I finally got around to watching full episodes of Sharpe rather than watching them in small doses on RUclips. I'm glad I did, the show is great. They did a lot with such a small budget.
That's soldiering. I have probably watched the box set a 100 times. They even play full episodes to this day on Irish television. They're brilliant, however I recommend the books, they're even better.
yeah, the show is great! Stuff like this isn't getting made anymore coz the movie industry has been infected with woke progressive politics. There are some plot holes though, like the kid of Sharpe that past half of the series is only mentioned once again and then totally forgotten about; probably coz romance isn't so romantic if the MC has a kid XD and the low budget really stands out in the fighting scenes that are more akin to the Zorro series I watched in the 90's but was made in the 80's. Most of the dialogue is good, most of the languages nailed... though the Swedish actor playing the Dutch 'sergeant' to give the order in Dutch to present their arms and shoot is ridiculous. I had to have subtitles to understand what he was saying and I am Dutch, but kudos for the actor for trying; Dutch is a pretty difficult language to learn for foreigners XD
Managing a RUclips channel for a near 30-year-old TV show and introducing it to thousands of people who'd never heard of it in 2021 Now _THAT'S_ soldiering.
Sharpe is the role that launched Sean Bean's entire amazing career. The Lord of The Rings, Game of Thrones, Goldeneye, Troy, The Martian, Snowpiercer: The Series, all of it thanks to Sharpe.
Simmerson: "I have a cousin at Horse Guards, and I have friends at court." Wellesley: (looking up, the expression saying, "DID YOU JUST TRY TO *THREATEN* ME, YOU MISERABLE LITTLE STAIN?")
Majors Lennox and Hogan were drawn from historical accuracy. Engineers had a very slow promotion track, and richer people and nobility were promoted despite a character like Lennox deserving promotions but losing out because he could not buy higher rank. Even Sharp was stuck as a major until 'Silly Billy' made him a Colonel in the Dutch army. There's a common theme throughout the Sharp series about how talented soldiering could only take someone so far. Even Wellington had to do this dance. He eventually became Prime-minister!
@@68jroche a Major cannot buy a colonel's commission without establishing his own regiment (very expensive). It was intentionally difficult to become a colonel without new troops to command, otherwise the British Army would be full of captains and not enough majors or captains. Sharpe and Lennox were promoted on merit each time, Lennox in India and Sharpe in Portugal/Spain.
You did not need to raise a regiment, you could buy your colonel's commision when they retired. Sometimes the officers of the regiment pooled together to make that purchase because it meant promotions for everyone.
Hakeswell couldn't have been played more perfectly. In the books he is much worse but every detail of his mannerisms are done to perfection. Says so in the scriptures.
Peter Postlethwaite was his name. Sadly he is no longer with us. One of the best UK actors in my opinion. I've enjoyed all of his characters, he breathes life and reality to them all.
I love how there are more vilainous scenes that could have been used for Simmerson, but that scene with Wellington is just too dang good to not play again.
@@jr5925 Disagree. Loup shares Sharpe's devotion to his men, but without his scruples. Hakeswill has no scruples or loyalty to anyone but himself (and his sainted mother, says so in the scriptures, so it does).
Feodor Atkine (Dukos) was very kind to my wife helping her, along with a French train employee to find an alternate route home when her connecting train from Paris was cancelled one night. It was only when she was watching a Sharpe episode with me that she recognised him. She just knew he was a Russian actor.
Sir Henry Simmerson did have something of a tiny redemption in 'Sharpe's Peril'. He called Sharpe 'Richard' and they shook hands at the end. Closure of a sort.
The look on Sharpe's face when Simmerson offers to shake his hand there is the most wary, suspicious and distrustful look I have ever seen in my entire life. If Simmerson's hand were writhing with snakes he couldn't have looked at it with more distrust. I like to think of Sean Bean practising that expression for years, saving it for the day Sharpe was senior enough to use it.
