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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through David Cross’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
David Cross – 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 Cross 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 Cross 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 Cross’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 Cross 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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David Cross – These three things will help the writer fill in Act II, but the writer may still find that Act II is running short. A short Act II means the writer hasn’t given the hero a strong enough internal conflict to resolve and/or the writer has spent too much time focused on the external conflict at the expense of the hero’s arc. This happens for two reasons: 1) the writer gets excited about the cool concept he’s come up with and forgets about the hero’s flaw 2) the writer’s identifying too closely with the hero and instead of making the hero confront an ugly flaw, the writer keeps him out of emotional trouble.
If you get stuck in Act II there are three ways to move forward: 1) Go back and look at Act I. What hasn’t been paid off yet? What hasn’t been resolved? What questions haven’t been answered? Make a list and use it to help you move forward in Act II 2) The hero. Stay focused on resolving his internal conflict. Most writers make the mistake of focusing Act II entirely on resolving the external conflict, when Act II is really about resolving the hero’s internal conflict via the external conflict 3) Focus on Scenes. Break down Act II into individual scenes. Go back to the list you made for Act I and create scenes for each of the unresolved areas.
And then Indy explains his PLAN to find the Ark: he’s going to go find his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, who is an expert on the Ark and has an ancient Egyptian medallion on which is inscribed the instructions for using the medallion to find the hidden location of the Ark.
David Cross – So there’s the MACGUFFIN: the object that everyone wants, and the STAKES: if Hitler’s minions (THE ANTAGONISTS) get this Ark before Indy does, the Nazi army will be invincible.
At the end of the first sequence of Raiders (which is arguably two sequences in itself, first the action sequence in the cave in South America, then the university sequence back in the US), Indy has just finished teaching his archeology class when his mentor, Marcus, comes to meet him with a couple of government agents who have a job for him (INCITING INCIDENT/CALL TO ADVENTURE). The agents explain that Hitler has become obsessed with collecting occult artifacts from all over the world, and is currently trying to find the legendary Lost Ark of the Covenant, which is rumored to make any army in possession of it invincible in battle.
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by: David Cross – Actor | Writer | Producer, Arrested Development (2003-2019) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | Megamind (2010)