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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Dax Shepard’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Dax Shepard – 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 Dax Shepard 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 Dax Shepard 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 Dax Shepard’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, Dax Shepard 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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SCENE SUSPENSE
Every scene in the entire screenplay, especially while dealing with the hero’s arc in Act II, should have subtext. The subtext should be either visual or via the dialogue. Subtext is nothing more than underlying meaning. Remember the relative who said you look great, have you lost weight? He’s really implying you were fat in the first place. He’s just not saying it directly. That’s called dialogue subtext. Let’s say you want to show a character is angry. Rather than having him blurt it out, have him slam a door shut or throw a plate. That’s visual subtext that shows anger! It’s that simple! If a scene doesn’t have subtext, layer it in.
Dax Shepard – SCENE SUBTEXT
I hate that I have to tell writers to add conflict, but I can’t tell you how often I see information only scenes, especially in Act II. Sure, information is important to a story’s believability, etc., but why isn’t the writer clever enough to come up with ways to reveal the information via conflict? Conflict doesn’t mean people have to be shouting at one another. A clever technique to create conflict, especially in a softer story that might otherwise have none, is to put the audience in a superior position. For example, perhaps the audience knows the heroine is pregnant, but the story’s characters do not! Every scene where we see the heroine lie to try to hide her pregnancy may seem to lack conflict from other character’s perspective, but tremendous conflict is created for the audience as they watch to see her house of lies crumble when her secret’s finally revealed. Every scene in Act II must have conflict – if not, axe it and stop making up excuses that you needed to provide vital information and start acting like a screenwriter by developing scenes to present information via conflict!
· What and who is standing in his or her way?
Dax Shepard – And for extra credit:
· What is the CENTRAL QUESTION of the story?
· How does s/he PLAN to do it?
by: Dax Shepard – Actor | Producer | Director, Hit and Run (I) (2012) | Idiocracy (2006) | Employee of the Month (2006)