14 DAY TRIAL // Shia LaBeouf is currently undergoing a process of intense lack of inspiration. Just about everything he does these days seems to be ripped off of someone else. His new skywriting apology to Daniel Clowes for stealing his work in his new movie has sparked a Twitter
debate with Lena Dunham.
His actions had already earned him the reprimand of fellow actors and other people in the industry such as Seth Rogen and Patton Oswalt, but now Lena Dunham is getting in on the act.
The “Girls” star felt that Shia's skywriting apology was in poor taste: “I've always felt, utterly and unchangeable, that only sociopaths hire skywriters,” she says.
“The worst part is I'd probably totally drop my morals, and my pants, if someone skywrote me,” she continued. Doing what he does best, Shia then cunningly apologized using Lena's own apology from 2012 over a Halloween costume joke she made.
“Vaguely recognized Shia LaBeouf's latest twitter apology and realized it was MINE. Touche, Louis Stevens,” Lena tweeted in return, making a reference to his character on the Disney series “Even Stevens.”
The incident that sparked all of this media attention was a skywritten apology Shia commissioned for Daniel Clowes after it was revealed that his latest movie, “Howard Cantour.com,” had plagiarized the plot, characters and events from a graphic novel Clowes made.
Many people thought the apology was tasteless and useless, since Shia had it flown over Hollywood where all the media could see it, and not in Clowes' home town. Also, tweeting a photo of the message didn't help his case at all, nor did his plagiarized apologies.
In another tweet at the end of the year, Shia promised “I need to work on being a less controversial tweeter.” So far, he seems to have failed.
He also added after all of the plagiarized apologies that “I am sorry for all the plagiarized tweets, they all were unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful.”
Having gone back many times on his own words (or rather someone else's), it looks as though Shia might be suffering from dual personality. His Twitter account is full of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide posts – at times he's apologetic and at others he's vengeful. There's no telling what he might do next.