How to humanize the enemy in your TV show: A: give them a redemption arc B: give them a dramatic backstory C: have them fuck with their commanding officer by pretending to be poisoned.
Another way is to give them a weird quirk or a flaw and that is done here as well. General Calvet is constantly eating, almost in every scene we see him he is eating something, mushrooms, soup, chicken... It makes him look flawed and glutonous, yet for some reason he is not THAT fat for the person who eats that often. Then comes a scene that explains that character flaw: when Calvet was a young officer, he was a part of Napoleon's disastrous attack on Russia. In winter. When you can't forage for food and the supply chains are ridiculously long and very easily disrupted. Calvet was freezing and starving for months and can now never be warm or satiated enough as a result. And Gaston was with him in Russia the whole time.
This particular episode of the Sharpe series is where Wellington's at his most savage: that Shellington guy seems to have brought out the inner savage...You should see what he said to Pyecroft later on...
Wellington is a general in the purest sense of the word, and unfortunately that means not always being a considerate man. He needs a job doing by the man under his command best suited to do so; personal prejudices and pride be damned.
Sharpe's uniform has a patch near the cuff. That award was for those who were with the Forlong Hope and survived at Badajoz. Not very many people were awarded it. Plus... no one heard about how Sharpe took the Eagle at Talavera? Everyone wouldn't stop banging on about it int he episodes where Sharpe was back in England! :P
@@richardtaylor1652 The tiny touches of humour dropped in here and there are excellent - perhaps the point of this one is to show that Shellington is rubbish as a reporter?
Wellington is trying to protect one of his favorite officers from being harassed or swooned upon by a reporter. Also, given the delicate nature of the missions he has in mind for Sharpe, it wouldn't help either of them if his patronage became general knowledge.
@@parrotlander Sharpe is Wellingtons reliable and trust worthy agents. He looks after those agents whom he can set on sensitive and or dangerous missions whom keep his mouth shut and achieve results.
In an era of generals who wanted to be warriors and were eager for glory, Wellington stood out starkly as a man who was a consummate professional. He saw soldiering as a job, an unpleasant one, but a necessary one and one he intended to do damn well. While men like Napoleon wanted Roman style triumphs to celebrate their victories, Wellington just wanted a plate of mutton and then to get on with the business of conducting a war. He would order silence if his men cheered him and nothing infuriated him more than having to deal with the petty arguments between his officers over insults and wounded pride. It was only when he became a politician after the wars that he started to display glory-hound tendencies like downplaying the efforts of his allies, like the Prussians at Waterloo, but that was a necessary part of being a politician in Britain.
@@DomWeasel Marketing yourself and your achievements to narcissistic levels even when it detests you deep down inside. Now that's uhh... umm... Politician... ing....
I think the upper class telling Sharpe he's a fool, to him is interpreted as 'I must be doing something right then!' as he has a low opinion of their common sense.
Sharp knows Ross and is friendly with him so to Sharp it is the same as a friendly fistbumb verbaly lol,only time Sharp got angry at Ross was later on when it was revealed that Ross and Wellington knew it was a trap all along however that did not last long thoe
Sargent Gaston faking food poisoning by poison mushroom in front of his general and a visiting colonel is really funny. The uneasy facial expression on the colonel's face foreshadows his future death in front of General Calvet's mushroom bowl later.
I like how Sharpe quickly catches on that Shellington is a bit of a muppet who's going to be in the way, so he denies that he had done anything heroic, despite multiple heroic deeds, not the least of which was taking an imperial eagle, a very rare feat.
@@puliturchannel7225 This. Sharpe doesn't think of himself, or anything he's done, as heroic. He's a common soldier raised from the ranks who just wants to fight, not a puffed-up aristocratic toff seeking to make a name for himself.
It's moments like this when they show how cold-blooded Wellington could be. I don't think he derives any pleasure from it, it's just a necessary action from his viewpoint.
As the old saying goes: It's lonely at the top, to win a war he has to send good men into a meat-grinder by the thousands, it's certainly not a job I'd want. Funny thing his relationship with Sharpe is Wellington truly admires him, Sharpe is one of his very best officers, but he can't afford to be giving a man jumped up from the ranks too much praise, the pretentious fops who bought their commissions would never stand it and he needs the fops.
