David Alpay screenplay – Actor | Producer, Ararat (2002) | Man of the Year (2006) | The Tudors (2008)
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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through David Alpay’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
David Alpay – 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 David Alpay 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 David Alpay 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 David Alpay’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, David Alpay 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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PLOT POINT I
Introduce the theme when you introduce the hero’s internal conflict. Do you know how producers can tell if you’re really a professional writer or a hack or got lucky with one script? They ask a simple question; “What’s your story’s theme?” If you can’t answer the question, you’re a hack or maybe the proper word is quack. Okay, I know what you’re going to ask, “What the heck is a theme?” Simple, it’s the lesson learned by the hero. It’s how the external conflict forced him to change a flaw. For example, John found courage to return to the police force after he saved hostages during a bank robbery. Internal conflict = lack of courage. External conflict = bank robbery. Theme = finding courage. Get it? If not, what can I say except, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck…..quack, quack…..quack….keep your day job!
David Alpay – KNOW THE THEME
If the writer has properly setup the internal and external conflicts, then conflict should come naturally. The key to conflict is to make sure it’s in every scene in every Act. No conflict equals a failed story. For the record, I’d like to note the producers do more than red pen scenes with no conflict, they completely delete them. Or more often than not, they simply don’t buy the script in the first place.
In 2012, even in the midst of all the buildings crumbling and crevasses opening and fires booming and planes crashing, we understand on some level what is going on:
David Alpay – A reader/audience really needs to know what the overall PLAN is, even if they only get it in a subconscious way. Otherwise they are left floundering, wondering where the hell all of this is going.
And all this happens around the end of Act I. Remember that I said that it’s essential to have laid out the CENTRAL QUESTION and CENTRAL STORY ACTION by the end of Act I? But also at this point — or possibly just after the climax of Act I, in the very beginning of Act II —we need to know what the PLAN is. PLAN and CENTRAL QUESTION are integrally related, and I keep looking for ways to talk about it because this is such an important concept to master.
(Note the TICKING CLOCK there, too. And as if the end of the world weren’t enough, the movie also starts another, literal “Twenty-nine minutes to the end of the world!” ticking computer clock at, yes, twenty-nine minutes before the end of the movie. I must point out here that ticking clocks are dangerous because of the huge cliché factor. We all need to study structure to know what not to do as well.)
by: David Alpay – Actor | Producer, Ararat (2002) | Man of the Year (2006) | The Tudors (2008)