As sports-themed movies, most of them end with thrilling victories and demonstrate their sufficient inspiration. But this movie is not. The ending has been told from the beginning of the movie, that is, the team as the main characterization object, and the final outcome will be a disastrous defeat. So, here, there is no more inspiration, no exciting reversal, it shows that it is just a team, from struggling at the bottom of the league to the shocking 20 consecutive victories, on the road of unreasonable victory. Running wildly, in the end, people fell from a high somersault unexpectedly. The story of the movie tells this process, and from the role of the team manager who created half a fairy tale, it becomes a story about people. The protagonist of the story is called Billy Bean, he is played by Brad Pitt, and he is accompanied by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jonah Hill, Robin White and so on.
Victory in sports is largely based on money. Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Evergrande are all repeating such stories, and they have repeatedly turned victories into reality. Competition can be like this, but the essence of sports is not like this. Fairness is everyone's pursuit in all competitions, but money is a competition within reasonable rules. Its existence makes seemingly fair competition actually not so fair. And the return of sportsmanship makes the event reflect a kind of original motivation and exude natural charm. This is what sports fans like to watch, and it should be what a team manager pursues.
Chinese fans don’t know much about baseball, and I don’t know much. But it, together with basketball, ice hockey, and rugby, ranks as the four major balls in the United States. There are also the three major U.S. balls, including baseball, and the other two are basketball and rugby. Although we are not familiar with the American professional baseball league, we must be familiar with the logo of the New York Yankees because their baseball caps are very popular all over the world. Yankees team logo hat with NY lettering.
In the American professional baseball league, the New York Yankees are like Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga, and Bayern in the Bundesliga is a mountain that other teams are difficult to climb. And the strength is built on the foundation of wealth. As early as the 2001-2002 season in the movie, the Yankees had available funds of 140 million U.S. dollars, and the Oakland Athletics as the protagonist of the movie, The available funds are only 40 million, which is only a fraction of the Yankees. The two collide, completely powerless. But the manager Billy Bean opposed to the Oakland Athletes took a reverse thinking. He didn't take the usual path and got rid of some imagination and intuition. Instead, he used data to analyze and then looked for a suitable player for his team, regardless of whether the player was in another team. How little attention is paid to the team. In the absence of stars, use the principle of making up for shortcomings to make your team have no shortcomings, and then fully tap the potential of each player to maximize the potential of each player. I don’t care about the victory of a single game, but about the direction of the whole season. Finally, as a small team, the Oakland Athletes finally ushered in an explosion after a few losses at the beginning of the season. Even the Yankees won in one fell swoop. His 20-game winning streak, and thus successfully entered the playoffs. But like all dog-blood inspirational sports films, when you want to see the Oakland Athletes continue to be invincible, or after a setback, they burst out with courage and win the final victory, but the director flashes the camera and tells you to be in the playoffs. In the first round, the Oakland Athletes were eliminated. It did not become the ultimate winner, and the 20-game winning streak was just a flash in the pan.
All of the above revolves around Billy Bean, played by Brad Pitt, who has worked hard to make his team competitive, his anxiety, his anger, and his struggle. , His determination, as well as all his efforts, were full of impulse shown by Pete, and it was Pete's performance that made this calm film like water less rigid. Through technical means, Billy Bean made everyone used to watch the league of spoiler hegemony become different, and made a small team suddenly competitive. It's just that the lack of the team's background ultimately makes the victories already trivial. Because in competitive sports, everyone will always remember only the first place. But Billy Bean has done enough, he has changed the rules of the game. After his defeat, the Boston Red Sox, another professional baseball team, used Billy Bean's method to make the Red Sox win the championship again after a lapse of 80 years.
Billy Bean was a successful loser. His team failed that year, but the Red Sox found him after the season and planned to hire him with an annual salary of 1250W. But Billy Bean Rejected, he chose to stay with the still poor Oakland Athletes and still seek victory for his team. The movie ends here, leaving a profound aftertaste. But in reality, after 2006, the Oakland Athletics never entered the playoffs. His method has been widely used, not only in baseball, but in other sports such as basketball and football. , Has also been fully utilized. Billy Bean's glory has passed, and before there is no other way out, it is estimated that he will continue to wander in the bottom of the valley. But his approach to technology has been developed, and on this basis, Billy Bean can be remembered, and it is already remarkable.
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