@@algomez8563 Spanish. He pretented to be a resistance leader, supposedly fighting the french, while secretly working with them to acchieve his own goals. Which did not keep him from torturing captured french soldiers.
In his duels, Sharpe appeared to be the challenged and therefore had the right to choose the weapons. He should have always gone with rifles at 200 paces.
@@dlxmarks Reminds me of a story that is told about Bismarck and Virchow here in Germany. Bismarck, called the 'Iron Chancellor', simply loved duells. And when Rudolf Virchow, the 'father of modern pathology' and parlamentarian once accused Bismarck of not telling the truth, Bismarck challenged him to a duell. Virchow accepted, appeared at the agreed time and place and when asked by Bismarck which weapons he had chosen, he supposedly produced... two sausages. Bismarck, apparently quite bewildered asked what the point of this is, to which Rudolf Virchow answered that _this_ would be his weapons and that one of those sausages would be contaminated with trichinae, a parasite that causes trichinosis. Which could not be treated at this time, lead to massive and quite unpleasant symptoms and, in case the parasite reaches the heart, meant a death sentence. A slow and painful death, I might add. After explaining that, Virchow told Bismarck to pick one sausage, so that they could have breakfast together. And supposedly Bismarck turned around and decided to back off immediately.
@@Kitiwake you never know how it is with people, they might look tough and create a following on their so called toughness, but when the tough gets going, their courage never gets going, because they didnt have any to begin with
@@Iason29 We do know how it is with people to a degree, and choking people is almost never a good way to get reliable information, practically speaking. It's much more likely to get people to tell you what you want to hear, which, if you're interrogating them, often means lying to you. This is TV drama though
NO! NOOOOOOOOO! SMASH! I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!
I don't think that this is a spoiler given how old this series is, but I thought Ducos was dead the first time I watched this - the producers obviously changed their minds having realised they've got to stop writing their best villains out of the show.
@John James perhaps he survived? Sharpe doesn't even find him amongst the baggage train wreckage, it would be weird not to include that scene considering they were mortal enemies.
@@Dominic-fd2wz I know you need to suspend disbelief sometimes......but a couple of lead balls to the back, point blank without immediate surgery. He practically rose up from the dead!
There are some scenes in the series in which some of Sharpe's men, even Harper himself are wounded and fall over as if dead, and then they just show up in the next scene. So yeah, until you see the reaction shot with the dead eyes staring into the void, no one is dead.
>Sharpe interrogates El Matarife in English >El Matarife chokes and can barely speak let alone be heard "yes..." "DID YOU HEAR HIM!? DID YA?" Sharpe shouts to a bunch of Spanish guys who are feets away
In the book, Sharpe interrogates El Matarife in Spanish and I don't think Ducos get shot by French in the book too,and when he is fighting if El Matarife,there are only Matarife's mobs Helene and Angel and Harper watching the fight
interesting fact. Sean bean was asked to play the role but was unable to do it due to other filming he was doing. So paul Mcgann got the role. But with a few weeks filming left to go on the 1st episide paul was in an accident and was unable to finish filming. sean had finnished his other film so took over the role. But they had to refilm all the bits paul did to put sean in. Due to that the budget was higher than expected so they had to cut the budget for later episodes. At the time it was the highest budget made for TV film ever made at 227 million.
Why do some knife fights involve one person holding one end of a rope/cloth/chain while the opponent holds the other? Does it have to do with maintaining a certain distance? Is it some form of tradition I don't know about? Can someone help me out here? I'm confused and need answers.
Aside from a kind of honor-binding (quite literally, in some cases, when the two fighters are tied together by rope or cord) to continue the fight until one's dead, there's also how you can use the rope or chain to not just pull your opponent, but if they don't keep the line taut, you can swing it about to either entrap their limbs further or snare their sword.
@@SMAXZO Spanish speaker here. I have never heard that word before but according to the dictionary yes, it's a butcher. Must be an archaic word no longer in use.
question, Duccos is a Major for the french army. two random soldiers pull him off his horse and proceed to try and kill him till they realize he is a superior officer? When ducos gives them paperwork he is supposed to give to Napoleon they shoot him in the back and chuck all the paperwork. The other soldiers are looting I'm assuming a french caravan? is this a mutiny? Or rogue soldiers or something?
