Brad Garrett screenplay – Actor | Producer | Music Department, Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005) | Christopher Robin (2018) | Tangled (2010)
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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Brad Garrett’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Brad Garrett – 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 Brad Garrett 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 Brad Garrett 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.
To know more visit http://www.screenplay.biz/petition-asks-happy-madison-productions-to-read-script/
About Brad Garrett’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, Brad Garrett 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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What is a One-Sheet?
Before the script’s written, the writer still has the ‘hot’ market qualities of the material fresh in his mind. The writer knows what makes the story original with a twist. Understands the irony. Appreciates one cool aspect of the character. Knows what piece of dialogue rocks. Knows what scene reversals are most shocking, etc. This is the time to write the one-sheet!
Brad Garrett – The one-sheet’s purpose isn’t to tell the details. It’s to get the producer to ask for the read, so it has to be written similar to a sales pitch where the writer sells the concept. This is accomplished far easier when the writer isn’t attached to the story’s details and that means BEFORE THE SCRIPT IS WRITTEN, not after.
99% of aspiring writers will stop right here and say, “I’d prefer to wait until I finish the script before writing the synopsis”. Well, I’m here to tell you this is one reason why you’re still an ‘aspiring writer’ instead of a pro because the pros know that by the time you get done writing the script, you’ll be too attached to the details. These ‘details’ will bog down the one-sheet and result in a writer telling the story instead of selling the story.
I write books of about 350-400 pages (print pages), and I find my sequences are about 50 pages, getting shorter as I near the end. But I might also have three sequences of around 30 pages in an act that is 100 pages long. You have more leeway in a novel, but the structure remains pretty much the same.
Brad Garrett – This eight-sequence structure translates easily to novels. Now, if you’re structuring a novel this way, you may be doubling or tripling the scene count, but for me, the chapter count remains exactly the same: forty to sixty chapters to a book. And you might have an extra sequence or two per act, but I think that in most cases you’ll find that the number of sequences is not out of proportion to this formula. With a book, you can have anything from 250 pages to 1000 (well, you can go that long only if you’re a mega-bestseller!), so the length of a sequence and the number of sequences is more variable. But an average book these days is between 300 and 400 pages, and since the recession and the rise of e books, publishers are actually asking their authors to keep their books on the short side to save production costs, so why not shoot for that to begin with?
(And yes, I understand that there are software programs that simulate the index card method. But I very strongly encourage you to try this physical method in addition to brainstorming on the computer. Working with actual cards or Post-its is kinetic learning. It activates different parts of your brain and creative processes than typing does. Brainstorming with a software program is not the same as using your body as you work. You’ll be doing plenty of typing as it is, so why not try a different kind of creativity and see where it might take your story?)
You will find it is often shockingly fast and simple to lay out a whole story this way.
by: Brad Garrett – Actor | Producer | Music Department, Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005) | Christopher Robin (2018) | Tangled (2010)