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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Dabney Coleman’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Dabney Coleman – 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 Dabney Coleman 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 Dabney Coleman 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 Dabney Coleman’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, Dabney Coleman 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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In Cowboys and Aliens the rules are learned as the story progresses. We learn how Daniel Craig’s character came to have the metallic bracelet on his arm, what happened to him and how he ties in with the aliens and why they’ve come to earth. Learning the ‘rules’ gradually is a necessity for this story to work because it helped build suspense. If the writer had laid out the circumstances of this unique world up front, the story would have lacked suspense.
Let’s start by discussing stories that bend the rules, take us to foreign territories or allow us to explore alien worlds. If the writer takes us to a place that we’ve never seen before or bends established rules (like aliens in the old west in Cowboys and Aliens), then the writer MUST establish and/or clarify the rules of this unique situation or location. There is one catch; the rules of this world don’t have to be established up front. In fact, they can be used as a big twist ending. For example, in the classic film Planet of the Apes from 1968, Heston’s character believes he’s crash landed on an alien world gone amuck with apes who talk. That’s the established world and we go with it, then in the end the world shifts in a devastating twist when he learns he never left planet earth. Instead, he’d crash landed in the future.
Dabney Coleman – Also, doing research will help writers avoid making stupid mistakes. I once read an entire story where the CIA was going around arresting US citizens on US soil for narcotics. The CIA doesn’t handle narcotics and their jurisdiction is outside the USA. Knowing the rules and worlds of a story can make it believable, but only if the audience understands it too.
Well, these technically aren’t Hollywood rules, but they’re what we’ve come to expect in certain scenarios. For examples, vampires can’t live in daylight, so if the writer has them prancing around a sunny beach, the writer has to establish how this is possible or the audience won’t buy into the story line.
(This might not be the kind of story you’re writing! That’s fine. That’s why I keep hammering the idea that you need to do your own analyses of films and books that you yourself respond to, and see what’s really going on in the stories that particularly work for you.)
Dabney Coleman – A story is very often a thematic argument between a hero/ine and an antagonist. (You may want to Google Hegel’s Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis.) On a basic level, the hero/ine represents one vision of how to live, and the antagonist another. Very often the antagonist also presents a dark vision of what the hero/ine could become, or is on his way to becoming, and it’s through battle with the antagonist that the hero/ine is able to change.
Villains have a lot to do with theme. In fact you could say that they are an entire half of a story’s theme. Again, I don’t want to disrupt anyone’s magical unconscious process of creating character, but I don’t think it hurts to think in meta-terms.
Last chapter I was trying to get you all to think specifically about the villains that have had a lasting impact on you, and to list those characters so you can start to see the patterns and themes there. For example, if you make a list that is 80% female sociopaths, then you’ve got a pretty good indication that that’s one of your personal themes as a writer. Not as a person, of course (!), but as a writer. When you’re able to identify these things in your work, and the work you aspire to do, it’s defining a personal theme that can become your brand as a writer, and a major selling point for your books or scripts — not to mention that when you’re writing about something that really pushes your buttons (for whatever reason) your stories tend to come alive.
by: Dabney Coleman – Actor | Additional Crew | Producer, WarGames (1983) | You’ve Got Mail (1998) | 9 to 5 (1980)