I'm not a big baseball fan, but this became one of my favorites movies immediately. Just fantastic storytelling. Brad Pitt and the whole cast were just great.
Speaking for myself, I'm not a baseball fan at all, nor am I a fan of just about any professional, or even generic spectator sport (say, even at the university level -- I see university spectator sports are part of the crippling way we are turning higher education into a business, making it generally much more expensive, etc., but that's a whole other discussion). Indeed, I have a mental list of ways professional sports are unarguably detrimental to society, in many ways unacknowledged by most, especially by stupidly enraptured fans. I hold professional sports to be an almost complete waste of time. With all that said, after seeing several clips of Moneyball, right here on CZcams, I had to buy it and watch the entire story. What I liked about it, what really grabbed me, was how Billy Beane and Pete effectively used very focused information and knowledge to implement an astounding, completely unexpected result in a completely unfavorable situation ("... then there's fifty feet of crap, and below that there's us"; jeez, talk about a disadvantage!). Pitt and Hill's superb acting were key, too, or certainly the CZcams videos wouldn't have made the impression. Someone told me this film provided Hill a breakout, or perhaps better a "step-up," role in the development of his career.
Anne Thompson is a very skilled interviewer. She knows when to move the interview along to another topic and when to stay out of the way and let the person(s) she is interviewing run with an idea, theme or topic. Great job.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 he is privileged because he worked hard for years to become the actor he is. You can certainly put those two words in a sentence when Brad Pitt is some nepo baby, a child of producer of something.
He's a nice person but as a fan of the A's he has destroyed another "Moneyball" opportunity by getting rid of all of our favorite players in 2014. You can argue Wolff but it's all BS he could have fought for them. 7 fucking all stars!!! C'mon. I really do hope he has another Moneyball season and they really show this year especially with Semien and Davis.. Fingers crossed
What a great interview. Great questions Ms. Thompson. You allowed them both to speak their minds and gave them thought provoking questions. Nice tone of interview which made me feel I was in the room.
Inspiring movie! Great interview! It's also amazing how much trouble the movie encountered in the making but it got made and gathered many praises and critical acclaims. I admire Brad's persistence and respect of filmmaking. With WWZ he also encountered some major difficulties but he managed to make it a decent movie too, despite low expectations. Props to him! btw, it's already said million times but want to say again: Brad is so gorgeous!
The questions you ask in your interviews are very thoughtful. They make me feel differently about certain mainstream actors such as Brad. Not that I never liked him or didn't think he was a good actor, but the questions made me want to listen more to what he has to say/see a different side. Because normally the light is on someone like him so I'm more apt to listen to someone who rarely gets to speak. People are more likely to ask someone like him very superficial questions anyway but you don't.
Great conversation. Insightful. What I loved about movie was the appreciation and thought process of baseball. I find many people today don't appreciate the thought process of the game.
Well done from top to bottom. Sound quality and picture were a bit thin but it works. Nicely done Brad is a pro actor, Billy Beane a consummate pro baseball mind, excellent story and fantastic film. Thanks for the video
It’s definitely not at all a well set up interview. Obviously no mic’s were used, camera wasn’t set up right, framing is bizarre, but the interviewer asked a lot of awesome questions and Brad and Billy have some legit chemistry
one of my all-time favourite movies. Imagine if a Hollywood producer tells you, "Hey screenwriter, write me a movie story." And goes on to put in several caveats: (1) There will be no bad antagonist in the movie; (2) Nobody tries to kill or hurt someone; (3) The hero will never in physical danger; and (4) The protagonist will lose at the end of the movie. Yep, that is Moneyball, the movie.
Brad Pitt has achieved the status of being loved and respected by men and women, respectively. Other actors like Paul Newman, Bronson, Moore etc.... are few and far between.
I’m a girl and I watch this movie every time it comes on! The fact that Pitt was in it didn’t hurt at all…he is so believable in every part he’s ever taken. But Phillip Seymour Hoffman was probably the greatest character actor of our generation. He could make the smallest part memorable as he did in this movie.As for Jonah Hill’s performance, I go back and rerun his opening scene every time. He has a great future in this entertaining medium!
Very interesting dynamics between Brad and Billy...Young men should take heed at the confidence these two men exude... Not imitative, more about being confident about who you are. Was just watching the movie, well actually, I have it up in another tab...I'm at the part where the characters are informing the players about what their play should be like; the beginning of the turnaround... This interview is just as entertaining.
