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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through C. Thomas Howell’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
C. Thomas Howell – 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 C. Thomas Howell 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 C. Thomas Howell 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 C. Thomas Howell’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, C. Thomas Howell 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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What if you’ve already written a “popcorn movie?” Here are the choices:
A script can still be plot-driven, but it must rise above the “popcorn movie” level before it’ll get serious consideration for a first sale.
C. Thomas Howell – Once a writer has broken in and has some successes under his belt he’ll find it much easier to convince the studio to go for his “popcorn movie,” but in the meantime he’ll need to deliver something more in-depth.
When, in fact, they’d need a much more in-depth story – less popcorn, more character stuff – for a first sale.
HERO/INE’S SPECIAL SKILLS
C. Thomas Howell – A classic pattern of drama is that the hero/ine has a wound from the past — a traumatic event, a lost love, the death of a friend, alcoholism or another addiction, the loss of faith — that continues to haunt her or him in the present, and which s/he will be forced to confront in living color in the course of the story, generally in the climax of the story. We may see this haunting event as a prologue to the story, or we may only sense that there is something haunting them, which will not be fully revealed until deep in the story.
HERO/INE’S GHOST OR WOUND
This can mean the Hero/ine’s inner need, but there is often one immediately apparent external problem that the hero/ine needs to solve. This can be the INCITING INCIDENT.
by: C. Thomas Howell – Actor | Producer | Director, The Outsiders (1983) | The Hitcher (1986) | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)