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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Maika Monroe’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Maika Monroe – 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 Maika Monroe 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 Maika Monroe 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 Maika Monroe’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, Maika Monroe 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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I’ve often read screenplay.biz/top-screenplays/" 786 target="_blank">screenplays that I didn’t get the genre until late in the story. Perhaps the reason the town’s people are acting funny is due to an alien invasion. How would I know this story is really a science fiction instead of a drama? If it takes longer than 10 pages for the reader to know the genre, then the writer hasn’t done his job. But wait – the writer doesn’t want to give away the big ‘alien’ reveal. Fine, then open with a sci-fi teaser that gives just a taste of what’s to come…perhaps we see strange lights in the sky and a spacecraft crashes, then the story proceeds with the weird town’s people. Don’t wait until your story’s half over to reveal the genre, use a teaser!
A film with non-stop action can be as overwhelming to watch as a drawn-out drama. Many writers decide to open an action script with an action teaser, like a car chase or the hero parachuting out of plane or bungee jumping from a helicopter, etc., then the story proceeds to the dull drawn-out relationships only to return to the action. If the writer had opened with the relationships and brought the action in later it would be difficult to categorize the script under the action genre.
Maika Monroe – It can often be difficult to tell a horror from a drama unless it opens with a teaser, which is why many do. In The Ruins, we see a character trapped in a tomb with creepy vines and strange noises. The character cries for help, we hear screams then the story opens and continues through many minutes of establishing drama-type relationships, etc. All of this takes place so we can get back to the creepy tomb. The teaser established the horror and gave us a taste of what’s to come.
A teaser can be used to help engage an audience in an otherwise drawn-out drama. For example, in the film Lolita rather than taking us through pages (minutes) upon pages of establishing a relationship between the characters, which could lead to boredom, the writer opens with a tidbit (a teaser) from an end scene. In the scene, the hero’s being chased by police. He has a gun and is covered in blood. That’s all we see, then the story starts. The teaser provides just enough information for the audience to sit through the next hour or so of drama to get back to the point where we find out how the hero ended up being chased by police.
Here are some less fantastical examples to look at to hone your perception:
Maika Monroe – Actually anyone writing a romance — or writing in any genre, really! — should look at this film for how the filmmakers use visual detail in the sets to depict character. As authors, we have an unlimited budget — our imaginations — to do this kind of production design in our books.
– Notting Hill contrasts shots of Julia Roberts’ glamorous Hollywood life — red carpet premieres and photo shoots and film sets — with the funky London neighborhood of Notting Hill, which with its pushcart vendors and cobblestone streets looks more like an Elizabethan village than a major cosmopolitan city. The filmmakers chose to emphasize the bohemian and eccentric and insular qualities of Notting Hill to give it that contrast to the Hollywood life, and to underscore the Cinderella theme of this fairy tale romance (the commoner falls in love with the princess). Just the visual difference between their worlds sets up a big subliminal opposition to this love story working out, and it also pushes all those fairy tale buttons. And I personally love stories that create fairy tale worlds and themes in a realistic setting.
Good storytellers will find all kinds of ways to make the Ordinary World and Special Worlds both contrasting and thematic:
by: Maika Monroe – Actress | Producer, It Follows (2014) | Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) | The 5th Wave (2016)