Real good to be playing the "Rogue's March" with the redcoats coming in. That piece is meant to be when drumming someone out of a regiment in disgrace!
@SyntaxErr00r That costs money. They would have to get uniforms, rifles etc. This isn't a very low budget film, but its not exactly a Hollywood blockbuster either.
@LordWellington15 Oh certainly. I'm aware of the budgeting difficulties, just would have liked to see more. Wish it would have had the budget to really do it justice, aye?
It's like watching A&E's Hornblower set alongside Master and Commander: Far Side of the World.
@lexxboomtown really good books aren't they? I read them again and again throughout my childhood i just could not get enough of the great british hero sharpe. Even though i m french lol.
Not surprising. If you have young children and they enjoy animated disney movies, you might notice that the villains in those movies often have a British accent. American film makers quite often draw on "foreign menaces" for their villains. It's part of only one of their odd dualities: a country of immigrants loathes the foreigner. Another one is their "underdog" vs. superpower paradoxes. They have a complicated culture and sadly are not easily understood by other countries.
@Iwasateeninthe80s Iwasa, I've thought about what you've written but on the top of my head I can't come up with one badguy with a British accent. I'll probably feel stupid after you've named some but will you name some? No fight intended here. / Whoever made that wound of Sharpe's is pretty good but it doesn't look fresh to me. No pus or blood for the maggots to feed on. Picky, picky. YUK. And speaking of pus, here comes Simmerson. :) Songs
@Iwasateeninthe80s In American commercials, British accents have always been used to imply class & refinement in a product .. even if the product is American. Now we're getting a lot of Australian accents; which I think is supposed to mean that the item is exotic & "hot". My experience with American TV & movies, is that the "bad guys" had German or eastern European/Russian sounding names & accents.
@Astraea52 depending where in australia you live you will have a different accent, New south Wales is probably the accent they use on your commericals because they are the most refined but queenslanders where i come from, sound very different
@Astraea52 rural queenslander which i am we all have very strong accents most people u would meet from australia would be city people, outside the ctiy an accent is much worse idk why but just happens
I find it amazing how Sean Bean is perpetually pidgeonholed into exactly two roles: that of the foreign traitor/badguy or Richard Sharpe, where he plays the dour-faced, serious, but honorable and forthright soldier.
Which character he is generally depends on if the film was made by Americans or not.
In the books, Sharpe never "got" the girl. I thought this was better for the drama of depicting him as the lone here. ah well can't always agree with mainstream cinema.... or can we... hmm down with the silver screen!!!
@MrWarpman11 back then being a officer depended on your pocket book in the case of simmerson he could afford a band just like the regiment her bought. in the day skill ment less then substance
@Songsmirth The children (I'm guessing you're referring to the drummer boys) were normally law breakers forced to join the Army. The minimum was meant to be 14 but that was rarely observed and children as young as 8 have been reported to been on the Army's books.
For commissioned officers, the average age for an Ensign joining the Army was 16. Oddly younger than that of their Naval equals at the time...
Thanks Prong. I can't imagine children of that age being given such respondsibility. Just a different world. Adults having to take orders from babies really. What a strange situation. I don't think I can comprehed how people thought at the time. It's beyond me. Mothers that would send their boys off to war like this and hope they'd return. Maybe they had so many children that they would encourage them to go to war for the sake of the families name. So expendable. I can't judge.
@Prongsie93 "...the average age for an Ensign joining the Army was 16. Oddly younger than that of their Naval equals at the time..."
In the Army a commission could be bought, and the officer didn't necessarily have to be able to do much beyond sit a horse and look good in a uniform. Naval officers were commissioned as Lieutenants at 18, if they could pass an exam in seamanship and navigation, though they may have been at sea first as boys and then as Midshipmen from as young as 8.
@tyrannusBE Nonsense man,neither of them has been shown on the BBC in Britain,they were both on independant TV. But I agree,not exactly competitors,its funny,but the same names pop up in the comments pages of both these progs' on here as well as on Master and Commander pages :)
@sniperquasi hell no, sharpe (series) was far more of a success (though hornblower didnt have an electric guitar). Hornblower was supposed to be a new sharpe.
