History Film / YoungEinstein

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BlatantLies Based on a true story.]]]]

** Albert's energy formula discovery has potentially world-ending potential and he's called out by his friends at the Asylum and Marie for his CloudCuckoolander attitude to it.

** Preston also lies about Albert being an escaped lunatic. It's true that Albert did escape from a mental asylum, but he was committed by Preston under false pretenses.

* LethalChef: The chef at the mental asylum. His hygiene is not exactly up to standards, the slop he serves looks ''very'' unappetizing and he was baking a pie using live kitten as pie filler! Fortunately, Einstein saves the kittens during his escape.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Preston Pr

* LethalChef: The chef at the mental asylum. His hygiene is not exactly up to standards, the slop he serves looks ''very'' unappetizing and he was baking a pie using live kittens! Fortunately, Einstein saves the kittens during his escape.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Albert's energy formula discovery has potentially world-ending potential and he's called out by his friends at the Asylum and Marie for his CloudCuckoolander attitude to it. Later on, he decides to hand his formula to the governments of the world to be applied for peaceful purposes but Marie (rightly) points out that his formula could be used to build their own atomic bombs. Albert shrugs it off with this zinger:

* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: "The characters depicted in this photoplay are fictitious, although the names of certain historical persons were used."

-->'''Brian Aspirin:''' Space and time curve, eh? Personally, I got busted for drugs.

* CloudCuckoolander: Albert doesn't always consider how dangerous his work is and sometimes lacks awareness of what's going on around him (see IronButtMonkey). But he is undeniably a kind, generous, highly intelligent and ''very'' resourceful person who keeps his cool in a crisis.

** Preston also lies about Albert being a lunatic. It's true that Albert did escape from a mental asylum, but he was committed under false pretenses.

** Later when Albert arrives to confront Preston, the latter tries to claim that he's escaped mental patient.

* GuardsMustBeCrazy: The case can definitely be made for the ''entire staff'' at the mental asylum. Marie is able to impersonate Albert's father and visit him with little more than a PaperThinDisguise consisting of a fake beard and clothing. The guard that lets her in buys it despite having met and spoken to her earlier.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: PlayedForLaughs. Marie is able to visit Einstein at the asylum by dressing up as a man and claiming to be Albert's father. Everyone buys it until she takes off her wig.

-->'''Charles Darwin''': ''(OhCrap)'' ''Atomic fission!''

-->''(Albert calmly eats an apple and says nothing)''
-->'''Charles Darwin:''' That barrel is a ''gigantic atomic bomb!'' ''(crowd gasps)'' Mr. Preston! ''Stop!''

-->''(Preston throws the lever and the Beerium reactor immediately starts spewing flame and smoke, blaring an alarm and flashing a "malfunction" alert.)''
-->'''Preston Preston:''' ''(cue OhCrap)'' It ''is'' a bomb! ''(starts screaming in panic)''

** Later when Albert arrives to confront Preston.
-->'''Preston Preston''': This man is an escaped lunatic!
-->'''Albert Einstein''': ''(calmly eats an apple and says nothing)''

-->'''Charles Darwin:''' That barrel is a ''gigantic atomic bomb!'' ''(crowd gasps)'' Mr. Preston! ''Stop!''
-->'''Preston Preston:''' It's harmless you... ''stupid old man!'' Look!
-->''(Preston throws the lever and the Beerium reactor immediately starts spewing flame and smoke, blaring an alarm and flashing a "malfunction" alert.)''
-->'''Preston Preston:''' ''(cue OhCrap)'' It ''is'' a bomb! ''(starts screaming in panic)''

** The guard that Marie speaks to at the main gate of the mental asylum first claims that Albert isn't there. When she insists that she knows he's there, he then tells her that he's bathing. When she says that she'll wait, he says that Albert is a notoriously long bather and that it would take all day.

* {{Determinator}}: Once Marie found out that Albert was imprisoned in a mental asylum, she allowed nothing to get in the way of her getting in to see her boyfriend. When the gate guard tries to dissuade her from visiting because Albert is a very long bather and would take all day she says:

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Albert is also wonderful with all sorts of wildlife. Throughout the film, he is seen feeding a Tasmanian Devil an apple, pets a lizard, is against drowning wildlife when his father asks him to dam the valley, and is quite happy to find that his hotel room's bathroom has a mini ecosystem in it.

-->'''Albert:''' Don't worry, Marie! They're only electrons!

-->'''Albert Einstein''': Mr. Darawin? Preston has built an atomic bomb.

-->'''Mr. Preston Preston''': No I didn't!

-->'''Charles Darwin''': ''Atomic fission!''

** Darwin gets one during Einstein's brief ExplainExplainOhCrap.
-->'''Mr. Preston Preston''': And now, fellow scientists, the world's first--
-->'''Albert Einstein''': Mr. Darawin? Preston has built an atomic bomb.
-->''(the crowd gasps)''
-->'''Marconi''': ''Atomic bomb?!''
-->'''Charles Darwin''': ''What?!''
-->'''Mr. Preston Preston''': No I didn't!
-->'''Albert Einstein''': Mr. Preston, do you know what happens if you split an atom at its nucleus?
-->'''Charles Darwin''': ''(Preston doesn't answer him but realization dawns on Darwin)'' ''Atomic fission!''

-->'''Preston Preston''': That man is an escaped lunatic!

-->''(she tears off her wig in exasperation. Cue shocked gasps of the other inmates, who are currently in the bathing house and in various states of undress)''

-->'''Preston Preston''': That man is an escaped lunatic!
-->'''Albert Einstein''': ''(calmly eats an apple and says nothing)''

* Determinator: Once Marie found out that Albert was imprisoned in a mental asylum, she allowed nothing to get in the way of her getting in to see her boyfriend.

* ShootTheLock: Or, in Albert's case, plug his rebuilt electric guitar into the asylum's electrical grid and blow out the electric locks in an overload.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Albert's energy formula discovery has potentially world-ending potential and he's called out by his friends at the Asylum and Marie for his CloudCuckoolander attitude to it. Later on, he decides to hand his formula to the governments of the world to be applied for peaceful purposes but Marie (rightly) points out that his formula could be used to build their own atomic bombs.

* ThePowerOfRock: Apparently rock can even drain the power from an atomic bomb. In fact, apparently, 4/4 time "will drain the power out of anything."

** The Lunatic Professor gets one too when he realizes that Albert discovered the formula for energy. His colleagues quickly catch on too.

* OhCrap: Albert gets one when he finds out that Preston plans to build a machine that splits beer atoms and rushes to the beer company to warn them not to.

* SceneryPorn: Albert's journey to Sydney, via ''lots'' of places that aren't actually on a direct route.
* SteamPunk

** Mr. Preston Preston consistently says and does things with little or no regard to common sense, logic, decency or consequences to the detriment of those around him. It eventually comes back to bite him in the final act.

-->'''Brian Asprin:''' Space and time curve, eh? Personally, I got busted for drugs.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: PlayedForLaughs. Marie is able to visit Einstein at the alysum by dressing up as a man and claiming to be Albert's father. Everyone thinks that she really is Albert's father until she takes off her wig.