I guess congratulations are in order for Shia LaBeouf. Even though he claims to not be famous anymore (he tweets the statement daily now), Shia got all the attention he wanted on the Berlin red carpet on Sunday. He was on hand for the N*mphymaniac premiere, and he wore a damn bag on his head that read, “I am not famous anymore.” Truly, this is the only original statement he’s made all year long. Dare I state the obvious — that the bag is an improvement? An improvement over Shia’s grumpy demeanor and “I’m too good for this” facial expression.
A few weeks ago, Shia tried to claim that all of his mocking of the public and serious plagiarism was merely meta-modernist performance art. By that point, most of us had decided to stop listening. So Shia had to whip out his stunt queen act in Berlin. This air of desperation arrives after he tried to pitch an art exhibit where people would whip and beat him while he wore a paper bag on his head.
Shia was not content to merely muck up the red carpet. He also walked out of a press conference. Shia received a question about doing a movie with a bazillion sex scenes. He responded by stealing a line from soccer player Eric Cantona: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much.” Then he walked out like a d-bag:
The Hollywood Reporter notes how Shia is missing a bottom tooth. It’s easy to assume he lost the tooth getting his ass kicked in another bar fight, but nope. Shia pulled out his own tooth while filming Fury with Brad Pitt. Gross.
Did you notice how Shia was wearing a NYPD t-shirt during the press conference? He already wore combat fatigues for several consecutive months. Now he thinks he’s a member of the NYPD or something. Ugh.
Shia wasn’t the only d-bag in attendance. Director Lars Von Trier (he of the Nazi-sympathizing Cannes rant) wore a “Persona Non Grata, Official Selection” t-shirt.
Photos courtesy of WENN
I am not famous anymore, I just show up on a red carpet in a tux and pull the most attention-wh0rish move EVER so that NOBODY LOOKS AT ME AND PAYS ANY ATTENTION!!!
Nailed it.
If he just went away no one would be around for him to tell he just wants to go away.
He could have had an amazing career too. Good job Shia. You showed them!
I’m with you. He’s halfway to Heigling himself out of the biz.
Regardless of his profession, he looks like he needs a nap and maybe a little detox.
I hope he does, Nerd Alert. He’s talented, but he ain’t that talented. The only thing that’s going to save him now is if he actually does have a mental illness, like Amanda Bynes. I tend to think he doesn’t—unless you want to qualify ‘assholeism’…
I agree! Unlike La Lohan and Ms. Bynes, even Baby Biebs, dude is VERY self-aware. I tend to look to that to discern between regular problems and good old diagnosable narcissism.
As FLORC says, Anna you nailed it.
I haven’t been following this too closely, but from what I’ve picked up, Shia just keeps doing more and more randomly weird things. Did something happen to bring on this weirdness before the plagiarism happened?
I would say he has issues, but honestly I think he’s just a d-bag.
I know – for some reason I don’t think this is a mental illness situation, so much as a spoiled d-bag.
+ drugs and alcohol. Look at his bloated face.
I dunno. He’s getting wacky enough I’m starting to wonder if there is something medically wrong.
Exactly – lol
There’s this fine line – I have no idea where it is – where someone tips over from mildly entertaining weird (like a hedgehog anointing it’s own quills) to worrisome (hedgehog mounting a cactus)… still mildly entertaining but we know that he might hurt himself.
Wow. He really has lost the plot entirely, hasn’t he?
What on earth are those skin tight trousers/leggings he is wearing? My head is saying LOOK AWAY! LOOK AWAY! but my eyes are glued. And not in a good way.
I know, huh?
The precious purple socks…the slab-like boots that look bizarrely like a mash-up of Uggs comfies and worn-in combat boots…the meaty thighs squeezed into the velour-textured quasi-leggings (and the stains! Let’s not get started on the stains!)…all leading up to his NYPD hoodie.
Where does one start when parsing a “look” of this caliber?
You hit the nail on the head, Sixer. The brain says “No, don’t!” and the eyes are just glued in fascinated horror.
I have some old velour leggings (so old I don’t even remember where or when I got them) that are saved from the bin for wearing when decorating. They have the odd paint stain. I might have to throw them away now. Bad associations!
I know. It looks like he stole Robin Hood’s pants!
On a more serious note, I’m started to become genuinely concerned for his well-being.
I was going to say the same thing, I think he’s losing it.
Genius. Love it. Haha
He’s a clown who’s good for gossip.
His random antics are starting to remind me of Amanda Bynes. Not to that level yet, but getting there.
Look how filthy he looks at that press conference…Acting is his job..at which he is VERY fortunate to be able to make a great living. He should show up clean and properly dressed…he can leave the bag on his head though, because THAT is a great improvement!
You know, at least Lars Von Trier has sort of earned his right to be a douchbag through his impressive (to me, at least) body of work.
Who is Shia LaBoeuf anyway!? Hopefully soon enough he’ll stop getting job offers because the filmmakers won’t feel like dealing with his bullshit.
