A Brit a Day [#17]

Christian Bale. I've always liked men in dusters and long overcoats. I realized that I could take that fixation to an extreme when I found myself paying particular attention to those fearmongering horsemen of the apocolypse in the first 'Lord of the Rings'---I can't possibly spell it right--I've always called them the Nose Drool. The costume designer for the film talks about those long, wicked, flowing black robes they wore in a featurette. She refers to them as having, with undisguised awe, "thuhty metahs [thirty metres] of black fabric" in each Nose Drool's costume. Now overcoats [see above and on Tommy Lee Jones in 'The Fugitive'], capes [Prof. Snape], dusters [the Keach brothers et.al. in 'The Long Riders']--it's all become wrapped up--no pun intended--in that single phrase for me, uttered with a sigh, 30 metres....