Moneyball : Brad Pitt aims for home run

Toronto - Brad Pitt has turned to the islands in the world of baseball economics of his last film, and yet Hollywood heavyweight is a relative newcomer in the form of obsessing over one of America's great pastimes.The-list actress has one of the main draws this week, the Toronto International Film Festival, the launch of its new drama "Money Ball". He plays Billy Bean, manager of the real Major League Baseball Oakland A's, who is known to start the game, a competitive cycling team of cost-effective. 

Pitt, told Reuters that he learned to appreciate the nuances and complexities of the game by making the film, which contributes to the 49-year series of meetings with Bean, but he is not your typical baseball fanatic. "It's a shame how little I know baseball, but what do I know if I could - it was a pop fly in the fourth grade - 18 stitches," he told Reuters, referring to constantly hit the ball when he was just a kid, open up a flesh wound. "I think it is very quiet, as it is (TV) in the background now ... There is a reason why he has become our national pastime. This is a team sport, but it is an individual struggle. " 

Filmmakers want to film the audience to see the "Money Ball" is not just a story line to "Supernatural," "Major League" and other baseball movies that have become ubiquitous American theatres.They banks Pitt, 47, makes Bean uses low-statistics mathematical tables and a fun movie fare. And so they are adapted to track a story about the Oakland beats the odds. "We are always looking for the undercurrents in the film, what's going on underneath," Pitt said, adding that "Money Ball" is "much more than a baseball movie" and more "underdog story. You have a story about justice. " 

The film, with a budget of $ 47000000 was adapted by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, writer of the Oscar-winning "The Social Network" from Michael Lewis book "Money Ball: The Art of gain Game.It Bean starts to come off a very successful 2001-season, where a small market lost, including the baseball stars Jason Giambi and Johnny Damon made a lot of money in a big city like New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.Beane unathletic recruits graduated from Yale, Brand, Peter (played by Jonah Hill ) and the unlikely duo to push the players to look for a new approach to the use of statistics, creating a competitive team may seem a lot less cost.It inside baseball for some, but Pitt and Hill said that the story of Bean and Brand be generally moviegoers who are not necessarily fans of the game. 

Hill said that he showed it to friends "who do not care about baseball and they loved it ... It's really about the underdog and the values ​​and choices in life." Pitt believes that statistics aside, spontaneous game that invites fans to the ball parks are not lost on film. "These guys, and still is the scientific magic that happens when you least expect it, that was true to his season," he said. "This is a magical game, no doubt." Early reviews are generally positive. The Hollywood Reporter says the film "looks good, maybe not a home run, but certainly long as two or scoot around the foundation for an exciting head-first triple." Daily Variety compared it to Sorkin's "Social Network", says "the story is not so exciting." Social Network "was a very unusual about the Alpha Dog, Money Ball a very unusual story of the underdog. Remake'e Nobody in the world here. But no one is a new version of the great old American game of baseball."