To you, it might just look like a white hat. But to Academy Award winner Russell Crowe, it's much, much more than that. The Gladiator star penned a bizarre, 12-part tribute to a white fedora on his Twitter account at the weekend. Crowe spotted the 'jaunty, white' hat being kicked along the ground 'just before dawn' from a vantage point at his accommodation in Madrid on Saturday. The violence of the act spurred on a series of ponderous, even existential, thoughts. Partial to a good piece of headwear, the Academy Award winner Russell Crowe is pictured here in a scene from Les Miserables . This 'jaunty white fedora' provoked a stream of insights from the Gladiator and Water Diviner star . 'I pondered the mystery and the endless potential causes,' tweeted Crowe. 'What brings a man to kick his jaunty white fedora with a black band down a street in Madrid just after dawn? 'What brings a man to that? Over the course of more than an hour, the South Sydney Rabbitohs owner pondered that the headwear had gone through some tough times. He described it as 'roughened' and 'rejected'. He eventually collected the hat from the ground, but pledged not to wear it as he is 'superstitious'. 'I will dust it off and leave it in this suite. 'Come summer ,on a sweltering day, perhaps it will become some hatless persons lucky hat. 'THE END'. 'What brings a man to kick his jaunty white fedora with a black band down a street in Madrid just after dawn?' Crowe asked . 'I have witnessed its degradation': Crowe is pictured surmising the intentions of this particular hat . Crowe is pictured here with his former partner Danielle Spencer .
Water Diviner star Russell Crowe pens a strangely literary tribute to a white fedora . Crowe watched a man kick the hat from his accommodation in Madrid and was entranced by the moment . 'He kicked it. Not stomps, wide, sweeping and confident kicks that sometimes set the hat hovering and drifting, others to roll and bounce'
The hat was left behind by its previous owner . Crowe later collected the hat but decided he would not wear it as he is 'superstitious'
'Come summer, on a sweltering day, perhaps it will become some hatless persons lucky hat' (sic)