We were young artists who wanted to make something representative of us and our culture. As Silas Howard points out, “When we made By Hook or By Crook, we had no idea the film would go on to become an iconic mainstay of queer cinema. As a transexual young man he begins to discover himself as an authentic, caring person. In some ways, the film is a coming-of-age tale of Shy as a boy who always wanted to be a superhero and fly like Superman. That leaves us with Shy who is driven by a lack of emotion and just trying to get out of a rut – slowly growing as we move through the story.
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He is full of vitality, living on the edge of “normalcy” and full of playful imagination. Valentine is a fascinating character with his quick intuition and fast-paced love of metaphoric conceits but he clearly has had some issues with mental stability that previously put him in a mental hospital in the past. Valentine (Harry Dodge) primping with his hair Even with her mix of New Age thinking and a stoner culture vib, Billie’s character is the emotional center of the film. She considers herself to be Valentine’s romantic partner but she is also quite practical in a way – mediating between Valentine’s more poetic world and Shy’s attempt to deal with harsh realities. About friendship and finding connection in an alienated world.” The girl in the story is Billie (played by Stanya Kahn) and Valentine lives in her funky house in the San Francisco area.
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I guess I want people to know coming into the theater, that they’re about to watch a movie about love, really. It’s not an action adventure, a mystery, or a thriller. They’re guy friends.” “This is definitely not a crime flick. As Harry Dodge summarizes the film: “There’s Shy and Valentine and a girl. I spoke with Harry Dodge and Silas Howard about their film last week. By Hook or By Crook will screen on Saturday, June 23,9:00 PM at the Directors Guild of America.Īdvertisement A moment of joy for Shy (Silas Howard) In this boundary-shattering tale, Silas Howard s a transexual young man who is the driving force of this wonderfully acted, anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust and redemption. Emotionally defeated after the death of his father in Kansas, Shy (played by a very young Silas Howard) heads to the big city of San Francisco to sink himself into a “life of crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (played by Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, too-talkative young man who was originally adopted and is on a misguided search for his birth mother. By Hook or By Crook is a somewhat experimental buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome, gender-bending small town dreamer with a nagging messiah complex.
Los Angeles, CA ( The Hollywood Times) 7/20/22 – Harry Dodge and Silas Howard made their innovative By Hook or By Crook in 2002 and the award-winning feature film premiered at Sundance went on to win the Audience Award for Best Feature at five film festivals, including SXSW that year. Valentine (Harry Dodge) & Shy (Silas Howard)īy Jim Gilles Shy (Silas Howard) all dressed up on his way to California
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