I’m a little disheartened.
Christopher Nolan is one of the greatest directors alive.
And Batman Begins is one of my all-time favorite movies.
It showed the world what Christian Bale’s physique could look like when a man is completely locked in.
*This whole movie was f*cking inspiring.
So when I heard Nolan was making The Odyssey, I was genuinely excited.
The Odyssey. One of the greatest adventure stories in human history. A warrior. A hero. A man tested by gods, monsters, and years of brutal hardship, fighting his way home.
This should have been a film that made every young man watching it want to get up and become something.
Instead, the casting choices have sparked controversy and confusion.
They have released the full cast names, but we only know who’s playing the main roles, not the supporting roles.
Rumor has it that Elliot Page might be playing Achilles!
If that’s true, that’s just sad.
Someone made an AI generation and posted a video of it on X, showing how pathetic that would be.
I cut out the part where Elliot gets impaled. Not good, lmao.
I also have to show you one more image that someone made with AI.
Come on, that is funny! 😂
And honestly, it’s part of a broader pattern that I find disheartening.
Growing up, the movies I watched made me want to be better.
I saw Brad Pitt in Fight Club when I was young.
That physique, lean, angular, dangerous, changed the way I thought about training forever. It was the first time I realized that the goal wasn’t to be as big as possible.
It was to be the leanest, sharpest, most powerful version of yourself.
Then Troy came out.
Brad Pitt as Achilles. The greatest warrior in the ancient world.
I remember watching that film and thinking, THAT is what a man is supposed to look like. Not a bodybuilder, a warrior. Proportionate, powerful, and completely dialed in.
Christian Bale in American Psycho.
The film that inspired me to create Kinobody.
Patrick Bateman wasn’t just lean, he was captivating.
His jaw was chiseled, his waist tight, and his muscles perfectly defined.
He had just enough in all the right places.
Daniel Craig stepping out of the ocean in Casino Royale.
That scene is responsible for more men starting to train than any fitness influencer has ever produced.
These movies didn’t just entertain. They gave young men something to aspire to…
A physical standard that was genuinely inspiring.
A vision of masculinity that was worth working toward.
And here’s what bothers me most about the direction things are heading.
Men need that inspiration right NOW more than ever.
Testosterone levels in men today are 30-40% lower than they were in their fathers’ and grandfathers’ generations.
The average man is carrying more body fat, less muscle, less drive, and less ambition than at any point in modern history.
We are in a masculinity crisis.
And at the exact moment when young men need cultural role models that make them want to stand up straight, train hard, and build something…
Hollywood is moving in the opposite direction.
They even messed up on the casting of Helen of Troy.
In the book, Helen is portrayed as a radiant, goddess-like Spartan queen of extraordinary beauty, with ‘white arms,’ ‘lovely’ or ‘golden’ hair, and an allure so powerful it is called ‘terrible beauty’ that makes men willing to wage war for her.
In the movie Troy, Diane Kruger played Helen of Troy, and she fit the description perfectly.
Casting Lupita Nyong’o just seems forced to me.
I’ve read that Christopher Nolan is casting the way he is in this movie because he’s going after an Oscar.
They are replacing aspiration with inclusion.
F*ck that!
They are attacking testosterone.
Neutering movies and killing the competitive, aspirational male spirit.
Show us a beautiful female lead.
Show us a chiseled, powerful, athletic male.
Give us someone to strive for.
Kinobody exists because those movies lit something in me at 14 years old, and I wanted to give other men the tools to chase that same standard.
The Brad Pitt in Troy physique, the Daniel Craig in Casino Royale look.
A lean, powerful, proportionate body that turns heads and signals discipline to everyone in the room.
And right now, the most important tool in that system is Kino Mojo.
*Jay’s testosterone was at 551 when he started. But after taking Mojo, it increased by 400+ points in 3 months!
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Talk soon,
Greg O’Gallagher