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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Dick Van Dyke’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Dick Van Dyke – 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 Dick Van Dyke 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 Dick Van Dyke 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 Dick Van Dyke’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, Dick Van Dyke 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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According to Wikipedia, a subplot is a secondary plot strand that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot. Okay, but how does a subplot work in a screenplay? In my opinion, it serves two purposes in a feature-length screenplay:
HOW TO WRITE A SUBPLOT
Dick Van Dyke – Okay, you’re no longer a novice writer because you’ve learned a pro technique. You’ve learned how to conquer the sagging points in the story by creating three individual stories, while you learned techniques to tackle the story as a whole. It might seem hard at first, but once you get the hang of it, I bet you’ll use this technique for all your screenplay.biz/top-screenplays/" 786 target="_blank">screenplays. It’ll help the writer avoid the pitfall of a lackluster story after Act I.
This is the Act where most aspiring screenwriters fail in terms of pacing. They just treat it like the other Acts. Wrong! Act III’s scenes should be shorter and faster to give the sense that the story is wrapping up. Remember the last time you were at the movies. Didn’t the end feel like the end? Why? I bet if the writer thinks about it, he’ll discover it wasn’t just the story, but the pacing that provided this feeling. Even big, epic battles in Act III will be broken up with INTERCUTS, action, subplots, different scenes, etc. to give a faster feel to the story. Remember, this Act is shorter than the other Acts. Oh, I know it technically has a 30-page, acceptable spread to it, but most writers never use these 30-pages. Realistically, Act III in most scripts is around half this length (or up to 20 pages). Like the Act itself, the scenes should be shorter and faster. Break up longer scenes, as needed. And watch things like lengthy dialogue – keep the lingo short too. I’d even encourage the writer to use shorter description and keep the description/action more toward the left margin. This left-margin look really makes the read fly by and gives a sense of the story moving fast and wrapping up. This technique can apply to all genres and it shows that the writer understands pacing.
If you find your own plot sagging, especially in that long middle section, try identifying and tracking the various plans of your characters. It might be just what you need to pull your story into new and much more exciting alignment.
Dick Van Dyke – I hope this little exercise gives you an idea of how it can be really enlightening and useful to focus on and track just the plans of all the main characters in a story and how they clash and conflict, especially how they FAIL. Because every time a plan fails, it requires a recalibration and a new action, which builds tension, suspense, emotional commitment, and excitement.
Brody is now on his own against the shark, and in one last, desperate Hail Mary PLAN (the most exciting kind in a climax), he shoves an oxygen tank into the shark’s jaws and then fires at the shark until the tank explodes, and the shark goes up in bloody bits. As almost always, it is only that last ditch plan, in which the hero/ine faces the antagonist completely on his or her own, that saves the day.
Hooper takes over now and proposes a new PLAN: he wants to go down in a shark cage to fire a poison dart gun at the shark. But the shark attacks the cage, and then as the boat continues to sink, the shark leaps half onto the deck and eats Quint.
by: Dick Van Dyke – Actor | Producer | Soundtrack, Mary Poppins (1964) | Mary Poppins Returns (2018) | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)