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<div class="update-post-thumb"> <img width="750" height="420" src="https://cassavafilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/air.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://cassavafilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/air.jpg 750w, https://cassavafilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/air-250x140.jpg 250w, https://cassavafilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/air-500x280.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" /> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>As light as its title, <strong>Air</strong> is an easygoing yet absorbing docudrama about how Nike coaxed a hot young basketball player named Michael Jordan over to their advertising roster and created the billion-selling Air Jordan sneaker in the process.</p> <p>The story opens in 1984, and if director/costar Affleck is heavy-handed with his opening montage of that year's events and his wall-to-wall soundtrack of its Top 40 hits, it actually rings true: like Affleck, I was there, I was an adolescent, and I can confirm that mainstream pop culture dominated nearly every aspect of American life back then. And the Air Jordan is pop culture personified. I was only surprised that it was being worked on so early: I never owned a pair myself, and in fact gave up on Nike that year, as their blue-and-gold running shoes were becoming passé as brands such as Adidas and Reebok were taking over. So I wasn't aware of the shoe's existence until years later.</p> <p>Nike's iffy status amongst trendy young people in the 1980s is actually what drives <strong>Air</strong>'s plot: Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, and Chris Tucker play real life executives at Nike's floundering, under-budgeted basketball advertising division. The company's head honcho Phil Knight (hilariously portrayed by Affleck himself as a lordly weirdo) is skeptical about basketball, thinks running shoes should remain Nike's big player, and won't give his boys the money they need to go after Jordan. Moreover, Jordan, then just 18, has barely even proven himself on the college basketball circuit – and he has made it clear that he will work with any shoe company <em>except</em> for Nike.</p> <p>It's not that <strong>Air</strong> gets you to root for a corporate megalith like Nike, but it does draw you with its "How did they do it?" plot, thanks to its crackling original screenplay by first-time screenwriter Alex Convery. (As for Affleck's direction, it's purely workmanlike; the only clever-ish stamp he puts on the film is that he never shows us the face of the actor playing Jordan.)</p> <p>Lest you deign not to see a movie about a bunch of middle-aged white guys angling to make a fortune off of a young black athlete, here comes Viola Davis, in a typically peerless performance, as Jordan's mother Deloris, who handles all her son's business affairs. A no-nonsense woman who chooses her words and her tactics carefully, it's a joy to watch her quietly parry each of Damon's feints. Damon truly is the film's star, however, and Convery and Affleck give him all the best monologues.</p> <p>It may not be as groundbreaking as its titular sneaker, but <strong>Air</strong> is reliably enjoyable and I walked away feeling like I learned something. 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