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1. You are an archaeologist of 4003 excavating a city and you find part of a movie marquee with the names Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey, and Chazz Palminteri. If only you could find the rest of the marquee, you would know that they all appeared in . . .
2. Leaving the marquee, you search further and find a poster that says "COMING". You brush away the dirt and search for further interesting info, and you can barely decipher the names Jeffrey Wright, Richard Roundtree, and Samuel Jackson. The title has been torn away, so you rack your brain to recall the name of this ancient film:
3. Now, as you hold the poster, Tiffany, one of your team, a colleague in the Archaeology Department of the San Fernando University of Archaeology and Mortuary Science and Like Beauty Technology and Stuff shouts excitedly, "Hey, like I found something, and it looks like so-o-o-o cool, okay?" You rush over and see names inscribed in stone paving tiles. They seem to be those of illustrious leaders of that period, but some of the letters have been destroyed. You see D--ny Gl--er, K-ll- Mc-i-lis, and
-ar---son -or-. "What the hey," you exclaim, in your highly articulate manner. If you only knew that the people of that culture worshipped movie stars so much that they immortalized their names on sidewalks and that these three all appeared in the same movie:
4. Just a little distance away along the sidewalk, you find a ruin that doesn't seem to fit its time frame. It looks exactly like a Chinese palace of the 18th century but you've been finding artifacts of 20th/21st century America. Then you see six piles of letters that seem to have fallen from a sign. You try to put them in the right order but you're not sure you did. Here's what you get: richs cork, oje sepci, lem bignos. You figure out that these were three actors who appeared in the same movie, which was . . .
5. Nearby there is another pile of similar letters, but these look to be even more mixed together than the first set. You see lednockinima, pesmyletrer, and mojilanuronee. Brilliant anagramist that you are, you decipher the names. They stir a memory in you of a 2002 film about a British female novelist who killed herself. Then you know the movie title:
6. A few feet away you see a large piece of paper protruding from a pile of rubble. You extricate it carefully and see that it is a torn poster showing some names, but the paper is ripped so you see only what could be the ends of names. You see a-Jones, eger, and ere. Also, you see at the bottom the number 02. There's also what could be a picture of a blonde woman in a black dress. You are a very bright archaeologist indeed, so you figure out the names and the movie title:
7. Searching further you see the remains of a sign that says "large popcorn $42/jumbo popcorn $44/giant bathtub o' popcorn $62/special: add mystery yellow liquid that could be anything but most likely is recycled crankcase oil from a '49 Studebaker for just $12" Nearby is a dusty, primitive hand-held tape recorder. You push the PLAY button, and somehow there is still power in the batteries. You hear a recording of a child's voice saying, "Mom, I know I'm only ten but I want to see that movie all the kids are talking about. You know, the one about the sexy ladies who don't wear much. You threatened to ground me if I didn't stop mentioning the name of the movie, but I can still say Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, and Alan Rachins are in it. And I'm going to keep playing this in your ear until you give in. Please, Mom? Can I see it? Please! Please! Huh? Please?" Just from these clues, you figure out the title:
8. Not far from the hand-held tape recorder you find another electronic device: a machine that plays an ancient artifact called a video tape. You press the button to see if anything will happen, and, as if by magic, the picture and sound begin. It's a trailer for a movie. Two men wearing uniforms are driving a car, a man yells at a woman to give him her car and she slaps and scolds him, the same man tells another woman to put another man down but to take her time. You hear the names Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, and Colm Feore. You seem to remember reading about this comedy that came out early in 2003. Then you recall the title:
9. You walk down a musty hallway and turn into one of the auditoriums. You suddenly stop, transfixed. You see floating before you what at first seem to be three ghosts. Then you calm down and realize that they are holographic projections. One is a man about 50 years old, an angry man with a receding hairline and arched eyebrows. He's wearing the uniform of an officer in the US Marine Corps. He keeps shouting the same two words: "You can't" again and again. You realize that the images are repeating themselves eternally in a two-second loop. Another is a raging, rotund woman about 40 repeatedly swinging, of all things, a sledgehammer, down at a man's legs. The third one is a balding man about 45 with graying blonde hair. He sits behind a desk with ancient headphones on, repeating just three letters: "WKR . . . WKR . . . WKR." This one takes you quite a while. You realize that these are not images from the same film, that two of them are from two different movies and one is from something else, maybe a TV show. You keep pondering and then you figure it out: These people were all in the same movie that came out at the end of 2002. You recall now that the movie's title was . . .
10. Your last stop is one of the auditoriums. You find a small room at the back which seems to contain a machine that must have shown films in some way. You press a button and the machine springs to life. You leave the little room and sit down in one of the auditorium seats, and you can't believe your eyes. Two men in clothes of the American West are entering what seems to be the same building you're in. You see that, surprisingly, they are an African-American sheriff and a Jewish gunslinger, two things you thought had never existed in the Old West. Now you start to revise your view of history. The two men sit in the theatre in what could even be the same row you're in and they watch a movie. Incredibly, it's a movie they're in, wearing the same clothes! They watch themselves continuing the story. They also see a man leading a swing band. In the 1800s! You never knew they had that kind of music at that time. At the end of the movie they get into a big, black car and ride away. You remember that it was called a limo or something like that. Why do they ride in a car when everyone else is riding horses? Finally you remember the title of this strange movie:
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