Shia LaBeouf's movie plagiarizes Daniel Clowes

[michael_r]

@WarrenTerra

? Is that what we’re calling it now? I think it’s an “inspiration” when you’re moved to create your own nebbishy online film reviewer, not when you do a word-for-word, shot-for-shot remake.

It’s pretty clear from the pre-revelations story at Short Of The Week that Le Beouf was talking about the script as being something he’d written, not about the movie as being “inspired” - ie scripted and storyboarded - by Clowes.

from the shortoftheweek.com article: “LaBeouf’s latest short is a film about principles and how you deal with those beliefs when they come under scrutiny”. (waiting for the laughter to die down)