@sniperquasi Thats true the one of the producer's stated that they wanted Hornblower to "take its rightful place on TV alongside sharpe". I enjoy them both, good actors good plots.
@TheOxpress Well I should think only the real Wellington could have a genuine nose that size!! I'll watch the making of just to see what the guy looks like without it!!!!
@TheOxpress Wow he looks totally different without that huge knocker!! I think I prefer him with the fake nose he looks so much funnier with that on the front of his face lol
I dunno if its just me, but Sharpes Eagle was my favourite. Dont know why but the older ones seemed more gritty and true to life while the older ones turned more and more cinematic
I'd watch #15 CHALLENGE first. It's more/less based on the first three books & was written for the series. (eg: That nasty Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill is introduced in book one "Tiger"!). It's in India 1803 re: the Mahattra Princes.
Then watching from #1 RIFLES in 1809 Spain it follows nicely throught to #14 WATERLOO 1815. Lastly #16 PERIL is Sharpe back in India fighting with the villagers vs the East India Company ca1818. This book too was written for the series.
Yes..maggots are used to this day! In class (nursing) I learned that it's not just the debridement of the rotten tissue but the secretions produced like ammonium bicarbonate, allantoin, urea etc. are helpful, as well as the fact their movement stimulates blood flow. The maggots they used then were from black blow fly. They've used MT at VGH recently... Studies show hydrogels work just as well and are as cost-effective... I'm cynical and wonder: did a drug co. pay someone off - again!
@jordandraper11 Thanks Jordan. :) Do you know how old Bean was when he started this? I thought he looked quite a bit older in the last two as did Pat.
@jordandraper11 Thanks for trying Jordan. I've been playing a game my son put on my computer. One of the character's sounded familiar and it was Sean! I looked at the credits and there he was. Went back for a listen and of course! Only one voice like that. :) Isn't it interesting that Wellington takes all the credit and doesn't fight in one battle? I've watched all of these and hadn't it been for this fictional character, that war wouldn't have been won. According to this. :)
@Rikki0 Yes. Excellent actor. Sharpe could talk to him. Such a lier though. When I hear, "from his own lips" or whatever, I know a lie is coming. Hogan sure was the genius political . . rat to pull it all together. I wonder who the high "rats" are in our government. The President could use a few. Get us out of these moronic wars we've been placed in. And aget a few "rats' to concentrate on getting our country healthy again.// I still hate to see Simmerson come into this.
well they should be an more guys than sixs, becuse in this time of Total war I can say that men was dieing more faster way then to today in modern combat. but onthing I wanna ask what part in the serie comes after sharpe s Rifles? and I can tell you that It should look better if the 95th in this would been more then seix like 50-70 men or more. but I think that six-20 guys would have been enough.
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Can somone explain the difference in uniforms? everyone in Sharpes platoon seems to have the darker colored blue or black, while that newly arrived Lords platoon seem to be in the traditional red, I thought at first the red must just be a dress uniform, but in Movies like Robroy and Dances with Wolves the field uniforms are red as well?
Hi DDD As i understand it red unifroms were the standard for the infantry regiments, however the sharpes unifrom is green because he is in a Rifle Regiment. These were a breed apart and a new regiment used as skermishers sharpshooters and scouts . There is a lot of history tide up with the Rifles. Over time the regiments became the Royal Green Jackets. I hope this is of some help.
@DinkiDiDude. Regular troops had red uniformes, but the 95th regiment were skirmishers and wore dark green. I think it had something to do with an aliance with germany origionally but not to sure.
Yup, the dark green uniforms were inherited from the German Jagers, who started using light riflemen a considerable while before the British did. Many Hanoverian officers and soldiers fled to Britain to escape Napoleon's occupation.
That, and dark green uniforms make a lot more sense for light infantry than red ones do.
I've only seen the first two episodes, but I'm loving this series thus far.
The only thing I don't like is the jarring guitar riffs that follow every action sequence and in the introduction. It's so distracting and it dates the show.
it was because the books wernt in chronological order, i thought the indian books were some of the best, and it was a shame that the indian episodes were a bit of a merger of several books
the revolutionary troops were also made up of mutiners and traitors who would likely as not have faught harder than the serving british troops due to fear of knowing that if they lost and were captured they would be executed (lynched) so they had extra reason to fight harder in away.
