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Mad Max: Fury Road

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In the rapidly paced, action-packed thriller known as Mad Max: Fury Road, it is not the titled character, Max Rockatansky that holds the focus of the film, but his ally. The brutal fighter known as Imperator Furiosa betrays her commander, Immortan Joe, to take herself and the antagonist’s five slave-wives to “the Green Place;” eventually soliciting Max’s help to survive the continual car-chase between Furiosa’s war-rig car and Immortan Joe’s various forces. Throughout the movie, both Furiosa and the Immortan display numerous leadership tactics and specific styles. Yet it is through her unique behaviors that allowed Furiosa to gain followers such as Max, which heavily contributed to her conquest over the Immortan’s men. Furiosa’s specific leadership …show more content…

A group known as “social feminism” reasons that men and women think and act differently because of their distinctive “experiential backgrounds” they experience from childhood (Brush, Women and Business Leadership, 2004). However, gender in reality is a social construct, and the background of the film being an apocalypse that destroyed all social order makes this explanation somewhat suspicious. Due to the fictitious and disaster-strung circumstances surrounding the world of Mad Max: Fury Road, it could potentially be better to apply the theory of “liberal feminism;” which pursues “equality and androgyny” in its theory (Brush, Women and Business Leadership, 2004). Throughout the film, Furiosa is rarely ever acting under the stereotypical standards of our reality’s women; yet it is implicitly understood she seeks equality and fair treatment for the women under her care and so is affected by gender in this manner. A 1990 study done by Sally Helgesen argues that women in leadership shared information more, stresses “inclusion and cooperation” and tended to hold a more “networking style” (Brush, Women and Business Leadership, 2004). This report matches much of Furiosa exhibits in leadership style, as she keeps her followers informed of her actions and decisions and willingly includes two new members into her group throughout her journey to her fabled “Green Place” (cite film?). This, in addition other research that supports men typically holding “autocratic leadership” with a propensity concerning “dominance and control,” with women by contrast having a “democratic style” of leadership that weighs “cooperation” highly; ultimately supports the notion that although Furiosa is not a leader that seen through the audience acts “feminine,” her leadership style and Immortan Joe’s both exhibit “gendered” mannerisms. Their individual leadership styles, supported

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