Big Boys Don't Cry [DVD] [2022]

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Brandon Film Lawsuit Settled". Chicago Sun-Times. March 11, 2000. p.18. Archived from the original on April 17, 2016 . Retrieved June 16, 2015. Nothing short of full blown heart wrenching, pit-of-the-stomach empathetic cinema, and it's all possible because of the uncompromising and unsurpassed Kimberly Peirce and Hilary Swank.

Teena Brandon / Brandon Teena". History vs. Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 19, 2015 . Retrieved May 1, 2015. Hird, Myra (2001). "Appropriating Identity: Viewing 'Boys Don't Cry' ". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 3 (3): 435–442. doi: 10.1080/14616740110078211. S2CID 144866276.Boys Don't Cry". Political Film Society. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved April 25, 2015.

This is a film, based on the real life story of Paul Connolly, that powerfully depicts how adults in authority abused young children throughout their childhood in a local children's home. a b Zacharek, Stephanie (October 11, 1999). "Boys Don't Cry". Salon.com. Archived from the original on September 4, 2010 . Retrieved October 7, 2010. a b c d e f g h i j Basoli, A.G. (November 16, 1999). "Kimberly Peirce". MovieMaker. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015 . Retrieved June 15, 2015. Hilary Swank Wins Best Actress: 2000 Oscars". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015.

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Boys Don't Cry". IGN. April 18, 2000. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015 . Retrieved May 1, 2015. Transgender Day of Remembrance". Matthew Shepard Foundation. Archived from the original on April 9, 2014 . Retrieved October 9, 2010. Peirce, who had originally sought a career in photography before moving into filmmaking, applied techniques she had learned to the film. [51] She described the film's mood as an "artificial night". [14] Director of Photography Jim Denault showed her the work of photographer Jan Staller, whose long-exposure night photography under artificial lighting inspired Denault to avoid using "moonlight" effects for most of the film. As a way to further incorporate the sense of artificial night, John Pirozzi, who had been experimenting with time-lapse photography using a non-motion-controlled moving camera, was invited to create the transition shots seen throughout the film. [14]

Nebraska and India slam Oscar injustices". The Guardian. March 29, 2000 . Retrieved November 10, 2023. Siegel, Carol (2003). "Curing Boys Don't Cry: Brandon Teena's Stories". Genders (37). Archived from the original on November 29, 2014 . Retrieved October 7, 2010. Brody, Jennifer Devere (2002). "Boyz Do Cry: Screening History's White Lies". Screen. 43 (1): 91–96. doi: 10.1093/screen/43.1.91. In her film, Pierce [ sic] inserts the unconventional problems of transsexuality into a conventional narrative structure. Throughout the film Brandon is presented as a doomed, though beguiling and beautiful rascal, recognizably located in the lineage of well-known cinematic bad-boys like James Dean, Steve McQueen, and Paul Newman. Like these predecessors, Brandon's heroic stature derives from her [ sic] unwillingness to compromise her [ sic] identity … Pierce [ sic] presents Brandon's struggles against biological determinism as the struggles of a dignified renegade. [75]Jay Carr of The Boston Globe wrote, " Boys Don't Cry not only revisits the crime, but convinces us we're being taken inside it". [64] Stephanie Zacharek of Salon gave a positive review, singling out the directing and acting. She wrote, "Peirce ... covers an extraordinary amount of territory, not just in terms of dealing with Brandon’s sexual-identity and self-fulfillment issues, but also in trying to understand the lives of those around him". Zacharek described Swank's performance as "a continual revelation" and Sevigny's performance as "transformative". She said, "When Brandon dies, Boys Don’t Cry reaches an emotional intensity that’s almost operatic. The saddest thing, though, is seeing Sevigny’s Lana crumpled over his corpse—the way she plays it, you know that when Brandon went, he took a part of her with him, too". [55] David Edelstein of Slate was also very positive towards the film, calling it "a meditation on the irrelevance of gender." He went on to praise Swank, Sevigny, and Sarsgaard in their roles, especially Sevigny, writing that she "keeps the movie tantalizing". [108]

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The film was not without detractors, who focused on the film's portrayal of Brandon and his actions. Richard Corliss of Time magazine was one of the film's negative reviewers; he wrote, "the film lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude, no sizzle". [64] Peter Rainer of New York Magazine compared the film unfavorably with Rebel Without a Cause (1954), calling it a "transgendered [ sic]" version, elaborating that the film "could have used a tougher and more exploratory spirit; for Peirce, there was no cruelty, no derangement in Brandon's impostures toward the unsuspecting." [109] In 2007, Premiere ranked the film on its list of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies". [110]