Can't believe I'm discovering this now. Why does the U.K. have keep their good stuff from us?
Maria29493 4 days ago
@Maria29493 Because we dont wan't you infecting it!
duckmann08 4 days ago
Real good to be playing the "Rogue's March" with the redcoats coming in. That piece is meant to be when drumming someone out of a regiment in disgrace!
hartleymartin 2 weeks ago
I have to read this for a book project, but I'm not complaining. About the book, I mean. I hate the work.
taiko729 4 weeks ago
whenever hogan snorts something, what is he doing?
silentxnight 1 month ago
@silentxnight Snuff, it's a kind of dried and ground tobacco.
WolfLord5 1 month ago
@silentxnight its snuff i believe
Viloc92 2 weeks ago
thumbs who thinks this needs to be brough back new series plz
chris26479 1 month ago
Makes me want to play Napoleon Total War ;)
chaz1453 1 month ago 3
@chaz1453 good luck it gets bloody hard
chris26479 1 month ago
@chris26479 lol
chaz1453 1 month ago
@chaz1453 haha i get the very same urge after watching it
gt2e 2 weeks ago
1st thing u see when u see Wellington?
Nose!
xD
maggielovethomas4eve 1 month ago 2
The books were better, but still, amazing!
ChickenMeCrazy 1 month ago
@Doodaddaman I agree - it's such a great time period to write for!
ElliotWrightMusic 2 months ago
Unsupported video format??
nyrmetros 2 months ago
thats one hell of a nose sir athur has got on him!
CsmFun11 2 months ago
You know.... my only problem with this TV series is that the regiments all have about two dozen men in them. They could have used a few more extras.
SyntaxErr00r 2 months ago
@SyntaxErr00r That costs money. They would have to get uniforms, rifles etc. This isn't a very low budget film, but its not exactly a Hollywood blockbuster either.
LordWellington15 2 months ago
@LordWellington15 Oh certainly. I'm aware of the budgeting difficulties, just would have liked to see more. Wish it would have had the budget to really do it justice, aye?
It's like watching A&E's Hornblower set alongside Master and Commander: Far Side of the World.
SyntaxErr00r 2 months ago
I dont know why but I love the theme music and song for this series. And I love sean bean aswell, plays the part well.
mavisformula 3 months ago
we meet again... 240p
MASTERSTUDIOS889 4 months ago in playlist sharpe 3
The nose prosthetic is 'mazing!
MrFlibble13 4 months ago
5:35 best marching theme ever!?
coppertweed 4 months ago
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coppertweed 4 months ago
"A fine body of men sir. Sir Arthur warned me in advance, 'Hogan,' says he, 'the South Essex is a sight to make you shiver.'"
Love Hogan's double meanings.
umjackd 4 months ago 7
@umjackd: The double meaning here meaning that Wellsley is afraid they'll run at the first sight of a French column?
NobleKorhedron 2 months ago
@NobleKorhedron They make you shiver with how bad they are.
Or they make you shiver with how scary they are. Sir Henry takes it the latter way.
umjackd 2 months ago
@umjackd
It seems that the irony is completely lost on Sir Henry though.
Which of course it probably Hogan's intention.
TheBType 1 month ago
big nose xD
maggielovethomas4eve 4 months ago
Sharp and Hoper are soo cute together xD
Vergi2009 5 months ago
Song at 2:30?
theathiestalaby 5 months ago
@theathiestalaby That song is the "Rogues's March". It was the song played marching defaulters to punishment.
"Twenty I got for selling my coat, Twenty for selling my breeches. If ever I serve in the Army again, the devil will be my Sergeant".
The chorus is "Poor, poor soldier, Poor poor soldier"!
BigBadBill2323 5 months ago
flogged men dont fight they run like hell
50TNCSA 5 months ago
you should all try reading Bernard Cornwell's original book about this series.... for one sharpe is NOT blond lol.
cyrilderiviere 5 months ago
@cyrilderiviere iv read them like 4 times each over the years
lexxboomtown 5 months ago
@lexxboomtown really good books aren't they? I read them again and again throughout my childhood i just could not get enough of the great british hero sharpe. Even though i m french lol.
cyrilderiviere 5 months ago
@lexxboomtown: I've got 'em all - I really must dig 'em out from wherever they've got to under all the junk in my bedroom.
