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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Tilda Swinton’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Tilda Swinton – 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 Tilda Swinton 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 Tilda Swinton 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 Tilda Swinton’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, Tilda Swinton 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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Hey, bud, you finish the old lady’s car?
JACK
Tilda Swinton – Jack huffs into the mechanic’s shop. Another MECHANIC, 30’s, works on a vehicle. He cringes when he spots Jack.
RIGHT
[15:40] Joan comes back to her apartment and finds it ransacked. Suspense scene — because she should not be walking through that apartment — and classic FALSE SCARE: the cat jumps down on her from the top of the refrigerator. Then another FALSE SCARE: the phone ringing right beside her. All total manipulation, but storytellers do it because it works.
Tilda Swinton – Within this sequence we meet one set of antagonists: Elaine’s kidnappers, Ira and Ralph. They are classic comic characters, one tall and thin, one short and round (a SIGHT GAG — comedy loves contrasts like this). They are city boys from Queens who are fish out of water in this South American country (the fish out of water is another classic comedy element). Ira is suave but crazy (that obsession with the gators — SET UP and RUNNING GAG: “Look at those choppers!”); Ralph is neurotic but actually the more sensible of the two; he knows this whole venture is ill-advised. Again, we don’t have to really worry about Elaine being held captive by these guys, which keeps the tone comic. We learn from a line from Ralph that the two have made a fortune in antiquities. Also the male cousins mirror the sisters; you often find this kind of TWINNING and MIRRORING in comedy and romantic comedy.
This is the INCITING INCIDENT, and begins an ACTION SEQUENCE that is also the sequence climax — a kidnapping, speeding car, cut to the kidnappers, and getting Elaine on the boat, all with the beautiful backdrop of the Cartagena port. It also sets up the location we will come back to for the climactic BATTLE: that stone fort (or whatever it is!) on the harbor. [15 minutes.]
[10:33] Nice dialogue cut to introduce Elaine, the sister. Joan says, “Elaine always manages,” and we cut to a hotel by the beach in Colombia, where Elaine is fleeing the hotel, but is kidnapped — by a little boy. Again, the scene is played as comic, and it keeps the tone light that the kidnapper is a little kid; we don’t have to worry about anything too bad happening to Elaine, here. I for one am always grateful to filmmakers and authors who let me know up front that I’m not going to be subjected to rape or torture. (Thomas Harris does this very deftly in The Silence of the Lambs).
by: Tilda Swinton – Actress | Producer | Writer, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) | Snowpiercer (2013) | Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)