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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Oprah Winfrey’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Oprah Winfrey – 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 Oprah Winfrey 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 Oprah Winfrey 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 Oprah Winfrey’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, Oprah Winfrey 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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A location transition brings a story full circle by literally ending the story where it began. For example, if the story began with the hero locked in a jail cell, it might end with him walking out of the jail. If the story opens in a sleazy bar, it could be brought full circle by ending in a sleazy bar.
By ‘location’, I’m not referring to where the story takes place. I’m referring to where the story begins and where it ends.
Oprah Winfrey – The Location Transition
The great thing about the commercial techniques presented above is they force a screenwriter to write TIGHT and LEAN without giving up any of the good stuff!
Exactly.
Oprah Winfrey – Now, please, please remember — I am not talking about first drafts, here. As far as I’m concerned, all a first draft has to do is get to “The End.” It doesn’t have to be polished. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone but you. Screenwriter and novelist Derek Haas refers to his first pass of a story as “the vomit draft.”
1. INEXPERIENCED WRITERS ALMOST INEVITABLY START THEIR STORIES IN THE WRONG PLACE.
There is no question that reading a bunch of — well, anything — in a row gives you a good idea of what to do and not to do in executing that particular thing. And I maintain I can’t teach anyone to write, but I sure can point out the problems I see over and over and over again. So here’s a brief list of common, and very fixable, problems I see with first chapters.
by: Oprah Winfrey – Producer | Actress | Soundtrack, The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-2011) | Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) | A Wrinkle in Time (2018)