"He has dreamed himself to death.
The result is more or less a remake of the great scene in "Sherlock Jr.," where a dozing Buster Keaton dreams himself through a shuffled sequence of backgrounds.
Cut to a bar, where a man, Ari (Mr. Folman), asks his friend Boaz, the man who has dreamed himself into that phantasmagoric scene, what happens next.
Buster Keaton's meta-masterwork "Sherlock Jr.," in which he stars as a projectionist who dreams himself into a movie, returns, along with "Three Ages," a parody of D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" (both Nov. 16).
He cowered like a holy fool on his uppers and dreamed himself into the oblivion from which, like a venerably restored chieftain in snakeskin boots and silver-sleek hair, he magnificently awoke to achieve retribution.
While trying to win his true love from an evil rival, he dreams himself right out of the projection booth one night and into the story on the screen in what was a technological coup for the era.
The most emotional moment of the evening belonged, however, to poor, stupid Howard Hancock, AKA Digbeth Kid, the would-be cowboy who dreamed himself a gangster and died drowning in his own blood crying: "I'm not real".
Back at the theater, while screening a melodrama, "Hearts and Pearls," a dejected Keaton falls asleep and dreams himself into the film about a wealthy young woman (played by McGuire) and her beau, thrown into crisis when a necklace is taken by a shifty character (Crane).
Growing up, Haarsma dreamed himself of moving to the United States; and in his twenties, he actually did.
Does he ever have weird dreams himself?
