberly Pierce who made BOYS DON'T CRY. It was so touching to see how proud and excited these writers are with this film.
unlabelledView post →Today in Gender & Contemporary Cinema (FILM 3P98), Dr.Milliken is screening Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999). The students are reading about the debates around the film and the transgender body on screen. youtu.be/Ar9wGSd7KVQ?... #CPCF #BrockU #Transgenderforeverybody #film
unlabelledView post →Seen the movie, "Boys Don't Cry"
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