This movie deserve Academy Award, this is one of my all time favorite of an real life to the screen, Brad is an Genius in his own right, I believe he will eclipse Mr. Eastwood when he turns 90 with an list of great movies that have not been made. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The first rule of Moneyball is You don't talk about Moneyball (sorry, I couldn't help Myself) In trade..a member of the Oakland A's HAS a name. His name was Carlos Pena.
One of my favorite movies..to see how a man chooses a very risky path..somewhat forced on him because of budget, to change the way an industry operates in making decisions...thinking outside the box. And on paper this should work ..but in reality will it have success...and then having the guts to carry out the plan when the progress to succeed is slow or complications arrise...and when success happens , not to be compromised by money....how could you not love this story...
Not my favorite professional sport, but with movies like Moneyball, Field of Dreams, The Natural, A League of Their Own, Sandlot, 42, etc... hard to hate something that inspires such amazing storytelling.
As much as I admire both these guys, I can't help thinking that it's easier to make decisions based on something other the money when the count is always in millions.
The Oakland A's do have the best system throughout and they do it on a shoestring and they have been doing it for decades. I cannot imagine what would happen if baseball ever went to a system like every other major league sport. Oakland would shoot to the top and stay there. They would dominate and would be able to keep their home grown talent. The issue is, there are just so few really large markets to draw on and it does hurt the small market teams ability to compete without being pilfered right after a break out season. That is what is wrong with baseball and why the chances of a small market team winning a championship is a long shot. Doesn't happen that way in any other sport.
just saw the movie last night.- great movie! and wow, the casting directors did a great job with the younger billy brane! he really does look like the real billy beane!!!
It wasn't necessarily about money if you read the books and watched the movie it was about finding the right players that can play as a equivalent as a single superstar by judging these players by the runs they score and the times they get on base but these players were all worth nothing and this was a way for small market teams like the a's
+TheHaloRed not only did he trade cespedes, he trades him for jon lester who BECAME A FREE AGENT right after smh. First place the whole year and ended up losing the wildcard
Hey seen a lot of Brad’s movies I count this as his best so far! This is a story about looking at what we have come to know and making it better in an entirely new way. But now it’s up to agents to earn their keep!
Magnificent movie and everyone involved did a great job...Jonah and Brad really gave great performances...Every business owner or top level exec has two books they MUST READ, STUDY DEVOUR AND INTERNALIZE; Machiavelli's the Prince and Sun Tsu The Art of War.... Although the prince was modified by the Vatican before it's release in the late 16th century Post Machiavelli's death...
i assume the book is pro analytics, which I would argue is just as big a problem. Theres a lot of love given to OBP and advanced metrics but thats lead to some pretty mediocre teams recently.
@@dash4800 I think the heavy use of analytics and it’s success genuinely depend on the sport. Like baseball, in my opinion, counts more towards analytics then football
I'm not big on celebrity worship or anything, real don't care about it at all, but Brad Pitt I like, just seems super cool and laid back, smart, kind, cool dude..
Was there a real Pete, and could he ever be tracked down for an interview? I’d love to hear his perspective on how this all went down, and what he is doing today.
I mean they had a different ownership group in the late 80s early 90s when they challenged for titles and had one of the highest payrolls in baseball. They effectively turned into the Rays after having a payroll like the Angels
Ah man. Sitting next to Brad and you get a booger for the entirety of the interview!... Surprised Brad didn’t see about a clearly more sensible angle for the camera from the get-go.
The booger is all I can see in this. Someone should of said something. I wanted to watch and take in this entire conversation, but simply could not. That booger.
I'm not a big baseball fan, but this became one of my favorites movies immediately. Just fantastic storytelling. Brad Pitt and the whole cast were just great.
***** i highly doubt that. if the team wins the world series, maybe. but the current team does not have the same story
Speaking for myself, I'm not a baseball fan at all, nor am I a fan of just about any professional, or even generic spectator sport (say, even at the university level -- I see university spectator sports are part of the crippling way we are turning higher education into a business, making it generally much more expensive, etc., but that's a whole other discussion). Indeed, I have a mental list of ways professional sports are unarguably detrimental to society, in many ways unacknowledged by most, especially by stupidly enraptured fans. I hold professional sports to be an almost complete waste of time.
With all that said, after seeing several clips of Moneyball, right here on CZcams, I had to buy it and watch the entire story. What I liked about it, what really grabbed me, was how Billy Beane and Pete effectively used very focused information and knowledge to implement an astounding, completely unexpected result in a completely unfavorable situation ("... then there's fifty feet of crap, and below that there's us"; jeez, talk about a disadvantage!).