NobleKorhedron 4 months ago
This show is so original and exciting, but I say you could steer a battleship with Troughton's nose.
Noremorse10 5 months ago
Cuntis......Really?
iirainey 5 months ago
Duke of Wellington was one of the greatest military leaders the British Army had to offer
LordWellington15 5 months ago
what a great show. I'm so glad someone else remembers this. i grew up with this show.
lazylazymule 6 months ago
isnt the actor who plays hogan in "troy" agamemnon i think? one of the brothers
HATINTHEKAT 6 months ago
@HATINTHEKAT The awesome fantastic Brian Cox.
gaelwynmackwyn 6 months ago
Scar" in the Lion King
"Tai Lung" in the Kung Fu Panda
That's only disney. There are others in regular American films.
I guess they used maggots for that (Sharpe's wound--old-time medical practice). We use them to catch Kokanee; they're damn good for that.
Peace from Canada.
Iwasateeninthe80s 6 months ago
@Iwasateeninthe80s scar is jeremy irons lol
HATINTHEKAT 6 months ago
Not surprising. If you have young children and they enjoy animated disney movies, you might notice that the villains in those movies often have a British accent. American film makers quite often draw on "foreign menaces" for their villains. It's part of only one of their odd dualities: a country of immigrants loathes the foreigner. Another one is their "underdog" vs. superpower paradoxes. They have a complicated culture and sadly are not easily understood by other countries.
Iwasateeninthe80s 6 months ago
@Iwasateeninthe80s Iwasa, I've thought about what you've written but on the top of my head I can't come up with one badguy with a British accent. I'll probably feel stupid after you've named some but will you name some? No fight intended here. / Whoever made that wound of Sharpe's is pretty good but it doesn't look fresh to me. No pus or blood for the maggots to feed on. Picky, picky. YUK. And speaking of pus, here comes Simmerson. :) Songs
Songsmirth 6 months ago
@Iwasateeninthe80s In American commercials, British accents have always been used to imply class & refinement in a product .. even if the product is American. Now we're getting a lot of Australian accents; which I think is supposed to mean that the item is exotic & "hot". My experience with American TV & movies, is that the "bad guys" had German or eastern European/Russian sounding names & accents.
Astraea52 6 months ago
@Astraea52 wow wait, there is a use for our bogan australian accent?
firefly66661 5 months ago
@firefly66661 What is a "bogan" Australian accent? Are there regional accents within Australia?
Astraea52 5 months ago
@Astraea52 depending where in australia you live you will have a different accent, New south Wales is probably the accent they use on your commericals because they are the most refined but queenslanders where i come from, sound very different
firefly66661 5 months ago
@firefly66661 How about the late Steve Irwin; to me, sometimes it sounded like he accentuated his accent, it was so strong.
Astraea52 5 months ago
@Astraea52 rural queenslander which i am we all have very strong accents most people u would meet from australia would be city people, outside the ctiy an accent is much worse idk why but just happens
firefly66661 5 months ago
I find it amazing how Sean Bean is perpetually pidgeonholed into exactly two roles: that of the foreign traitor/badguy or Richard Sharpe, where he plays the dour-faced, serious, but honorable and forthright soldier.
Which character he is generally depends on if the film was made by Americans or not.
TheBType 6 months ago
i had watched only hornblower, and my friend told me about sharpe. i am glad he did!
argonaut200 7 months ago
Brian Cox and Michael Cochrane are are brilliant, Spit, pour, aim load, fire, I know you can fire 3 rounds a minute, but can you stand?
johnnybriggs118 7 months ago
can anyone else see keith lemon in there
Lefcharlie 7 months ago
brian cox.. ooh yea.. he is just damn good!
kingslegion1 8 months ago
In the books, Sharpe never "got" the girl. I thought this was better for the drama of depicting him as the lone here. ah well can't always agree with mainstream cinema.... or can we... hmm down with the silver screen!!!