Don't forget to look for the two or three additional episodes produced later. Chronologically, they precede the main series. They are about Sharpe's time in India. He refers to that in the main series of episodes so it's worth including them. Hell, if they were still making them of him serving in Afghanistan or the Crimean War I'd be watching them.
More of a "slow burner" if you've watched enough episodes. He needs the opponent to get him riled up first before he goes at them hard. Some people I've known are like that and it's scary to see them switch in seconds to where we have to pull them off the guy.
This was the last episode I saw on Masterpiece. It was, I thought a good ending to the series. Later I heard there were more episodes, but the next one I saw was bad, so I thought Masterpiece didn't want it, and I didn't want to see any more. Recently I saw some more episodes and I was surprised to see Ducos was back after his own man had shot him in the back, grabbing treasure and fleeing to France. Then again, having a reoccurring enemy one hates is priceless. If Darth Vader had died at the hand of Obi-Wan on the Death Star or by Han Solo in the trench, what would _The Empire Strikes Back_ have been? Some Tarkin-like admiral, hunting them down in service to the Emperor? Sadly, Lucas forgot that when he killed Darth Maul in _The Phantom Menace._
That's South African actress beauty, Alice Krige. She first came to attention in America as a ghost vengeful revenant in the 1981 ghost horror movie, "Ghost Story". She wasn't a ghost, precisely. She was a flesh-and-blood, undead revenant who could pass for a living woman. Ghost Story was an excellent spook movie for its time which didn't rely on gratuitous violence and gore. She had a small part in the 1985 biblical movie, "King David", as, Bathsheba. Her one, short full nude scene where she is bathing needs to be seen to appreciate her total natural, unenhanced beauty of perfection. In the scene, King David (Richard Gere) admires her from his rooftop. Bathsheba knows King David is watching her but she pretends not to notice and continues bathing naturally, letting the king enjoy the show. Alice Krige is perhaps best known as the Borg Queen in the excellent Star Trek 1997 movie, "First Contact".
It's a TV series from the early to mid 90s originally broadcast by ITV in the UK (although PBS also showed it in the USA, if I recall). They also made a few made for tv movies in the early 2000s.
Kutter_TTL hey thanks man I only see these episodes from this channel but the film looks older than UA-cam so I was curious. Is there a dvd or something to buy it?
@@K_R87 why the TV shows entertaining the books are so much better I would recommend you get those Bernard Cromwell was the author Sharpe's Rifles is the name of the series
I have never seen the film of Paul Mc Gann as Sharpe. He would have borne a closer resemblance to the picture of him that Bernard Cornwell painted in his books. I think that Sharpe lost his virginity before the age of 14 to Maggie Joyce. In the films Capt Fredrickson 'Sweet William' had eyes for Madame Castineau, which causes emnity between the two. I don't recall if in the books it happens that way.
@@spwicks1980 you're talking about raids, which was actually rare compared to them settling arguments with single combat with peers... it's a cultural thing.
I bet matarifes character was glad he got killed off in show. It looks absolutely miserable filming conditions but I love the raw weather in films such as this
The blonde actress has always looked strange to me and I can't put a finger on what it is. Her and Natalie Dormer have a similar thing going on. Both are nice looking, but something is off.
I agree. In some movies and TV she is hot AF. And in others, she doesn't give off that vibe. I find that kind of unpredictable look interesting though compared to some plastic surgery barbie doll that looks "pretty" all the time, but never varies, like a real person should. Here Alice looks pale and fine. She's been working in film since the beginning of the 1980's so she's doing something right.
I'm from the North-West of Spain. The weather is like a slighty warmer Scotland, so a LOT of rain and cold. Funny enough, our ancestors were Celtic too. When foreigners think of Spain they always think of the Center-South (or the islands), which is WAY different, even culturally.
If only Sharpe had a Katana, he would have been able to take as many imperial eagles as he wanted! And not be wounded so many times, slicing and dicing through a whole French column by himself!!
