The Laramie Project Page #10

Synopsis: Moisés Kaufman and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of Matthew Shepard. This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepard's visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of "Angels in America" a year after Shephard's death.
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Director(s): Moisés Kaufman
Actors: Kathleen Chalfant, Laura Linney, Peter Fonda, Jeremy Davies
Production: HBO Films
  Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 5 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
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Year:
2002
97 min
1,961 Views

It's not clear to me,

having Known Matthew...

...what story he would want

told about this.

We won't fully understand

what happened here...

...until time has had a chance

to filter that out for us.

What happened here,

the culture that caused this...

...the complex set of events

leading up to it...

...it would have been like

us trying to stop a tank.

Change is not an easy thing,

and I don't think people were up to it.

They got what they wanted.

Those two boys got what they deserve,

and we look good now.

It's been over a year since

Matthew Shepard died...

...and they haven't passed sh*t in Wyoming.

They haven't passed it at a state level...

...any town, anybody, anywhere...

...has passed any kind of laws.

Anti-discrimination laws

or hate crime legislation...

...nobody has passed anything anywhere.

What's come out of it?

What's come out of it

that's concrete and lasting?

"The dead will be commemorated

and will struggle on with the living...

"...and we are not going away.

"We won't die secret deaths anymore.

"The world only spins forward.

"We will be citizens.

"The time has come.

"'Bye, now."

Have you ever gone out to the fence?

I drove up to the site in my limousine...

...and I remembered something to myself

the night he and I drove around together.

He said, "laramie sparkles, doesn't it?"

And where he was in that spot up there...

...if you sit exactly in that spot up there,

laramie sparkles from there.

With the low-lying clouds...

...it's the blue lights bouncing off

the clouds from the airport...

...and it goes...

...over the whole city.

I mean...

...it blows you away.

Matt was right there in that spot,

and I can just picture...

...in his eyes...

I can picture what he was seeing.

The last thing that he saw on this earth...

...was the sparKling lights

of Laramie, Wyoming.

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Moisés Kaufman

Moisés Kaufman (born November 21, 1963) is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He is also the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and 33 Variations. He was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to New York City in 1987. more…

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