There’s some sort of essay or thesis or just a statement to reflect the shift in what’s happened to sports films. No longer are they about great athletes or major accomplishments on the field. Nowadays they’re about managers and executives and agents, with the athletes being used only as puppets to be manipulated. Heck, Moneyball earned an Oscar nomination for telling a story about how Brad Pitt just can’t seem to put the right players in the right order, and that was portrayed as nearly...
There’s some sort of essay or thesis or just a statement to reflect the shift in what’s happened to sports films. No longer are they about great athletes or major accomplishments on the field. Nowadays they’re about managers and executives and agents, with the athletes being used only as puppets to be manipulated. Heck, Moneyball earned an Oscar nomination for telling a story about how Brad Pitt just can’t seem to put the right players in the right order, and that was portrayed as nearly...
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