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The movie I am going to bring today is one of my favorite movies. It is called " Moneyball " . It tells a story about choice. The director of this film is Bennett Miller, who directed "Foxcatcher", and the starring role is Brad Pitt, who was so handsome back then.
The narrative of this film is quite flat, and as a sports-themed film, there is almost no climax. But don't think this is a bad movie because of this. After watching this movie, it will definitely make your heart stir and you won't be able to forget it for a long time.
The video begins with a live broadcast of the baseball finals, a game between New York Yankees vs Oakland Athletics .
In the end, the Oakland Athletics lost the game. The camera first cut to the empty Oakland Athletics locker room, and then the protagonist Billy (the handsome Pete) appeared in the empty stadium auditorium.
Billy is the team manager of the Oakland Athletics. Although his team reached the finals, he knew that all people care about is the championship. If you lose the game, you are nothing.
Billy was also a professional baseball player. At that time, he gave up a full scholarship to Stanford University and chose to join Major League Baseball, but he never achieved results and later became the team manager.
The trouble came. After the game, the wealthy Yankees poached Billy's core players, and Billy's team had no money to replenish the same outstanding players. So Billy began to use his verbal evasion skills-by deceiving the managers of several teams at the same time, he took the opportunity to get the players he wanted.
He came to the Cleveland Indians and planned to lure away a linebacker. Just when the scam was about to succeed, a fat man (played by Jonah Hill) from the Indian team reminded his manager. The manager immediately regretted it, and the business was so bad. Unhappy Billy found Fatty afterwards and asked him what he wanted and why you didn't even give me such a second-rate player.
So the fat man told him that he graduated from Yale and majored in economics. In his opinion, the current baseball management team is a jerk, and their level is still stuck in the middle ages. Then tell him that he can use mathematical methods to find hidden outstanding players.
Desperate, Billy decided to take a gamble, so he bought Fatty, and the two began to study using mathematical methods to build a championship team.
Billy began to buy at a low price some old, weak, sick and crippled players who looked to outsiders. Naturally, the managers of the Athletics whose level remained in the Middle Ages were unhappy. They began to ask Billy what the fuss was about, but Billy still chose to believe the fat man.
In addition to other managers, there are also team coaches who are unhappy. In order to possibly find a job in the future, the coach insisted on not using the old, weak, sick and disabled people brought by Billy. This caused the Athletics to suffer consecutive defeats in the regular season of the new season.
The media began to accuse Billy, and the team boss also began to doubt Billy. So Billy chose to burn the boat and replace several key players that the coach liked to use in front of the coach. At this time, the camera showed a few seconds of the coach's confused face.
The coach, who had no choice, began to use the championship lineup selected by Billy and Fatty using mathematical modeling. From then on, the Athletics team started to win consecutively just like it was a failure. The media also started hyping it up. In the end, the Sportsmen team achieved a brutal record of 20 consecutive victories, broke N world records, and entered the finals.
At this time, Billy was still depressed because his team also entered the finals last year. If he lost in the finals, his team would still be nothing. As a result, the Athletics really lost the finals, and as Billy said, the team was criticized by the media for being useless, and ridiculing Billy and Fatty for using computers to select players. It was stupid (they were still touting it before). ).
In order to comfort Billy, Fatty showed him a video of the game. In the video, the batter hit the ball and ran desperately toward first base. After reaching first base, he lay down on the base.The players around him were laughing at him because he hit a home run (please allow me to pretend to be an The ground runs the bases , and if a home run is hit, the defense cannot catch the ball. At this time, the batter and other base runners only need to walk slowly and coquettishly through the first, second and third bases and reach home plate to score).
Fatty wanted to use this to tell Billy that he had succeeded, but Billy himself had no idea. Although Billy failed to win the championship, he ushered baseball into a new era. Until now, Major League Baseball and NBA are still using their methods to select players.
In the end, Billy rejected the tens of millions of yuan in signing bonus offered by the Boston Red Sox and chose to stay with the Oakland Athletics. Two years later, the Red Sox used Billy's business model to win the championship, while the Athletics are still trying to win the championship...
Life is full of choices, and many times our choices will bring us bad results. In the film, Billy gives up college and chooses professional baseball, and eventually becomes the manager of a small team. Choosing a different way to run the team failed to create a championship team. But as a narrator in the film said: You have to make a decision based on what you see. If it doesn't work out, you have to look forward. Now that you have made your choice, you can’t look back anyway, so just keep going and just enjoy the show.
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