声音简介：电影The Intern：七十岁的实习生，年轻不在于年龄

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今天跟你们分享一部挺治愈的电影《实习生》The Intern，

是主演过《教父2》《美国往事》的罗伯特·德尼罗和安妮海瑟薇主演的。

A fashion company run by Jules Ostin, played by Anne Hathaway hired an unconventional intern, a seventy-year-old widower Ben Whittaker.

Ben went through a period of retirement, he felt empty void in his heart and decided to get back to work. Later Ben became a valuable employee and stared an unexpected friendship with the company’s CEO Jules Ostin.

影片讲的是70岁的可爱老爷爷Ben在退休前有很成功的事业，而退休后很不适应自己的生活。（电影里他是美国西北大学毕业的，没想到是我校友，倍感荣幸哈哈）

影片第一句Ben的旁白是：

Freud said, Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

弗洛伊德说：生活很简单，就是关于工作和爱。

没想到退休后工作没了，老伴也去世了。

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Ben says in the voice-over at the beginning:

Retirement is an ongoing, relentless effort in creativity.

退休后Ben一直在寻求新意。

You can try yoga, like to cook, bought some plants, took classes in Mandarin. Believe me, I've tried everything. I just know there's a hole in my life and I need to fill it... soon.

尽管他尝试了各种东西，瑜伽、烹饪、种花，却总还是觉得心里缺了一块地方，想做点能证明自己价值的事情。

所以当Ben看到时尚行业互联网公司招聘老年实习生的时候，就觉得去应聘了。

后来Ben经历的各种事情其实跟年轻实习生所经历的并没有什么不同，

他也会紧张、也会被资历深的同事看低、也会想尽办法证明自己。

所以其实年轻不在于年龄，而在于你是否还保有对生活的热情和好奇心，

并保持学习能力。

Ben在面试时的自我介绍就很让人动容：

I want the connection, the excitement, I want to be challenged and I guess I might even want to be needed. The tech stuff might take a bit to figure out. I had to call my 9-year-old grandson just to find out what a USB connector was. But I'll get there. Eager to learn.

“我希望能和别人交流分享工作乐趣，迎接挑战，想要有人需要我。虽然在我这个年纪学习新的科技知识需要耗费点精力，我向9岁的孙子打电话问他什么是U盘，我一直很好学。”

I read once, musicians don’t retire. They stop when there’s no more music in them. Well, I still have music in me. Absolutely positive about that.’

“我听说音乐家永远都不退休，他们只会在心里没有音乐了的时候才停下。这样说来，我心里还有音乐，我对这一点非常确信。”

对Ben来说，他内心的音乐就是他对生活的热忱和好奇心。

所以他一点也不老。

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Ben的经历也给很多初入社会的年轻实习生提供了典范。

Even though Ben was almost completely ignored by his boss to begin with, his dedication to works and attention to details helped him win back trust from his colleagues and boss.

When he found no one cleaned the messy desk though Jules hated it, he went on to clean it. When he noticed Jules’s driver just drank alcohol, he warned the driver and later drove Jules to her destination by himself, helping her to find the shortest path.

虽然最开始这位70岁的实习生被老板几乎完全忽视，

后来他却用自己的细心赢得了同事和老板的认可。

他默默帮Jules清理了那个堆满杂物、一直没人愿意去清理的桌子。

他留意到Jules的司机刚喝了酒，警告他之后自己为Jules开车，还帮她找到了最快捷的路径。

下车前Jules无意说还没吃饭，他就帮忙买了热汤，等等等等。

Ben的饰演者奥斯卡得主罗伯特在演完后接受采访也提到说，实习生要愿意去做这些细微的事：

"The thing that I always think about interns is, even if you have to get a cup of coffee, if you can do it the right way, and the way it's been asked of you, that simple little thing is as important as figuring out some kind of huge mathematical problem. That little thing is just as important, because it's an indication of what you are willing to do - and the care that you take in that simple little task, because it's not so simple really, is important."

这些事虽然细小，却跟解决了一个很难的数学问题一样重要。

因为它体现了你愿意放低姿态的态度。

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电影的海报上还写着：

Experience Never Gets Old.

经验永不过时。

虽然Ben工作了四十年的电话簿印刷厂过时倒闭了，

他那么多年履历留下的处理事情的经验和高情商却永不过时。

Ben的人生格言是马克吐温说的那句：You’re never wrong to do the right thing.

做你认为正确的事永远不会错。

怎么理解呢？

When Jules tried to find an experienced CEO to replace herself, she gradually found Ben to be more like a mentor, enabling her to continue the good fight ahead.

During that time, Jules also found her husband was cheating on her. She hoped that finding someone to replace her can save her time at work and win her husband back.

当Jules的投资人希望她找一个更有经验的CEO代替她的时候，一直都单干的Jules动摇了。

因为当时她老公还出轨了，Jules以为是因为自己花太多时间在工作上忽略了老公，希望真的找一个新的CEO好让自己有更多时间在家里。

这时候富有经验的Ben就变成了Jules的导师般的存在。

Ben told Jules--You’re never wrong to do the right thing.

He says,

This big, beautiful, intricate thing that you created — it’a dream isn’t it?…and you're gonna give that up in the hopes that your husband will stop having an affair? I don't see how that adds up. You should feel nothing but great about what you’ve done. Don’t let anybody take that away from you.

You started this business all by yourself a year and a half ago and now you have a staff of 220 people. Remember who did that.

他提醒了Jules公司对她来说就像是自己孩子的存在。

Jules花了一年半的时间让公司从无到有220个员工，

这对Jules来说就是她的梦想。

不应该为了任何人放弃自己的梦想。

其实Jules内心也是不情愿的。

她曾质疑投资人说"Mark Zuckerberg never brought in a CEO - and he was a teenager!"

扎克伯格在青少年的时候就创办公司，同样没有经验，也没有替自己换CEO。

包括她会在签约新CEO的当天早上主动找到Ben问他的意见，

Ben就说“其实你会来找我，就是想听到我阻止你的答案”。

So that’s why Ben says you’re never wrong to do the right thing--once you have the answer for yourself, just go for it. That is the right thing for YOU. Doing the right thing is never wrong though it often takes great courage.

看完这部电影后很多人也说不再那么畏惧变老，

因为只要保持学习能力，70岁也可以和年轻人一样对生活保有热忱。

并且变老带来的不只是年龄上的变化，还有经验的丰富和心态的成熟。

就像Ben在最后一幕打太极拳给出的人生答案：Find the inner peace.

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