Brad Pitt: Life is like baseball
the loser can win
At the Toronto Film Festival with "Moneyball." The film about "a game that I do not understand"
LORENZO SORIA
LOS ANGELES
Brad Pitt loves cycling and football. And what he calls the "Football", our football. No baseball, I guess the metaphors of life and understand why so many of his countrymen adore this sport, but he does not grasp. Furthermore it has a bad personal memory: when he was little he ended up in a ball under the left eye and cost him 18 points. "Look here," he says pointing to a barely visible scar. Then he came across Moneyball, Michael Lewis's bestseller tells of the Oakland Athletics and how, despite the great economic disadvantage compared to their opponents, they could do it using a new method of statistical research that allowed them to buy low price players valuable enough to compete with stronger teams. Since then, six years have passed, Moneyball has become like an obsession, a film went through several directors and scriptwriters whose many Pitt, who is a producer and one of the protagonists alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Jonah Hill, never wanted to quit.
Now the film is in Toronto at the festival, well received by audiences and critics. Today it appears in black sweater with zipper, khaki pants and a beard for two weeks without Angelina Jolie who accompanied him to the first Friday. The protagonist of The Fight Club, Inglorious Basterds and The Tree of Life is proud to talk about his creation.
Since you are not a baseball fan, what attracted you to this story?
"The fact that in baseball, as in many other sports, there are people who are overlooked and end up seeing themselves as failures. It happens in football, where there is a huge disparity between the teams and winning are always the same. But suddenly this team get these new players and changing the dynamics of the game. Here, I was struck by the idea of not accepting the conventions because we lived centuries. We think the car: if we had to invent it today, how would we do? We would use a source of energy destined to end and it causes wars and pollute the environment? Probably not. "
His character relies heavily on mathematical principles.
"Mathematics was one of the areas in which I was better at the base of everything even if you do not really understand much."
There is a moral in the film that goes for Hollywood?
"While traveling the world I come across many talented young people who have no chance because they have the right knowledge, but the digital cameras and technology are changing the situation. We are also becoming more global and this industry is enabling the emergence of many new talented people and the arrival of many interesting films. "
He also attracted the idea of the "underdog", the kind where no one gives the opportunity and, surprise, triumph?
"It's easy to forget I come from Missouri, a place where there is not exactly a great film industry. I started as an extra and it still brings me to cheer for those who are given to losers. "
Brad, what is the point but with the word marriage?
"We talk about it, but in the meantime we have taken with each other a greater commitment which is to raise a family together, and everything else is secondary, including work. They are in fact entered a new phase: I pick up only projects for which it is worth investing some time away from Angie and the kids and I find that this is extremely liberating. He's also allowing to enjoy my work more than ever. "
Again, it is election time. What do you think?
"I hope that Obama will be elected, the alternatives really scare me."
