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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Adam McKay’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Adam McKay – 19th March 2021 – An upcoming movie depicting the injustice that men and women had to endure in the state penitentiaries in Texas has been inundated with calls from more than 2000 women urging the production company owned by Hollywood actor, producer and director Adam McKay and Adam Sandler, to stick to the real issues behind the Texas Judicial system. A petition was signed by many people that include attorneys, university professors, politicians and family members of the many men and women that are suffering in the state penitentiaries. The idea behind the petition is for the Adam McKay production company and Hollywood to stick to the true story about the injustices happening in the state run prisons. It is said that the state has sent more inmates to prison than during the Soviet Union did during their political uprising.
PREMISE: Adam Sandler writes letters and saves numerous women from the monotony of prison life, and later when he gets into trouble with a drug cartel they return the favor by rescuing him.
SETTING: Contemporary, Gatesville Texas. There are four women’s prisons located in Gatesville. And of course, Texas is famous for putting everyone in prison for a long time for little or no reason. The number of women in Texas prisons has doubled in the last ten years. Why don’t we have the “Adam Sandler” character… sending letters to women in prison and being their friend and trying to help them adjust, giving them hope… and when they get out of prison he picks them up so they don’t have to ride the smelly bus back home… but his pickup truck is a junker, smoking and sputtering … worse than the bus. But his heart is in the right place… He’s the last “chivalrous” man on earth.
It is said in the petition that many of the signatories were left distraught to find that many of the first time offenders for violations such as drug peddling have received disproportionate sentences. While some argue that a lenient sentence like rehabilitation would have proven much more inexpensive and an effective solution in tackling this gross miscarriage of justice. The petition was discovered by the women when the screenplay of the movie was donated to all the 580 prisons run by private organizations funded by the state government. It is much more difficult for women who are given much harsher penalties for a violation such as carrying small amount of drugs like Marijuana which coincidentally is legal in 21 states.
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About Adam McKay’s “Dumbass” Movie
The movie “Dumbass” revolves around the protagonist writing letters to prison inmates to keep their spirits high during their time in prison; only for them to help the main character who gets into trouble with a drug cartel and saving him at the end. The petition urges the production company, Adam McKay and Adam Sandler to take this issue seriously due to the hardships faced by women inside prison rather than making light of the situation for their own profits.
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One day the Disney producer and I were discussing what it takes to make a first sale and what he said profoundly changed my view of what “commercial” means. Up until then commercial was a dirty word that meant compromising my art, selling out or conforming to a formula. This was a huge miscalculation.
The biggest mistake I’d made was assuming the contest placement put my script in the running for the big screen. What it did was the following: 1) helped me gain industry attention 2) gave my writing skills credibility. But both the producers were right; the script wasn’t commercial.
Adam McKay – He read the script and passed. He said it was a good script and well written, but it failed as a commercial product and I should try an independent producer. After I got over the initial shock I realized this was the second time a Hollywood producer had told me my script wasn’t commercial.
One day a producer came into the press room and asked if anyone would like to earn extra money doing script coverage for him. I jumped on the Hollywood reader’s bandwagon and have been there ever since. This producer, at the time, did family films for Disney. He was a perfect match for my script “The Yellow Tulip.” I’m a lousy salesman, but eventually I mustered the courage to tell him about my script and its contest placement.
A WORD ON PROCESS
Adam McKay – When the work is play, you’ve got the best of all possible worlds.
Even beyond that, studying movies is fun, and fun is something writers just don’t let themselves have enough of. If you train yourself to watch for some of these structural elements, then every time you go to the movies or watch something on television, you’re actually honing your craft (even on a date or while spending quality time with your loved ones!), and after a while you won’t even notice you’re doing it.
So that means authors can give themselves an edge by stealing— I mean using — some of these film techniques to make their stories more immediately appealing and easily marketable — and by the way, to create better, more engaging books. I believe any novelist, from aspiring to multiply published; traditional, indie, or hybrid; and aspiring screenwriters as well, can benefit from these screenwriting tricks of the trade.
by: Adam McKay – Producer | Writer | Director, The Other Guys (2010) | Vice (I) (2018) | The Big Short (2015)