You can see You Can See Everything everywhere
A film about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, titled 'You Can See Everything,' has sparked a viral trend centered on its intense 'close talking' scenes. The movie has inspired parodies on late-night television and lookalike contests in New York City.
Why it matters
It highlights how niche cinematic stylistic choices can rapidly evolve into widespread internet memes and cultural phenomena.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's movie about Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos founder and convicted fraudster , has become a meme machine, powered by the film's most unnerving visual signature: close talking. Online, the answer has been to turn the pauses, the proximity, the dead-serious eye contact and that discomfort into a format.
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The latest take came on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , where Jamie Lee Curtis played Holmes and Fallon took on Fielder. They delivered a shot-for-shot remake of of one of the film's most intense exchanges.
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