Wounds mostly don't get infected in a serious way, and infections rarely lead to sepsis; plus sepsis is not a death sentence, and people can recover without treatment. That plus pouring a strong liquor on a wound before stiching it up with a heated needle and then bandaging the area with clean cloth is a decent measure against infection.
@Scott @Rick: A well made flintlock can have an effective range of 20 meters or more, given how he’s a Spanish army officer officer I’d say his pistol was well made and they were barely more than 3 meters away. That shot was child’s play.
🇬🇧Colonel Sharpe bellows:lads ladies non binaries transfolk recall our great cause of 100 more years of servile obedience to aristocratic rule!Our great leader Lady/Duke/Duchess Wellington who may ir may not be trans says so!
I really don't know why I watch these because I always end up disgusted with what I see. Sorry but this series is an insult to the Sharpe series of books, of which I own and have read 3-4 times over. I like Sean Bean, but he doesn't portray Sharpe anywhere near as he is depicted in the books. I.E. In the above fight, El Matarife doesn't touch Sharpe at all and Sharpe is in control at all times. A real disappointment.
@@WALTERBROADDUS You obviously haven't read the Sharpe books to say what you've said above. If you did you would see that I'm not nit picking at all. Apart from Sharpe's character not being given it's full merit. the part of Sargeant Hakeswell is almost the opposite of what he was. Also, the term "Chosen Man" is made out to be such a big deal in the TV series, but in the books the only mention it gets is the fact that it's a merit award signified by a cloth band worn on the sleeve of a Rifleman. The term 'Rifleman' and the green jacket was what set them apart and something to be proud of. BTW. No one ever fired a Musket from the Hip, unless the target was directly in front of them, as shown in the TV series,
"I challenge you to a duel."
"Pistols? Swords?"
"Tug of War with knives"
"...ok..."
Lucky he had his duelling knives and chain ready eh? Could have been awkward otherwise.
Matarife was spanish or french?
@@algomez8563 Spanish. He pretented to be a resistance leader, supposedly fighting the french, while secretly working with them to acchieve his own goals. Which did not keep him from torturing captured french soldiers.
In his duels, Sharpe appeared to be the challenged and therefore had the right to choose the weapons. He should have always gone with rifles at 200 paces.
@@dlxmarks Reminds me of a story that is told about Bismarck and Virchow here in Germany. Bismarck, called the 'Iron Chancellor', simply loved duells. And when Rudolf Virchow, the 'father of modern pathology' and parlamentarian once accused Bismarck of not telling the truth, Bismarck challenged him to a duell.
Virchow accepted, appeared at the agreed time and place and when asked by Bismarck which weapons he had chosen, he supposedly produced... two sausages.
Bismarck, apparently quite bewildered asked what the point of this is, to which Rudolf Virchow answered that _this_ would be his weapons and that one of those sausages would be contaminated with trichinae, a parasite that causes trichinosis. Which could not be treated at this time, lead to massive and quite unpleasant symptoms and, in case the parasite reaches the heart, meant a death sentence. A slow and painful death, I might add.
After explaining that, Virchow told Bismarck to pick one sausage, so that they could have breakfast together. And supposedly Bismarck turned around and decided to back off immediately.
2:48
"You must count the ways of your death."
Sharpe: "I've seen them all. None in the early 19th Century, though."
Oh,....I going to use that one for story,
😭
Nothing like a spontaneous confession given freely without duress.
I don't think a guy like this would in reality crack with a bit of choking.
@@Kitiwake you never know how it is with people, they might look tough and create a following on their so called toughness, but when the tough gets going, their courage never gets going, because they didnt have any to begin with
@@Kitiwake yeah it's really easy to act tough up until another man has control over whether or not oxygen gets to go to your brain
@@Iason29 We do know how it is with people to a degree, and choking people is almost never a good way to get reliable information, practically speaking. It's much more likely to get people to tell you what you want to hear, which, if you're interrogating them, often means lying to you. This is TV drama though
Dipping a thin strip of hot buttered toast into a soft boiled runny egg, that's soldiering.
He just rescued the borg queen, ay this dozy basted has killed us all!
Watch... your future's end...
That's where I've seen her ! Thanks !
I was wondering the same thing. Thanks!
