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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Amy Poehler’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Amy Poehler – 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 Amy Poehler 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 Amy Poehler 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 Amy Poehler’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, Amy Poehler 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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Stop thinking of stories strictly based on the external conflict and start thinking of stories in terms of irony. Why? Because irony breeds originality. Here’s a simple example: A man dead-set against marriage must get married in order to inherit $100 million. Take the media source idea you have and add irony – maybe, just maybe you’ll come up with something no one else is writing.
Or, mix ideas! Take that morning newspaper article and open your index file, pick a story idea and combine the two. Take the trending-now vampire story and mix it with your alligator-hunter idea and bam you have a vampire alligator-hunter named Tom living in the Bayou….okay, maybe that’s weird, but I think you get the idea.
Amy Poehler – How do you avoid these pitfalls? First, learn what’s trending in the future. No, you don’t have to become a psychic or a time traveler. There are companies and individuals that study and predict trends; keep watch of what they predict. If something catches your fancy, write about it. Just be sure to give it a twist. The stronger the twist, the less likely anyone else has the same idea.
If you’re watching TV one night, surfing the Internet or reading the morning paper and you see an interesting story and you get an idea for a movie, do yourself a favor – walk outside and scream, “What am I, nuts?” Do not write it because I guarantee dozens of other writers (or more) saw the same TV, Internet or newspaper story and are writing the same thing right now!
I understand that the temptation to skip this step is huge. But there’s no putting this off — you’re going to need this premise to move forward. It can be a lot easier to start by bashing out several sentences or a whole paragraph, and then start distilling it down. That’s perfectly fine. In fact I encourage you to start a premise/synopsis file and keep adding descriptions of your story in different lengths to that file — believe me, you’ll need all of them later!
Amy Poehler – Do it now, and add those to your fabulous new notebook.
· ASSIGNMENT: If you already have an idea for your book, also write a premise for your own Work In Progress (WIP). Try to include these story elements: protagonist, antagonist, conflict, stakes, setting, atmosphere, and genre.
· ASSIGNMENT: Write out premise lines for each story on your master list.
by: Amy Poehler – Actress | Producer | Writer, Inside Out (I) (2015) | Baby Mama (2008) | Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)