Bhumble121 8 months ago
@Bhumble121 Urm... Sharpe ALWAYS got the girl. He had at least three "marriages" and was engaged about 6 times.
There's a reason Harper once said "Sharpe will chase anything in a petticoat and get it".
Prongsie93 7 months ago
i dont but i say SHARPE IS THE BEST MOVIE FOR THIS TIME its great
robloxMATTY1319 9 months ago
I love watching films/ drama's on this period, like Hornblower, anyone know any other good films/dramas about the British military around this time?
SNIFFMYBADGER 9 months ago
@SNIFFMYBADGER Waterloo, maybe.
metalbassistvn 9 months ago
Jesus, whose idea was that electric guitar?
JayinMovingPictures 9 months ago
@JayinMovingPictures I find it quite catchy ^_^
ViccardXViccc 8 months ago 5
Is it just me or is there more men in the band then in the actual battalion.
MrWarpman11 10 months ago
@MrWarpman11 back then being a officer depended on your pocket book in the case of simmerson he could afford a band just like the regiment her bought. in the day skill ment less then substance
ticklesadist 8 months ago
@ticklesadist And evidently children also could be commisioned. Do you know how young they could be and buy into the army?
Songsmirth 8 months ago
@Songsmirth The children (I'm guessing you're referring to the drummer boys) were normally law breakers forced to join the Army. The minimum was meant to be 14 but that was rarely observed and children as young as 8 have been reported to been on the Army's books.
For commissioned officers, the average age for an Ensign joining the Army was 16. Oddly younger than that of their Naval equals at the time...
Prongsie93 7 months ago
Thanks Prong. I can't imagine children of that age being given such respondsibility. Just a different world. Adults having to take orders from babies really. What a strange situation. I don't think I can comprehed how people thought at the time. It's beyond me. Mothers that would send their boys off to war like this and hope they'd return. Maybe they had so many children that they would encourage them to go to war for the sake of the families name. So expendable. I can't judge.
Songsmirth 7 months ago
@Prongsie93 "...the average age for an Ensign joining the Army was 16. Oddly younger than that of their Naval equals at the time..."
In the Army a commission could be bought, and the officer didn't necessarily have to be able to do much beyond sit a horse and look good in a uniform. Naval officers were commissioned as Lieutenants at 18, if they could pass an exam in seamanship and navigation, though they may have been at sea first as boys and then as Midshipmen from as young as 8.
sirderam1 2 months ago
@Doodaddaman they're not historical.
Ironzealot7531 11 months ago
what happened to the quality?
Ironzealot7531 11 months ago
Hornblower and Sharpe were both sponsored and primarily aired by the BBC. So no, not exactly 'competitors'.
tyrannusBE 1 year ago
@tyrannusBE Nonsense man,neither of them has been shown on the BBC in Britain,they were both on independant TV. But I agree,not exactly competitors,its funny,but the same names pop up in the comments pages of both these progs' on here as well as on Master and Commander pages :)
2manynegativewaves 11 months ago
I haven't seen all of the sharpe series, but it's just about as good as hornblower.
rival shows perhaps?
sniperquasi 1 year ago
@sniperquasi hell no, sharpe (series) was far more of a success (though hornblower didnt have an electric guitar). Hornblower was supposed to be a new sharpe.
1988theLAW 1 year ago 2
@1988theLAW Perhaps on television, but hornblower was written in the 30's-50's. Sharpe was written in the 80's onwards.
sniperquasi 1 year ago
@sniperquasi Thats true the one of the producer's stated that they wanted Hornblower to "take its rightful place on TV alongside sharpe". I enjoy them both, good actors good plots.
1988theLAW 1 year ago
amazing show, not much compares for good writing, and good cast ^__^
paulsky1 1 year ago 2
I love the beginning theme!
thrashing0donut 1 year ago
RIP Pete Postlethwaite
B0zz3 1 year ago 3
@B0zz3
Quite right. Great man he was too.
bangwallitt 1 year ago
@B0zz3
Quite right. Great man he was too. I know his daughter y'know!
bangwallitt 1 year ago
Now I know why Wellington is called "Big Nose" in Blackadder.
jean3oarsman 1 year ago
What is the music at 5.34?
nastyphoenix 1 year ago
@nastyphoenix "the girl i left behind me"
PlanD4Failure 1 year ago
I think that nose (Wellingtons) is fake you know.
