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I.Q.
1994 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Fred Schepisi
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
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Real Genius. Charly (which is an adaptation of 'Flowers for Algernon'). I.Q. (with Walter Matthau as Einstein), Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious splits the beer atom). Buckaroo Banzai.
Pretty much every film with a mad scientist. Frankenstein was a science genius. So was Dr. Zarkov in Flash Gordon.
I.Q. is a nice one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110099/
Although not sure if it qualifies as "Engineers as Heroes".
> they all go "Oh, Berlin?" No, actually, we have several nice cities. Hamburg probably has the highest quality of life
your comment reminded about scene from movie I.Q (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110099/) where very "proper" man, James Moreland is doing the experiment with the mouse. There are two switches the mouse can press: one that gives him food and one that gives him orgazm. The mouse hasn't eaten in three days. Moreland is genuily perplexed how this could possibly be the case ...
First time I've heard this take on a Zeno's paradox (I had to wikipedia it to find out it was a Zeno's paradox). I've always known it from the Meg Ryan movie I.Q. in the scene where Ed tries to cover the distance to Catherine by moving half the distance each time. I find it kind of amusing that at 27 this is the first time hearing a take on the Tortoise and Achilles for something math related I learned a long time ago from pop culture instead.