A Lot Can Happen In a Lifetime

A Lot Can Happen In a Lifetime

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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).


The Irishman @ThelrishmanFilm A lot can happen in a lifetime. 2:00 PM Sep 25, 2019 Twitter Web App

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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).


Matt Singer @mattsinger A lot can happen in a lifetime. 3:04 PM Sep 25, 2019 Twitter Web App Robbie Collin @robbiereviews A lot can happen in a lifetime. 3:41 PM Sep 25, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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]


david ehrlich @davidehrlich A lot can happen in a lifetime. 3:13 PM Sep 25, 2019 Tweet Deck Dan 'CHARGE' Jury @danjury Replying to @Thelrishman Film A lot can happen in a lifetime. 5:13 PM Sep 25, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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Alex Zalben @azalben A lot can happen in a lifetime. 3:05 PM Sep 25, 2019 Tweet Deck Joe Calabrese @Joe_Calabrese Replying to @davidehrlich A lot can happen in a lifetime. 3:42 PM Sep 25, 2019 Twitter for iPhone Jordan Yogurt @jordan yogurt Replying to@ThelrishmanFilm A lot can happen in a lifetime MA 7:15 PM Sep 25, 2019 Twitter for iPhone A.A. Dowd @AADowd A lot can happen in a lifetime. 6:06 PM Sep 25, 2019 Twitter Web App gina @chalameche a lot can happen in a lifetime. 11:22 AM Sep 26, 2019 Twitter for Android Nick Usen @nickusen a lot can happen in a lifetime. 4:41 PM Sep 25, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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