The film Miracle was directed by Gavin O’Connor and what released on February 6, 2004. It is the story about coach Herb Brooks who is hired to lead the 1980 U.S. men’s Olympic ice hockey team. He brings a new style of training and coaching to the ice hockey world. Moneyball also brings a new strategy to the front, with Billy Beane as the main character of the film. Moneyball was released on September 19, 2011 and was directed by Bennett Miller. The last film is Glory Road. This film was released on January 13, 2006 and is directed by James Gartner. The story is about coach Haskins who decides to build a team based on the talent of the players instead of the color of their skin. Moneyball and Miracle are two films that focus on the fact that …show more content…
In Moneyball as the title of the film suggests, money is the problem. In Miracle the problem is that the Soviets have the best ice hockey team. They are undefeatable, and in Glory Road, race is the big obstacle. Moneyball tells the story that if a baseball team has lots of money they can buy any player they want. This means that the big teams have all the power in their hands. In this movie the Oakland A’s are a small budget baseball team. They are fighting against clubs that have millions of dollars. In the film they mention the difference in the amount of money the clubs have; $120 million vs. $39,000, which is a big gap. In fact, this means that the A’s cannot compete fairly against for example the New York Yankees. This is where Billy Beane comes in. He is managing a losing team and he realizes he has to go against the establishment. This means that he has to go against his own advisors, scouts and trainers. A good example is one of the first times Billy has a staff meeting and he is introducing his new system and every one in that room looks at Billy as if he has gone completely insane. This is very similar to Miracle, when people were looking for a new coach for the ice hockey team they invited coach Brooks to come in and explain what he had in mind for the team. He told them something they did not expect and presented an entire different strategy to make this the best ice hockey team in …show more content…
Billy Beane was drafted for the New York Mets when he was in High School and he had to choose between playing baseball and going to Stanford on a full scholarship. He was seen as a potential top player but he could not live up to that and failed. He ended up becoming the manager of the A’s to do something right in his life. He has seen first-hand that sometimes the traditional way of finding players and building a team is not the right way to do it. Beane does not trust the system of recruiting and decides to change recruiting drastically. In Miracle the coach has a similar experience, he lost the Olympic games and now wants to show that he can lead an ice hockey team to victory. This is certainly a trauma because he will not be stopped by anyone or anything. For instance, he builds relations with the players but he is not afraid to let a player go if they do not perform well, because all he wants in the end is to win. For coach Haskins it is less clear what his childhood looked like, he just wants to put a winning team together and he does not care if someone is black or white, as long as they are the best players. All the movies are determined to make their strategy work. Moreover, all the coaches are prepared to risk their career to make it work. They put all their eggs in one basket to prove they can succeed with their ideal model of