@@Southern_Crusader I agree, he's very special, and he doesn't get enough credit. So many people seem to think that he's really like Sharpe or Boromir, so they don't think he's even acting, whereas so far as I can tell, it's his character in the recent _Time_ (BBC) that's much closer to his real personality, and people are saying he should get a BAFTA for that.
@@jr5925 I wouldn't know about critical recognition as I only discovered Sean's work at the end of last year, when I decided it was way past time to watch _Sharpe_ . I'm going by the number of comments I've seen on twitter about _Time_ to the effect "I never rated him as an actor but he was really good in this". Even the DIRECTOR didn't believe until after they'd shot the first scene that Sean was going to be capable of playing Mark Cobden convincingly, which if you think about it is pretty insulting. That kind of thing is what I mean by "he doesn't get enough credit".
But he never could managed to show rage and anger like the first actor that played wellington. See the scene where he exploded at simmerson about the king's color. Other than that, he is quite good.
Lord Simmerson was a villian at first but madness turned him around and brought him the spirit of a true warrior who stood by his men and fought back instead of running away. And he did it in a sleeping gown. Huzzah to you Lord Simmerson.
I watched this show when it first came out, I was far too young but I had my own TV in my room LOL I have a signed autograph of Sean Bean in his Sharpe uniform.
I worked with siri neal in penzance, in a pub, she was taking a break in the filming of wycliffe; (one of her first roles, in this sharpe, she was handing out the newspapers) she wasnt very friendly, thought she was better than anyone else.
fantstic acting in this show, havent seen one bad performance at all! especially the scene with sergeant hicks, the way his eyes change when he puts the barrel to his chest.
Every single villain was played superbly by that actor... Simmerson, Ducos, La Roux, Hakeswill, the list goes on, I couldnt choose my favourite out right, toss up between Simmerson and Ducos, Michael Cochrane and Feodor Aitkin, brilliant actors
11:33 Major Algorithm reports a number of losses, Sir Henry. He says you first lost your head, and instead of viewing the video, you scrolled past it. He says you then lost your nerve, and ran from a small anti-adblocker pop-up. He says you lost ten Views, an Impression and two Conversions. He says you finally lost your sense of honour and cleared cookies, cutting off a cross-site tracking party led by Lieutenant Sharpe... Major Algorithm leaves the worst to the last. He says you lost the King's Subscribers.
I finally watched Willow recently, in preparation for checking out the new show (which is excellent, by the way, check it out!). Finding out afterwards that Captain Leroy was there hit me like a ton of bricks.
Hornblower had the benefit of a slightly better budget and, with it being mostly confined to ship on ship action, does not suffer the obviousness of a low budget with battle scenes (Sharpe's action scenes had at most 100 people recreating a battle eg. Talavera with over 100,000 combatants). However, I prefer Sharpe.
If you don't want him dead you should probably switch up the target area of the punches... 4-5 solid slugs to a man's gut can cause internal bleeding. Which, at the time, would have certainly been bad news and most likely leading to a slow and painful death. Did he know this? Maybe not. But still. Slap him around a bit. It's more humiliating and works better on a psychological level.
MAJOR LENNOX ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE! AS YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD ANY SENSE OF HONOUR! YOU LOST THE COLOURS OF THE KING OF ENGLAND! YOU DISGRACED US, SIR. YOU SHAMED US, SIR. YOU WILL ANSWER.
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I finally got around to watching full episodes of Sharpe rather than watching them in small doses on RUclips. I'm glad I did, the show is great. They did a lot with such a small budget.
That's soldiering. I have probably watched the box set a 100 times. They even play full episodes to this day on Irish television. They're brilliant, however I recommend the books, they're even better.
@@IrishTechnicalThinker that will not do,good sir
surely u mean soldiering,. Not soldering.
