In the 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream", an aspect of entrepreneurship that I found interesting in the film was how Tucker kept on being told that his ideas and ways of getting his futuristic dream car company off the ground were wrong and could never work, but through perseverance and just doing what told not to do, he ended up getting 50 cars built and running.
In the film, Tucker has an idea for a new design of car and wants to have it ready for after the war ends (as the movie is set in WW2), and he has many times where it seems like his ideas cannot possibly work, but then they do. One time this happens is when he pitches the idea to his Uncle Abe, who laughs at the design, but then Tucker goes and puts out an advertisement for the car and it explodes in popularity. Later on in the film, Tucker is deciding on which factory to choose for the manufacturing of the cars, and Abe advises against the biggest factory as it is just too big. However, Tucker sees potential in having a big ex-airplane factory to mass produce his dream, so he goes with it. Another time this kind of thing happens is when Tucker is close to being moved out of his own company by the board as they force him to change a lot of his designs, as well as make his car cost double because of steel prices. Tucker then uses an aluminum helicopter engine company for his car, as it avoided political issues and was more cost effective. This is all entrepreneurial because it shows the little man going against what is told; Tucker was confident in his ideas and carried them out to having the biggest factory and preparing to begin mass production.
All of the examples from the film shown above are interesting because it shows that sometimes in entrepreneurship you have to go against the grain to get things done. If Tucker had simply given up after Abe laughed at his initial design, he would have missed out on having literally the biggest factory in the nation. This is a very similar situation to a scene from the "Joy" movie, in which Joy was initially turned down from the TV station and yet she went and showed them that she was worth it.
This aspect of entrepreneurship affects society because society would never see a car like the Tucker car of the future if people like Tucker didn't have the grit to go against what everyone else around him advised. I really liked towards the end of the movie when Tucker's company was officially dead, yet he was happy and already thinking of a new product invention that is innovative. Society would never progress and improve if it weren't for people like Tucker, even if his cars of the future never made it to the masses.
This aspect of entrepreneurship is affected by society because society has so many things put in place to stifle new and young ideas from growing, from governmental regulations to many people not seeing the vision of new and interesting products and inventions. I really liked Tucker's speech in the courtroom at the end of the movie and how he talked about how the little man is always stomped out before they can even get above water, as that is exactly what happened to Tucker and his company.
The interaction of society and new innovations and ideas is somewhat awkward. Many rules and regulations have and still are being put in place to slow down the "little man" and growing businesses from flourishing. In the film, I really liked how Tucker avoided the government by using the helicopter engine plant for aluminum engines, and how the board took him to court afterwards. This just shows how gray the whole interaction is between the entrepreneur and the society he has to snake through.