RuachEish 1 year ago 3
@RuachEish It's prosthetic. Watch the making of, explains more.
TheOxpress 1 year ago
@TheOxpress Well I should think only the real Wellington could have a genuine nose that size!! I'll watch the making of just to see what the guy looks like without it!!!!
RuachEish 1 year ago
@RuachEish Just search google for Hugh Fraser, you will know him from shows like Poirot and a fair few films.
TheOxpress 1 year ago
@TheOxpress Wow he looks totally different without that huge knocker!! I think I prefer him with the fake nose he looks so much funnier with that on the front of his face lol
RuachEish 1 year ago
@RuachEish I think it adds to him, I can't really watch anything with him in it without seeing that large hooter in the middle of his face. ))
TheOxpress 1 year ago
@TheOxpress Do you think it honks like a horn if you squeeze or pull it???!!
RuachEish 1 year ago
@RuachEish haha oh but of course it has to!!
TheOxpress 1 year ago
Thanks for showing this, ShinigamiTiger99.
I love Sharpe. Great novels by Bernard Cornwell and good tv too.
:)
CambCelt 1 year ago 4
OMG his nose at 4:33
nathnastyman 1 year ago 3
@nathnastyman makes his nickname really obvious eh
hayden1096 1 year ago
This series is fucking sick.
Alpha1Bravo1Charlie1 1 year ago
My God, the man playing Wellesley has a Massive Nose!!!
Isildun9 1 year ago 2
@Isildun9 its fake LOL
uncharted132 1 year ago
@Isildun9 Part of a common soldiers song about arthur welesley went " who's the boy with the hooky nose" wellington did have a great conker
sgtgewart1 1 year ago
Does anyone know the name/title of the music from 2:27 - 3:10 ?
VictoriousAssassin 1 year ago
David Troughton + Brian Cox ROCK!
svublues26 1 year ago 3
I dunno if its just me, but Sharpes Eagle was my favourite. Dont know why but the older ones seemed more gritty and true to life while the older ones turned more and more cinematic
Robaaaayy 1 year ago
i do hope that nose is part of the make up...
stupidintellect90 1 year ago
@stupidintellect90
yeah it took something like 2 hours to put on (so i heard in the DVD extras)
Robaaaayy 1 year ago
Why, GOD, did they have to ruin a great movie with electric guitar?
coaubry 1 year ago
@coaubry as unsuitable the music is to this series...i think it's rather good and to me- it simply says 'Sharpe'
stupidintellect90 1 year ago 4
jeez, he looks like a bird of prey from the side
DerOrk 1 year ago 7
biggest nose ive ever seen in my life!!
log8427 1 year ago 3
The men either loved Wellington or down right hated him.
oldsreo 1 year ago
"Who's the boy with the hookey nose? Our Wellie"
oldsreo 1 year ago 3
this order of books is wrong or must be ;D
felipe2661 2 years ago
I'd watch #15 CHALLENGE first. It's more/less based on the first three books & was written for the series. (eg: That nasty Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill is introduced in book one "Tiger"!). It's in India 1803 re: the Mahattra Princes.
Then watching from #1 RIFLES in 1809 Spain it follows nicely throught to #14 WATERLOO 1815. Lastly #16 PERIL is Sharpe back in India fighting with the villagers vs the East India Company ca1818. This book too was written for the series.
suelizjohnson 1 year ago
Talk about a bed head on Sharpie xD
SleepingTenshi 2 years ago
1;22 use of maggots to cleanse wound -
suelizjohnson 2 years ago
Absolutely - they're actually quite clean bugs. They only eat dead flesh, they leave living skin totally intact.