I shall report these mistake to my cousin in horse guards.
yeah, the show is great! Stuff like this isn't getting made anymore coz the movie industry has been infected with woke progressive politics. There are some plot holes though, like the kid of Sharpe that past half of the series is only mentioned once again and then totally forgotten about; probably coz romance isn't so romantic if the MC has a kid XD and the low budget really stands out in the fighting scenes that are more akin to the Zorro series I watched in the 90's but was made in the 80's. Most of the dialogue is good, most of the languages nailed... though the Swedish actor playing the Dutch 'sergeant' to give the order in Dutch to present their arms and shoot is ridiculous. I had to have subtitles to understand what he was saying and I am Dutch, but kudos for the actor for trying; Dutch is a pretty difficult language to learn for foreigners XD
@@dchegu HAHAHAHAHAHA! Legend!
Watching these days I like to play spot the young actor! Looking back Sharpe had quite the Cast.
Managing a RUclips channel for a near 30-year-old TV show and introducing it to thousands of people who'd never heard of it in 2021
Now _THAT'S_ soldiering.
This channel is absolutely amazing.
Absolutely fantastic.
one of my fave scenes is that fort scene
I wish I didn't have to sail the high seas to watch it. But none the less, I need more Sharpe
Sharpe is simply the role Sean Bean was made for. Awesome series.
Sharpe is the role that launched Sean Bean's entire amazing career. The Lord of The Rings, Game of Thrones, Goldeneye, Troy, The Martian, Snowpiercer: The Series, all of it thanks to Sharpe.
@@DragonHeart613 The rest of his career is making up for all the times Sharpe should have died.
Simmerson: "I have a cousin at Horse Guards, and I have friends at court."
Wellesley: (looking up, the expression saying, "DID YOU JUST TRY TO *THREATEN* ME, YOU MISERABLE LITTLE STAIN?")
I love that scene! Best on television in history.
A man who loses the King’s colors loses the King’s friendship!
Majors Lennox and Hogan were drawn from historical accuracy. Engineers had a very slow promotion track, and richer people and nobility were promoted despite a character like Lennox deserving promotions but losing out because he could not buy higher rank. Even Sharp was stuck as a major until 'Silly Billy' made him a Colonel in the Dutch army. There's a common theme throughout the Sharp series about how talented soldiering could only take someone so far. Even Wellington had to do this dance. He eventually became Prime-minister!
@@68jroche a Major cannot buy a colonel's commission without establishing his own regiment (very expensive). It was intentionally difficult to become a colonel without new troops to command, otherwise the British Army would be full of captains and not enough majors or captains. Sharpe and Lennox were promoted on merit each time, Lennox in India and Sharpe in Portugal/Spain.
You did not need to raise a regiment, you could buy your colonel's commision when they retired.
Sometimes the officers of the regiment pooled together to make that purchase because it meant promotions for everyone.
Hakeswell couldn't have been played more perfectly. In the books he is much worse but every detail of his mannerisms are done to perfection. Says so in the scriptures.
You know every time I see that actor in something I immediately yell, “Obadiah!”
God, in the books he was terrifying
Pete Postlethwaite, great actor.
Peter Postlethwaite was his name. Sadly he is no longer with us. One of the best UK actors in my opinion. I've enjoyed all of his characters, he breathes life and reality to them all.
He is simply disgusting.
'A man who loses the kings colours, loses the kings friendship'.
Now that's Simmersoning.
Simmering?
@@unclejoeoaklandthats his style sir
That's my style, sir.
Upon seeing a Sharpe episode on youtube I naturally clicked on it.
That's my style sir.
5:50 killing a deserter in revenge for killing a comrade, thats Harpering
I love how there are more vilainous scenes that could have been used for Simmerson, but that scene with Wellington is just too dang good to not play again.
They're all good for different reasons. My favorites in order:
1)Ducos = most intelligent
2)Hakeswill = The Joker
3)Simmerson = antithesis of Sharpe
I'd add that Loup is a reflection of how Sharpe would be if he broke bad.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher I forgot Loup. Yeah, I agree.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher Never thought of that.
