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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Addison Timlin’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Addison Timlin – 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 Addison Timlin 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 Addison Timlin 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 Addison Timlin’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, Addison Timlin 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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I can already hear the arguments where the screenwriter names a character-driven or plot-driven film that was a success. I can name them too, but what we’re talking about here is making a FIRST SALE. We’re not talking about a character-driven script that happened to get a big star attached or a plot-driven script picked up by a famous director. Unless you have solid Hollywood contacts you’re unlikely to have this kind of backing to get your screenplay made into a film. What we’re talking about is presenting a commercial product that’ll land the writer a FIRST SALE! After that, the sky’s the limit!
The trick to getting a first sale sounds easy enough. Write a script that has a strong plot and strong characterizations. Yet this is a very difficult thing to do. Why? In my opinion, it’s because it forces the writer to be creative in a new way. Did I just imply that writing a commercial script inspires creativity? Yes, I did! Because it does. There’s nothing more inspiring than writing a great plot with a great character or vice versa.
Addison Timlin – Looking back on my coming of age story it’s obvious why it isn’t commercial. It’s an all character-driven script. Does this mean it’ll never sell? Of course not. What it means is that it’s unlikely this script will be a FIRST SALE!
As a Hollywood reader I knew what he was talking about. For example, I’ll read a huge Sci-Fi Action script. It’ll have great action, a new slant, crisp dialogue – yet, something seems to be missing. Or I’ll read a character-driven script where the plot seems non-existent. The characters might be well-drawn, but the plot seems non-existent.
Now let’s get started.
Addison Timlin – And anything that doesn’t make sense to you? Save it to look at later, or just forget about it! As they say in twelve-step programs: Take what you want and leave the rest.
But I teach workshops all over the United States and internationally, and I’ve never come across a writer who didn’t get something useful out of this workbook, or my workshops. The story structure I’m teaching here is something you know already, because you’ve seen it in operation in tens of thousands of movies and TV shows you’ve watched over the course of your life (scary, isn’t it?). As you read this book and start looking at movies and television for these elements, you will realize that you’re already doing most of what I talk about! Still, it’s incredibly useful to put a name to some of these things and make them a more conscious part of your writing process.
Especially for newer writers, the intimacy of just letting a story unfold as the characters play out their dramas in your head can be an essential part of your development as a storyteller.
by: Addison Timlin – Actress | Producer, Derailed (I) (2005) | Odd Thomas (2013) | Fallen (II) (2016)