The film Dope highlights many social characteristics affecting our young generations throughout the entire movie, but none as prevalent as delivering the message of a growing, aspiring leader, in a disruptive and challenging environment overcoming all odds to become successful. The movie focuses on the concept of leadership all throughout, and within many different character types. Out of the many different characters illustrated in the film, the first three we meet show three different types of leadership theories within a group or organization, which are:
The Charismatic Leader (Malcolm)
The Transactional Leader (Jib)
The Transformational Leader (Diggy)
All three of these characters are apart of an informal group and created a formal group …show more content…
We see Malcolm's strong vision and articulation early on in the film when discussing his personal statement with his high school principal. Malcolm is asked by his principal if he is taking his college personal statement seriously since malcolm wrote on his passion, the history of hip hop music. To this Malcolm replies “You are talking about something that I love, well reasoned, supported by historical data...I mean I could write about the typical ‘’’I'm from a poor crime-filled neighborhood’’’ but it's cliche.”(8:44). This alone stands strong with Malcolm's vision in not being a follower, and not doing the things people tell him to do, because he wants to express his creativity and he wants to become successful on his own accord. Malcolm shows another key characteristic of a charismatic leader; Personal Risk, which he shows in many scenes all through the movie, most of which is having to be due to his environment confronting him. Malcolm's personal risk is not shown greater than his risk in deciding on returning the bag full of drugs and money to the actual owner rather than returning the bag to the police station. This decision serves as the central focal point of “Dope” leading Malcolm on an adventure meeting Austin Jacoby, the actual owner of the drugs and
The Charismatic Leader (Malcolm)
The Transactional Leader (Jib)
The Transformational Leader (Diggy)
All three of these characters are apart of an informal group and created a formal group …show more content…
We see Malcolm's strong vision and articulation early on in the film when discussing his personal statement with his high school principal. Malcolm is asked by his principal if he is taking his college personal statement seriously since malcolm wrote on his passion, the history of hip hop music. To this Malcolm replies “You are talking about something that I love, well reasoned, supported by historical data...I mean I could write about the typical ‘’’I'm from a poor crime-filled neighborhood’’’ but it's cliche.”(8:44). This alone stands strong with Malcolm's vision in not being a follower, and not doing the things people tell him to do, because he wants to express his creativity and he wants to become successful on his own accord. Malcolm shows another key characteristic of a charismatic leader; Personal Risk, which he shows in many scenes all through the movie, most of which is having to be due to his environment confronting him. Malcolm's personal risk is not shown greater than his risk in deciding on returning the bag full of drugs and money to the actual owner rather than returning the bag to the police station. This decision serves as the central focal point of “Dope” leading Malcolm on an adventure meeting Austin Jacoby, the actual owner of the drugs and