NO! NOOOOOOOOO! SMASH! I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!
@@oldsagerat Even I was like who is that...
As soon as Sharpe calls you a bastard you know you're dead
nice to see ducos getting beasted..................
ducos was an accident waiting to happen.............not the actor, just the character he portrayed..........h6 uk vet
The way he moved with the knife at the beginning made me burst out laughing.
I don't think that this is a spoiler given how old this series is, but I thought Ducos was dead the first time I watched this - the producers obviously changed their minds having realised they've got to stop writing their best villains out of the show.
Even I was confused when I seen him like an episode later
@John James perhaps he survived? Sharpe doesn't even find him amongst the baggage train wreckage, it would be weird not to include that scene considering they were mortal enemies.
@@Dominic-fd2wz I know you need to suspend disbelief sometimes......but a couple of lead balls to the back, point blank without immediate surgery. He practically rose up from the dead!
There are some scenes in the series in which some of Sharpe's men, even Harper himself are wounded and fall over as if dead, and then they just show up in the next scene. So yeah, until you see the reaction shot with the dead eyes staring into the void, no one is dead.
How about, maybe just maybe..that guy just missed
You mess with Sharpe, you've messed with the king.
And you know winter is coming for you.
@@g00gleminus96 Good one.
And don't loose his bloody colours.
Or, well, the Prince of Wales.
To be fair they're fighting over a Queen. a Borg Queen :D
>Sharpe interrogates El Matarife in English
>El Matarife chokes and can barely speak let alone be heard
"yes..."
"DID YOU HEAR HIM!? DID YA?" Sharpe shouts to a bunch of Spanish guys who are feets away
We know, we`ve just watched it.....d`uh
I think he shouted out of frustration.
@@buggybill2003 I think you miss the point of the comment
Ezekiel De La Croix Think he’s just emphasising the point.
In the book, Sharpe interrogates El Matarife in Spanish and I don't think Ducos get shot by French in the book too,and when he is fighting if El Matarife,there are only Matarife's mobs Helene and Angel and Harper watching the fight
The captive lady looks like the Borg queen. So at some point she gets assimilated by the Borg.
"Captain! They've adapted!"
"Fix bayonets!"
Same actress, Alice Krige.
They cast so many strong and beautiful women in this show.
😁
what, el Matarife walks around with a heavy ass chain just in case he has to play tug of war with someone?
That's what it takes to be El Matarife.
It's a game to him.
That's chaining
Naturally. You, you don't?
Ah - I see, you are one of those fance 'I just have a rope with me, because they go better with my attire' guys.
What kind of chain did you say it was?
They did this with Captain Archer and Commander Shran in Star Trek: Enterprise.
interesting fact. Sean bean was asked to play the role but was unable to do it due to other filming he was doing. So paul Mcgann got the role. But with a few weeks filming left to go on the 1st episide paul was in an accident and was unable to finish filming. sean had finnished his other film so took over the role. But they had to refilm all the bits paul did to put sean in. Due to that the budget was higher than expected so they had to cut the budget for later episodes.
At the time it was the highest budget made for TV film ever made at 227 million.
What became of McGann?
Fun fact it isn't a film
cliff bird
Can’t be 227 mil in the 90s
Maybe 25 mil for the series
No TV show has ever cost that much for a season. Not even Game of Thrones.
@@JnEricsonx maybe he is from japan and is talking in yen
So much better in the book. Probably Sharpe's scariest and deadliest opponent
Put Sharpe and his riflemen on the slopes of Mt Doom and they would have peppered Sauron relentlessly with lead shot to make him give up and run away
I read that as "Pat Sharpe" and his riflemen. Now I need that to exist.
Makes me think of a black rat for some reason
Starfleet: kill the borg queen sharpe!
I recognise that chain. Relatively inexpensive at B&Q!
Why do some knife fights involve one person holding one end of a rope/cloth/chain while the opponent holds the other? Does it have to do with maintaining a certain distance? Is it some form of tradition I don't know about? Can someone help me out here? I'm confused and need answers.
Aside from a kind of honor-binding (quite literally, in some cases, when the two fighters are tied together by rope or cord) to continue the fight until one's dead, there's also how you can use the rope or chain to not just pull your opponent, but if they don't keep the line taut, you can swing it about to either entrap their limbs further or snare their sword.
