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Moneyball is, no question, one of the greatest films this year and the script is probably some of the finest writing that the medium has seen in years. The film is based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, and the adaptation of the book is superbly done. The script is brought to life in a fantastic way by Brad Pitt who does a great job in the lead role. The film is written be Aaron Sorkin who wrote The Social Network and Steven Zaillian who wrote Schindler's List. The film is the story of an underdog baseball executive and the director, Bennet Miller, does an excellent job of combining real footage with fictional scenes. The film tells the story of Manager Billy Beane, who is played by Pitt, and how he wants to change the entire way that baseball is evaluated. Beane has a team that come very close to winning the World Series but are beaten by a team that has four times as much budget for players than they have. Beane sees this as unfair and goes about changing the system. The current problem is the small teams are always losing their players to the big budget teams, which means there is not much competition in the sport. When Beane discovers a new way to score baseball from a sports statistician played by Jonah Hill he realises that should this be implemented, it would have a great effect on small budget teams like his own. Pitt has said that his character is very complex and definably has some unusual quirks, for one he does not watch baseball games, he merely gets the results sent to him by a friend. Pitt does an excellent job of portraying the hard side of the character seen at work, but also his soft side which the audience sees when Beane is with his daughter. Jonah Hill does a fantastic job in his role playing alongside Pitt, and their different characters on the screen and how well they work together is really one of the main reasons the movie is so good. The attention to detail paid by the film-makers to the original book is something that will please fans, even the little details are covered, such as the way Beane eats popcorn out of a coffee filter placed on his desk. The film also makes excellent use of flashbacks, which are very important in building the character of Beane , and really show why he is so passionate about the cause that he is fighting for. It shows him as a young player who was expected to make it as a baseball star. Those in the United States are going to have a bit of an advantage in understanding some of the sports parts of the film but even those unfamiliar with the sport will enjoy the movie. The writers really deserve credit for moving away from a lot of the very specific baseball language seen in the book and making a movie that is accessible to all audiences. Watch Movies Online
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