Pitt and Hill's superb acting were key, too, or certainly the CZcams videos wouldn't have made the impression. Someone told me this film provided Hill a breakout, or perhaps better a "step-up," role in the development of his career.
David Jordan I feel like you are trying too hard to sound intelligent when in reality you are just stating the obvious
me too
Exactly - bitter sweet eh??? If only ... great film , just watched it again.
One of Brad's best performances. Jonah Hill was exceptional too.
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Finding it boring and having that romance with another sport
@@splashnskillz37 😂 how can they take cricket and make it even more boring?
EASILY
its a metaphor
Anne Thompson is a very skilled interviewer. She knows when to move the interview along to another topic and when to stay out of the way and let the person(s) she is interviewing run with an idea, theme or topic. Great job.
Her camera work? Not so much.
What a great interviewer. Such great questions, a wonderful voice, and such a deep dive.
Whoa chill my man, put the lotion away
23 Impact lmao you made my day
Great questions and a good interview BUT a tripod and a decent mic would help a lot. The weird off kilter angle and crappy sound don't do it justice.
Could not hear this very well
My favourite film ever...and I know basically nothing about baseball.
The dialogue is amazing and I never tire of watching it.
Brad Pitt is so humble even with all his success, you can really see it around the 12:00 mark.
He's privileged, his actions say he's a snob.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 he is privileged because he worked hard for years to become the actor he is. You can certainly put those two words in a sentence when Brad Pitt is some nepo baby, a child of producer of something.
“Yale, economics, baseball, you’re a funny guy Pete”
Billy Beane is a genius, and an extremely nice person.
John Maio I wasn't talking about his effect on other people, I was talking about him.
People can listen to him, or not.
+John Maio The genius is in what he does with the payroll he has compared to other teams.
He's a nice person but as a fan of the A's he has destroyed another "Moneyball" opportunity by getting rid of all of our favorite players in 2014. You can argue Wolff but it's all BS he could have fought for them. 7 fucking all stars!!! C'mon. I really do hope he has another Moneyball season and they really show this year especially with Semien and Davis.. Fingers crossed
Small market ? It's the San Francisco Bay Area, if they put a winning product on the field they would pack the house.
+John Maio my Milwaukee Brewers have never won a WS and have never been there in 35 long years. Can be worse for you guys.
One of my all time favorite movies.From beginning to end. The perfect movie.Thanks for making it!
I watch it every day when my team isn't playing.
This is the single best Moneyball interview I've ever seen.
Pleasantly surprised by this interview! Well done, Anne Thompson!
As someone who is continuing to learn the types of questions to ask, I'd like to thank you for the fantastic examples you set here!
What a great interview. Great questions Ms. Thompson. You allowed them both to speak their minds and gave them thought provoking questions. Nice tone of interview which made me feel I was in the room.
Inspiring movie! Great interview! It's also amazing how much trouble the movie encountered in the making but it got made and gathered many praises and critical acclaims. I admire Brad's persistence and respect of filmmaking. With WWZ he also encountered some major difficulties but he managed to make it a decent movie too, despite low expectations. Props to him! btw, it's already said million times but want to say again: Brad is so gorgeous!
The questions you ask in your interviews are very thoughtful. They make me feel differently about certain mainstream actors such as Brad. Not that I never liked him or didn't think he was a good actor, but the questions made me want to listen more to what he has to say/see a different side. Because normally the light is on someone like him so I'm more apt to listen to someone who rarely gets to speak. People are more likely to ask someone like him very superficial questions anyway but you don't.
Great conversation. Insightful. What I loved about movie was the appreciation and thought process of baseball. I find many people today don't appreciate the thought process of the game.
I've worked at a lot of places where thinking beyond the end of the shift wasn't practiced or encouraged.
Seem like two humble men. Brad Pitt was amazing in this movie. love the story and the interaction here. Hoping Brad Pitt plays me one day !
Brad Pitt so good with the regular man
Well done from top to bottom. Sound quality and picture were a bit thin but it works. Nicely done Brad is a pro actor, Billy Beane a consummate pro baseball mind, excellent story and fantastic film. Thanks for the video
It’s definitely not at all a well set up interview. Obviously no mic’s were used, camera wasn’t set up right, framing is bizarre, but the interviewer asked a lot of awesome questions and Brad and Billy have some legit chemistry
I am delighted that Billy loved the way the movie script was written.
one of my all-time favourite movies.
