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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Christopher Reeve’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Christopher Reeve – 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 Christopher Reeve 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 Christopher Reeve 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 Christopher Reeve’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, Christopher Reeve 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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Note: Protagonist must FIRST overcome his/her internal conflict before
PLOT POINT II (Spin Story in New Direction)
Christopher Reeve – The external conflict FORCES the protagonist to change by forcing him to deal with an internal conflict (flaw) he’s been avoiding.
Act II (Confrontation)
Again, whatever works, is gold!
Christopher Reeve – I also recommend the book Shadow Syndromes, by John J. Ratey, which breaks down how personality disorders like schizophrenia, sadistic personality disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and others can manifest in ordinary personalities in a more subtle form. And of course Myers-Briggs tests are always helpful in honing in on character; other writers swear by the Enneagram or that old standard, astrology.
I am not going to get into advice like writing out a 30-page biography on your character. If that’s what you do to create character, you’re probably already doing it. Personally, I always do a timeline based on the character’s age so I can see what was going on in his or her society and world when s/he was at various stages of life. But one thing I’ve found invaluable in understanding and creating character is archetypes (read your Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Christopher Vogler!), and I particularly respond to Greek archetypes. Two of the most useful books I’ve ever read on character, and I mean ever, are Jungian psychologist Jean Shinoda Bolen’s books Goddesses in Everywoman and Gods in Everyman — both fascinating analyses of how the Greek gods and goddesses are still alive and well in our own personalities. Start reading and you’ll see instantly how applicable these books are to creating character.
ARCHETYPES AND YOUR MAIN CHARACTER
by: Christopher Reeve – Actor | Producer | Additional Crew, Superman (1978) | Superman II (1980) | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)