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By Hook or By Crook	comment	By Hook Or By Crook is a 2001 queer buddy film, directed by, written by, and starring Silas Howard and Harry Dodge. It was their first film, although Harry Dodge would go on to collaborate on many more film and video art projects with Stanya Kahn, who also stars in this film and wrote all of her character's dialogue.Shy (Silas Howard) receives a foreclosure notice for his dead father's house in rural Kansas, and plans to rob a bank to make enough money to save his home. He hitchhikes to San Francisco, where he meets Valentine (Harry Dodge) and his partner Billie (Stanya Kahn), and together they engage in small-scale crimes while plotting their big break.The film has been linked to the New Queer Cinema movement, and is one of the first works of fiction directed by trans directors about trans subjects.It is available for free on Vimeo here.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_157aa3db	comment	Gay Cowboy: Shy and Val wear some fabulously queer Western outfits.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_1d3d3c32	type	Welcome to the Big City
By Hook or By Crook / int_1d3d3c32	comment	Welcome to the Big City: In his first day after reaching San Francisco, Shy is forced to sleep on the streets and witnesses a man beating up Val.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_1f0c1d33	type	Couldn't Find a Pen
By Hook or By Crook / int_1f0c1d33	comment	Couldn't Find a Pen: In the mental institution where Val is sent after being arrested, someone has scrawled "LONELY IS THE HUNTER" on the walls in blood.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
By Hook or By Crook / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: Shy, Val, and Billie effectively form a chosen family.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
By Hook or By Crook / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Shy scams people, robs a vending machine, and hotwires several cars in his quest to get rich and help out his friends.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_3d1aadec	type	Punk Rock
By Hook or By Crook / int_3d1aadec	comment	Punk Rock: The soundtrack features a lot of punk and Queercore bands, including Silas Howard's own band, Tribe 8.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_463da046	type	Ambiguous Gender Identity
By Hook or By Crook / int_463da046	comment	Ambiguous Gender Identity: The gender identity of the protagonists, Shy and Val, is left ambiguous. The film is written and directed by two transmasculine people, who play both of the protagonists, who usually refer to each other as "he/him", "guy", and "man". However, when a child asks Shy "are you a boy or a girl?", Shy answers "both". In a later scene, Val explains to Shy, "I'm a two-for-one, a special." These scenes can be interpreted as evidence that these characters have a bigender or genderfluid identity.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
By Hook or By Crook / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: Shy was raised by a single father, and his financial problems start after his father dies. Val was given up for adoption and adopted by a family that put him in a mental institution when he was 13 for being transgender.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
By Hook or By Crook / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: A very trippy montage of seemingly unrelated images illustrates Val's experiences being sedated in the mental hospital.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
By Hook or By Crook / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: In the mental instutition where Val is sent after being arrested, someone has scrawled "LONELY IS THE HUNTER" on the walls in blood.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_7b7f90d5	type	Pronoun Trouble
By Hook or By Crook / int_7b7f90d5	comment	Pronoun Trouble: Shy and Val usually refer to each other as "he/him", "guy", and "man". However, when interacting with the straight world, sometimes they use feminine pronouns, like in the scene where Shy and Val conspire to rip off a hardware store clerk.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
By Hook or By Crook / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Shy and Val both often wear suit jackets and ties, although not full three-piece suits.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_8966382e	type	Bank Robbery
By Hook or By Crook / int_8966382e	comment	Bank Robbery: After seeing a news report about a bank robbery on TV, Shy decides that will be the way he gets enough money to save his home. He doesn't end up robbing a bank; in the end, he attempts to hold up a convenience store with a toy gun, and is humiliated by the clerk, not even getting any money.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_91b740a6	type	Karmic Thief
By Hook or By Crook / int_91b740a6	comment	Karmic Thief: Shy plans to rob a bank, and in an early monologue implies that he wants to steal from "all the crooks in the world, like presidents, senators, cops".
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By Hook or By Crook / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
By Hook or By Crook / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: Val's parents sent him to a mental instutition when he was 13, for "wearing boy's clothes" (i.e. for being transgender). It didn't work, of course; he continues to present as male and has a romantic relationship with a woman, Billie.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
By Hook or By Crook / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Val was institutionalized in what he sarcastically describes as "very nice place in the country" as a child, as a form of conversion therapy for his gender identity. After a run-in with the police, he is institutionalized again. He is forcibly restrained and sedated. The building is run-down, patients mill about aimlessly, seemingly sedated or out of touch with reality, and there are messages written on the walls in blood.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
By Hook or By Crook / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In both their introductions, Shy and Val reference The Wizard of Oz. Shy refers to himself as being "like Dorothy, but with biceps and no dog," while Val calls himself the tin man, the lion, and then says "I'm all the guys from that movie." Flashbacks to Shy's childhood show him dressed as Superman, flying in his father's arms. In other scenes, he's shown making a Superman pose on a roof, sometimes while wearing a towel as a cape. Shy gets the idea to rob a bank from watching a news report on a bank robbery, in which a witness says "It reminded me of that movie, Bonnie and Clyde."
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By Hook or By Crook / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
By Hook or By Crook / int_cdac8795	comment	Gene Hunting: Val is adopted, and has been trying for a long time to find his birth mother. Shy helps him out.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
By Hook or By Crook / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: The protagonist, Shy, steals and cons his way through San Francisco to get rich. However, he's well-dressed and slick-talking enough to be likeable to the audience and to other characters.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_d21f3d5d	type	Justified Criminal
By Hook or By Crook / int_d21f3d5d	comment	Justified Criminal: Shy is implied to have very few choices, as a newly orphaned trans person who recently lost his house to foreclosure, and arrives in the city homeless and broke.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_e77d9cc8	type	Tin-Can Telephone
By Hook or By Crook / int_e77d9cc8	comment	Tin-Can Telephone: Billie and Val use one of these instead of a doorbell. In one scene, Val insists that Shy use it, to Shy's irritation.
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By Hook or By Crook / int_eeb86ce6	type	Good Samaritan
By Hook or By Crook / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: Val is being beaten by an unnamed assailant when Shy pulls his attacker off him, and finally chases the attacker away with a Groin Attack. This is how the two characters meet and become friends.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Ambiguous Gender Identity / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Bank Robbery / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Bedlam House / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Couldn't Find a Pen / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Cure Your Gays / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Gene Hunting / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Good Samaritan / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Justified Criminal / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Karmic Thief / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	New Queer Cinema / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Orphan's Ordeal / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Pronoun Trouble / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Queer Character, Queer Actor / int_ce985a8e
By Hook or By Crook	hasFeature	Room Full of Crazy / int_ce985a8e

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