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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through David Oyelowo’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
David Oyelowo – 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 Oyelowo 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 Oyelowo 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 Oyelowo’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 Oyelowo 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 FALSE ENDING
I hate to tell you this, but 9 out of 10 writers still don’t get this! Before you start writing a screenplay, I want the writer to ask, “What’s the worst possible thing that could happen to the hero?” The answer should happen to the hero in Act II! If not, you’ve done him a disservice and probably have a story that doesn’t work. The writer’s job isn’t to be nice to the hero. It’s to slam dunk the bastard! If the worst thing that could happen to him is he loses custody of his kids, then he should lose his kids. Shoot his dog, kill his wife, burn down his house, fire him from his dream job, make his dream girl love someone else, etc. This is vital because it tugs at the audience’s heart strings by helping them identify and have sympathy for the hero.
David Oyelowo – WORSE CASE SCENARIO
Oh no, more arc stuff! Yep – more arc stuff. I want a producer to be able to point out the arc scene in the writer’s screenplay. A reader (or producer) should be able to identify the arc by a specific scene and the writer should be able to pick it out too. Yes, the hero will have obstacles along the way (external conflict) that contributes to his arc, but he also needs one, big defining moment. Maybe we meet a frumpy heroine who later comes out dressed to kill in a power suit, briefcase, carrying a latte and ready to take on Wall Street…we hear her address people differently, with more confidence, etc. All done in one pivotal arc scene! This scene should happen at the end or close to the end of Act II. The key to this scene is it should be visual. Don’t have the hero tell us he’s changed, show us.
Again, the PLAN, CENTRAL QUESTION, and CENTRAL STORY ACTION are almost always set up — and spelled out — by the end of the first act, although the specifics of the Plan may be spelled out right after the Act I Climax at the very beginning of Act II.
David Oyelowo – Generally, PLAN and CENTRAL STORY ACTION are really the same thing: the Central Action of the story is the carrying out of the specific Plan. And the CENTRAL QUESTION of the story can be summed up in general: “Will the Plan succeed?”
(In case you’re wondering, the new plan becomes for the Sean Connery character to find another Capone accountant, and it’s when Capone’s men are trying to hustle that second accountant out of town that the big chase/baby carriage scene in the train station goes down.)
So the plan is totally foiled; the team has no witness and no more case. It’s a great midpoint reversal, because we — and Ness himself — have no idea what the team is going to be able to do next (and also Ness is so emotionally devastated by the loss of his teammate that he begins to do reckless things).
by: David Oyelowo – Actor | Producer | Director, Selma (2014) | Nightingale (II) (2014) | Queen of Katwe (2016)