Moneyball: Difference between revisions

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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: A fake trailer was posted for "Too Much Moneyball" featuring the 2009 Yankees and their buying a World Series.

* [[Amicably Divorced]]: Billy and Sharon don't bicker or argue as much as one might expect given the situation.

* [[Based On a True Story]]: One could argue [[Very Loosely Based On a True Story]]. While the on-field results and details of player transactions are completely accurate, there is a fair bit of rearranging of characters and lines, including the complete omission of Michael Lewis (the author of the original book), and a number of people who claim they were portrayed unfairly, particularly Art Howe.

* [[Based on a True Story]]: One could argue [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]. While the on-field results and details of player transactions are completely accurate, there is a fair bit of rearranging of characters and lines, including the complete omission of Michael Lewis (the author of the original book), and a number of people who claim they were portrayed unfairly, particularly Art Howe.

* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]: Peter Brand gets colored this way, but it's mainly just him learning the ropes.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The A's go on an unprecedented 20-game win streak but lose in the playoffs. Billy is offered a 12.5-million dollar contract — the highest offered for a baseball GM at that time — to GM for the Red Sox and seriously considers it but ultimately decides to stay with the A's, content to know that he's changed the game for the better.

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* [[Composite Character]]: Peter Brand was based on a group of Beane's assistants/deputies, primarily Paul DePodesta, whose request not to have his name used in the film is what partially led to this.

** When director [[Steven Soderbergh]] was attached to direct, DePodesta was one of the characters. [[Demetri Martin]] was to have played him but production was shut down a few days in.

* [[~~Daddys~~ Girl]]: Casey Beane and her adorable song where she repeatedly calls her father a loser.

* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Casey Beane and her adorable song where she repeatedly calls her father a loser.

* [[Epic Fail]]: Subverted. They watch a video of a minor league game, in which an insecure player trips rounding First Base and crawls in a panic to get his hand back on the base, only for the bemused first baseman of the other team to tell the player he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|smashed the ball over the fence for a home run.]]

* [[The Film of the Book]]

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* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]]. They deliberately choose players who are undervalued due to perceived flaws.

* [[Reality Subtext]]: Paul DePodesta's change of heart about how he was portrayed led to the composite character of Peter Brand being written in his place.

* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: Billy Beane and Peter Brand.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Billy Beane and Peter Brand.

* [[Screw the Rules I Have Money]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]. A more appropriate name would be, "Screw The Rules, I ''Don't'' Have Money."

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]. A more appropriate name would be, "Screw The Rules, I ''Don't'' Have Money."

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[The Social Network]]'', another [[Aaron Sorkin]] scripted film [[Based On a True Story]] about a subject that at first glance would not seem to be an interesting one to make a movie about.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[The Social Network]]'', another [[Aaron Sorkin]] scripted film [[Based on a True Story]] about a subject that at first glance would not seem to be an interesting one to make a movie about.

* [[Timeshifted Actor]]: Billy as a young man.

* [[Unlikely Hero]]: Light-hitting Scott Hatteberg hits a walkoff homer.