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Cassie And Lewis Strauss Cinematic Parallels refers to a viral tweet that linked a character from the HBO series Euphoria Cassie with Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer Lewis Strauss. The post says the interaction between Cassie and Nate Jacobs is similar to Albert Einstein and Lewis Strauss's scene, which inspired a series of ironic fan edits, parodies, and photoshopped images linking Cassie and Strauss.

Origin

On December 17th, 2023, X^[1] user @ludelak posted a gif from season two episode three of the Euphoria TV show in which the character Nate is ignoring Cassie. The users also added the caption "Why is this gif just like the Oppenheimer one with Einstein and Strauss," alluding to a similarity between Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer scene of Albert Einstein ignoring Lewis Strauss. The post (shown below) amassed over 5 million views and 36,000 likes in two days.

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Inspired @ludelak's tweet, on December 18th, 20223, TikTok^[2] user @madheartter posted a fan edit video combining the Euphoria and Oppenheimer scenes (shown below, left), which amassed over 1 million plays and 219,000 likes in a day. On December 19th, 2023, TikTok^[3] user @holdensmith962 explained some of the cinematic parallels between the characters (shown below, right), amassing more than 7,000 plays and 980 likes in a few hours.

On December 19th, 2023, X^[4] user @ingridswiftman posted a Died / Born / Welcome Back image of Cassie and Strauss (shown below, left), which amassed over 33,000 likes and 2,700 retweets in a day. On the same day, X^[5] user @rookylio posted a split image of Cassie and Strauss's face (shown below, right), which garnered roughly 1,400 likes and 158 retweets in a day.

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