TOIR – The story of the big jump – broadcast tonight at 9.20 pm on Rai 2 – It is Ben Affleck’s latest filmpresent in the cast together with the main friend of Matt Damon. The story staged is that of the birth of the mythical sneakers Air Jordan of the Nikeshoes that – launched in 1984 – have revolutionized not only the world of basketball but also the street style.
Air – The story of the big jumpthe plot of the film on Michael Jordan’s Nike shoes
1984, Beaverton (Oregon). At the Nike headquarters, the expert manager of Basket Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) is looking for young talents to which to propose a sponsorship contract. The aim is relaunch the brand which, at the time, was almost totally dedicated to running And he had a market share in the basketball sector clearly lower than giants such as Converse and Adidas.
Sonny decides to invest the whole budget made available by the management To close a contract with the emerging star of Basket Michael Jordan. To succeed in its goal, He wins the resistance of his CEO Phil Knight (Ben Affleck), Jordan’s manager and Michael himselfat the time much more attracted by the sirens of Adidas.
Sonny’s strategy proves to be risky, but winning, when she decides to breach the feelings of Michael’s mother (Viola Davis). Proposes them for the child A role of absolute first floor in Nike’s commercial strategies: thus invents a shoethe Air Jordan precisely, and a clothing line designed exclusively for the sample.
Ben Affleck in a scene of “Air – The story of the big jump”. (Warner Bros.)
The review: a beautiful film on sport and on the American dream of the eighties
Returning behind the camera after seven years from the previous The law of the night, Ben Affleck is confirmed as one of the most interesting directors on the panorama Contemporary American. With this movie He faces a not simple company: to make a sport movie without ever showing a match but indirectly telling an icon (Michael Jordan) who marked the imagination (not only sporty) of more than a decade.
The result is remarkable, Not only thanks to the direction, calibrated and very classic, but also for the script – very well written by Alex Convery – which tells the complexity of a precise period of American history. A sports drama, therefore, that, while holding basketball (and its main representative) always off -field, reproduces with vigor and passion the epic of the genre. Staging what, in all respects, is (or rather it was) America: The country of opportunities, of the dream and the myth of the “self made man”.
Solid and compelling, Air – The story of the big jump it perfectly reconstructs what the eighties were and manages with skill to reason also on the presentwithout spectacularisms. The film can also count on an extraordinary cast: from the protagonist Matt Damon to the last of the supporting actorswith a special mention for Viola Davis. All very good.
The cast of Air – The story of the big jump. Ben Affleck’s friendship and Matt Damon
Inseparable since they were aspiring teenage actors In Boston in the 1980s, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon over the decades have cemented a friendship As in Hollywood they see few. Winners, together with the Oscar winner for the best screenplay with the film Will Hunting – Rebel genius of 1998in the following years Matt and Ben they recited together in nine titles. Included A next release film entitled Ripwhich tells the story of a group of Miami policemen who find a bag containing millions of cash in cash.
Affleck will soon return behind the camera to direct two films: Witness for the prosecolution – Remake of Billy Wilder’s masterpiece of 1957 – e Animals With Gillian Andersonhistory of A candidate for mayor and his wife who resort to extreme measures in the desperate attempt to pay the redemption of his son.
Matt Damon, on the other hand, is currently on the set of The Odysseythe new film by Christopher Nolan (adaptation of Homer’s classic) who is turning these days on the island of Favignana in Sicily. Matt will be Ulysses while The rest of the cast (very rich) is composed of Zendaya, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron.
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