Moneyball | Moral of the Story (Film Analysis)

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  • čas přidán 13. 05. 2024
  • Moneyball is not your typical "baseball movie." You could make the case that it’s not a baseball movie at all. Moneyball is a character drama that uses the cruel nature of professional baseball to explore failure. Billy Beane’s story is about achieving success; it’s about redefining what success actually is.
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Komentáře • 48

  • @aristotlewasnotafanofplato3661

    Two great scenes in the movie -- Billy's final interaction with Grady the scout...and his talk with David Justice in the batting cage. Defining his ability to bridge being a former player/and current manager in modern baseball, without a big payroll

  • @robrick9361
    @robrick9361 Před rokem +20

    "The statistical analysis.......IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!"
    - Captain Raymond Holt

  • @jmo2475
    @jmo2475 Před rokem +25

    One of my favorite movies.

  • @oldcaptainjack
    @oldcaptainjack Před 5 měsíci +4

    I love the way most of what's being said in the movie isn't spoken. It's mostly silence, the look in peoples eyes, and emotion. That celebratory fist pump by Billy in the gym being exhibit A. The opening scene in the empty stadium with the radio off when the game has been lost being Exhibit B. The look in his eyes at the end when he's fighting the tears to the song... and so on.

  • @Sharkman1963
    @Sharkman1963 Před rokem +20

    The only real failure is not getting up to try again.

    • @stevencooper4422
      @stevencooper4422 Před rokem +2

      "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas

  • @basedtonto
    @basedtonto Před rokem +20

    I think the Philip Seymour Hoffman character (Art Howe) is also important to note, as it was a foil to his vision.

    • @thomas6502
      @thomas6502 Před rokem +4

      Rip PSH! A talent gone too soon.

  • @bryanbustamante1253
    @bryanbustamante1253 Před rokem +7

    Watched it yesterday and 10/10. It gave me an opprtunity to see my business in a different way, make some changes to improve..

  • @thomascramer1954
    @thomascramer1954 Před rokem +11

    I knew the movie was a classic and a masterpiece but I didn't know why. Your text was quite close to poetry in that you showed the masterpiece with a gold leaf frame. You told the point and left the impact to reveal itself. thank you great editing too

  • @kdlofty
    @kdlofty Před 11 měsíci +5

    I have the same mindset as Billy. Afraid of success after being torn down too many times.

  • @lotr_may
    @lotr_may Před 2 měsíci +1

    Honestly, this video is a masterpiece, I have already seen it 4 times and I don't rewatch these videos often. Thank you for making this!

  • @MrAbhithepandey
    @MrAbhithepandey Před 6 měsíci +2

    I just loved the sentence mentioned in the conclusion of this video.

  • @robotpanda77
    @robotpanda77 Před 7 měsíci +3

    If anything it is more of a cautionary tale. This man is defeated before he has even stepped up to bat, he is broken, depressed and lost. Relying on the cheap emotional drug of a little girl singing to try and pull him out of that miasma for a few brief second before inevitably returning to it. A broken man cannot win any battle. But a man who is whole is never defeated, for his life is not invested into a single fight. He has diversified his portfolio across many places and most importantly has invested heavily in himself.

  • @thomas6502
    @thomas6502 Před rokem +6

    ...it's not the destination, but maybe it's tuning and collaboration along the course and savoring all the moments in the journey. Gosh, I love this movie--while I was annoyed by some of the heavy handedness of the message delivery on repeated viewings, the truly all-star cast hits home run after home run. Can't wait to watch it again. Enjoyed your analysis Life is a Story! Thank you. (Also, listening to Randy Newman's soundtrack from the Natural now...and those astonishing seconds of pure auditory savor! Chills!)

  • @timothygallagher4663
    @timothygallagher4663 Před rokem +5

    Outstanding! A very “growth mindset” take on Moneyball. Great video!

  • @AussieRoos
    @AussieRoos Před rokem +1

    I stopped this video to rewatch Money 💰 Ball ⚾️👏

  • @horseguy4503
    @horseguy4503 Před rokem +5

    I know nothing about baseball and i love this movie

  • @BIackTemplar
    @BIackTemplar Před 6 měsíci +3

    My Favorite sports movie of all time

  • @valseyer4486
    @valseyer4486 Před 10 měsíci

    Holly Smokes awesome video. I remember this back in 2002. I do believe. I'm a former walkon wide receiver @ a D3 school, and my senior was promising until I got sidelined. I was given the opportunity to coach as an undergraduate but turned it down since I still wanted to play. Life doesn't always work out, and it seems failure has been following me over 2 decades. Brad Pitt nailed it in this film. He reminds me of myself and how I deal with failure. It sucks but we have to find a way to navigate the failure and find the path to better ourselves, somehow.

  • @petrius658
    @petrius658 Před rokem +1

    Awesome video!

  • @skurt2881
    @skurt2881 Před měsícem

    Great analysis.

  • @Gamers-zi2er
    @Gamers-zi2er Před měsícem

    0:32 the Bad News Bears were loaded once they got Leak and Amanda.