@@jr5925
Disagree. Loup shares Sharpe's devotion to his men, but without his scruples. Hakeswill has no scruples or loyalty to anyone but himself (and his sainted mother, says so in the scriptures, so it does).
I quite liked Dodd, myself.
'He said you lost the kings colours' gets me everytime, fantastic acting!
Obadiah Hakeswill will always be Sharpe's greatest villain. Absolutely vile.
He's hated by the entire army in the books. Everyone wants him dead but he can't die. Says so in the scriptures.
@@IrishTechnicalThinker I concur, says so in the scriptures.
“You can’t kill me…”
@@TheAutistWhisperer So says the scriptures.
He had a son, but can't find much about him.
RUclips now recommends scenes from this show every time I pull it up.
This show is so British, it colonized my RUclips recommendations.
Feodor Atkine (Dukos) was very kind to my wife helping her, along with a French train employee to find an alternate route home when her connecting train from Paris was cancelled one night. It was only when she was watching a Sharpe episode with me that she recognised him. She just knew he was a Russian actor.
Not supriceing thoe as usealy those who play the villans are the quite oppesit of their carecters
Yeah that fits. The worse people played, the nicer the person quite often.
You can tell Sharpe is _LOVING_ outranking Hakeswill here: he can finally get his own back and Hakeswill can't do anything (publicly at least)
Sir Henry Simmerson did have something of a tiny redemption in 'Sharpe's Peril'. He called Sharpe 'Richard' and they shook hands at the end. Closure of a sort.
The look on Sharpe's face when Simmerson offers to shake his hand there is the most wary, suspicious and distrustful look I have ever seen in my entire life. If Simmerson's hand were writhing with snakes he couldn't have looked at it with more distrust.
I like to think of Sean Bean practising that expression for years, saving it for the day Sharpe was senior enough to use it.
@@talavera9515 He really is different from most actors out there. A different breed from the soulless acting of today.
@@Southern_Crusader I agree, he's very special, and he doesn't get enough credit. So many people seem to think that he's really like Sharpe or Boromir, so they don't think he's even acting, whereas so far as I can tell, it's his character in the recent _Time_ (BBC) that's much closer to his real personality, and people are saying he should get a BAFTA for that.
@@jr5925 I wouldn't know about critical recognition as I only discovered Sean's work at the end of last year, when I decided it was way past time to watch _Sharpe_ . I'm going by the number of comments I've seen on twitter about _Time_ to the effect "I never rated him as an actor but he was really good in this".
Even the DIRECTOR didn't believe until after they'd shot the first scene that Sean was going to be capable of playing Mark Cobden convincingly, which if you think about it is pretty insulting. That kind of thing is what I mean by "he doesn't get enough credit".
Simmerson was a nasty vile man. I would have never made peace with him.
This time period needs more movies
Damn, that last clip! Sharpe would make a great Imperium of Man Commissar!
You should read the Gaunt’s Ghosts series by Dan Abnett. Gaunt is basically Sharpe in the Imperial Guard!
@@Mister_Kourkoutas Abnett literally described it in White Dwarf as 'Sharpe in Space'.
I know he's not a villain, but Hugh Fraser plays such a good Arthur Wellesley.
He is every bit the man authoritative enough to bring down Napoleon.
But he never could managed to show rage and anger like the first actor that played wellington. See the scene where he exploded at simmerson about the king's color. Other than that, he is quite good.
@@dchegu That was the best scene I’ve ever seen on TV.
he was good but I preferred David Trough performance myself.
Its a shame David Troughton refused to go on location to Ukraine again, he was a great Wellington!
@@hallamhalthat’s cause he had allergies if I remember which is y latter he films only indoors the. They replaced him
Lord Simmerson was a villian at first but madness turned him around and brought him the spirit of a true warrior who stood by his men and fought back instead of running away. And he did it in a sleeping gown.
