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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through James Cromwell’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
James Cromwell – 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 James Cromwell 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 James Cromwell 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 James Cromwell’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, James Cromwell 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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Notice how the internal and external conflicts are interwoven. The external conflict MUST be a conflict that will force the hero’s internal ‘emotional’ fears to the surface. It forces the hero to confront this fear and to change in order to succeed. The purpose of a story is to present an external conflict that will force the hero to change his internal conflict. If the hero decides to change on his own, the story fails. If the hero never changes, the story fails. If the external and internal conflicts are not directly linked, the story fails. If the theme and internal conflict aren’t related, the story fails.
The flaw is the internal conflict. By internal, I don’t mean a fear of snakes – that’s external. I mean a deep-seeded emotional fear that the hero has no intention of changing or is incapable of changing. He MUST be motivated to change or as I like to say, “The hero must be FORCED to change”. In order for the change to happen, a life-altering event or the most important event in the hero’s life needs to take place, which doesn’t mean writing about another ordinary day in a character’s life. Stiller’s character in “Night at the Museum” finds another ordinary day job, but soon discovers there’s nothing ordinary about a museum where everything comes to life at night! It’s an extraordinary event; an event that forces him to finish what he starts and this resulted in his change.
James Cromwell – A lengthy setup for the internal isn’t required; we can learn this information in a quick scene, a line of dialogue or even while being introduced to the external conflict. The goal is to introduce it first! Why? Because this is the reason the audience identifies with the hero. He has a flaw and they empathize with him because of it.
The internal conflict should be introduced first in a story, not second. Nine out of ten spec scripts introduce the internal conflict after the external conflict or not until Act II. The internal conflict MUST be introduced in the first ten pages, preferably when we first meet the hero and hopefully prior to (or at the same time) as we learn about the external conflict.
· In this battle, we possibly see the ALLY/ALLIES’ CHARACTER CHANGES and/or gaining of their desire(s)
James Cromwell – · The team often goes in together, first, and there is a big ENSEMBLE BATTLE
· The hero/ine may REASSEMBLE THE TEAM, and there may be another short TRAINING SEQUENCE and/or GATHERING THE TOOLS sequence
· There may be a TICKING CLOCK
by: James Cromwell – Actor | Producer | Soundtrack, The Green Mile (1999) | L.A. Confidential (1997) | The General’s Daughter (1999)