Billy Wilder

comparison to the other teams that have more money than them. The A’s didn’t have much money to work with, so they had to be creative and discover new ways to find the best quality players their money could buy. To accomplish this strategy the A’s hired Billy Beane to be the general manager of the Oakland A’s. Then later on had hired a man named Paul DePodesta, a recent Harvard University graduate, in order to come up with…

The concept of transition can be believed to be both confronting and transformative for the individual or groups involved. This idea is undoubtedly explored within Steven Daldry’s film, Billy Elliot with a central theme of maturity and Robert Gray’s poem, Late Ferry, as it expresses ideas about the transformative concept of transitions. Additionally, Meiert Avis’ music video for Paramore’s Brick by Boring Brick explores a confronting change to the protagonist as the music video demonstrates…

When Billy visited his old war buddy Mary’s husband to discuss the war for a book he was going to write. He had two little girls with him (15). Her admiration was shown in the way she treated the girls. The girls were mixed right in with her own to play games and watch television (16). Mary had a problem with Billy discussing the war, she felt the ones who fought the war was only babies including them (18). She wanted the book Billy was going to write to tell the truth…

This concept of discovery is conveyed in Stephen Daldry’s film “Billy Elliot” (2000) and Sarah Rabia’s extract “Dinner”. In the film “Billy Elliot”, it becomes clear that discoveries which evoke one’s innermost thoughts and feeling can lead to significant implications. This view is seen in the angry dance scene and from the dialogue between Billy’s family and dance teacher. The mise-en-scene where Mrs Wilkinson and Tony argue and with Billy on the table, reveals the dancing is viewed feminine in…

Maria Stephanie Amaya 03/30/2017 Moneyball film extra credit The film “Moneyball” is about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane reinventing how people view the game of baseball and how players are scouted for teams. Faced with the dilemma of being unable to re-sign Oakland’s best 3 players after the 2001 season due to their limited payroll, Beane uses the power of statistics to find value in players and understand the sport of baseball. Beane meets an Ivy League graduate named Peter Brand.…

Moneyball details the story of a change in how Major League Baseball (MLB) players were scouted and recruited (Palmer et al., 2016). Traditionally, MLB used highly knowledgeable scouts to recruit talent based upon future performance indicators, however Billy Beane and Peter Brand leveraged a statistical approach named sabermetrics which determined the best recruits based upon statistical analysis of their past performance (Palmer et al., 2016). Sabermetrics was met with change resistance from…

“I am a history nut.”- Billy Joel. With the media as it is today is making it harder to learn truth and querying things like, who was Marilyn Monroe, What is Berlin, and what does birth control contribute to society? Choosing three things from the iconic Billy Joel song was a tough decision, but I lucked out in the end. Always intriguing me with posters and t-shirts, Marilyn Monroe, and moreover with her famous photos and flirtatious dances on the screen. Knowing Berlin was a subtopic within our…

by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim has been through a life that no other human can imagine. With several themes built into this novel, Billy shows his growth within himself as a character. As Billy flashes back and forth from being in the army in Dresden, being captured on the planet of Tralfamadore, and his relationship with his fiancé, Billy gives an idea about his post-traumatic disorder. While working in Dresden, Billy begins his journey at a not so very serious approach. Billy takes the…

Every hero needs a first-rate, old-fashion villain. In fact, the greater or more powerful the hero, the more despicable must be the villain, for the sweetness of victory lies in its difficulty. The question must then be asked: Can villainous victories taste as sweet? Could an audience of normal, decent human beings really find it in themselves to take joy in the victory of, say, a manipulative, power-hungry murderer? In his play Richard III, Shakespeare puts this idea to the test, not only by…

Kurt Vonnegut's historical science-fiction novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, recounts Billy Pilgrim’s life as a former U.S. soldier who was a Prisoner of War during World War Two. The Tralfamadorians, an alien race from the planet Tralfamadore, abduct Billy and put him on display in their zoo. While there, Billy not only learns about Tralfamadorians views on death but also their perception of time. Vonnegut wrote the novel with a scrambled timeline, meaning the events of Pilgrims life are out of order…