What makes Ben Affleck’s ‘Air’ – about the genesis of the Nike Air Jordan – work is that it functions as an origin story for one of the world’s few self-made Black billionaires.”
Shoe Dog; it’s a totem of global pop culture, much like the iPhone or a can of Coca-Cola. The Air Jordan brand boasted $4.1 billion in revenue last year.
That’s why, for me, the film’s chief payoff came in Davis’s performance. When the real-life Michael Jordan spoke with the team behind, he had only one request: that Davis played his mom. The casting more than works. Davis, who has a knack for bold, protective maternal figures , fabulously nails the sober confidence necessary for delivering lines like: “It won’t be the NBA marketing my son. I assure you it will be the other way around.
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