@@FerretJohn I was referring more to his using the other officer to convince the explosives expert. But the secret to military leadership has always been to figure out who actually does the job, and then work them to death.
@fifthof then I suggest listening to the History Hack podcasts on Sharpe on podbean or Spotify :) worth a whole listen especially as they have Jason salkey , Sean bean , the chosen men etc all on the podcasts at various points. They also have another Sharpe one coming out next week with both Wellington's among others
I never quite got to like Hugh Fraser in the role. There's just nothing about him that says the Iron Duke. I would have preferred David troughton to stay in it, and it would be great if this other guy actually answered your question, LOL.
So Wellington was trying to hide this particular mistake made by Ross, but Ross decided not to hide it from Sharpe... And that's my boys why I like this series so much.
Well Ross was smart. Better to just go and spill that bit of information, and show that he's remorseful as well as hurt himself for what happened, instead of have Pyecroft drop the bomb later on Sharpe so that Sharpe can have some trust in him
It shows good leadership by both of them. Wellington not undermining Ross’ position by overtly laying blame on him, and Ross taking responsibility for his failing.
Considering how horrible medical tech was back then, I wonder if anyone ever specifically targeted medical supplies. Imagine how demoralizing the screams from the medical tent would be, when there's no anesthetic left.
It wouldn’t have done much good, the most irritating thing they could steal would have been ligatures for tying off blood vessels and arteries. There was no anaesthetic at this point in history not till the 1840’s (amended thank you Lee below). Alcohol was used to dull pain however it is a blood thinner so was only consumed by the patient after surgery was completed!
@@mjg1477 There have been many anaesthetics such as Nitrous Oxide or chloroform used a century before the 1940's. Not sure where you are getting your info from.
@@leeboy26 Yes, there were many differeny painkillers in the late 20th century, but my dentist insisted on not using them if at all possible, to save money, time, and trouble...! His famous line was "try and see how you get on, laddie..."
I share Wellington's sentiments about poets. As Heinlein once said, "Poets who read their own verse in public may have other nasty habits."! And Shillington was a plagiarizer besides.
Tricking your commanding officer into thinking you've just eaten a poisonous mushroom after he was supposed to have shown you which ones weren't poisonous....now that's French soldiering!!
@Great Man not quite, he came from humble origins and was promoted by merit and by Napoleon himself to General. He tells Ducos he remembered when soup was a luxury. He calls his soldiers his "children" and like Sharpe had to serve under a horrible CO in Marshal Soult aka the robber of Cadiz.
@@SantomPh There were worse French marshals to be commanded by than Soult. After all, when the allies smashed the French at Vitoria, it was Soult who reorganised the shattered French forces and stopped Wellington from advancing into France in 1813. He couldn't stop him in 1814 but he still bought l'Empereur time to face the northern allies.
I only saved Wellingtons life took the French Eagle rescued two women and saved my unit from anilation and lead the counter attack at the seige of badajoz
Yeah but from the way the show presents Wellington and the War, the British Army only beat Napoleon through the sheer force of a few good men pushing the utter monsters and incompetent bullies into doing the right thing. Wellington must’ve felt like he was going insane most days
Yeah but from the way the show presents Wellington and the War, the British Army only beat Napoleon through the sheer force of a few good men pushing the utter monsters and incompetent bullies into doing the right thing. Wellington must’ve felt like he was going insane most days
Yeah but from the way the show presents Wellington and the War, the British Army only beat Napoleon through the sheer force of a few good men pushing the utter monsters and incompetent bullies into doing the right thing. Wellington must’ve felt like he was going insane most days
Why did you folks skip over Sharpe's Regiment? It's about the only film in the series that makes an attempt to be faithful to the novel, not to mention Sharpe's Siege.
Nah he's fine...oh except for the bit where Calvet has him killed for not following the emperor's orders and belches loudly as he falls to the ground (seriously, he does).
Since Wellington is played by the same great actor who was Captain Hastings in "Poirot", I like to imagine that Captain Hastings is related to Wellington, lol.
