《Moneyball》　點球成金　逆境中成功的智慧

No.045　《Moneyball》　點球成金　逆境中成功的智慧

英文導讀

Moneyball is a 2011 biographical sports drama film directed by Bennett Miller from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. The film is based on Michael Lewis's 2003 book of the same name, an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's attempts to assemble a competitive team.

Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) wakes up one morning to a harsh new reality: the team he carefully constructed is about to be gutted. His star reliever, best starter and offensive leader are fleeing to teams that offer more money. His best position player is going to the Yankees, who just beat the A's in the postseason. Beane scrambles to field a credible team, but his owner won't raise his budget and his scouting staff is stuck in the past.

During a meeting with the Cleveland Indians, Beane notices their GM paying careful attention to the opinions of one Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a chubby young statistics nerd who's brilliant with computers and spreadsheets. Brand has developed a radical new system whereby players aren't evaluated in the traditional way, a system Beane enthusiastically adopts—a system they dub "moneyball".

Columbia Pictures bought the rights to Lewis's book in 2004. After a number of years in development, the film was featured at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was released on September 23, 2011 to a box-office success and positive reviews.

Moneyball has received universal critical acclaim. As of July 7, 2012, the aggregate review website Rotten Tomatoes registered positive responses in 208 of 220 sampled reviews for a score of 95% and certified the film "Fresh". The critical consensus of the site states that "Director Bennett Miller, along with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, take a niche subject and turn it into a sharp, funny, and touching portrait worthy of baseball lore".

The film was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.

獲獎情況

2012年第84屆奧斯卡：最佳影片提名、最佳男主角提名、最佳男配角提名、最佳改編劇本提名、最佳音響效果提名、最佳電影剪輯提名獎。

影片信息

導演：貝尼特·米勒

編劇：斯蒂文·澤里安、艾倫·索金

主演：布拉德·皮特、喬納·希爾、菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼、羅賓·懷特

類型：劇情

制片國家（地區(qū)）：美國

上映日期：2011-09-23（美國）

片長：133分鐘

又名：《魔球》《錢與球》《金球》

劇情簡介

比利·比恩（布拉德·皮特　飾）不僅是美國奧克蘭運動家棒球隊的總經(jīng)理，他也是一個“特立獨行”、“思維怪異”的家伙，他成功組建和塑造了一支具有強大戰(zhàn)斗力的棒球隊。但是，在美國職業(yè)棒球大聯(lián)盟比賽中，比利所屬的奧克蘭運動家隊敗給了財大氣粗的紐約揚基隊，這讓他深受打擊。而且，3名主力紛紛被重金挖走，未來的賽季前途渺茫。

然而，憑借比利·比恩的“出其不意”和逆向思維的管理方式，在好友彼得·布蘭德（喬納·希爾飾）的幫助下，在召集和物色了一批表面上看去都滿身缺點、性格偏癖，但骨子里卻都擁有在棒球運動的某方面超強能力的隊員。以打破常規(guī)、突破傳統(tǒng)的經(jīng)營模式，在一片批評與質(zhì)疑聲中，球隊取得了驕人的比賽成績，甚至達到了比肩實力雄厚的紐約揚基隊的程度。終于，新的賽季開始了……

制作花絮

影片最開始是計劃由《馬利和我》的導演大衛(wèi)·弗蘭科爾執(zhí)導，而在2009年，導演卻易主為斯蒂文·索德伯格。

第二次確定的導演斯蒂文·索德伯格，后來也退出了這個影片的拍攝，按照索德伯格的解釋，他之所以作出這個決定的原因是自己要拍攝《傳染病》。

當索德伯格離開劇組的時候，他已經(jīng)召集來了布拉德·皮特和迪米特利·馬丁作為影片的主演，并且還拍攝了一些采訪真實的棒球球員的鏡頭。

重點學習

The team he carefully constructed is about to be gutted

文中的be about to是英語中的一個常見固定搭配，它是“剛要，正要，就要，將要，馬上”的意思，比如：Recent government signals suggest that may be about to change.（最近的政府信號表明，這種情況可能即將發(fā)生變化。）另外，be about to還用于美國俚語中，主要用于否定句中，表達“打定主意要，決定要，正打算，有意，愿意”的意思，比如：We are not about to stop now. （我們不打算現(xiàn)在就停下來。）

Beane notices their GM paying careful attention to the opinions of one Peter Brand (Jonah Hill)

英語中，opinion常常用作“意見，看法，主張”的意思，是很常用的一個單詞。由其組成的短語很多，常見的有：in one's opinion（根據(jù)某人的看法；在……看來），in the opinion of（據(jù)…的見解）等等，比如：In my opinion, it's enough for a family to have one child .（在我看來，家里有一個孩子就足夠了。）

單詞時間

biographical[?bai?u?ɡræfik] adj. 傳記的，傳記體的

harsh[hɑ:?] adj. 嚴厲的；嚴酷的；刺耳的；粗糙的；刺目的

gut[ɡ?t] vt. 取出內(nèi)臟；摧毀內(nèi)部裝置

offensive[??fensiv] adj. 攻擊的；冒犯的；無禮的；討厭的

scramble[?skræmbl] vi. 爬行，攀登；不規(guī)則地生長；倉促行動

chubby[?t??bi] adj. 圓胖的，豐滿的

nerd[n?:d] n. 呆子；討厭的人

spreadsheet[?spred?i:t] n. 電子制表軟件；電子數(shù)據(jù)表；試算表

aggregate[?æɡriɡ?t] adj. 聚合的；集合的；合計的