Booshman 1 year ago 3
Yes..maggots are used to this day! In class (nursing) I learned that it's not just the debridement of the rotten tissue but the secretions produced like ammonium bicarbonate, allantoin, urea etc. are helpful, as well as the fact their movement stimulates blood flow. The maggots they used then were from black blow fly. They've used MT at VGH recently... Studies show hydrogels work just as well and are as cost-effective... I'm cynical and wonder: did a drug co. pay someone off - again!
suelizjohnson 1 year ago
jordandraper11 2 years ago 71
@jordandraper11 thanks
craffte 2 years ago
Your forgetting Shape's Tiger/Trafalgar. LOL but in the TV series sense, you are right LOL
phillitupp 1 year ago
thts jst the films the books are far more extensive
XBOXComplete 1 year ago
@jordandraper11 Thanks
ToudaHell 1 year ago
@jordandraper11 Thanks Jordan. :) Do you know how old Bean was when he started this? I thought he looked quite a bit older in the last two as did Pat.
Songsmirth 8 months ago
@Songsmirth I had a quick look around on google but didn't find what age he was while filming this.
jordandraper11 7 months ago
@jordandraper11 Thanks for trying Jordan. I've been playing a game my son put on my computer. One of the character's sounded familiar and it was Sean! I looked at the credits and there he was. Went back for a listen and of course! Only one voice like that. :) Isn't it interesting that Wellington takes all the credit and doesn't fight in one battle? I've watched all of these and hadn't it been for this fictional character, that war wouldn't have been won. According to this. :)
Songsmirth 7 months ago
@jordandraper11 Sharpe's Eagle was first aired in 1993, and Sean Bean was born April 1959, so he was about 33 or 34 when it was filmed.
Astraea52 7 months ago
I love Hogan's sense of sarcasm. Wish he had stayed for the entire series.
Rikki0 2 years ago 53
@Rikki0 The actor who played him (Brian Cox) is diabetic and refused to return to work in the Ukraine where most of the filming took place.
Fedaykin4321 1 year ago
@Rikki0 Thanks for letting me know the future! Hint the sarcasm.
eggoo11 1 year ago
@Rikki0 Yes. Excellent actor. Sharpe could talk to him. Such a lier though. When I hear, "from his own lips" or whatever, I know a lie is coming. Hogan sure was the genius political . . rat to pull it all together. I wonder who the high "rats" are in our government. The President could use a few. Get us out of these moronic wars we've been placed in. And aget a few "rats' to concentrate on getting our country healthy again.// I still hate to see Simmerson come into this.
Songsmirth 7 months ago
@Rikki0 I didn't realize until I read up on him, that he's the one who played the villain "Stryker" in X-Men! Quite a body of work he has!
Astraea52 6 months ago
I wonder what the duke of york was really like... something tells me he wasn't this progressive
izmemfer 2 years ago
no in the book sharpe and 20 or so men got stranded on the retreat of corunna and wellinton deployed them in his army
choconibletbeans 2 years ago
well they should be an more guys than sixs, becuse in this time of Total war I can say that men was dieing more faster way then to today in modern combat. but onthing I wanna ask what part in the serie comes after sharpe s Rifles? and I can tell you that It should look better if the 95th in this would been more then seix like 50-70 men or more. but I think that six-20 guys would have been enough.
svensksoldat91 2 years ago
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well what I know and heard is that USA are there for Oil so you guy s can make more gas to your fucking cars. but I do respect what amerca does down there and always hate when someone says somthing bad about Uinted states all Armed forces down there, because we the Swedish armdforces do more that you are doing. as ta´lking to them, giving newspaipers, candy to the kids and ask them about the Talibans. we trying to be there fore them.
svensksoldat91 2 years ago
how are the sharpe serie, I know that Sharpe s Rifles is firs part, but what part comes after that? Eagele or companey or?
svensksoldat91 2 years ago
One thing that gets me, the 95th Rifles is made of like, 6 men? No more?
MrTacticalmarine 2 years ago
about 1400 actually...its just that these men are stranded away from their battalion
Redstar226 2 years ago
hmm, did spain have regular standing army? if so what color was their uniform? i am guessing not since napoleon took over spain with ease
bloodndestroy 2 years ago
Can somone explain the difference in uniforms? everyone in Sharpes platoon seems to have the darker colored blue or black, while that newly arrived Lords platoon seem to be in the traditional red, I thought at first the red must just be a dress uniform, but in Movies like Robroy and Dances with Wolves the field uniforms are red as well?
