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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Ben Foster’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Ben Foster – 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 Ben Foster 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 Ben Foster 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 Ben Foster’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, Ben Foster 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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Reversals in majority of scenes, not just the big ones
Locations have been commercialized
Ben Foster – Dialogue written to attract A-List actors
Protagonist has huge emotional stakes
· ASSIGNMENT: Start being on the lookout for great curtains or cliffhangers – theatrical, filmic, and novelistic. In a film you will be looking at your watch at about 30 minutes, 60 minutes, and 90 minutes to find the act breaks and Midpoint climax; in a 400-page novel the climaxes will be around p. 100, page 200, and page 300. Make a page specifically for this in your notebook and add to it, so you’ll have those examples right at your fingertips whenever you need them.
Ben Foster – As I tell my classes, this dramatic structure has been around so long it’s in our DNA. There is no fighting 2000+ years of the Act Climax. And we have experienced this act climax rhythm in so many movies and television shows over the course of our lifetimes that we expect those climaxes on a regular basis (I know I do!). We know subconsciously when these big scenes are supposed to come. If a book or film is not delivering on those climaxes, we as readers or audience start to get uneasy and bored, and may well give up on the book or movie. Ignore history at your own peril.
Now, when you’re reading a book, you can take your intermission any time, and you do. But as an author, you still have to lure your reader back to your book. My point here is: why not understand the concept of the curtain scene and possibly use the tricks that have kept audiences coming back into the theater, and back from commercial breaks, for thousands of years?
In network television, you do have an obvious curtain and an intermission, called a “commercial,” and woe betide you if you want to work for television and don’t understand the concept of a cliffhanger before the act break, or “act out.”
by: Ben Foster – Actor | Producer | Director, Hell or High Water (II) (2016) | 3:10 to Yuma (2007) | The Messenger (I) (2009)