  • @aresee8208
    @aresee8208 Před 3 dny

    The problem was, and is, that eventually, the people with money catch up to you.

  • @garywalton5691
    @garywalton5691 Před rokem +2

    Moral of the story…as long as MLB doesn’t have a cap, money CAN and WILL buy championships

  • @janedoe3043
    @janedoe3043 Před 5 měsíci

    Thanks for calling me a loser at the end.

  • @shreddhead23
    @shreddhead23 Před 9 měsíci

    😊🙏💯

  • @teenoso4069
    @teenoso4069 Před 2 měsíci

    Living outside North America, I know nothing about baseball and never heard of this story until after I built a clothing and footwear collection starting with zero. I did it by offloading a few pieces, free finds and trading. I used statistics to avoid costly purchases and focus on real value. In the end my endeavours totalled £6,000 built part time over 2-years. Then I heard of this movie and Identified with it.

    • @C.ODoherty
      @C.ODoherty Před měsícem

      Keep on going. I've faith in you...

  • @United_Wings
    @United_Wings Před 6 měsíci +1

    😮❤😮

  • @therealtombrokaw
    @therealtombrokaw Před měsícem

    Here's what will blow your mind. I always thought it was an odd choice to have brad pitt play an old baseball executive. Fact is brad pitt is only two years younger than Beane. Meaning he was six years older than the 2002 version of Beane he was playing.

  • @Tjoppy
    @Tjoppy Před rokem

    So was 'failure' purposely misspelled as 'faliure' in the thumbnail?

  • @andrewkelly1337
    @andrewkelly1337 Před 8 měsíci

    True failure is deciding never to swing at all, eh? Gotta get walks somehow

  • @sunxnes
    @sunxnes Před rokem +3

    Faliure

  • @loloverlord1664
    @loloverlord1664 Před 13 hodinami +1

    I'm not a sports guy and it really was a strange experience watching this movie from my perspective, because of two factors:
    - The strange perspective of Billy, which I wasn't finding appealing, at all. This guy is brutal and treats players like cards in a trading game, which makes him immediately inhumane and moraly disgusting in my opinion. I don't have the individualistic and opportunistic mindset to understand such a character, in my worldview his attitude simply doesn't make sense (but sport is not my thing, so I don't get how you can call a team an "Oakland team" if you're trading players left and right with 12 other cities on the continent and half of your players aren't from Oakland: it's not a real team anymore, just a capitalistic patchwork wearing the city's name for the sake or marketing).
    - The cultural fact that I'm European and we absolutly don't share the baseball culture. Every emotional moment felt off, weird, badly performed in my opinion. And I think it's not true: Jonah Hill obviously is a great actor, and even though the directing was cold as ice, those scenes were not poorly performed. It's just my cultural bias, whenever this movie tried to sell me something emotional, I couldn't care less because it's about baseball. Which is a sport so uselessly complicated nobody seems to clearly understand and looks like, in my opinion, the most boring sport ever invented. I feel like I could fall asleep watching baseball.
    But the fact is I enjoyed the perspective of someone trying to figure out the science behind the art. The moment where managers went from "oh, we like him" to "those are the metrics we're looking for". It's like watching Isaac Newton abandonning the horoscope crap to figure out the laws of gravity, and this was beautiful.
    A strange and cold cinematic experience, but not a bad one. Your analysis helped me to patch up some things, thank you for this video.

  • @webosuwu
    @webosuwu Před 3 měsíci

    Did you see the credits? Where it says you’re such a loser dad JAJDJSJHAJ

  • @jfncho
    @jfncho Před rokem +1

    Seeing Bobby Kotick, the current CEO of Activision Blizzard, pulled me out of this movie. What a waste of a role.

  • @brianamplified3253
    @brianamplified3253 Před rokem +1

    fyi :
    FAILURE is spelled
    F.A.I.L.U.R.E.
    NOT
    Faliure .
    BTW ... what is a FALIURE ?

  • @tygorton
    @tygorton Před 2 měsíci

    It's not a baseball movie. I know this because.... I don't like baseball, not even a little, and I LOVE this movie.
    No, this movie is about DATA and the future of our world. It's about how data analysis is going to be the driving force behind just about everything in our lives, for better or worse. Ultimately (and oddly), Moneyball is about AI and how it will be leveraged to analyze mountains of data to increase efficiency and allegedly improve our lives. I have my doubts.....

  • @versetripn6631
    @versetripn6631 Před rokem

    This channel is flawed and clearly has an ulterior motive.
    Too many omissions throughout numerous vids.

    • @BT-oj1bn
      @BT-oj1bn Před 10 měsíci +1

      Bruh

    • @versetripn6631
      @versetripn6631 Před 10 měsíci

      @@BT-oj1bn not sure what u are tryin to say...BRUH?

  • @megag52
    @megag52 Před rokem +2

    "True failure is deciding not to swing at all" sorry mate, but not the best analogy there. One of the biggest parts of the whole moneyball concept was NOT swinging and taking the walk to get on base. I get the general gist though. Good on ya mate