That's James Horton! this is it! my theory is proven! Watchers are Immortal too! they have to be, who else could follow them across centuries and cultures? /s
1:54 how would somebody from a newspaper in London coming to the front not know about Sharpe, they state that his career is covered in the papers in London in multiple episodes from when he took the Eagle. It makes no sense for Shellington not to know his name
Sharpe sounds like a fairly common name, and Wellington didn't declare him as anything special, simply ''one of our officers'', so he may have been trying to see if it was THE Sharpe by asking if had done anything heroic and dismissed it when Sharpe said no
The Postal Gril possibly I though he turned out to just be really shit at his job, like he’d quote stuff and Harris would correct it while he was trying to seduce Sharpe’s wife (surprised he failed tbh with how easy it was later in the series lmao). Like he wasn’t a fake reporter he was just not very good at it. (But I haven’t seen it in ages so I could be wrong)
@@user-ns3vs3bp3e ya he was a hack, he gets caught lying about composing a poem for Jane when Harris quotes the true poem and names it actual author. it opens the floodgates on him and exposes his whole facade
@@Wildtrexkid Sharpe is about the closest Wellington has to a special operations type unit. As a trusted asset, he gets results and Wellington looks after him when he can, Army Politics around him being raised up making thag more tricky.
Shellington, "Have you done anything heroic?" Sharpe, "Saved Wellington's life. Captured an Imperial Eagle. First on the walls at Badajoz. Helped destroy the Army of Deserters. Other than that, nothing really. You?"
Sorry, but how hard can it be to blow up the Rocha powder magazine? It's a big cave full of gunpowder FFS! NOT blowing it up accidently would be harder.........
Are the actors playing the French actually British? I may be imagining it but I swear I’m hearing English accents whenever they say an English word while speaking French.
I'm not French, but I can speak French and I'm pretty sure they are British actors. The way they pronounce English words is a giveaway, but also while their French is good, their accent is very light, but British nonetheless imo.
I wonder if British actors speaking French sounds as funny to French people as British actors speaking American sounds to Americans. (Or indeed, as American actors speaking British sounds to Brits.)
I like the Sharpe series, I think that it is well done, that the (relatively) low budget forces them to focus on story, not spectacle. But every once in a while, you clearly have a lot of English actors with terrible French accents!
It was 'SNUFF'... Snuff is PURE nicotine in powder form, often makes you sneeze and was used before cigarettes were manufactured. My old Nan used Snuff in England as late as 1995, however, I'm unsure if Snuff is still available at tobacconists.... She used to put some on the back of her hand, take a sniff like she was snorting coke and casually wipe away her runny nose with with a tissue... Snuff is MUCH stronger than any cigarette...
It was 'SNUFF'... Snuff is PURE nicotine in powder form, often makes you sneeze and was used before cigarettes were manufactured. My old Nan used Snuff in England as late as 1995, however, I'm unsure if Snuff is still available at tobacconists.... She used to put some on the back of her hand, take a sniff like she was snorting coke and casually wipe away her runny nose with with a tissue... Snuff is MUCH stronger than any cigarette...
It's 'snuff'. Tobacco with additional spices and herbs mixed in. It was supposed to be good for your health and mind (and bloody expensive, so a status symbol. Even more if you shared). But then, this was the age where smoking was good for your lungs, and regular bleeding kept you healthy... What it really did was give you a rush of nicotine, much more than when you inhale the smoke.
Frederik, snuff was used up to comparatively recent times. I can remember as a young man working in heavy industry during the '50s many of the older guys used to take snuff. I tried it, I thought it was horrible.
Snuff, powdered tobacco. A habit of the officer class in the day and a small nod to Major Hogan, whom Ross is standing in for (although this movie is not based on book lore)
How to humanize the enemy in your TV show:
A: give them a redemption arc
B: give them a dramatic backstory
C: have them fuck with their commanding officer by pretending to be poisoned.
The generals character is actually very redeeming, love him and Gaston alot.
Brand’s Boys… SAS of those days…
@BH - Exercise as Medicine Same concept, but I don't think the SAS work for the enemy.
Another way is to give them a weird quirk or a flaw and that is done here as well. General Calvet is constantly eating, almost in every scene we see him he is eating something, mushrooms, soup, chicken... It makes him look flawed and glutonous, yet for some reason he is not THAT fat for the person who eats that often. Then comes a scene that explains that character flaw: when Calvet was a young officer, he was a part of Napoleon's disastrous attack on Russia. In winter. When you can't forage for food and the supply chains are ridiculously long and very easily disrupted. Calvet was freezing and starving for months and can now never be warm or satiated enough as a result. And Gaston was with him in Russia the whole time.