Imagine if a Hollywood producer tells you, "Hey screenwriter, write me a movie story." And goes on to put in several caveats: (1) There will be no bad antagonist in the movie; (2) Nobody tries to kill or hurt someone; (3) The hero will never in physical danger; and (4) The protagonist will lose at the end of the movie.
Yep, that is Moneyball, the movie.
Fantastic interview. Well done.
This history became personal for me as well at the point he starts talking to Pete about table and the players stats !
Brad Pitt has achieved the status of being loved and respected by men and women, respectively. Other actors like Paul Newman, Bronson, Moore etc.... are few and far between.
I’m a girl and I watch this movie every time it comes on! The fact that Pitt was in it didn’t hurt at all…he is so believable in every part he’s ever taken. But Phillip Seymour Hoffman was probably the greatest character actor of our generation. He could make the smallest part memorable as he did in this movie.As for Jonah Hill’s performance, I go back and rerun his opening scene every time. He has a great future in this entertaining medium!
I love this true life experience that made Moneyball a hit. Great cast!
One of the best sports movies ever.
Interesting subject - Billy, and great performance from Brad.
👍👍
is it shot on a hidden iphone in a plant?
Clarence LeBlanc Funny comment☺️
Lol seriously!
Yes, with the tripod on a slanted floor! Still neat interview :)
Lol. I thought the same thing.
😁😄
Wow this interview is really interesting. Great job!
Great journalism. The interviewees clearly trust you.
Very interesting dynamics between Brad and Billy...Young men should take heed at the confidence these two men exude... Not imitative, more about being confident about who you are.
Was just watching the movie, well actually, I have it up in another tab...I'm at the part where the characters are informing the players about what their play should be like; the beginning of the turnaround... This interview is just as entertaining.
What a great interview.
Excellent interview! At ease, respectful and insightful. Hats off!
Jesse James is my favorite movie. Glad Brad paid his way.
This movie deserve Academy Award, this is one of my all time favorite of an real life to the screen, Brad is an Genius in his own right, I believe he will eclipse Mr. Eastwood when he turns 90 with an list of great movies that have not been made. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
From an Aussie Footy and cricket fan, I love this movie.
You can feel the absolute crazy happiness this interviewer is feeling because these are obviously Legends to her
Good film. Currently reading the book. Very interesting, even though its about a sport i barely know!
Wonderful interview. Now, about the framing...
What movie are they talking about? I can’t hear them
The first rule of Moneyball is You don't talk about Moneyball (sorry, I couldn't help Myself)
In trade..a member of the Oakland A's HAS a name. His name was Carlos Pena.
What a great interview. Well done.
loved the movie, good interview
I am a 81 year old woman and I love this movie. The character inter play is the best ever and the fact that irs true..wow.
One of my favorite movies..to see how a man chooses a very risky path..somewhat forced on him because of budget, to change the way an industry operates in making decisions...thinking outside the box. And on paper this should work ..but in reality will it have success...and then having the guts to carry out the plan when the progress to succeed is slow or complications arrise...and when success happens , not to be compromised by money....how could you not love this story...
Not my favorite professional sport, but with movies like Moneyball, Field of Dreams, The Natural, A League of Their Own, Sandlot, 42, etc... hard to hate something that inspires such amazing storytelling.
@Rod Roller: Excellent point!
Bang the Drum Slowly, with a very young Robert DeNiro, stellar movie
Brad was amazing handsome with his amazing talented looks in his best interview for his best movie Moneyball in February 7. 2012 🙌💯👍👌🙏😇🥰😘🔥👏🤧
This is better than any Hollywood interview good job ma’am
I'm watching it right now for the 10 th time. It's an incredible story. Awesome movie
As much as I admire both these guys, I can't help thinking that it's easier to make decisions based on something other the money when the count is always in millions.
When I see Coco Crisp win a game in the World Series. I think of Billy.
Great questions, great atmosphere!
The Oakland A's do have the best system throughout and they do it on a shoestring and they have been doing it for decades. I cannot imagine what would happen if baseball ever went to a system like every other major league sport. Oakland would shoot to the top and stay there. They would dominate and would be able to keep their home grown talent.
The issue is, there are just so few really large markets to draw on and it does hurt the small market teams ability to compete without being pilfered right after a break out season. That is what is wrong with baseball and why the chances of a small market team winning a championship is a long shot. Doesn't happen that way in any other sport.
Charley Finley was tight and began the yankees resurgence as its west coast farm team , catfish hunter , and mr. October reggie jackson.
Best interview ever!!! full stop
VERY COOL! ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES! LOVE IT!
A true magician lives the act.
