Dec 17th 2013, 13:00, by Aaron Souppouris
Shia LaBeouf has admitted not crediting an author as the inspiration for his short film. After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last year, LaBeouf's well-received HowardCantour.com was released on Vimeo earlier this week, but the actor was soon to be in the headlines for the wrong reasons as BuzzFeed revealed his film heavily plagiarized plot and dialog from Daniel Clowes' short story Justin M. Damiano. Both the short story and film open with exactly the same monologue, and the similarities continue throughout the 11-minute short, which has since been replaced with a trailer.
Clowes tells BuzzFeed that he was "shocked" to see "the script and even many of the visuals from a very personal story" passed off as original work. "I...
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