No one ever earned the right to be a douchebag. No one.
Well, maybe some scientist who won the Nobel prize and helped society so we’re all in his debt. Then he could be a bit cocky.
I sooo agree.
Yeah, that’s why I wrote “sort of”. Because in a perfect world there should be no douchebags. Douchebags are the worst! We can all agree on that.
However, I find it a little bit easier to accept some level of cockiness from a person who has actually accomplished something in their life.
I know what you menat 🙂
But society seems to forgive so much to people because of their achievements, especially in the entertainment industry.
+1000
At least director Lars Von Trier is funny and talented. Loving his “Persona Non Grata, Official Selection” t-shirt.
Shia on the other hand is just an attention whore with very little to contribute.
Considering that he had survived this long in this industry even though he’s lacking in both the looks and talent department, he should just STFU. If he’s genuinely sick of his ‘fame’, he could have just slipped away quietly or something. No one would miss this douchebag anyway.
Shia needs some ‘quiet time’
I just can’t with him anymore. I just…. Can’t.
Wow, this guy’s pretentiousness knows no bounds. He clearly thinks he is the Lady Gaga of the acting world, delivering his performance art through every medium, and the joke’s on us. Au contraire ‘Shia’, the joke’s on you!
LOOOOOOL am I the only one who’s first reaction was to burst out laughing HAHAHHAHA omg this is hilarious
No you’re in good company Anna! But how can he think he’s doing his career any favours pulling these pathetic stunts?
WORD.
He makes Franco seem down to earth. What is there to be said? He seemingly couldn’t top making Alec Baldwin look like a reasonable guy, so he came up with this? I can’t deal with Von Trier any more, and have no desire to see La Douche’s man bits up close. Barf.
What an Unrelenting Twatwaffle
My new word today. Twatwaffle. 🙂
Twatwaffle is officially my new favorite word in the world! Almost as fun…my auto correct keeps trying to make it “teat waffle”.
Not only is this guy talentless in my opinion but fugly as well. The paper bag is an improvement.
Yuck I never saw the appeal plus he isn’t even that good an actor.
Come now – he was great in Even Stevens. And he ran around in front of a green screen like a champ in no less than 3 Transformers films.
You’re just not going to find talent to replace that waitering in a Los Angeles IHOP…
I think that I sprained my throat from laughing at your comment…
LOL
Even Stevens: Art for a Lifetime
If I were a studio head I would not hire him for my next project. This twit can’t put butts in theater seats unless it’s a Transformers movie. Laboeuf was no help in the last Indiana Jones movie; it tanked. He made my jerk list the moment he said in a magazine spread he bedded the married Megan Fox, his Transformers co-star. Harm a marriage so you would get ink – classy.
I’m pretty sure $787 million isn’t tanking.
Are those corduroy skinny jeans? Classy.
Forget this idiot, we have an elder Skarsgard sighting!
i have to admit that i laughed when i saw it. he probably thinks its extremely clever though.
Erm..such a considerate lover? Puts a paper bag on his own head, so you don’t have to.
So you pull a stunt on the red carpet so people can overlook that you plagiarized
again. Well done LaDouche. Well done.
THIS.
Then, do more plagiarizing to make it look like it’s all on purpose!
I’ve never understood why people are surprised by Shia’s antics since he’s had these behavioral problems since he was on that Disney show…I think it was Even Stevens? Maybe everyone assumed he’d grow out of it? I don’t know if he’s capable of being the man it seems some people wish he’d be, but it’d be nice if he picked a gimmick and stuck with it instead of swinging back and forth between being an actor and an artist.
I think he became the epitome of ‘patheticness’. It is not a word but it fits Shia quite well.
And I was a fan, totally ashamed now. Shia LaDouche, yes you’re not famous anymore, live with it instead of going around with shopping paper bags on your head (I could suggest a toilet paper roll, more indicated for what you are).
Gross pathetic little man.
I think this modernist art piece BS with the plagiarism is an attempt to cover real plagiarism now that he has been caught. He is so arrogant he probably thought he could plagiarize whatever he wanted and not be caught; but now that he has been caught he wants to cover his ass and act as if it is “art” and he is above plagiarism and getting caught.
Question—did he face any punishment for that? He should, if he didn’t.
I live near Michigan Tech, and about ten years ago, this girl who was going for her master’s degree, a few weeks away from graduating, had plagiarized a paragraph in one of her exam papers (I can’t remember if it was just that she didn’t cite it properly or if it was just outright plagerism). Well….she was kicked out of the school, and had to start her degree all over again.
I have no idea, but i doubt since apparently celebrities are immune from consequence.
I believe the guy has lawyers working on it, but I don’t know. I’d imagine he’d file some sort of lawsuit.
