In Response to Lecture 8: Movies

The main thing that caught my eye while learning about movies was the first subject we discussed, which was who invented moving pictures. Thomas Edison tried to take credit for inventing moving pictures, but it was actually one of his workers, William Dixon. I thought for a while about situations where people have tried to take credit for certain things, or  tried taken the credit off of them for different situations. I first thought about how students copy other student's homework, schoolwork, etc. This is a form of taking credit for something that isn't yours. Sometimes people explain an exact story in first person that someone else told them, but act like it is theirs. When we don't list sources on projects we are taking credit for other people's information.
I also thought about ways we try to not be credited. My favorite show is Criminal Minds. I love how sometimes the criminal tries to frame someone else for their wrong doings. So they do not get in trouble with the FBI, they try to make it look like an innocent person did their dirty deeds. However, the FBI usually is smarter than that and gets down to the bottom of the lies.
The lecture made me think about how people try to take responsibility and credit for positive actions, and the opposite for negative. It made me dig deep into my life and how innovative I've been. Have I always been responsible for MY own actions? Have I tried to take the ideas of others or act like others?