Back in high school we had to make a short film based on any scene from the Shakespeare play we were reading. I didn’t read that shit, so I flipped to a random page and it landed on the one where some dude was hiding his relative or friend’s wife at a castle while waiting for him to arrive, but he was assassinated.

I had to drag it out to at least 10 minutes and make it interesting, and eventually found the perfect angle. It took about 3 days to shoot and 2 days (including an all nighter) to edit. When I submitted it, it turned out only like 3 other groups submitted their work. I went first and everyone loved it and thought it was hilarious.

The next day, the rest of the groups submitted their stuff. And one of the groups’ movie literally copied my scene lol. And I know they did because it wasn’t that important or iconic, just a random murder scene. But they didn’t understand the scene or my decision making process, so it was just like 60% a reshot of my movie but they tried to sneak in their own “ideas”. It made no coherent sense because their “ideas” didn’t have any narrative or cinematic relevancy to their stolen scenes, so it felt like a dozen people were directing a single moment.

They got a 0 because the teacher saw what they were attempting lol

A whole ass “country” has the same integrity as high school plagiarizers