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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Elliot Page’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Elliot Page – 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 Elliot Page 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 Elliot Page 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 Elliot Page’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, Elliot Page 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 Romantic Comedy, often referred to as the RomCom, is the most misunderstood of the genres and can be the most difficult spec script to sell. In 95% of the cases, RomCom are written and sold by established A-list writers. This is usually because they require A-list talent to draw a box office audience. The industry has only purchased three RomComs in a decade that were specs from aspiring screenwriters and none of them made it to the big screen? Why is it so rare for an aspiring screenwriter to sell a RomCom? Besides being the territory of A-list writers, it’s because aspiring screenwriters don’t like to work with ‘formulas’ and the RomCom has the strictest, most stringent rules of any genre and if the rules are not adhered to, the script receives a PASS. If even one of the ‘rules’ are broken, then the screenwriter should refrain from labeling the script a RomCom and call it what it is: a comedy.
HOW TO WRITE A ROMCOM
Elliot Page – The easiest way to learn to write comedy is to study it. Watch a movie and look for use of misinterpretation, tragedy, punch-lines, tie-in threes, subtext, reversals, etc.
Misinterpretation is another common technique. It’s where the hero (or other characters) thinks one thing is happening based on a set of false assumptions, when in reality something else is happening. An example is a commonly used scene where the character walks in on the end of a conversation and misinterprets the meaning. The character then wrongly acts upon this information, thus creating comedy.
The Midpoint often LOCKS THE HERO/INE INTO A COURSE OF ACTION, or sometimes, physically locks the hero/ine into a location.
Elliot Page – But there was still something missing in the scene right before the close of the first half, and my editor had the same feeling without really knowing what was needed, although it had something to do with the motivation of the heroine — the reason she would put herself in that kind of danger. So I looked at the scene before the characters moved in to the house, and lo and behold, what I was missing was “Sex at Sixty.” It’s my heroine’s desire for one of the other characters that makes her commit to the investigation, and I wasn’t making that desire line clear enough.
I know this, and I still sometimes forget it. When I turned in my third novel, The Unseen, I knew that I was missing something in the middle, even though there was a very clear change in location and focus at the Midpoint: it’s the point at which my characters actually move into the supposedly haunted house and begin their experiment.
It really pays to start taking note of the Midpoints of films and books. If you find that your story is sagging in the middle, the first thing you should look at is your Midpoint scene.
by: Elliot Page – Actor | Producer | Soundtrack, Juno (2007) | Inception (2010) | Hard Candy (2005)