Analyzing the film "chicken run"

Analyzing the film “Chicken run”
This film shows different styles of leadership, as well as too many characteristics and traits of a leader. The situations that the chickens were living made them think that, that lifestyle was not good enough for them so they decided to escape. That is a reason that made them think, a hen, Ginger became a leader and she compromised to lead them to the freedom.
Because of an accident, Rocky, a typical macho rooster, finished at the farm, he is very charismatic and he convinces and motivates the chickens just by the way he talks and behaves. We can say that Rocky is a charismatic leader. Ginger is a hen that is very perseverant, patient, influences in other hen’s behavior and so on. She is a behavioral and a transactional leader, because she motivates and influences on others’ behavior by giving them a kind of and exchange, for example she asks them to make an effort and follow the instructions in order to run away of that farm the praise or the benefit would be that they don’t need to lay eggs anymore and they will be free.
The mice have a great influence in all this process and they are really helpful for the chickens, they exchange useful tools by eggs, so Rocky says-I need a wheel, pedals…etc- so if you get that for me I will give you two eggs- so they are a kind of support for the chickens.
The chickens were motivated to escape because something strange and mysterious was happening in the farm, strange boxes, and strange equipment were being brought to the farm. So Ginger and Rocky discovered that what Mrs. Tweedy really wanted to do is to kill all the chickens and make chicken pies with them. This situation motivated them to escape as soon as possible and before they finished being a pie.
They got organized by two leaders, Rocky and Ginger, they divided the job, so each one of them had a specific task to accomplish. For example one for the engineering and all that stuff, the grandpa for piloting the airplane and so on.
Ginger had the best emotional intelligence, she was supervising and monitoring all the job and in case that the other chickens needed help she would help them and try to overcome all the obstacles together, one strategy that she used is the speech and phrases that motivates the other chickens. That is a very useful strategy to motivate others. On the other hand Rocky is very charismatic and he helped the team in many ways.
The communication is an indispensable factor, a good communication is vital for accomplishing the goals, they had an appropriate communication in spite that in some situations they lost the control and acted without think it before, but at the end they got communicated and they made a powerful team. They discovered that work in teams is better, they were stronger and tut the most important they were motivated by a good leader: Ginger, she convinced them that together they could do anything they wanted; nobody and nothing would be an obstacle again.
Ginger took the decision and made them take a place in the plan. All of them were competitive. The group was formed by Ginger and the Grandpa, the Grandpa was the most congruent with his personal values, maybe because he joined the army in his adolescence.
At the end they managed to escape, Ginger was a good leader they accomplished what they wanted, with the help and effort of each one, at the end they became a team leaded by a good and trusty leader.














Pedro Ayuso Vera