time in fiction (fwd)

[Joaquin Stick]

> I would like to know more about this. Do you mean to say that Einstien 
> actually worked with film or that filmakers used his ideas of time
> dilation and contracraction. How are these ideas manipulated to make
> use of a relativity/metaphore relationship?

That's Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein the Russian filmmaker, who, while
having some rather well developed (pun only partially intended) ideas
about time and metaphor, bears little or no resemblance to Walter Matthau
look-alike and noted Southwest Joisey gadfly Albert Einstein. Einstein's
only truly great film work was as Meg Ryan's co-star in I.Q. and in that
Australian flick with the air guitarist/sheepherder. (emoticon excluded in
hope that sarcasm is recongizable on this, if any, list). 

Hope that clears up the confusion.

D. Alfred Fledermaus