In Night a the Museum the exhibits in the American Museum of Natural History comes alive at night. Some of them, like the mummy of Pharaoh Akhmenrah, are real historical objects / people. Others, like Teddy Roosevelt, are mannequins.
"Actually, I never did any of those things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was made in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie."
Teddy dispenses Rooseveltian wisdom, but knows he isn't really the former president.
Yet Attila the Hun and his fellow Huns don't seem to be aware they aren't actual Huns. Attila even responds to Larry's pseudo-psycho therapy.
The cavemen, who can't even speak but only grunt, don't seem to be aware of their origins either.
Larry tells Rebecca to go talk to Sacagawea for her dissertation. But how helpful would she have been, probably coming from the same mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie where Teddy came from?
What do the mannequins really know about the lives and characters of the people they portray?
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