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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Leonor Varela’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Leonor Varela – 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 Leonor Varela 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 Leonor Varela 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 Leonor Varela’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, Leonor Varela 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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Use Objects to Create Underlying Meaning
2) Secondly, the end scene on the beach where his friend meets up with him. During the movie, all we see are dank prison walls; a virtual dungeon. In the end scene, we’re exposed to the bright, sunlit beach with its calming blue waters. It’s like night and day when compared to the prison. The contrast between the two locations is obvious; one symbolizes confinement, the other freedom.
Leonor Varela – 1) When the hero escapes the prison via a sewage-filled pipe. He exits the filth to find himself standing in the pouring rain. He raises his arms and feels the freedom. This might be a night scene, but it’s in stark contrast to the prison’s confinement; it’s visual subtext that shouts “I’m free”. Even the sewage pipe provides subtext – he has to crawl through shit, just like he had to go through shit – to escape.
Previously, we’ve discussed locations in depth and contrast, but let’s combine the two to show how they can be used to create subtext. The easiest example is from the film The Shawshank Redemption. During the prison scenes, the location is grey, dreary and dangerous. At the end there are actually two scenes I’ll use as examples of location contrast:
I’m on an Edith Wharton tear at the moment, and it’s striking how beautifully she sets her love scenes, on every visual and sensual level, like this scene setup from The House of Mirth:
Leonor Varela – So how do authors take back that power? By constantly identifying the setpiece scenes in film and on the page that have the greatest impact on us personally, and really looking at what the storytellers are doing to create that effect and emotion so we can create the same depth… on the page. And oh yes, it can be done on the page.
However, directors can and do compete and top most authors on a regular basis, because they know how to manipulate visuals, sound, symbolism, theme, and emotion to create the profound and layered impact that a setpiece scene is.
And a setpiece doesn’t have to cost millions or tens of millions of dollars, either, although as authors, we have the incredible advantage of an unlimited production budget. Did you authors all get that? We have an UNLIMITED PRODUCTION BUDGET. Whatever settings, crowds, mechanical devices, alien attacks, or natural disasters we choose to depict, our only budget constraint is in our imaginations. The most powerful directors in Hollywood would kill for a fraction of our power. Theoretically, they can’t even begin to compete.
by: Leonor Varela – Actress | Producer, Blade II (2002) | Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) | Odd Thomas (2013)