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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Paul Feig’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Paul Feig – 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 Paul Feig 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 Paul Feig 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 Paul Feig’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, Paul Feig 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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UNDERSTANDING PRIMARY & SECONDARY SLUG INDICATORS
Extra Tip: If you add a Sequel Transition and the screenplay sells, make sure you write into the Literary Deal Memorandum that you get first dibs on writing the sequel. This could be future money in the bank and imagine if you’ve sold a few of these. That $100K sale could end up banking you half a million by the time you write the sequels. Isn’t that few seconds of extra screen time worth the extra money? You bet it is!
Paul Feig – As you can see, this technique can be applied to any genre and it’s a good way to get a producer to purchase the screenplay because sequel potential means money in the back for the producer and for you (see Extra Tip).
Okay, this is great, but how does this work for other genres? Use the model above! Do NOT deviate from it. For example, if the story is a Romantic Drama and we see the happy couple hugging at the end, maybe the female love interest sees an old flame in the distance and the story ends abruptly! The problem with this is that most writers will be tempted to have her speak to the old flame. NO, just end the story. What about a Suspense Thriller? If you’re dealing with a serial killer and he’s been caught, then have a copy cat killer show up on the scene, then end the story abruptly! In a comedy, maybe the hero who’s overcome a fear of swimming, then discovers he’s inherited a plane, but OH NO…we find out he’s afraid of heights, then the story ends abruptly! The first story was a comedy dealing with a hero’s fear swimming. We’ll get to rejoin this same hero in Part II to see if he can overcome his fear of heights.
The very first place that a book creates suspense is on the meta-level: in the premise, that one line description of what the story is. That story line (flap copy, back jacket text) is what makes a reader pick up a book and say, “Yeah! I want to know what happens!”
Paul Feig – Of course, every good story is inherently a suspense story, because every story is predicated on the storyteller creating the desire in the reader or audience to find out WHAT HAPPENS? And writing mysteries as we all do (mystery/thriller/suspense), our genre has a built-in suspense element by its very nature — the built-in question: “Who done it?” (Or in my case, as my thriller author friend J.D. Rhoades says, “What done it?”)
ASK A CENTRAL QUESTION WITH YOUR STORY
To my mind, the most basic and important suspense technique is:
by: Paul Feig – Producer | Actor | Director, Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000) | The Heat (I) (2013) | Spy (2015)