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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Devon Sawa’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Devon Sawa – 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 Devon Sawa 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 Devon Sawa 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 Devon Sawa’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, Devon Sawa 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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3) Make Act II a story about the hero’s arc. No, I don’t mean to make it an internally-driven story. I mean to make every single scene contribute to the hero’s arc, whether the hero’s in the scene or not! A scene might only involve the audience seeing a bomber planting a bomb, but it’ll still contribute to the hero’s arc because the hero must confront his own flaw in order to eventually defeat the bomber. This is what happens in Act II in the classic movie “Speed”. The hero is a follower who must learn to be a leader-cop if he hopes to win out against the mad bomber. Like the beginning, middle of end of any story, Act II should start with the hero being put in a position where he’s forced to take action and forced to confront a flaw. Then at the end of the story, technically the end of Act II, the hero has overcome his flaw. Beginning of Act II’s story = Hero forced to confront flaw. Middle of Act II’s story = Hero slowly changes. End of Act II’s story = Hero overcomes the flaw.
2) Literally create a new beginning at the start of Act II. Maybe the hero’s been a firefighter all of his life, but a devastating fall from a roof has left him paralyzed and he has to find a new occupation. Act II opens with the wheelchair-bound, former firefighter seeking a new career. This in itself is a story!
Devon Sawa – 1) Create a false ending at the end of Act I. In Jaws, it appears the killer fish has been caught and the story appears to be over. In a suspense thriller, it might appear that a serial killer has been caught. In a romantic drama, it might appear like the leading role has found a soul mate. All of these are going to prove to be ‘false endings’ that will lead us into a new story in Act II.
Here are some techniques to help the writer break the screenplay into three stories while maintaining the integrity of the entire story:
The bounty brings on a regatta of fishermen from up and down the eastern seaboard. One of these crews captures a tiger shark, which the mayor is quick to declare is the killer shark. Case closed, problem solved, and the beaches can be reopened. Hooper is adamant that the shark is far too small to have caused the damage done to the first victim, and wants to cut the shark open to prove it. The mayor refuses, and is equally adamant that there is no more need for Hooper. We see that Brody secretly agrees with Hooper, but wants to believe that the nightmare is over. However, when the dead boy’s mother slaps Brody and accuses him of causing her son’s death (by not closing the beaches), Brody agrees to investigate further with Hooper (PLAN), and they sneak into cold storage to cut the shark open themselves to check for body parts. Of course, they discover it’s the wrong shark.
Devon Sawa – Meanwhile a new antagonist, the grieving mother of the slain little boy, announces a PLAN of her own: she offers a bounty for any fisherman who kills the shark that killed her son.
In response, Brody develops a new PLAN, one we see often in stories: he contacts an Expert From Afar, oceanographer Matt Hooper, a shark specialist, to come in and give expert advice.
The town fathers hold a town meeting and decide on a new PLAN: they will close the beaches for twenty-four hours. Brody disagrees, but is overruled. Eccentric ship’s captain Quint offers his services to kill the shark —for ten grand. The town fathers are unwilling to pay.
by: Devon Sawa – Actor | Writer | Producer, Final Destination (2000) | Idle Hands (1999) | Now and Then (1995)