'Matarife' in Spanish means Slaughterer. If you kill by iron you died by iron (well, in this case not so much, just by some lead poisoning).
I thought it meant Butcher.
@@SMAXZO Spanish speaker here. I have never heard that word before but according to the dictionary yes, it's a butcher. Must be an archaic word no longer in use.
Was that Alice Krige?
45 people dislike this video, especially El Matarife!
2:24 that laugh tho
Nice day for fishing init, ha ha
2:09 But the guy casually aiming his musket at his comrades back tho.
And later that night... Sharpe was absorbed by the Borg.
Well, only a piece of him for about 15 minutes then it de-abosorbed and went for a piss.
Assimilated, heh.
It was dyslexic of Borg, and his ass was laminated.
Rescuing the Borg Queen (the wonderful Alice Krige)...er, that's not soldiering.
Your comment will be assimilated.
Syrio furels great dad lol
i knew sharpe was going to win because three days after this video was posted there was another one of him kissing a chick.
#timestone
Lmao
4:11: I'm not sure even best brown paper and paraffin oil will fix that...
I don’t quite remember, but are the French in this scene deserting? Is that the reason they shot Ducos?
Yes they are deserting, Wellington has pushed Napoleon's army out of Spain (the Battle of Vitoria).
question, Duccos is a Major for the french army. two random soldiers pull him off his horse and proceed to try and kill him till they realize he is a superior officer? When ducos gives them paperwork he is supposed to give to Napoleon they shoot him in the back and chuck all the paperwork. The other soldiers are looting I'm assuming a french caravan?
is this a mutiny? Or rogue soldiers or something?
Firan25 I was confused too. It looks like none of them cared a bit about the consequences.
I think these soldiers are deserting.
The French were retreating from Spain in this. Many soldiers outright deserted en masse and looted everything on their way.
@@Jake007123 ah alright. Was wondering what was going on.
Getting a person to confess even though they had no real reason to confess?
That's soldiering
The Thumnail looks like Jaime Lannister escaping from Stark captivity.
Does anyone know where to watch this series
Amazon (as of writing this) has it for cheap.
Don't forget to look for the two or three additional episodes produced later. Chronologically, they precede the main series. They are about Sharpe's time in India. He refers to that in the main series of episodes so it's worth including them. Hell, if they were still making them of him serving in Afghanistan or the Crimean War I'd be watching them.
You know, when you watch for a while, you get the distinct impression the Sharpe is something of a slow learner.
More of a "slow burner" if you've watched enough episodes. He needs the opponent to get him riled up first before he goes at them hard. Some people I've known are like that and it's scary to see them switch in seconds to where we have to pull them off the guy.
Instead Matarife should have just chilled in Tenerife
Great show
This was the last episode I saw on Masterpiece. It was, I thought a good ending to the series. Later I heard there were more episodes, but the next one I saw was bad, so I thought Masterpiece didn't want it, and I didn't want to see any more. Recently I saw some more episodes and I was surprised to see Ducos was back after his own man had shot him in the back, grabbing treasure and fleeing to France. Then again, having a reoccurring enemy one hates is priceless.
If Darth Vader had died at the hand of Obi-Wan on the Death Star or by Han Solo in the trench, what would _The Empire Strikes Back_ have been? Some Tarkin-like admiral, hunting them down in service to the Emperor? Sadly, Lucas forgot that when he killed Darth Maul in _The Phantom Menace._
Who are the soldiers with red pants end green shirts, they look interesting.
Darian Valdez I think their Spanish soldiers
in this episode duco is shot dead but in another later episode he's alive
He was not shot in the book though and El Matarife was killed by Sharpe by slitting his neck after forcing El Matarife confessed his crimes
@@sirianndugvudys6850 thanks bro
In this scene Sharpes men have lowered their rifles when the others are still pointing theirs, poor directing.
What happened to duco?
