In the film "Boys Don't Cry" what was the exact motive for John & Tom raping (not murdering Brandon?

Question

In the film it seems that they rape & beat her to get revenge for lying to them & b/c they think she's a "freak": aside from them being drunken loser criminals. In other documentaries & stories I read it was also revenge & "teaching her a lesson" for lying to them. In the movie they finally kill her for reporting the rape to the police. Was that what happened in real life?

Answer 1

"Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 independent drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transsexual who was raped and murdered on December 31, 1993 by his male friends after they found out he had female genitalia."

Controversy:

Major details of the actual rape and murder of Brandon Teena were changed in the film version. Most notably, the film portrays a double murder, when in actuality, three people were murdered. A black man, Philip Devine, 19, Lana's sister Leslie's boyfriend, was shot to death on a couch; he was completely absent from the film. Lisa Lambert, 24, was found dead with Brandon. The survivor at the murder house was a baby boy, not a girl as portrayed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_Don%27...