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The Next Picture Show

Shoe Me the Money, Pt. 2 — Air

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ben Affleck's latest has us rooting for capitalism, reluctantly.

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0:00.0

Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into.

0:05.7

ServiceNow puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration

0:11.2

for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent tools for

0:16.9

your service agents to make customers happier. all built into a single platform you can

0:21.9

use right now. That's why the world works with ServiceNow. Visit ServiceNow.com

0:27.8

slash UK slash AI for people. It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:35.3

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:42.0

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:49.4

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:53.7

the way

0:54.3

it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here again with Keith Phipps and

0:59.1

Genevieve Kosky. Last week, we discussed Jerry McGuire, Cameron Crow's romantic drama about

1:04.7

an idealistic sports agent who tries to reshape his life around the fortunes of a single client.

1:10.5

This week, the romance is gone,

1:12.6

but the sports business ambition remains the same. In Ben Affleck's air, Matt Damon stars a Sonny Vicaro,

1:20.0

a basketball scout for the shoe company Nike in 1984. At the time, Nike was known mostly as a

1:26.5

supplier of quality running shoes, having conceded

1:29.4

the bulk of the basketball market to Converse and Adidas.

1:32.8

But rather than spread the company's measly $250,000 budget among three random draft picks that

1:39.3

likely won't pan out, Foucaro becomes absolutely convinced that the number three pick in the draft, a small

1:45.4

forward from North Carolina named Michael Jordan, is a superstar in the making. He wants Nike

1:50.4

to go all in on Jordan, but he needs to persuade two very skeptical people first. His boss,

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