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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through David Harbour’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
David Harbour – 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 Harbour 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 Harbour 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 David Harbour’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 Harbour 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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The hero shouldn’t change until as close to the end of Act II as the writer can possibly make it happen. If the hero is a changed guy on page 50, it’s too soon….but by page 80-90, it works. The hero MUST change before he’s emotionally strong enough to take on the antagonist. This is where most writers go wrong. They have the hero take on the nemesis and make the victory the arc moment. This doesn’t work because how could the hero defeat an antagonist who is stronger, faster, etc., if he hasn’t changed his flaw first? The hero must change in order to be strong enough (emotionally) to confront and defeat the nemesis. DO NOT start Act III until the hero’s arc is fulfilled and do not write the final head-to-head hero/nemesis confrontation until the hero’s a new man!
ARC HAPPENS FIRST AND LAST
David Harbour – No time to send the antagonist on a vacation. He’s here for one purpose; to take on the hero. He should be stronger, faster, smarter, more street-smart, savvy, etc. If he’s the hero’s equal, the story fails! The reason he should be stronger is because it forces the hero to rise to the occasion and fix his flaw in order to defeat the nemesis. Everything the nemesis does should challenge the hero’s flaw (internal conflict).
Antagonist and the Arc
Young FBI agent Eliot Ness is assigned to bring down notorious mobster Al Capone. So far no one in law enforcement or government has been able to pin Capone to any of his heinous crimes; he keeps too much distance between himself and the actual killings, hijackings, extortions, etc. One of Ness’s Untouchable team, an FBI accountant, proposes that the team gather evidence and nail Capone on federal tax evasion. It’s not sexy, but the penalty is up to 25 years in prison. (As you might know, this PLAN is historically accurate: Al Capone was in fact finally charged and imprisoned on the charge of tax evasion.)
David Harbour – Another favorite PLAN and CENTRAL STORY ACTION of mine is in Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables.
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At the same time, Bill (THE ANTAGONIST) kidnaps another victim, Catherine Martin. And from there, Clarice has a DESIRE of her own: to save Catherine’s life (STAKES). Her PLAN (and the CENTRAL ACTION of the story) is to persuade Lecter to divulge Buffalo Bill’s identity and location, even if it means doing what her FBI mentor has warned her not to do at any cost: divulge deeply personal information to this psychopathic genius. (Note how genre-specific that central action is: it’s going to require psychological manipulation and gamesmanship, and this is a keenly, excruciatingly psychological thriller. Also note that Lecter is not the antagonist in Silence; he is the MENTOR.)
by: David Harbour – Actor | Soundtrack | Producer, Revolutionary Road (2008) | Hellboy (2019) | Suicide Squad (2016)