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Plagiarism In Don Siegel's 1958 Film, The Lineup

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Jonathan Lethem proposes the idea that plagiarism is common throughout all sorts of art and is almost impossible to create something “original”. He uses valid examples from Don Siegel’s 1958 film, The Lineup, where the quote “When you live outside the law, you have to eliminate dishonesty,” gets twisted around and modified to then be placed in Bob Dylan’s song “Absolutely Sweet Marie,” which was released in 1966 (57). The use of the quote supports the theory that all things “original” actually are created by the influences of others. The structure of the writing helps Lethem portray this belief with topic headings to dive deeper into how everyday people take, whether it is consciously or unconsciously. The influences from Ovid’s “Pyramus and
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