DinkiDiDude 2 years ago
Hi DDD As i understand it red unifroms were the standard for the infantry regiments, however the sharpes unifrom is green because he is in a Rifle Regiment. These were a breed apart and a new regiment used as skermishers sharpshooters and scouts . There is a lot of history tide up with the Rifles. Over time the regiments became the Royal Green Jackets. I hope this is of some help.
westernmadgal 2 years ago
Cheers mate helped heaps.....those Green Uniforms look pretty badass as well.......
DinkiDiDude 2 years ago
If you look on net the RGJ's have a web site you may be able to find out more about the unifoms and origins of the modern regiment. :-)
westernmadgal 2 years ago
Not to mention a bit harder to see. I suppose you could say they were the SAS of their day. At least in these stories.
candr 2 years ago
shape is part of a rifle battalion (the 95th)
they wore dark green uniforms
Shlepple 2 years ago
@DinkiDiDude. Regular troops had red uniformes, but the 95th regiment were skirmishers and wore dark green. I think it had something to do with an aliance with germany origionally but not to sure.
garageflower2002 2 years ago
Yup, the dark green uniforms were inherited from the German Jagers, who started using light riflemen a considerable while before the British did. Many Hanoverian officers and soldiers fled to Britain to escape Napoleon's occupation.
That, and dark green uniforms make a lot more sense for light infantry than red ones do.
Stheno16 2 years ago
yeah it was the standerd dress for a common soldier in battle and any other
Phil1796 2 years ago
I've only seen the first two episodes, but I'm loving this series thus far.
The only thing I don't like is the jarring guitar riffs that follow every action sequence and in the introduction. It's so distracting and it dates the show.
michaelgj23 2 years ago
Yeah, the guitar is just so...urgh, cheesy!
ohwnosrepeht 2 years ago
the only bad part of the series is that it didnt start in india where sharp got his actual promotion to sergent and his promotion to ensign.
rocksolid101 2 years ago
it was because the books wernt in chronological order, i thought the indian books were some of the best, and it was a shame that the indian episodes were a bit of a merger of several books
xEGC92x 2 years ago
Well, dude, the india books weren't written yet when this was filmed.
lumpy814 2 years ago
what happened to Sharpe's leg?
svublues26 2 years ago
This was such a great show I went out and bought it the next day!
666Selck666 2 years ago
Poor Mr. Denny.
Anthony009R 2 years ago
is that "rogues march"playing from 2:28 to about 3:02
SBS336 2 years ago
yes it is rogues march
itsaguinness 2 years ago
Are the calling Wellington nosy? Odd nickname.
Song476 2 years ago
because he has a big hooked nose
jesusvalentine 2 years ago
That really was his nickname, historicially speaking.
scoobs147 2 years ago
u ever seen the size of his nose? lol
rocksolid101 2 years ago
@rocksolid101
Yes, why do you think his nick name is nosy?
phillitupp 1 year ago
Didn't Horse Guards used to be British Army HQ?
Anthony009R 2 years ago
Is wellsey saying horseguard or houseguard? Either way they sound like a bunch of pampered whoresons.
Song476 2 years ago
"horseguards", and as for the rest, a good deal of them probably were.
greymalkinfilms 2 years ago
omg ,i thought concorde was about to take off at 4.39 ,bloody nora imagine how many women want to sit on that nose rofl.
THRUXTON1 2 years ago
I wonder why David Troughton left his role of Wellsey to Hugh Fraser?
Song476 2 years ago
Isn't the Countess yummy?
Bierreisender 2 years ago
Lt. Berry is BOND!!!!
ale89414 2 years ago
Jesus, that's a nose to die for.
gaelwynmackwyn 2 years ago
It's synthetic, not his actual nose.
TheAssist 2 years ago
and furthermore kronnie2
the revolutionary troops were also made up of mutiners and traitors who would likely as not have faught harder than the serving british troops due to fear of knowing that if they lost and were captured they would be executed (lynched) so they had extra reason to fight harder in away.
j6cb 2 years ago
Hehe, Hogan - "You bear the loss with great fortitude, Mum" Classic!
morduks 2 years ago