Fell asleep at some amazingly early time last night… Yes, I actually went to bed last night, as opposed to this morning. You know, like about half the working people and students in Singapore; we go to bed the same morning that we wake up, y’know?

Anyway, coz of that, I woke up at 3.30, and couldn’t go back to sleep again. Spastic, I tell you. Which means that I was lying there, thinking random thoughts and just wouldn’t go back to sleep, and outta nowhere, the thought about links between Orlando Bloom’s movies comes to mind, so I just go off chasing that thought for a while, and y’know what? There are links.

Seriously, allow me to demonstrate:

Firstly, let’s just take all three “LOTR” films as one movie since they’re all basically the same story. Remember the last film, in the scene where the black corsairs sail up behind Minas Tirith where a huge orc army’s awaiting them? And then this particular orc, the lead orc, I guess, strides forward and yells: “Late as usual, pirate scum!”

And “pirate” equals link to “Pirates of the Caribbean”. So already, there’s a link from “LOTR” to “POTC”.

And then in “POTC”, in the night shot outside the Isla de Muerta Caves when Pintel and Ragetti are rowing out as a decoy to distract the British Navy, here’s what that moron Ragetti says to Pintel:

“Oh, this is just like what the Greeks done at Troy! ‘Cept they were in a horse. Not dresses.”

Fairly obvious link. “LOTR” link to “POTC” link to “Troy”.

And in this tiny bit that I saw in the “Calcium Kid” trailer, Orlando Bloom’s character’s sitting at a table, and he’s sorta mumbling to… someone off screen, I guess, about how “(he) feel(s) like Rocky… when he finds out that he’s gonna have a pop at Apollo Creed.”

At least, I think he says “Apollo Creed”. That’s what it sounds like.

And Apollo happens to be the name of the patron god of the Trojans.

“LOTR” link to “POTC” link to “Troy” link to “Calcium Kid”. Or vice versa for the last one.

See! Interesting links all over the place. Maybe the script writers for those movies saw glimpses of the future and snuck it into the scripts of those movies that he was in as hints. :D

Haven’t seen “Black Hawk Down” or “Ned Kelly”… maybe if I ever watch those, I’ll be able to draw links too, haha… Or maybe I just need a transcript…

*goes off to scrounge web for movie transcripts*

Hm… wait. Just remembered that “Black Hawk Down” has Eric Bana in it too.

Ah. Well. All right, Gerri needs a “Black Hawk Down” DVD now… :D

Hm. Another random thought: am convinced that Orlando Bloom is wearing eyeliner in some of his "Troy" scenes. No way his eyes are naturally that dark. Unless they're really dark, really conveniently-placed dark circles from lack of sleep or whatever. Which isn't likely. Eyeliner! Ha!

All right. I'll go poke around elsewhere now...