Prakti.com
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Prakti.com |
| Original title | The internship |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Shawn Levy |
| script |
Vince Vaughn , Jared Stern |
| production |
Shawn Levy , Vince Vaughn |
| music | Christophe Beck |
| camera | Jonathan Brown |
| cut | Dean Zimmerman |
| occupation | |
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Prakti.com (original title The Internship ) is an American comedy film from 2013 by Shawn Levy , which was designed as a marketing measure for Google . The film was released in the United States on June 7, 2013. In Austria and Germany, the film opened on September 26, 2013.
action
At the beginning of the film, the viewer gets to know the protagonists Billy and Nick, two experienced salespeople. These lose their jobs as their company is being closed due to the high level of competition from the Internet . To prove that they can keep up with the latest technology, try to get one of the coveted student internship positions on Google , competing against a battalion of brilliant students. For this purpose, the two enroll for the distance learning course at the University of Phoenix . In the virtual job interview that Billy and Nick take part in in a public library via Google Hangouts , the two do more than well. During the interview, the interview organizers quickly become aware of Billy and Nick's lack of technical qualifications. The two still get an internship.
The interns must form groups of five people. At the end of the day, the best group gets a permanent position. The performance of the groups, referred to as googliness , is measured on the basis of tasks that the best group can master. In the first challenge, Nick and Billy are excluded from the rest of the group because they are of no help due to a complete lack of any information technology knowledge. The first task is to find and correct a bug in the source code of a program. The group does not find the error. The bug is first found by the Graham Hawtreys group.
The second task is a non-magical variant of the fictional sport of Quidditch . In this game the group is initially divided and ineffective and falls behind against the group Graham Hawtreys. However, in the second half of the game, the team spirit awakens and the five catch up. At the end of the game in the struggle for the Golden Snitch , Hawtrey commits various breaches of the rules that are not discovered by the referee through a ruse , and you win again against the group around Billy and Nick.
The goal of the next task is to develop a mobile application that should be downloaded from Google Play as often as possible . Billy and Nick overturn the plans of the rest of the group members to use scientific analysis to develop the most popular application possible. You can make your own suggestions for an application with the same range of functions as Instagram without being fooled by the fact that something like this already exists. When the others persist in their resistance to the idea, Billy and Nick suggest that everyone needs a clear head and should therefore go out. So you go to eat Chinese first and then visit a strip club , where the five practice excessive alcohol consumption and dance. Inspired by the drunken Lyle, Nick came up with the idea of an application that uses quiz questions to check the sobriety of the user before he can send messages. This application is the most popular application submitted and the group wins this challenge.
The group does well when it comes to customer care. However, Billy forgets to register in the evaluation system before starting the task so that his success can be analyzed. Chetty then disqualifies the entire group. Ashamed of himself, Billy leaves the group to work as a salesman again for his previous employer.
The group is euphoric about the announcement of the next task of attracting advertisers, knowing that they have two experienced salespeople like Billy and Nick by their side. However, when Nick announces that Billy has left her, disappointment spreads. Nick leaves to get Billy back, while the rest of them try to attract advertisers, which fails miserably. Nick persuades Billy to return, and together the group now manages to acquire a family-run pizzeria as an advertising client.
At the closing event , the group was chosen as the winner - because of their good performance in the challenges and their high googliness .
background
The film was conceived by Google as a marketing measure to attract new employees. Director Shawn Levy commented that he wanted to make visible the “[genuine] altruism ” of the group, with which he wants to make the world a better place every day. Although the company was not directly involved in the production of the film, part of the film was shot in the Googleplex , the headquarters of Google. Most of it, however, was filmed on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta , where the internet company gave permission to recreate the interior of the company headquarters and use the company logo.
The official German movie poster shows the two main actors from the view of the monitor in front of the Google homepage. They entered “jobs for people with little skills” as a search term and tried to find job offers with it.
Sergey Brin , one of the founders of Google , has two cameos .
The cost of production was $ 58 million. So far (as of October 2013) the film grossed around 93 million US dollars worldwide, of which 44.7 million in the USA and around 2.1 million in Germany. The remainder of the revenue was generated primarily in Australia (7.1 million), Great Britain (5.3 million US dollars), Brazil (4.5 million) and Russia (3.2 million).
Allusions
In Prakti.com there are some references to other films:
- Flashdance : Vince Vaughn's film character quotes this film several times and above all the courage and belief in himself that the main character shows in the film.
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Full on the nuts : In the film Full on the nuts , the protagonist Peter LaFleur, played by Vince Vaughn, wears a costume from a fetish club. This costume belongs to Big Daddy . In Prakti.com , Billy McMahon, also played by Vince Vaughn, is called Big Daddy several times .
Another parallel is that Peter LaFleur, like Billy McMahon in Prakti.com, leaves the group at the low point of the story, only to return highly motivated shortly before the end and help the team to victory. - Back to the future : When the team is in the bar, Lyle has the courage and speaks to his dream woman. Shortly thereafter, a man appears and wants to drive him away, whereupon Lyle calls him Biff . In Back to the Future , Biff Tannen tries to drive away George McFly in a similar scene in order to approach his future wife, Lorraine.
- West Side Story : Before the fight scene in the bar, Billy asks if they are doing a “Jets versus Sharks”, the two rival gangs from West Side Story
- Game of Thrones : Towards the end of the film, Lyle calls his girlfriend Khaleesi , to which she replies with "My sun, my stars". The same dialogue exists between Khal Drogo and his wife Daenerys in Game of Thrones .
- X-Men : The team sends Billy and Nick out to find a programmer named Professor Xavier , and in this context lists a few X-Men as his assistants. Later everyone watches the film together.
- Harry Potter : The different groups play Quidditch in one scene .
- Hook : At the start of the Quidditch match, Lyle calls out "Bangarang", an allusion to Rufio, who also used this exclamation as a start signal.
- Everyone is the first to die : After Billy and Nick have lost their jobs, Nick compares their situation in life with the rape scene from the movie When they die, everyone is the first .
criticism
Spiegel Online described the film as "movie-long commercial" and the time calls him 120-minute product placement .
Web links
- Prakti.com in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website ( German )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Prakti.com . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 472 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Prakti.com . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Official website with start date . 20th Century Fox. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
- ↑ Prakti.com , Skip - Das Kinomagazin
- ^ A b Ole Reissmann: Google propaganda "Prakti.com": Oh, how beautiful is Mountain View. In: Spiegel Online . September 25, 2013, accessed December 31, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Josef Engels: Google thanks for the two-hour commercial. In: The world . September 26, 2013, accessed July 9, 2019 .
- ^ Georgia Tech selected as a location for "The Internship" . Georgia Tech. July 24, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- ↑ TrendJam Magazine, September 28, 2013: Jobs for people with little skills: The Google film about internship Prakti.com
- ↑ Martin Schwickert: Comedy "Prakti.com": Mächtig googled. In: zeit.de . September 24, 2013, accessed December 31, 2016 .