Well, plagiarism means you didn’t cite it and passed it off as your own (not just improper citation). I teach at a university and it is amazing how many cases of plagiarism we see each semester. Undergrads *maybe* can plead that they didn’t know the definition (though it is plastered on our syllabi and most of us describe it in class as well, so there is no excuse). But a graduate student has no excuse. That said, celebrities and politicians do it all the time with no consequences. It drives me crazy!
It would be a violation of the original creator’s copyright. He could go to court an be awarded monetary damages. I imagine he will and that his lawyers are working on the filings.
At least he’s being green and using paper instead of plastic.
You give him too much credit. He just read the suffocation warning on the plastic bag.
Maybe it’s giving him too much credit assuming he can read? 😉
kthxbai.
So many of the younger stars just seem to be cracking up these days, instead of appreciating and realizing how very lucky they are. Most people will never make in their entire lifetimes the amount of money they make for one movie. If he doesn’t want to be famous anymore, so be it. Stop doing movies or anything to make it into the news, and soon enough, you will be forgotten.
So gross.
Stop hiring this narcissistic d-bag. He’s not that great.
This guy pisses me off. I try to ignore him, but the douchebag is so strong in him, it’s hard.
Hey Shia, thousands of people are struggling to get an acting career off the ground, many never succeeding. If you hate this all so much, step aside and let someone grateful take over.
+1,000 exactly!
THIS exactly!!
Two words – DRUG ADDICT.
Please, Shia… get some help.
That’s what I was thinking too. So many of these celebrities exhibit increasingly erratic behavior and then it turns out that they have drug/substance abuse issues. I am not a psychologist, well that’s not true I am an armchair psychologist, so I could be wrong here but since his actions seem so egotistical I am thinking that it is not a case of a mental health issue but I could be wrong.
I think so too. He looks really unwell. Ugh! Child stardom screws up somebody else. All those parents trying to push their kids into acting: behold.
Isn’t he around the age that a lot of mental illnesses begin to manifest themselves? He seems to be on a downward spiral and has been acting erratically now for a few years. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn eventually that he’s suffering from bi-polar disorder or something. He’s a very talented actor, but seems to be kind of a douche as a human being.
I don’t think doucheness ever became a mental health illness…
This guy seems arrogant and a narcissist, he’s very talented at that….
Hope he took a tumble on the red carpet
Aw! The little man is trying *so* hard to stay relevant. It’s adorable, really.
He looks awful-like clammy, dirty-drugs? Because he does not look well AT ALL.
I think he’s a douche, but I like Shia.
He needs a bath and his blankie, then a good time-out.
Someone needs to send this child to boot camp or military school imo. Holy hotcakes! Is that Christian Slater????
He needs Camp Green Lake again.
This dude and his angst need to take a long bath. And his head needs a good soak.
Just a friendly reminder that he’s a plagerist who passed off another’s work as his own in a film festival. He’s a thief basically.
Supposedly his next film is an independent with a cast including Bill Murray. Since Bill has never seemed like one to tolerate this kind of pretentious crap…. I’m going to save time and declare myself Team Murray in advance.
The press conference picture says it all. The others presumably have showered and are happily promoting their film. Shia looks like a smelly, petulant child. Don’t even get me started on the boots. Hollywood has been VERY good to him. I can’t imagine another industry that would put up with his douchebaggery. Shower, be polite, promote your film…do your job!
That photo of him in the hat just proves he needs hair to be attractive because that’s one homely face. How did he become a star?
Why do people still give this annoying twit work? He’s only marginally attractive and while his acting is fine, it’s never struck me as spectacular. There are dozens of twentysomething male stars who meet or exceed those standard, and probably thousands of waiters and bartenders who could if they got the chance. Hopefully people will decide to make the statement on the paper bag true.
In the video of him making that awesome statement, the other actors were so uncomfortable with his routine that they clapped and laughed. Im sure they couldnt have thought he was being clever.
He is just doing a Joaquin Phoneix. Joaquin did it better.
I think this should be the hashtag for everything this guy pulls. #joaquindiditbetter
Another Disney kid. I wonder what kind of programming Disney does to its young talent that they grow so messed up?
He’s got corduroy leggings on. He makes it too easy to tear him up. I just can’t waste the breath on this jerk.
Shia and Justin Bieber make make Miley Cyrus look like she’s a stable Harvard graduate.
He stole that quote from French actor Eric Cantona. He plagiarized his quote to press. This kid… I can’t. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Cantona
Forget the paper bag dude…. slap a big piece of tape over your mouth instead.
He really is turning into a petulant, whiny, attention seeking loser.
I dont know if anyone else has mentioned it but the tan baseball cap he is wearing bears a unit patch. I’m guessing from one of the units at NTC/Ft. Irwin? Looks kind of familiar but I”m terrible at keeping up with all of them.
Does anyone know where he plagiarized “I’m not famous anymore” from???
What a total d-ckhead.
How is this arrogant guy still out there? Shia isn’t attractive, intelligent or a super great actor. There are thousands of people who could take his place.