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The Intern Movie Essay

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The Intern is a film about retired executive at a manufacturing of telephone directories company, Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) who becomes bored with his life and finds an internship job at an online fashion company owned by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) called About the fit, under a senior citizenship program as a form of community outreach. The film is set in Brooklyn, New York with a majority of the scenes filmed within the old factory renewed to fit Jules’ company. The main themes portrayed in this film are that of the age of youth culture and how “experience never goes out of fashion”. The central point of the film is to create an awareness of how the elderly can be of great use in the 21st century and although they may not be “tech savvy”, …show more content…

Ben used conflict management as a third party in the relationship, and gave Jules advice on what to do- additionally, Matt told Jules that he did not believe it was right for Jules to sacrifice her company in order to stop him from cheating on her, as he knew he was in the wrong and felt bad that she was willing to put aside her dreams for him. This is an example of conflict management as had Ben not spoken to Jules, she would have hired the CEO and believed that it would improve her marriage.

Conflict also arose between Jules and the mothers at her daughters school, who speak of her rudely, claiming she is “kinda tough” to work for. Ben aided Jules with this conflict upon dropping Jules’ daughter off at a child’s party and speaking to the women about how it “must make [them] proud” to have a friend “crashing the glass ceiling of the tech world” and thus creating a sort of respect in the women for Jules and her achievements. Ben understood that the women resented Jules and instead of ignoring their remarks or agreeing with them, he made Jules appear like a great person contrary to what they were saying and showed great valor and

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