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Rise of the New Media Newsletter · Jul 18, 2026

What If 'The Odyssey' Is A...MASSIVE TROJAN HORSE For Woke Hollywood?

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Brian Cates · Rise of the New Media Newsletter

After following the controversy for the past 3 months, my current take is that a lot of people are getting Christopher Nolan’s new film, ‘The Odyssey’ completely wrong.

This guy went from making some of the most original films of all time [ ‘Interstellar’, ‘Inception’, Batman Trilogy, The Prestige, Dunkirk, Tenet, Oppenheimer, etc.] to being a talentless woke hack making one of the most truly awful films of all time?

The excuse people give is that Nolan is desperate to win an Oscar, so he deliberately followed a ‘woke template’ in casting & writing his new film in order to make sure the finished project checked all the right ‘woke’ boxes so as to ensure his chances of being rewarded by the Academy.

I don’t buy it.

I think something else is in play here.

I want you to envision something.

It might be hard, but make a sincere effort.

Picture hundreds of people who used to make quite good movies who’ve literally been COERCED over the past 15 years into making increasingly absurd Woke Shit Movies.

I don’t mean the top level people, the suits.

I mean the actors, the directors, the writers, the people who got into that industry because they loved it and they wanted to tell creative stories.

And many of these studios USED TO LET THEM do that.

But starting around 2010 the noticeable shift suddenly accelerated. The suits at the top implemented a woke culture from the top down.

Was H’wood always left since the 1960s? Yes, of course.

But did they AT LEAST UNDERSTAND where the lines were, and even if they did do overtly Leftist films, they weren’t ABSURD WOKE FILMS that were guaranteed to lose money. And they were still making a fair number of great and compelling films alongside their ‘Message’ stuff.

But around 2010 the shift happened. And the people further down suddenly noticed they **can’t** get funding for original stuff that isn’t woke. Subtlety or more overtly, they’re getting their good projects cancelled and they’re being shown THIS type of stuff is all we’re doing now.

Imagine you’re somebody that’s been making great compelling original films for 20 years and all of a sudden you wake up one day and you’re in a straightjacket. The same top producers you need to keep working are turning down every one of your original projects, while either STRONGLY HINTING TO YOU or OVERTLY TELLING YOU they want you to do Woke Shit Movies.

How LONG are you gonna put up with that? Even LEFTIST people in Hollywood understand OVER HALF THE COUNTRY IS NOT LEFTIST. And even less are Woke.

So for the past decade and a half, a lot of truly creative filmmakers, actors, writers, etc. have been essentially HELD HOSTAGE by the people at the top of their own industry, who are TELLING them Woke Shit Content is where it’s now.

They can’t get their great creative ideas made, and the only thing they’re getting funding for is woke projects the STUDIOS are asking them to make.

What’s the solution?

How do you GET THE STRAITJACKET OFF?

Do you lead an overt rebellion against the suits?

Or do you destroy the Woke Hollywood Shit Machine from the INSIDE with a literal TROJAN HORSE of **the** most WOKE MOVIE EVER MADE?

Does anybody understand IRONY?

Christopher Nolan WANTS TO GO BACK to being able to make the kind of movies he used to make.

So do a LOT of people in that town.

The mistake people are making is thinking EVERYBODY IN HOLLYWOOD is on the Woke Train to Nowhere, happily going along with an agenda that is corrupting and destroying their careers.

It’s not true. A **lot** of people in Hollywood are not happy about this.

Rush Limbaugh said the most POWERFUL tool to force a Leftist into retreat is to take their OWN WORDS and go ALL THE WAY WITH IT to the logical conclusion and SHOW THEM how absurd their beliefs are.

A creative team put its head together and came up with the most ABSURD WOKE SHIT MOVIE OF ALL TIME, taking the woke absurdities to eleventy-eleven.

The reason The Odyssey was made by these people isn’t to AFFIRM or STRENGTHEN the Hollywood Woke Shit Machine.

The Odyssey was made by to CHOKE THAT MACHINE TO DEATH as the entire world watches it happen.

And once the Woke Hollywood Shit Machine has choked to death on its own absurdity, these people in Hollywood will be able to go back to making the kind of films they did before the Woke Mind Virus screwed it all up.

And don’t misunderstand what I’m telling you. I’m not saying Matt Damon or Christopher Nolan or others involved here are closet conservatives or MAGA or something.

I’m saying they’re tired of living in the Woke Box the last 15 years and they wanna go BACK to doing the kind of movies they used to able to make.

In this sense, The Odyssey is a ‘message’ movie, but the general public is not the who the message is intended for.

Pissed off very talented people in Hollywood who’ve been laboring under the iron-fisted control of the Woke suits are TROLLING those who forced this on them.

“Oh, you want WOKE, do you? Gird your loins, assholes. WE’LL GIVE YOU THE MOST WOKE MOVIE OF ALL TIME. Choke on THIS, bitches!”

And a troll like this only works if you do it with a straight face.

Mel Gibson, Sly Stallone, Jon Voight, Tom Cruise, and many others inside the Hollywood Beast are doing great work. :)

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