In the book, Sharpe does El materife knee
That's South African actress beauty, Alice Krige. She first came to attention in America as a ghost vengeful revenant in the 1981 ghost horror movie, "Ghost Story". She wasn't a ghost, precisely. She was a flesh-and-blood, undead revenant who could pass for a living woman. Ghost Story was an excellent spook movie for its time which didn't rely on gratuitous violence and gore. She had a small part in the 1985 biblical movie, "King David", as, Bathsheba. Her one, short full nude scene where she is bathing needs to be seen to appreciate her total natural, unenhanced beauty of perfection. In the scene, King David (Richard Gere) admires her from his rooftop. Bathsheba knows King David is watching her but she pretends not to notice and continues bathing naturally, letting the king enjoy the show. Alice Krige is perhaps best known as the Borg Queen in the excellent Star Trek 1997 movie, "First Contact".
Sharp is definitely getting some that night
Is this a movie I don’t understand is it a mini series on HBO or something?
It's a TV series from the early to mid 90s originally broadcast by ITV in the UK (although PBS also showed it in the USA, if I recall). They also made a few made for tv movies in the early 2000s.
Kutter_TTL hey thanks man I only see these episodes from this channel but the film looks older than UA-cam so I was curious. Is there a dvd or something to buy it?
ua-cam.com/video/N5JD7jIoAuk/v-deo.html
@@K_R87 why the TV shows entertaining the books are so much better I would recommend you get those Bernard Cromwell was the author Sharpe's Rifles is the name of the series
@@K_R87 I have it on DVD, so it is available like that yes. :)
I have never seen the film of Paul Mc Gann as Sharpe. He would have borne a closer resemblance to the picture of him that Bernard Cornwell painted in his books.
I think that Sharpe lost his virginity before the age of 14 to Maggie Joyce.
In the films Capt Fredrickson 'Sweet William' had eyes for Madame Castineau, which causes emnity between the two. I don't recall if in the books it happens that way.
It does after Sharpe's Revenge Fredrickson never speaks to Sharpe again.
Ducos obviously had armour under his cape and he was only stunned, because there's no blood.
Anyone know what the chain is for?
I think the action in the vid explains it self.
@@Hivedragon I meant more of a historical or cultural context
@@rppalanca8523 Oh, then as far as mine knowledge goes nothing. Its simply a added danger and advantage in such fights/duels.
El Matarife and his band of Spanish cossacks.
Nice snake belt Sean.
She didn't need rescuing she is the Queen of the Borg!
But they hadn't captured her yet.
It's funny we honor the same things that are Viking ancestors honored. One-on-one combat to the death is a way to deal with some problems.
It's a culture thing even most other mammals developed. It prevents all out war, which neither group would benefit from.
The ancient Greeks used to do it already. It was a better alternative than armies killing each other, a massive waste of men.
Single combat was hardly a viking thing. They much prefered fighting people who couldnt fight back.
@@spwicks1980 you're talking about raids, which was actually rare compared to them settling arguments with single combat with peers... it's a cultural thing.
All this fight scene needs is Michael Jackson's 'Beat it' to be played in the background!
Got the knee kicking right.
But in the books; Sharpe toyed with El Matarife; then (after the confession) slit his throat.
This was better
Alex Witte yeah they toned down some of his more violent tendencies in this so he wouldn’t be as morally questionable of a character I think
@@user-ns3vs3bp3e
Bernard Cornwells' Sharpe was a rogue.
Sean Beans' Sharpe was a SJW 😐
@@justanotherbrickinthewall2843 He was also a dark haired Londoner, enjoy the moment
@@user-ns3vs3bp3e And for rating reasons - this was broadcast 'pre-watershed' in the UK so it had to be suitable for kids
Borg Queen
Sheel turn you in to a drone
Mr Rigsby's Spanish great great grandfather was just as sly as the 20th century landlord.
A day later they where all drones
Funny how they didn't want Duco to die.
I'll look after her:)
So many of sharpes enemies get shot by officers
I bet matarifes character was glad he got killed off in show. It looks absolutely miserable filming conditions but I love the raw weather in films such as this
🤣🤣🤣
This is the silliest knife fight ever.
Not giving one to a bird who's gagging for it ?
Now that's stupidity.
Why save the borg queen
She looks better with hair
It looks like a cowboy movie from Europe 😂
*assimilates the horse*
Residence is futile from that babe.
