1. Summarize Moneyball for me, (Advanced: using the language story talked about in class), in 2-3 sentenses.
2. Moneyball was nominated for 6 Oscars (Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Actor, Supporting actor, editing and sound) which do you think it has the best chance to win, not based off politics, just what you thought was the most impressive part of the movie? and Why?
3. What was the story that connected with you most? and Why?
4. Would you recommend the movie to your friends? What would you tell them?
Stories mentioned in the Commentaries--
- Everyone gets a second chance- the American Story
- Every part of Billy Beane's story is the Great American Hero
- A guy who re-builds, more important to know his value than price, he could never draft himself (looks good) so they only way you can is to look at the stats. His own story has influenced the whole Moneyball story
- Hard it is to be revolutionary against conventional wisdom- changing minds- caregeous ot be the lone orginal voice of changing the ship around
- The experts don't know what they are talking about- the subtext.
- Dislocated character who is given an impossible challenge to bring himself back to where he needs to be
- Original thinkers who are among an old school culture based off past and circumstances to think differently- what happens when you try a non-traditional idea?
- The story of putting a bunch of "mis-fits" together to be better as a collective group over time
- Values, and value judgements in life- did Billy make the right decision to go pro instead of Stanford?
- Pulling a curtain back from a world we aren't familiar with, but want to know more about
- Constructing a story from the book
- Card counters to beat the system- heart v. science
- Redemption, underdog, breaking barriers- baseball has been thinking the same thing- "I love the type of story where everyone laughs at one person and they perserver- Aaron Sorkin
- Radical thoughts from the 70s that became realized
- Breaking walls down from smart people outside of the building and the "wall" is exploded and every Pro Sports franchise have decision making authority
- Sociological effect was felt world wide as the world changed
- If you keep doing what you're doing, you're failed to loose- anything different will give you a better chance
- Our choices in life- "only time he ever made a decision based off money and it didn't work." creating that objectivity to make the right decision
- tehre will always be someone who challenges the status quo and they will always face opposition (government, education,health care) microcosm that can be observed throughout history