Why is bobby kotick in moneyball

The Activision boss has two significant scenes in the sports flick and plenty of lines as Stephen Schott, the former co-owner of the Oakland Athletics. It's not to say Kotick plays much of a character, but he doesn't have to. He simply has to be what he is in real life. To back up a bit, Kotick ended up in the film thanks to his friendship with its director, Bennett Miller.

While based on a true story, Moneyball had to be streamlined somewhat for cinema, and in so doing, the Oakland Athletics' owner partnership of Schott and Ken Hofmann needed to be consolidated into a single guy. That became Schott, a successful real estate developer who, evidently, favors corded cashmere sweaters. Miller asked Kotick for advice on how an executive would behave in certain settings.

Kotick more or less said "Not the way he does in your script," and eventually the two cast Kotick in the role, which is uncredited. The payoff is Miller is directing a short film for Activision's Call of Duty endowment. Not your father's Xbox controller Brush up on your driving skills in Forza Horizon 5 with the controller the pros use.

Only an obstructionist Art Howe the field manager and quickly fired director of scouting Grady Fuson are identifiable antagonists but even then, they are not the real power opposing the protagonist general manager Billy Beane Brad Pitt and his special assistant Peter Brand Jonah Hill, playing an amalgam character. Money, establishment thinking and the inertia created by both are Beane's principal foes. Kotick, as Schott, represents money and, surprisingly, his appearance gets things moving fast, within the first five minutes of the film.

After a montage of television footage establishing the events of the season, Beane has a meeting with Schott somewhere in San Francisco. Beane is going to lose three key players because the Athletics can't match the offers they'll receive as free agents.

Beane goes to Schott to ask for more money. A lesser screenplay would have had Schott inventing outside reasons for refusing. In Moneyball , he pragmatically considers the return on his investment to be better than anything he'd hoped for. The Athletics, with a payroll nearly a third as large, took the New York Yankees to the final game of a playoff series never mind the A's won the first two, on the road. Beane is unhappy because, as a baseball man and a former player, winning a championship is the goal.

Kotick was friends with director Miller and, when Miller consulted him about how an executive would behave, Kotick's notes were extensive enough that he just decided to hire him instead. Kotick did the role uncredited for free, on the condition that Miller direct a short film for the Call of Duty endowment, a charity to help army veterans adjust to post-service life.

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