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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Ethan Coen’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Ethan Coen – 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 Ethan Coen 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 Ethan Coen 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 Ethan Coen’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, Ethan Coen 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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A classic example of how the theme is handled directly can be found in the holiday film The Grinch. A community is consumed with acquiring presents and upstaging their neighbors with holiday decorating. They’ve forgotten the meaning of Christmas. A little girl named Cindy Lou directly asks why they need the presents at all. Throughout the story she continually confronts the issue head-on; Christmas isn’t supposed to be about presents. It’s supposed to be about family. In a holiday film, there’s no need to cleverly conceal the theme in subtext dialogue or metaphoric visuals, etc. The screenwriter can state the theme outright and explore it in a very direct manner.
While these movies can encompass any genre, most are family-oriented, comedies or RomComs with an occasional drama. Regardless of the genre, they have one thing in common; a strong theme. What most screenwriters don’t understand is that unlike other scripts, the holiday story’s theme is handled differently. First, holiday films have the strongest themes among stories written for the big screen. Secondly, the theme is handled directly, as opposed to a more subtle exploration via subtext (underlying meaning).
Ethan Coen – What is a holiday script? There are many holidays in a calendar year, like Easter, Fourth of July, Yom Kippur, Memorial Day, etc. However, if a producer indicates he’s seeking a holiday script, he’s referring to the period that falls from Thanksgiving to New Years. This includes Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and even New Year’s Day. Almost all holiday films open during this time and involve characters in a story that takes place during the holidays. Producers like these stories because they have a built-in audience for two years; the first year the audience views the release in the theater and the second year they give the DVD as a gift.
HOW TO WRITE A HOLIDAY SCRIPT
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Ethan Coen – The second act climax is another place that you might start a Ticking Clock — as in Alien, when Ripley sets the ship to blow up in ten minutes and has to evade the alien and get to the shuttle by then.
TICKING CLOCK
No matter what genre you’re looking at, together these two scenes, ALL IS LOST and a NEW REVELATION, are almost always the climax of the second act because it’s such an exhilarating reversal to go from losing everything to gaining that key piece of knowledge that will power the hero/ine through the final confrontation to the end.
by: Ethan Coen – Producer | Writer | Director, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | A Serious Man (2009)