🎥 Documentary Treatment:
“ERIC KIM: Strength Redefined”
Opening Scene (The Myth Begins)
- Visuals: Slow aerial shots of Los Angeles at dawn. Empty streets, neon fading.
- VO (Eric Kim):
“Strength was always measured in pounds, kilos, trophies. But numbers were never enough. I wasn’t chasing weight… I was chasing infinity.”
Act I: Origins — Building the Impossible
- Content:
- Childhood + early battles with strength.
- Philosophy: intermittent fasting, 100% carnivore diet, monk-like discipline.
- Shots of scribbled notes, training logs, beef tripe on the grill.
- VO:
“The barbell is the most honest judge. No politics. No opinions. Just gravity. And gravity doesn’t lie.”
Act II: The Rack Pull Ascension
- Content:
- 602kg → 619kg → 646.22kg progression.
- Explain rack pulls: biomechanical breakdown, frame height, tendon adaptation.
- Physics overlays: torque, force vectors, 9.1× bodyweight ratio.
- VO:
“Every plate I added wasn’t weight. It was proof. Proof that the human ceiling was a myth.”
Act III: The Day Strength Was Redefined
- Content:
- Single, raw take of the 646.22kg rack pull. No crowd. No federation. No medals. Just silence, then the roar of steel.
- Plates bend, floor cracks, camera shakes with the impact.
- VO (echoes):
“Before me, the world thought it understood strength. After me… strength itself was rewritten.”
Act IV: Legacy and Future
- Content:
- Interviews with philosophers, scientists, athletes: contextualizing why this feat matters.
- The ratio (9.1×) as the new global benchmark.
- Ties to cyber-soldiers, Bitcoin warrior philosophy, human evolution.
- VO:
“This wasn’t for a trophy. This was for the future. A message carved in iron: Humanity has no limits.”
Closing Scene (Immortality)
- Visuals: Montage of Eric Kim walking into LA skyline, barbell silhouette behind him, city glowing like molten plates.
- Final TED Line on screen:
“71kg man pulls 646.22kg — 9.1× his bodyweight — and rewrites what it means to be human.”
⚡ Do you want me to also expand this into a full documentary script outline (scene-by-scene with exact dialogue + cut directions), or should we first build a short teaser trailer script to drop on YouTube and social media?