The movie starts with the beginning of Tucker's idea. Tucker‘s idea is to completely reinvent cars postwar. Tucker really believes in his idea and he doesn’t give up trying to get somebody to believe in him. He created an ad that spread across the country making people want to buy his car. This made people interested in investing in him. He only has two months to create his hypothetical car and make it a prototype to reveal to the public. He hits a lot of bumps doing so and even found steel supply with no government control. The people who invested in him ended up not liking his idea and started trying to change everything. Tucker kept creating the car on his own in the barn but the big companies started trying to take him down and filing lawsuits and misinforming the public. Tucker ended up winning the lawsuit because he did nothing wrong, he took the money that was being invested in him and he did try and succeed in making the car. Tucker's idea was original and revolutionary for the time period. His car was a completely different kind of car with features no other car had and to create that it would have had to take a lot of inspiration. Tucker also had to fight off the bigger companies because they knew his idea was good but that meant they would be out of business. This movie really portrayed how politics can be involved in entrepreneurs and business.
The movie was interesting in many different ways. It was interesting seeing that side of a new car being produced and what all came with it. I liked seeing the big company try to squash him just because that was one of the first discussions we had in class. The story line was actually very good and Tucker played a really good entrepreneur and showed him getting super upset but not quitting. The ending was actually pretty upsetting also I didn’t realize this was based of a real story and it made me sad that he didn’t end up actually winning.
Society affected Tucker heavily the moment that they sent all of his letters because that’s what made him believe in his idea. He did not once give up on the idea of his car and I know it is because of the thousands of letters he got from people all over the country saying they had to have his car. Without society supporting him we could possibly never had the ideas that Tucker created that were a complete new concept. Tucker on the other hand changed the way cars were made forever and influenced many people about his ideas. Tucker did his best to give them what they needed even though he may have not technically succeeded. The relationship between Tucker and society was a very good one. Tucker heard what they wanted and he wanted to give to them. I think that the public mostly supported him throughout the movie all the way to the end when they said “not guilty”.
