The Art of Winning (Moneyball)

The Art of Winning (Moneyball)

Introduction

The long process of making the film in 2004 with the acquisition of rights by Columbia Pictures and began a first draft of the script by Stan Chervin, was marked by numerous cast changes before and behind the camera. As first director was David Frankel provided, but later by Steven Soderbergh has been replaced. He designed with screenwriter Steven Zaillian a new concept involving an unconventional production such as recordings of interviews with real personalities. A few days before the scheduled start of filming in 2009, opted for the producers, Soderbergh and was replaced by Bennett Miller, who in turn asked Aaron Sorkin to rewrite the script a second time.Also, the plan to have former players like Hatteberg and Justice to play itself was discarded. In a small role as a friend of Beanes ex-wife Sharon is Spike Jonze see. Moneyball finally celebrated on 9 September 2011 in Toronto premiere. In Germany, he came on 2February 2012 in the cinemas. The $ 50 million dollar production played in theaters worldwide with 110 million U.S. dollars. 

The film opens at the end of the 2001 season of the Oakland Athletics with their defeat against the New York Yankees in the post-season, followed by the loss of their star Johnny Damon, Jason Giambi, and Jason Isringhausen to end the contract. The General Manager Billy Beane is disappointed by the defeat and struggle to find a way to make his team competitive despite their significant financial difficulties. During a visit to the Cleveland Indians, Beane meets Peter Brand, a young graduate in economics from Yale with radical ideas on how to assess the value of a player. Beane tests Brand's theory by asking him if he would choose to Draft (Lewis, 2011), Beane having been a Major League player before becoming General Manager. Although observers reputassero Beane an exceptional player, his career in Major League was disappointing. Pressed, Brand admits that he would not be chosen before the ninth round of the draft, and that Beane would probably have ended up playing in college instead.Seizing the opportunity, Beane takes Brand as Assistant General Manager of Athletics.

Discussion

Presentation

The presentation of the journalist Michael Lewis returned with his 2003's nonfiction book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning at Unfair Game", whose sober facts Fill the screenplay Stars Steven Zaillian ("Schindler's List") and Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing", " The Social Network ") subtly in a dramatic story compacted. Co-produced and starred Brad Pitt embodies is the real existing ex-professional baseball Billy Beane, who after his retirement took up the post of General Manager for the Oakland Athletics.

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The film, in German distributor "to win The Art - Moneyball" is called, begins with the aftermath of the 2001 season in which the Athletics failed again in the playoffs. In addition, the team does not have the financial resources to maintain its prominent players. Faced with the prospect, just as a training company for the rich baseball business from Boston or New York to serve daring the illusion free realist Beane a radical break with the traditional rules of management: Instead of the usual to rely on the judgment of the influential scouts after supposedly complete or ...