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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Tony Shalhoub’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Tony Shalhoub – 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 Tony Shalhoub 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 Tony Shalhoub 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 Tony Shalhoub’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, Tony Shalhoub 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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Here is the commercial checklist used by Extreme Screenwriting. A screenplay should receive a YES to EVERY point on the checklist or the writer needs to go back to the drawing board:
Extreme Screenwriting takes studio-coverage to another level by providing page-specific notes that pinpoint precise problem areas and how to fix them. In addition, Extreme Screenwriting provides a comprehensive checklist to determine exactly where the script has issues. I created the checklist based on actual reasons I’ve seen producers give a screenplay a PASS. If a writer can hit a YES to every point on the checklist, then the writer stands a good chance at a potential sale. If the writer doesn’t know what a specific point means, then the writer needs to study this book in its entirety!
Tony Shalhoub – How can a writer be sure a screenplay will pass the ‘test’? Having a screenplay evaluated by a professional story analyst is recommended. But I have a word of caution where ‘coverage’ is concerned. I think studio-style coverage can be valuable, but here’s the problem I have with it. First, studio-style coverage presents a logline and synopsis, which is information already known by the writer. Secondly, it breaks down the plot, characters, dialogue and scenes, but provides vague references to problem areas. I’ve read coverage with comments like, ‘the plot doesn’t work’ or ‘the dialogue is on the nose’ or ‘the scenes fall flat’. In my opinion, for coverage to be effective, a writer needs to know why the plot doesn’t work. The writer needs to know how the dialogue is ‘on-the-nose’ and which ‘scenes fall flat’?
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ACT TWO CLIMAX — with the cliffhanger question: Will Jack show up or not?
Tony Shalhoub – Zolo and his men appear, firing away, and Jack and Joan go their separate ways.
Joan drives the car into a river and they ride the rapids, then tumble over a waterfall. They both bail out of the car and land on opposite sides of the raging river. Jack has the stone and Joan is furious; she accuses him of planning all this: “I knew I couldn’t depend on you.” Jack shouts back that she should follow the sunset and go to the Hotel Cartagena with the map, which is what she’s supposed to bring the kidnappers anyway, and he’ll meet her there. “Trust me!” (NEW PLAN.)
Ralph sees Zolo coming across the field and takes off running. Joan jumps in the car, and Jack tackles Ralph to get the emerald back. Then somehow Mounties appear from the opposite direction and start to battle it out with Zolo’s men (I never have been quite clear on what’s going on, there) while Joan and Jack drive, dodging gunfire again.
by: Tony Shalhoub – Actor | Producer | Soundtrack, Monk (2002-2009) | Galaxy Quest (1999) | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)