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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Kurt Sutter’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Kurt Sutter – 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 Kurt Sutter 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 Kurt Sutter 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 Kurt Sutter’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, Kurt Sutter 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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Earlier we discussed how to use a location to create emotion. Locations are often overlooked by aspiring screenwriters as nothing more than a backdrop for characters. This might be true for TV, but locations are often as important in film as the characters. In The Ruins there wouldn’t a story without the ancient site. The film 30 Days of Night wouldn’t be believable if it weren’t for the Alaska setting. Locations are often what the entire story is about. We see this in films like Phone Booth & Panic Room.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
Kurt Sutter – Okay, I admit I got hooked on the soap opera. I record and watch it almost daily. One day I said to myself how can this character take back a man she tried to kill, marry him and be pregnant with his child? I know, it sounds melodramatic, but is it? Movies often make the unbelievable happen. We’re asked to suspend our disbelief by writers who’ve setup scenarios that allow us to fall in love in a day, to scale the highest mountain in an hour and sail the sea to our most outlandish dreams. Obviously, the setup matters, but how do we really believe anything is possible? Look closely and the reason is obvious: it’s the use of emotion. If the writer can make the audience feel love, then the audience will believe the heroine can take back a man she once tried to kill or fall in love with a man in one day. Same goes for any emotion. Create fear and even the most die hard hero can be made to shake in his boots.
Emotions Make Anything Possible
With movies, the high concept premise has a couple of incredibly practical considerations. It suggests a built-in marketing campaign — and it is usually such a good idea that you could shoot it on a low budget and still have a movie that people would go see. That doesn’t mean anyone’s going to shoot it on a low budget, because we are after all talking about Hollywood. But you could shoot it on a low budget. It is the idea that is golden. (Think of Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch Project, Open Water, The Last Exorcism — all low or ultra-low budget movies that made mints because the ideas were so compelling and the movies were well enough done to sustain the idea.)
Kurt Sutter – I was interested to hear that when my friend polled a number of book editors to ask them how they would define a Big Book, everyone said that the Big Book is what everyone is always looking for — but no one could give her a specific answer about what exactly it is! Or even try. Well, very often when editors talk about a Big Book, they mean a book with a high concept premise. But as my friend and I were talking, I realized that a Big Book is slightly different from a high concept book. They are often, but not necessarily, interchangeable terms.
A Big Book is the one all the editors get excited about because they think they can make a ton of money with it.
An author friend of mine did a workshop a couple of months ago on the high concept premise and wanted my input. She and I also ended up talking about the even more elusive concept of the Big Book.
by: Kurt Sutter – Writer | Producer | Actor, Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) | The Shield (2002-2008) | Southpaw (2015)