The
major league baseball organization is one of America's oldest past times and is
considered America's game. Now I realize newer sports like American football
and basketball have made big impacts on America, none of them have made as big
of a step as baseball has. Sure, baseball can be boring sometimes, but that's
how all sports are sometimes. However when it comes to baseball, you can always
have a good time at a game, even if your team is terrible....most of the time.
Well,
in MoneyBall that's exactly the formula you get out of it. If you're a diehard
baseball fan, you'll love this movie. It has everything, trading, drama,
comedy, and of course baseball! It does though have enough focus on the main
character, Billy Beane, in order for people who aren't so obsessed with sports
to connect to the film too.
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| Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) walking into the office of Oakland A's. |
Billy
is the General Manager for the Oakland A's. He's pretty much the boss and only
answers to the owner. So, the situation is that all they're good player are
going to free agency, which is like a market for baseball players, and they
need to find replacements with their super low salary cap. So, you follow Billy
Beane's trials and tribulations and he meets up with Jonah Hill's character, Peter
Brand, a college grad right out of school who graduated from Yale and it's his
first job in baseball, and his first job ever. So, to sum it up the two meet
and decide to create a system to change the game of baseball and the way it's
played forever.
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| Billy Beane and Peter Brand at practice. |
MoneyBall
was an enjoyable experience with moments of me laughing, smiling, and even on
the edge of my seat. Both Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill do fantastic jobs acting in roles that you don't get to see them in often. If you want a film that shows it takes balls to get
things
done then MoneyBall might just be right up your alley!
Sources:
Alton W. Ruff, Main Contributor
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