Jim Carrey: Shia LaBeouf Insulted At Golden Globes For Plagiarism ‘Apology’
Jim Carrey’s Shia LaBeouf joke at the Golden Globes quickly escalated into a Twitter tangle that got personal.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Shia LaBeouf “apologized” to the world through sky writing.
Shia’s plagiarism scandal started when people realized a short film borrowed large sections from a comic artist’s work. After being caught Shia insincerely apologized on Twitter by using other famous apologies from the past. But after a while the actor grew tired of this game and decided to come clean:
“Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work…. You have my apologies for offending you for thinking I was being serious instead of accurately realizing I was mocking you.”
A Shia LaBeouf interview finally spelled out his exact position on plagiarism. He believes in the digital age that copyright laws do not cover the “repurposing” of information he believes is fair game. Further, he claims the laws should be updated to “connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster” because he thinks the law has become, and has been in the past, a tool to “censor and persecute the writers who dared publish radical ideas.”
But Jim Carrey’s Golden Globes joke wasn’t intended to delve into the murky waters of copyright law and art. Instead, he simply mocked LaBeouf by putting a new twist on a quote from Edmund Gween:
“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. I believe it was Shia LaBeouf who said that. So young, so wise.”
In response, Shia decided to paraphrase something Carrey said about Andy Kaufman back in 1999:
If you explain @JimCarrey you've killed him, Nobody knows if it's for real or not. That way he's immortal.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) January 13, 2014
When media outlets like E! Online began to question Shia’s response, things took a nasty turn:
“At least I don’t get arrested for indecency on major LA highways! Or abandon love child’s.”
Shia must have realized he’d gone too far since he issued this apology shortly later:
“Jim Carrey states that he is deeply involved in his daughter’s life – I accept that,regret tweet on the matter. Apologies to both parents.”
It’s possible Shia LaBeouf’s apology was sincere this time since he deleted the related insults about Jim Carrey shortly later, while leaving the original response up. Then again, it’s possible it’s another bad joke since Rupert Murdoch once used Twitter to accuse Hugh Grant of abandoning a love child only to apologize. Whatever the truth may be, this is LaBeouf’s final word on the matter:
I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) January 13, 2014
Jim Carrey, for his part, apparently has ignored the minor uproar. Probably because he still famous…
