# Looking for some help to understand an article about The Intern **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-some-help-to-understand-an-article-about-the-intern/736164 "2015-10-30T10:36:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-some-help-to-understand-an-article-about-the-intern/736164/1 "2015-10-30T10:36:31Z")
I heard some good things about the movie The Intern (2015) starring Robert Di Nero. > **[The Intern (2015) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361509/)** > > The Intern: Directed by Nancy Meyers. With Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm. Seventy-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game,... But when I tried to read the Wikipedia entry, I couldn’t understand part of it. Here is the sentence that just doesn’t make any sense to me: > **[The Intern (2015 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intern_%282015_film%29)** > > The Intern is a 2015 American buddy comedy-drama film directed, written, and produced by Nancy Meyers. The film stars Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, and Rene Russo, with supporting performances from Anders Holm, Andrew Rannells, Adam DeVine, and Zack Pearlman. The plot follows a 70-year-old widower who becomes a senior intern at an online fashion website, where he forms an unlikely friendship with the company's workaholic CEO. The film was released on September 25, 2015, by Warner Bros. It rece... “One day Ben notices Jules’ chauffeur drinking outside his parked vehicle and the driver to go home early, driving Jules home, a role he retains when the chauffeur is no where to be found the next day.” I’m hoping this is some kind of error and not due to my getting old and losing my mind. Can anyone tell me if this is some kind of error and if so, what did the author mean to say? Also, I’d also appreciate hearing from anyone who has seen this flim. Specifically, is it worth my spending the money to go see this in a theater? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-some-help-to-understand-an-article-about-the-intern/736164/2 "2015-10-30T10:55:41Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > But when I tried to read the Wikipedia entry, I couldn’t understand part of it. Here is the sentence that just doesn’t make any sense to me: > > [The Intern (2015 film) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intern_%282015_film%29) > > “One day Ben notices Jules’ chauffeur drinking outside his parked vehicle and the driver to go home early, driving Jules home, a role he retains when the chauffeur is no where to be found the next day.” If you insert the word ‘tells’ in between ‘and’ and ‘the’, it suddenly makes sense. “One day Ben notices Jules’ chauffeur drinking outside his parked vehicle and \*\*tells \*\*the driver to go home early, driving Jules home, a role he retains when the chauffeur is no where to be found the next day.” Horrible, clunky English, but clear enough. He takes over as chauffeur temporarily, and then for good. At least, that’s what it seems to be saying. I haven’t actually seen the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-some-help-to-understand-an-article-about-the-intern/736164/3 "2015-10-30T10:57:34Z")
Aha! Thank you ever so much. It never even dawned on me. But that must be it. I’m so happy the reason has nothing to do with my losing my mind. Thanks again! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-some-help-to-understand-an-article-about-the-intern/736164/4 "2015-10-30T13:54:04Z")
Note also that the word should be “nowhere,” not “no where.” ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-some-help-to-understand-an-article-about-the-intern/736164/5 "2015-10-30T14:00:46Z")
Yes, it’s badly-written and the sentence was horribly mangled over a series of edits. I tweaked it a bit so it makes more sense. It’s not a great movie by any stretch. But Robert De Niro can make just about anything mildly entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-some-help-to-understand-an-article-about-the-intern/736164/6 "2015-10-30T23:42:30Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Yes, it’s badly-written and the sentence was horribly mangled over a series of edits. I tweaked it a bit so it makes more sense. > > It’s not a great movie by any stretch. But Robert De Niro can make just about anything mildly entertaining. I saw this film and thought it was one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a very long time. I really like Robert De Niro and he made parts of this thing enjoyable. But despite the fact that this film preaches about the evils of sexism, I thought it was one of the most sexist films I ever saw. The problem was not only in the way it ended but the fact that the entire film led up to this stupid ending that was a fantasy being preached to a segment of the population that … well … I can’t even bring myself to go on. I just want to warn people that it’s just my opinion, but this thing was just terrible.