It's not a movie just about baseball

River 2022-03-18 09:01:02

Because I am not a baseball fan, I just watched such a movie with my vision of Brad Pitt. This movie undoubtedly describes the art of making big shots in a baseball league,
but apart from baseball? What else?

When Billy decided to use scientific statistics with Xiaopang to manage the team, he told Xiaopang that he didn't like contact with players so as not to have unnecessary feelings, but then he got together with the players.
When Billy decided to use Xiaopang's scientific management method cruelly, everyone thought that he would definitely fail. As a result, he won a 20-game winning streak.
When Billy returned to the league with a new management team against Yankee, they still did not win.
When the owner of red sox gave Billy a check for $12.5 million, Xiaopang said that it was the highest salary of GM in the league, but Billy didn't accept it and stayed at A's.
When Billy said that his goal was not for money and fame, but to challenge the system and to prove it to others, he finally failed, and red sox defeated A's with his management method two years later.
When Billy finally drove away, he listened to the CD sung to him by his daughter, but the last few sentences were "you are a loser dad..."

Life is always raping most people every day, and those People who try to break the rules and want to live their lives are ultimately buried in the wrong path they once chose, just like Billy chose to be a baseball player back then, just like he didn't accept the offer of red sox later, just like the song that BIlly's daughter sang. , And all this is like a piece of black humor repeatedly reminding us that
you are just a loser, just a loser...

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Extended Reading
  • Donato 2022-03-22 09:01:11

    This may be the first movie that takes the audience to understand baseball in depth, just like you are eager to learn about chess or gambling from the movie.

  • Harmon 2021-10-20 19:00:38

    Moneyball is a Loser movie, but it's not so dark. If The Fighter is too hard for fun, Moneyball seems to be introspecting forever. The movie is so calm, as if it has been raining in Oakland, even with the 20-game winning streak, the plot is still low and low. But Brad Pitt was so dedicated to acting. This may be the most dedicated performance I have ever seen. He is no longer a storyteller, but the master of the story.

Moneyball quotes

  • Peter Brand: There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what is really happening. And this leads people who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams. I apologize.

    Billy Beane: Go on.

    Peter Brand: Okay. People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs. You're trying to replace Johnny Damon. The Boston Red Sox see Johnny Damon and they see a star who's worth seven and half million dollars a year. When I see Johnny Damon, what I see is... is... an imperfect understanding of where runs come from. The guy's got a great glove. He's a decent leadoff hitter. He can steal bases. But is he worth the seven and half million dollars a year that the Boston Red Sox are paying him? No. No. Baseball thinking is medieval. They are asking all the wrong questions. And if I say it to anybody, I'm-I'm ostracized. I'm-I'm-I'm a leper. So that's why I'm-I'm cagey about this with you. That's why I... I respect you, Mr. Beane, and if you want full disclosure, I think it's a good thing that you got Damon off your payroll. I think it opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities.

  • Peter Brand: It's about getting things down to one number. Using the stats the way we read them, we'll find value in players that no one else can see. People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that. Billy, of the 20,000 notable players for us to consider, I believe that there is a championship team of twenty-five people that we can afford, because everyone else in baseball undervalues them.