Tucker: The man and his dreams definitely took many turns throughout the movie that emphasized all of the risks he took. Not only was creating the tucker car challenging, but every aspect of finding money, selling stock, and marketing his car difficult. When it comes to running a business or creating something to sell to the market, you have to take entrepreneurial risks. Tucker did nothing but take risks from start to finish. His uncle Abe hated the original idea of the Tucker Torpedo car, Tucker did not have a way to market his idea to society in the beginning until he got an ad in a PIC Magazine, and he even goes to court for a stock fraud scandal. Through all of these wild cards that were thrown at him, he remained focused and took risks that cleared his name and got to show his cars to the people. His determination on taking risks is interesting because everyone else around him had doubts. His wife, his uncle Abe, even his employees wondered if this idea would come true. So many people had high expectations of the car because of the idea Tucker portrayed, but with so many people fighting against him in the process, it was nearly impossible for him to create 1 car.
Tuckers relationship with society goes back and forth. They love the idea of the car, but also become skeptical in the moments he stalls from showing off the first version of the vehicle. The movie points out a lot of topics from the seen, the unseen, and the unrealized book by Per L. Bylund. In chapter five, the book speaks about how "the seen" is the obvious that everyone thinks of in entrepreneurial aspects. For Tucker, an example of "the seen" is needing to buy a manufacturing building that can have enough space to build multiple cars. Now "the unseen" is him not having the option to put that money elsewhere because he spent that money on the building. Consider asking the question "what would have happened?". What would tucker have done if he did not spend that money on the building? What other options did Tucker have?
There are a lot of ways in which society supported Tucker. For instance, he received over 150,000 letters from people all over the world saying how much they wanted a Tucker Torpedo and needed to know how to get one. When it came time to show the first Torpedo, the board of directors were unsure if Tucker could pull off this big idea with the financial/ technical difficulties that lied ahead. Through the court trials, he gave a closing speech to try to redeem himself and gain the people back in his favor. He spoke on how large corporations damage capitalism and fight against small entrepreneurs/ businesses like Tuckers. If he did not take that risk on speaking at the final trial, he may have been found guilty, his business would have been ruined and completely reconstructed by a bigger corporation, and his ideas would not have been carried out into future creations of cars.