The Prestige
It probably helped that Brad grew up following another small market team, STL Cardinals.
just saw the movie last night.- great movie! and wow, the casting directors did a great job with the younger billy brane! he really does look like the real billy beane!!!
The Bay area has been privileged to have had two great GM'S, Beane and Sabean.
Great interviewer. Very impressive.
didn't realised they kinda have the same face
I assume that Pitt was filming World War Z during the time of this interview.
Love this interview.
Love the interview
What's with camera angle??
Billy Campbell(Rocketeer) would of been a dead ringer to play Beans. But with that said, Pitt is the big star and did a great job.
It wasn't necessarily about money if you read the books and watched the movie it was about finding the right players that can play as a equivalent as a single superstar by judging these players by the runs they score and the times they get on base but these players were all worth nothing and this was a way for small market teams like the a's
One of if not the best baseball movie ever made my favorite.
Go Billiy Bean, You could make history this year 2014 by winning the majors.
That will make a 2nd sequel for the movie MoneyBall
One problem - he traded Cespedes, which essentially killed their season.
+TheHaloRed and they have been average ever since then lol
+TheHaloRed not only did he trade cespedes, he trades him for jon lester who BECAME A FREE AGENT right after smh. First place the whole year and ended up losing the wildcard
Hey seen a lot of Brad’s movies I count this as his best so far! This is a story about looking at what we have come to know and making it better in an entirely new way. But now it’s up to agents to earn their keep!
@Katie: It is up there as one of his best...
Magnificent movie and everyone involved did a great job...Jonah and Brad really gave great performances...Every business owner or top level exec has two books they MUST READ, STUDY DEVOUR AND INTERNALIZE; Machiavelli's the Prince and Sun Tsu The Art of War.... Although the prince was modified by the Vatican before it's release in the late 16th century Post Machiavelli's death...
And the 2nd book?
@@Oceangirl_505 Just incase it was cut off; Sun Tsu's The Art of War.
how did BP’s hair grow out so quickly..was interview done a year after the film?
Fantastic job in directing
Amazing interview but bad camera angle
Which one is Beane?
nuff respect Billy!
Brad Pitt and Jonah hill were great in the movie loved it. Two great actors
Baseball is America's family development sport and money and moving kids around the bases to their own home is what it's all about.
This is my favorite movie. The books makes you understand the problem with sports these days.
i assume the book is pro analytics, which I would argue is just as big a problem. Theres a lot of love given to OBP and advanced metrics but thats lead to some pretty mediocre teams recently.
@@dash4800 I think the heavy use of analytics and it’s success genuinely depend on the sport. Like baseball, in my opinion, counts more towards analytics then football
I'm not big on celebrity worship or anything, real don't care about it at all, but Brad Pitt I like, just seems super cool and laid back, smart, kind, cool dude..
I can't believe Brad didn't tell this guy he had a boogie hanging from his nose. bro code Brad
This chick is good. Thank you for not constantly interrupting like most interviewers(Charlie Rose).
Great job
I've watched the movie last night and it is one of the best sport movie that i watched
Where can I get brads clothes?
Was there a real Pete, and could he ever be tracked down for an interview? I’d love to hear his perspective on how this all went down, and what he is doing today.
Pete = paul depodesta in real life
The win % in the 10 years before Beane took over at the A's is not much different from the first 10 years Beane was in charge.
I mean they had a different ownership group in the late 80s early 90s when they challenged for titles and had one of the highest payrolls in baseball. They effectively turned into the Rays after having a payroll like the Angels
Baseball like family life and development is UNTIMED .
billy beane and the booger! which nose will he pick? the right one or the other one??
Ah man. Sitting next to Brad and you get a booger for the entirety of the interview!... Surprised Brad didn’t see about a clearly more sensible angle for the camera from the get-go.
Is there a contact for this lady?
I remember the A's during that time, and the majority of the players having mustaches ❤
Brad reminds me of the Alter Bridge lead singer a bit here
I love this movie
Did I hear about a sequel @ 3:34?
Brad keeps throwing the hand signal "bat in the cave" to Billy. Billy wasn't watching for signals to steal that bat.
they kinda look alike.. similar facial features
You. Can see their comfortable with each other .
Billy actually kinda looks like Christian Bale lol
The booger is all I can see in this. Someone should of said something. I wanted to watch and take in this entire conversation, but simply could not. That booger.
Unacceptable
I didn't know Brad Pitt was a pole smoker, but nothing surprises me any more.
I'd be flattered the Brad was cast as me.