The Internship

Prakti.com (AKA The Internship ) is an American comedy film from 2013 directed by Shawn Levy. The film was released in the United States on June 7, 2013. In Austria and Germany the film opened on 26 September 2013.

Action

At the beginning of the film, the viewer learns the protagonist Billy and Nick, two experienced seller know. These lose their jobs because their company is closed due to the high competition of Internet commerce. In order to prove that they can keep up with the current state of the art, try one of the popular student internships at Google to get, in competition against a battalion of brilliant students. For this purpose, the two enroll for distance learning at the University of Phoenix. Participate in the virtual job interview where Billy and Nick in a public library via Google Hangouts, the two hit more bad than good. In the interview the organizers of the interview is quite quickly aware of the lack of technical qualification of Billy and Nick. The two still get through the voices Lyles and, as it turns out at the end of the film, also Chettys an internship.

The challenges

The trainees must form groups of five people. The best group is given a permanent position at the end. The performance of the groups is called Googliness is measured on the basis of tasks that must be mastered as the best group.

Find a bug

The first challenge Nick and Billy are excluded from the rest of the group, as they do not help because of the complete absence of any information technology skills. The first task is to find an error in the source code of a program and correct it. The group does not find the error. The error is found first of the group Graham Hawtreys.

Quidditch

The second task is a non-magical version of the fictional sport of Quidditch. In this game, the first group is divided and ineffective and falling behind against the group Graham Hawtreys. In the second half of the game, however, awakened the team spirit, and bring the deficit to five. At the end of the game in the struggle for the Golden Snitch Hawtrey committing various infractions that can not be discovered by a trick the referee and you win again against the group to Billy and Nick.

Programming a popular application

The aim of the next task is to develop a mobile application that will be used often downloaded from Google Play. Billy and Nick throw the plans of the rest of the group, by scientific analysis to develop a popular application as possible, to the ground. They make their own proposals for an application with the functionality as Instagram, without allowing themselves to be distracted from the fact that there is such a thing already. When not let others dissuade from their opposition to the idea, Billy and Nick suggest that all needed a clear head and should go out. So you first go and eat Chinese food and then visited a strip club, where practice the Five in excessive alcohol consumption and dancing. Inspired by the drunken Nick Lyle comes the idea for an application that is reviewed by a quiz the user's sobriety before it can send messages. This application is the most popular application submitted and the group wins so this challenge.

Customer Care

For customer service, the group performs well. Billy, but forget to register before the start of task in the evaluation system, so that its success can be analyzed. Chetty disqualified This will cause the entire group. About ashamed Billy leaves the group to work as a salesman with his previous employer again.

Attract advertisers

The announcement of this task puts the group in euphoria because they know two experienced sellers like Billy and Nick by her side. When Nick the group announced, however, that Billy has left it to disappointment spreads. Nick sets off to retrieve Billy, while the rest tried unsuccessfully itself to attract advertisers, but this fails miserably. Nick persuades Billy to return, and together it creates the group is now to find a family owned and operated pizzeria as advertisers.

At the final event, the group is named the winning group - because of their good performance in the challenges and their high Googliness.

Background

Although Google is not involved in the production of the film, a part of the film was shot at the Googleplex, the corporate headquarters of Google. The vast majority was shot on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

The official German movie poster shows the two main characters from the point of view of the monitor in front of the Google homepage. The search word you typed " jobs for people with little skills " and try so to find job.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has in the last scene of the film even made ​​a cameo appearance.

Production costs amounted to 58 million U.S. dollars. So far (as of October 2013) played the film around 93 million U.S. dollars worldwide, including 44.7 million in the U.S. and about 2.1 million in Germany. The remaining revenue is generated ( 7.1 million ), primarily in the United Kingdom (5.3 million U.S. dollars ), Brazil ( 4.5 million), Russia ( 3.2 million) and Australia.

Allusions

In the film Prakti.com to various allusions to earlier films:

  • Dodgeball: In the movie Dodgeball: the protagonist, played by Vince Vaughn, Peter LaFleur wearing a costume of fetish clubs. This costume is one of Big Daddy. In Prakti.com who also played by Vince Vaughn Billy McMahon is even called several times Big Daddy. Another parallel is that Peter LaFleur as well as in Prakti.com Billy McMahon at the low point of the story leaves the group to return then highly motivated near the end and help the team win.
  • Back to the Future: When the team is staying in the bar, Lyle brings up the courage and speaks to his dream woman. Shortly thereafter, a man appears and wants to expel him, whereupon Lyle calls him Biff. In Back to the Future Biff Tannen tries in a similar scene to expel George McFly in order to ranzumachen whose future wife, Lorraine.
  • Game of Thrones: Towards the end of the movie called Lyle Khaleesi his girlfriend, after which she " My sun, my stars " responds with. The same dialog between Khal Drogo and his wife Daenerys in Game of Thrones.
  • X -Men: The team sends Billy and Nick going to find a programmer called Professor Xavier, and is in this context a few X -Men as his assistant on. Later all look together the film.
  • Harry Potter: The different groups play in a Quidditch scene.
  • Hook: At the start of the Quidditch matches calls Graham Bangarang, an allusion to Rufio, which has used this exclamation also as a start signal.
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