Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Ben rings Jules' doorbell for the first morning as her driver, and her husband answers the door. His hand is down his side. He then points at the house in reverse shot, but as the camera returns to the previous angle, Matt's hand never left his side. (00:41:30)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: When Ben dials Fiona's number looking the number up in the card, there's a close-up of his kitchen table where the plates and glasses are in a different position compared to the rest of the scene (the salad bowl touches the paper towel, and the wine glass is off the line between the boards). (00:37:55)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: In the close-up of the kitchen isle all set up for the 'Play-Doh challenge', the pink jar is by the hubby's cake, but in the other shots it's next to the kid's. (00:36:45)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: The first time we see Jules at home, she gets a glass of wine, but her husband is still passing it in the next shot. (00:36:40)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: When Ben talks to the driver with unhealthy drinking habits, the shadows of the foliage behind Mark change between shots. (00:30:35)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: The morning Ben cleans up the messy desk, there are two opening shots of the building. The first one shows the sidewalk in front of the factory perfectly sunlit with noon shadows, followed by another one with significantly different shadows (more appropriate to the early morning scenario). (00:27:10)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Ben just got out of Jules' office with her jacket to send to the cleaners. Becky calls him; she is holding the folders to her chest. She does not change position in the reverse shot. But in the rest of the scene she holds the folders against her side. (00:26:10)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: When Jules slides her Yves Saint Laurent jacket across the table, the jacket is bundled up in a different way in the separate shots. (00:25:45)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Jules feels icky at the sight of the abominable mess left on a desk by the employees. In the close-up of the guy that dumps a box on it, the items are not in the same position as in the other shots - look at the Kate Moss book at the top, and at the red striped shirt that suddenly shows its label. (00:23:15)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Jay is telling Ben the story of his faux pas with Becky. When he gets to the part about the mail and mentions the subject, the same person in the background (dark green short, light bag) is at the same spot even after a long cut on Jay that details the quantity of OS in "sorry." Same thing a few seconds later when he talks about the emoticon's tear and another girl, closer to him in the foreground, moves right to left. (00:22:35)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Ben is tutoring Davis when Jay interrupts them saying "Hey, look, here she comes, watch how she won't even..." The sentence is spoken across two separate shots, and in the second he's pointing at himself, in the first he is not. (00:21:35)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Ben is talking to the secretary about the 3:55 appointment. When Becky points at the door to Jules' office, she is holding a pen that vanishes in the next shot. (00:17:35)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Asked by Jay, Ben says that he's gonna be a personal intern. A woman on the background is walking left to right. "Nice", he immediately replies, and the woman meanwhile already reached the other side of the room. (00:15:45)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: When De Niro does a De Niro face at the intern that will help him with the laptop a moment later, he has his leather organizer in hand. He then opens the briefcase, which contains also the organizer. (00:15:00)

Sammo

23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: On the first day as intern, Ben sits down at the desk and there's a wide shot of the room. The 'normal age' intern opens the laptop immediately, but when we see a moment later that he empties his bag's content on the desk, the laptop is closed. (00:14:45)

Sammo

21st May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: When Jules' secretary follows her and tells her about the meeting and then her mom, a black guy in a blue shirt and grey sweater walks around the line of desks in the background twice in a row and carries a folder with a different hand in the first 2 shots. Similarly, a girl with a pink sweater repeats the action (walking past them and checking them out). (00:07:40)

Sammo

21st May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Jules' secretary is telling her about all the stuff she has to do now that she's done being the best customer service gal ever. She said that she wants to implement online shopping with friends. The secretary has the pen at the ready in front of the post-it notes. Next shot (Jules says "E-mail me that idea") and the secretary only then is pulling the pen out from behind the notes. (00:07:35)

Sammo

21st May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Patty reminds Ben that he's not getting any younger as she uses her left hand to make a couple of gestures (she touches her chin, then her hair). Neither is linked to the hand position in the other shots. (00:04:30)

Sammo

21st May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: When Patty tells Ben that she could add salad to his frozen lasagna and turn it into a dinner for two, De Niro one moment is holding the shopping back with his left hand on the handles, and the next he has the bag in his arms. Besides the little jump in montage (which anyway does come off as pretty natural), the double set of handles overlap in one camera angle, and they diverge in the other. (00:04:05)

Sammo

21st May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Continuity mistake: Ben is commenting the flyer with the flirty woman he's not interested in. He asks, leaving the phrase hanging, "Isn't that the outfit that was...?" Gesticulating, he waves the flyer towards his left, but he's holding it still in front of Patty in the reverse angle. (00:03:30)

Sammo

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