Huzzah to you Lord Simmerson.
I watched this show when it first came out, I was far too young but I had my own TV in my room LOL I have a signed autograph of Sean Bean in his Sharpe uniform.
One of my very best series and Sharpe is just worth watching and I just love it 🥰.
I still can't believe Sean Bean managed to escape the Napoleonic Wars with his life!
I must commend Sharpe for his ability to keep his hair in tip top condition even in the most dire of circumstances
Now that's soldiering
😎
I just stumbled on this channel, and having seen a few of these clips I now want to buy (and binge in turn) the entire series.
At least Ducos was actually on the enemy side.
There are only three things that Sharpe is truly good at, FIGHTING, WINNING, AND KILLING HIS ENEMIES PERSONALLY!!!
Ah he's also good at losing women, most of the time.
Damn! Harris was on that cart driver out of nowhere like a Ninja!
16.50 "You killed me sir!" "You Bastard!" Now that's Southparkering!
Sharpe saying the T-800 line ? That's the most epic thing ever.
Obidiah is still the king of villains in sharpe
I worked with siri neal in penzance, in a pub, she was taking a break in the filming of wycliffe; (one of her first roles, in this sharpe, she was handing out the newspapers) she wasnt very friendly, thought she was better than anyone else.
Pure Pete Postlethwaite Perfection
You have to admire this series. They got villains who really played the part.
fantstic acting in this show, havent seen one bad performance at all! especially the scene with sergeant hicks, the way his eyes change when he puts the barrel to his chest.
Wellesley reminds me of my high school principal. He had a scathing prose.
Mark Strong played a good villain as did Daniel Craig. So many top characters
There was also an appearance by Alexander Armstrong. Imagine that coming up on Pointless.
Getting this video recommended to me after watching one Sharpe's video?
Now that's RUclipsing.
Love it when Sharpe destroys Ducos' glasses.
Omfg. Lol I haven't watched the show, but watching the smarmy ones twitch makes me smile. Thank you God for decent shows.
Every single villain was played superbly by that actor... Simmerson, Ducos, La Roux, Hakeswill, the list goes on, I couldnt choose my favourite out right, toss up between Simmerson and Ducos, Michael Cochrane and Feodor Aitkin, brilliant actors
Tho for Michael Cochrane, he seem to be typecast as a villain in almost everything that I saw him in.
Pete Postlethwaite as Hakeswill is the best by far.
@@dchegu in Downtown Abby he plays a Chatolic priest. No villain. 😁
11:33 Major Algorithm reports a number of losses, Sir Henry.
He says you first lost your head, and instead of viewing the video, you scrolled past it.
He says you then lost your nerve, and ran from a small anti-adblocker pop-up.
He says you lost ten Views, an Impression and two Conversions.
He says you finally lost your sense of honour and cleared cookies, cutting off a cross-site tracking party led by Lieutenant Sharpe...
Major Algorithm leaves the worst to the last. He says you lost the King's Subscribers.
This was a great series
1:09 very satisfying crunch
Never seen a hero like Sharpe: hopeless while fighting with a sword, and looks bad while doing it.
that one guard who was just chilling on his stool when there was a full on assault going on outside, not even holding his rifle.
So many great across in this series!
Loupe had at least 30 opportunities to kill sharpe during that duel
The sword fights in the show always go that way for Sharpe. It's especially bad in one of the India episodes
12:15 Major Lennox :(
A damn fine officer.
He answered with his life, sir!
Did I ever tell you about the battle of Assaye...
@@nickmullen2830
*wink* Not that I recall, sir.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher You're a damn liar.
Hey where is Colonel Leroux? He broke Sharpe's sword and nearly killed him. He should added to the video.
So many great villains in this series, all of them so wonderfully hateable
2:50 "...teaching young girls home economics."
Perfect BA cross over
@@raywellswork
A BA crossover where Sharpe is the sensei. I’d watch it.
