Dramatic Alterations
For dramatic reasons, I.Q. fictionalizes several real people. Albert Einstein did not have a niece by the name of Catherine Boyd. Kurt Gödel was famously shy and reclusive, unlike his fictional counterpart in this film. The movie gives the impression that Einstein and his friends were all around the same age, when in fact, they were between 17 and 30 years younger than Einstein. The real-life Louis Bamberger died in 1944, before the film's set period. The film also uses Little Richard's "Tutti-Fruitti," which was released in November 1955, while Albert Einstein died in April of that year.
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