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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through David Morse’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
David Morse – 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 David Morse 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 David Morse 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.
To know more visit http://www.screenplay.biz/petition-asks-happy-madison-productions-to-read-script/
About David Morse’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, David Morse 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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Oh no, more arc stuff! Yep – more arc stuff. I want a producer to be able to point out the arc scene in the writer’s screenplay. A reader (or producer) should be able to identify the arc by a specific scene and the writer should be able to pick it out too. Yes, the hero will have obstacles along the way (external conflict) that contributes to his arc, but he also needs one, big defining moment. Maybe we meet a frumpy heroine who later comes out dressed to kill in a power suit, briefcase, carrying a latte and ready to take on Wall Street…we hear her address people differently, with more confidence, etc. All done in one pivotal arc scene! This scene should happen at the end or close to the end of Act II. The key to this scene is it should be visual. Don’t have the hero tell us he’s changed, show us.
THE ARC SCENE
David Morse – I know, you’re getting tired of me hounding you about the arc. Too darn bad! I’m getting tired of reading stories with no arc because they suck! Few writers consider how the dialogue in Act II is contributing or failing to contribute to the hero’s arc. We all have relatives or even so-called friends who make snide remarks regarding something ‘bout us they don’t like. It’s done via subtext and it’s annoying as hell! My favorite is when the relative mentions how great you look by saying, “Did you lose weight, you look great?” Worse is when you answer, “No, I haven’t lost weight”. Subtext from relative: You were fat. Subtext from fatty: “Yep, I’m still fat”! If we get this type of underlying subtext in real life from people who’d change us if they could, why isn’t the hero getting it too? I’m not saying every piece of dialogue has to do this, but the overall dialogue should contribute to the arc.
ARC DIALOGUE
So the plan is totally foiled; the team has no witness and no more case. It’s a great midpoint reversal, because we — and Ness himself — have no idea what the team is going to be able to do next (and also Ness is so emotionally devastated by the loss of his teammate that he begins to do reckless things).
David Morse – Ness and his other teammate (a criminally hot Andy Garcia) realize that something’s wrong and race up (down?) the stairs to catch the elevator, but arrive to find a bloodbath — both accountants brutally murdered and the word TOUCHABLE painted on the elevator wall in blood.
But the movie is only half over. So of course, as very often happens at the midpoint, the plan fails. In a suspenseful and emotional wrenching MIDPOINT CLIMAX, Ness’s accountant teammate, whom we have come to love, escorts the bookkeeper into the courthouse elevator to take him up to the courtroom. As the doors close, we see the police guard is actually one of Capone’s men.
So as we approach the MIDPOINT, Ness’s team has the bookkeeper in custody, the trial is set, and Ness’s men are escorting the bookkeeper to court.
by: David Morse – Actor | Director | Producer, The Green Mile (1999) | The Hurt Locker (2008) | Contact (1997)