Best two villains left for the last. couldn't agree with this list more on all choices.
@Dwergarphalanx What about Jane, that snake?
@@carpetclimber4027 she was a snake, but hardly a villain in the company of who is listed here
When you're foe is at you're mercy don't yap kill.
Tuco the Ugly: If you want to shoot, just shoot don't start talking
Tuco the Ugly: If you want to shoot, just shoot don't start talking.
Shared with my dad lol. We love Sharpe hahaha
Where is Jane? She should be here.
*Underated Comment
How do you not add the prince of orange
13:35 OH MY GOD it's the monk from Dragonheart! 😂
Simmerson is the most despicable, Hakeswill the most evil, Loup the most formidable and Ducos the most capable.
I think Hakeswill is the most despicable. Simmerson got his redemption.
05:23 Love Harper Rifle.
I finally watched Willow recently, in preparation for checking out the new show (which is excellent, by the way, check it out!). Finding out afterwards that Captain Leroy was there hit me like a ton of bricks.
Go Find and early 80`s series called "we`ll Meet Again" he`s in that too
He's also the Army guy who gets his eye swapped out in Never Say Never Again.
Sir Henry Simmerson was a legend.
Achievement Earned:
*Rogues Gallery, Shooting Gallery*
Can't argue that Ducos was the sneakiest of the bunch
Indeed but that also gave his carecter a surten charm he might be cold coniveing but he still has some manners
not a single clip of jane
thats not soldering
But mounting electronic components on a circuit board.
That's soldering
Eye for an eye? Aye, fair enough. But do you know what the value of that telescope would be in the future on Antiques Roadshow?
cooper knows drill lol
Titles under are very much incorrectly writen.
Taking Caricatures names and using them now that Punning😁😁😁
Ranking the Sharpe villains: 1) Obadiah 2) Simmerson 3) Ducos 4) Loup
hornblower or sharpe which you prefer
Hornblower. But it's a close-run thing.
Love hornblower, but sharp is number 1
Hornblower had the benefit of a slightly better budget and, with it being mostly confined to ship on ship action, does not suffer the obviousness of a low budget with battle scenes (Sharpe's action scenes had at most 100 people recreating a battle eg. Talavera with over 100,000 combatants).
However, I prefer Sharpe.
Both.
Can't choice. ❤️
SHARP HAS HIS number !!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍✌g
Gotta love Obadiah xD
I would suggest that you read the books Sharpe much better than the TV series
If you don't want him dead you should probably switch up the target area of the punches... 4-5 solid slugs to a man's gut can cause internal bleeding. Which, at the time, would have certainly been bad news and most likely leading to a slow and painful death. Did he know this? Maybe not. But still. Slap him around a bit. It's more humiliating and works better on a psychological level.
Hakeswill is my all time favourite baddy
Simmerson has no friends at Horsegaurd
The villains were well chosen but let's not forget the women.
Ducos is my favoritt he is quite aware of things intellegent smart and was the closest to besting Sharp and that even without a sword
MAJOR LENNOX ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE! AS YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD ANY SENSE OF HONOUR! YOU LOST THE COLOURS OF THE KING OF ENGLAND! YOU DISGRACED US, SIR. YOU SHAMED US, SIR. YOU WILL ANSWER.
The worst/best villain was Sharpe's second wife.
I look at simmerson and think to myself Who let Boris Johnson in the British army
I maid'er a kay-ache!
What would i give just to be an extra in British army Georgian uniform.
Where are the bayonets???
Meow.
Get out. We don't speak of that.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher 😂
Woof
The books are better
They always are.
I've watched Sharpe numerous times. In my opinion, Sean Bean wasn't exactly the best actor for the role. Too much inappropriate heavy breathing.
Girdwood is underrated. He is well aware of Horse Guards, and they are well aware of him. Plus, he never lost the King's colors.
IRISH MAAAAAN!