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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through James Lafferty’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
James Lafferty – 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 Lafferty 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 Lafferty 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 Lafferty’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 Lafferty 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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#2 is the most difficult to sell as a spec, but both are viable ways to introduce a hero’s flaw. Make every scene and every moment about dealing with the flaw while overcoming the external conflict. Most writers do this the opposite way and they never sell a script.
2) Start with a perfect hero and give him a flaw. In The Call, Halle Berry’s character is a savvy 9-1-1 operator at the top of her game until she inadvertently causes a victim to die. When the killer returns for round two, she gets a chance to redeem herself and get her moxie back.
James Lafferty – 1) Introduce the internal conflict (flaw) before the main external conflict. In Night at the Museum, we meet a hero who can’t hold a job or an apartment. We know this before he arrives at the museum.
The hero’s internal conflict MUST be introduced in Act I, preferably when the hero is first introduced. Here are two ways to introduce the hero and his flaw:
· Possibly there is a huge FINAL REVERSAL or reveal (twist), or even a whole series of payoffs that you’ve been saving (as in Back to the Future and It’s A Wonderful Life)
James Lafferty – · We get a glimpse of the TRUE NATURE OF THE ANTAGONIST
· We may see the ANTAGONIST’S CHARACTER ARC, too (but often there is none)
· We see the protagonist’s CHARACTER ARC
by: James Lafferty – Actor | Director | Producer, One Tree Hill (2003-2012) | Everyone Is Doing Great (2021) | Oculus (2013)