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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Henry Ian Cusick’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Henry Ian Cusick – 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 Henry Ian Cusick 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 Henry Ian Cusick 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 Henry Ian Cusick’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, Henry Ian Cusick 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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IT’S THE EVENT THAT FORCES
to come to terms with an internal conflict!
Henry Ian Cusick – It’s when an external conflict forces them
Even more important than a commercial entrance and commercializing the hero’s name is the most important event in the protagonist’s life. The script should focus on this event. It isn’t necessarily the day they get married, have a child or graduate from college.
The ending also uses a technique to create a real high of exhilaration: it ends with a musical number that lets you float out of the theater in sheer joy. I can’t exactly describe an equivalent to a rousing musical number that you can put on the page in a novel, but the point is: a good story will throw every trick in the book at the reader or audience to create an emotional effect.
Henry Ian Cusick – This movie is also a good example of bringing all the subplots to a climax at the same time to create an explosive ending: the quiz show, the brother deciding to be a good guy in the end, the escape of the lover….
The stakes have become excruciating by this point in the story. Not only is Jamal in an all-or-nothing situation as far as the quiz show money is concerned, but he feels that appearing on the quiz show is the only way to find his true love again. (But I still think the biggest stake is the need to win this one for the Indian people.) And there’s the suspense of will he win or will he lose, and will his love escape her Mafioso sugar daddy (sorry, I was not a fan of this subplot). And the suspense of “Will she get to the phone in time….”
This film is also a particularly good example of using STAKES and SUSPENSE in the third act. (I’ve included a whole chapter on Creating Suspense: Chapter 33, that is good to reread when you’re tackling Act III, since all of those techniques are doubly applicable to third acts).
by: Henry Ian Cusick – Actor | Producer | Director, Lost (2005-2010) | Scandal (2012-2018) | The 100 (2014-2019)