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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Vera Farmiga’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Vera Farmiga – 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 Vera Farmiga 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 Vera Farmiga 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 Vera Farmiga’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, Vera Farmiga 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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Protagonist arc complete
Protagonist resolves the central conflict (in Act III)
Vera Farmiga – Protagonist motives/actions believable (based on setups)
Internal conflict forced to the surface in Act II
(Director Polanski said that he knew at once about this film that it needed to be told “radically subjectively” from Jake’s POV. I don’t think there’s any better example than this scene.)
Vera Farmiga – I love this scene at the ocean because Mulwray is such an enigmatic and clearly tormented figure. He is positively haunted as he looks out on the ocean; there’s a mythic tragicness about the image of this man in a gray flannel suit and glasses looking out over the vast ocean — with a starfish in his hand. And because we experience him, SEE him, completely from Jake’s POV, I think we get the sense that Jake is very, very good at what he does: he is truly passionate about detecting — and this is part of his INNER NEED: to be a good detective. I also love the double layer that Jake is investigating Mulwray, who is also investigating a mystery. They are alike, and equally doomed.
There’s a lot going on with this desert-to-ocean imagery. It’s epic and elemental; it gives us the feeling of real scope to the story, huge, ancient issues. And one of the first rules of filmmaking is: “Film loves CONTRAST.” You learn immediately as a filmmaker to cut from day to night, from indoors to outdoors, from sun to ice, from color to black-and-white. This is a good rule to keep in mind for novels, although it’s not necessarily going to be the same kind of impact that the visual can have. But drama loves contrast, too. Go from solitary to crowded, from day to night, from quiet to frenetic. Think about it and look for examples; you’ll see what I mean.
Next scene, as Jake continues to follow Mulwray — we’re now at the ocean, following the water pipes. Again, this is SHOWING us exactly what we’ve been told in the courtroom scene: that L.A. is wedged between an encroaching desert and an undrinkable ocean. We know from the deliberate repetition that this is really what the story is about.
by: Vera Farmiga – Actress | Producer | Soundtrack, Up in the Air (I) (2009) | The Departed (2006) | Orphan (2009)