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A Lot Can Happen In a Lifetime refers to parodies of a tweet by the official Twitter account for the upcoming Martin Scorsese film The Irishman, a biopic about Jimmy Hoffa starring Robert De Niro. The tweet states "A lot can happen in a lifetime" and shows four pictures of De Niro from the film, including a shot of him as a soldier that uses de-aging technology. Other Twitter users parodied the format by posting four pictures of a certain character or actor in different roles to humorous effect.

Origin

On September 25th, the Twitter account for the Netflix produced, Scorsese-directed film The Irishman tweeted four stills of Robert De Niro as Jimmy Hoffa, including a pictures that utilized anti-aging technology (shown below).

Spread

Shortly after the tweet was posted, Twitter users began posting variations on the tweet using different actors and characters. Twitter user @MattSinger^[2] posted a variation using different De Niro roles, with his role in Shark Tale serving as the punchline (shown below, left). User @RobbieReviews^[3] also did the joke with De Niro roles, ending with his role in Dirty Grandpa (shown below, right).

Other Twitter users used more humorous examples outside of De Niro films. User @DavidElrich did the parody using films starring Ethan Hawke, gaining over 740 retweets and 5,500 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @danjury made the joke different iterations of Yoda from Star Wars, gaining over 160 likes (shown below, right). The parodies were covered by Decider^[4] and Yahoo.^[5]

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