I sincerely doubt the movies deliberately misrepresent his work. Rather, I assume they honestly misrepresent his work, meaning that they tried to get it right,

I sincerely doubt the movies deliberately misrepresent his work. Rather, I assume they honestly misrepresent his work, meaning that they tried to get it right, but they don't understand it well enough to do so. Well, movies deliberately misrepresent everything, all the time --it's called artistic license! Accuracy (scientific or otherwise) is always a distant second to cinematic flair, or whatever is it studios are trying to optimize.