The blonde actress has always looked strange to me and I can't put a finger on what it is. Her and Natalie Dormer have a similar thing going on. Both are nice looking, but something is off.
I agree. In some movies and TV she is hot AF. And in others, she doesn't give off that vibe. I find that kind of unpredictable look interesting though compared to some plastic surgery barbie doll that looks "pretty" all the time, but never varies, like a real person should.
Here Alice looks pale and fine. She's been working in film since the beginning of the 1980's so she's doing something right.
I tought spain was always bright and sunny
A great misconception! It get freezing cold and snows in the north and mountains!
I'm from the North-West of Spain. The weather is like a slighty warmer Scotland, so a LOT of rain and cold. Funny enough, our ancestors were Celtic too. When foreigners think of Spain they always think of the Center-South (or the islands), which is WAY different, even culturally.
Sharpe series
2:26 what the fuck was that?
that should be a gif
Roose bolten and ned stark . The king of the north.
Ducos got REKT by a Private 🎉
In the back the way he chose to live his life to others in his scheming
Mind you the Spanish don't like confrontation
@Rule Oh yes we do!
@@Rubinicus 100% agree. It's their national sport.
What's bull fighting all about?
Spanish soldiers were feared for centuries. Spanish mercenaries were strong, cunning and bloody.
@@Jake007123 not for confrontation for bullying and terrorising and torture,
Hang on... who's assimilating who here? 😂
If only Sharpe had a Katana, he would have been able to take as many imperial eagles as he wanted! And not be wounded so many times, slicing and dicing through a whole French column by himself!!
Don't mess with the BBC
Resistance Is futile
I am 2nd guy to like the vid
This is more than a century before antibiotics. Sharpe would have died of sepsis after many of those nasty cuts he suffered.
Never heard of Marshal Oudinot?
@@dogestranding5047 Good point. He was very lucky though I think.
You don't kill your protagonist of a random infection. I think in one of the movies he gets VERY sick, though.
Wounds mostly don't get infected in a serious way, and infections rarely lead to sepsis; plus sepsis is not a death sentence, and people can recover without treatment. That plus pouring a strong liquor on a wound before stiching it up with a heated needle and then bandaging the area with clean cloth is a decent measure against infection.
@@Jake007123 Sharpe's Sword
Oi , ye dozy basted ;D
A pistol in that age was useless at that range.
@Scott @Rick: A well made flintlock can have an effective range of 20 meters or more, given how he’s a Spanish army officer officer I’d say his pistol was well made and they were barely more than 3 meters away. That shot was child’s play.
Useless at a range of a few meters? Not true in the slightest.
🇬🇧Colonel Sharpe bellows:lads ladies non binaries transfolk recall our great cause of 100 more years of servile obedience to aristocratic rule!Our great leader Lady/Duke/Duchess Wellington who may ir may not be trans says so!
Nothing remotely as good as the book. Nice try.
Gay
I really don't know why I watch these because I always end up disgusted with what I see. Sorry but this series is an insult to the Sharpe series of books, of which I own and have read 3-4 times over. I like Sean Bean, but he doesn't portray Sharpe anywhere near as he is depicted in the books. I.E. In the above fight, El Matarife doesn't touch Sharpe at all and Sharpe is in control at all times. A real disappointment.
No book to film adaptation is word for word or scene for scene. I'm sure Shakespeare would nitpick every reproduction.
@@WALTERBROADDUS You obviously haven't read the Sharpe books to say what you've said above. If you did you would see that I'm not nit picking at all. Apart from Sharpe's character not being given it's full merit. the part of Sargeant Hakeswell is almost the opposite of what he was. Also, the term "Chosen Man" is made out to be such a big deal in the TV series, but in the books the only mention it gets is the fact that it's a merit award signified by a cloth band worn on the sleeve of a Rifleman. The term 'Rifleman' and the green jacket was what set them apart and something to be proud of. BTW. No one ever fired a Musket from the Hip, unless the target was directly in front of them, as shown in the TV series,
Is cuz u addicted
gazhandrail
It’s tv
It was TV in the 90s...with a tiny budget