Dave Hanratty

Impactful though, memorable.

I love the shot of, does it dovetail the movie of Brad Pitt sitting in the stands at night?

Yeah.

It's just beautifully cinematic.

And talk about montages, some unbelievable montages in this movie.

One of which, when they go on that long winning streak, that kind of legitimizes their project.

And it's like using ESPN footage from the time.

And the other montage that always makes me emotional, honestly, is when it's Billy Bean thinking back on his own career.

And when he's sitting around the dinner table with his parents and the scouts come in and they're pitching him this dream of you could be a big star in New York.

You know, you have college here, you have New York here, you have to make a choice.

And there's one line the scout says, I don't know why, but every time he says it, it resonates so much with me when he's like, Billy, we're all told at some point in our life that we can't play the children's game anymore.

We don't know when it's going to be.

Some people are told at 18, some people are told at 40, but we're all told.

And that part is always, I find, very poignant.

Yeah.

so Moneyball I presume everyone's seen it really give or take so it's on Amazon Prime at the moment so anyone who has that watch it okay we'll stay with me and then throw it back to you we'll reverse the circle I first watched this sporting life I'd say a good 25 years ago now I was having a Richard Harris obsession oh yeah he's a magnetic man yeah yes isn't he one of the great characters in life unforgiven as well unbelievable small role

Yeah, so This Sporting Life is about Frank, who's a rugby league player in kind of north of England, coal mining town.

And I suppose like the emotional centrepiece of the movie is that he's, you know, a tenant of a widow whose husband has been killed and there's a relationship develops.

But, you know, Frank is an aggressive, has a temper, repressed man in many ways.

But like the rugby scenes are brief and,