The mushroom bit was quite funny
Always reminds me of Gladiator
I honestly thought that Gaston was done for - got a good laugh when it turned out to be a joke 😂😂
Ross: "Why me, Sir?"
Wellington: "Because you know how to hurt him."
S A V A G E
This particular episode of the Sharpe series is where Wellington's at his most savage: that Shellington guy seems to have brought out the inner savage...You should see what he said to Pyecroft later on...
Wellington is a general in the purest sense of the word, and unfortunately that means not always being a considerate man. He needs a job doing by the man under his command best suited to do so; personal prejudices and pride be damned.
@@Zombiewithabowtie
No disagreements. Just that in context of the series he is being particularly savage.
That's too Baller bruh
"This is major Sharpe. One of our most eh...
Well, one of our officers" 😂
Couldn't bring himself to say anything too complimentary 😂
I'm thinking if he did Shellington would have been hounding him. THat or he didn't want to praise him too much since he's a rank and file.
Sharpe's uniform has a patch near the cuff. That award was for those who were with the Forlong Hope and survived at Badajoz. Not very many people were awarded it. Plus... no one heard about how Sharpe took the Eagle at Talavera? Everyone wouldn't stop banging on about it int he episodes where Sharpe was back in England! :P
@@richardtaylor1652 The tiny touches of humour dropped in here and there are excellent - perhaps the point of this one is to show that Shellington is rubbish as a reporter?
Wellington is trying to protect one of his favorite officers from being harassed or swooned upon by a reporter. Also, given the delicate nature of the missions he has in mind for Sharpe, it wouldn't help either of them if his patronage became general knowledge.
@@parrotlander Sharpe is Wellingtons reliable and trust worthy agents. He looks after those agents whom he can set on sensitive and or dangerous missions whom keep his mouth shut and achieve results.
I have an idea that Wellington was a lot like the way this man portrays him. Practical. Unromantic. Ruthless.
In an era of generals who wanted to be warriors and were eager for glory, Wellington stood out starkly as a man who was a consummate professional. He saw soldiering as a job, an unpleasant one, but a necessary one and one he intended to do damn well. While men like Napoleon wanted Roman style triumphs to celebrate their victories, Wellington just wanted a plate of mutton and then to get on with the business of conducting a war. He would order silence if his men cheered him and nothing infuriated him more than having to deal with the petty arguments between his officers over insults and wounded pride.
It was only when he became a politician after the wars that he started to display glory-hound tendencies like downplaying the efforts of his allies, like the Prussians at Waterloo, but that was a necessary part of being a politician in Britain.
@@DomWeasel Marketing yourself and your achievements to narcissistic levels even when it detests you deep down inside. Now that's uhh... umm... Politician... ing....
@@gino14
Politicking.
Pragmatic.
Was incompetent to his contemporaries as well
Ross: "You're a damned fool, Sharpe"
Sharpe: "Thank you, sir"
Kek it's like he's not even mad
I think the upper class telling Sharpe he's a fool, to him is interpreted as 'I must be doing something right then!' as he has a low opinion of their common sense.
Sharp knows Ross and is friendly with him so to Sharp it is the same as a friendly fistbumb verbaly lol,only time Sharp got angry at Ross was later on when it was revealed that Ross and Wellington knew it was a trap all along however that did not last long thoe
Sargent Gaston faking food poisoning by poison mushroom in front of his general and a visiting colonel is really funny. The uneasy facial expression on the colonel's face foreshadows his future death in front of General Calvet's mushroom bowl later.
I like how Sharpe quickly catches on that Shellington is a bit of a muppet who's going to be in the way, so he denies that he had done anything heroic, despite multiple heroic deeds, not the least of which was taking an imperial eagle, a very rare feat.
Also, Sharpe always gets embarrased when people think him a hero. That and mingling with aristocrat types makes him very uncomfortable.
@@puliturchannel7225 A bit like Geralt of Rivia
@@puliturchannel7225 This. Sharpe doesn't think of himself, or anything he's done, as heroic. He's a common soldier raised from the ranks who just wants to fight, not a puffed-up aristocratic toff seeking to make a name for himself.
As i saw Calvet and Gaston in this Video i naturally gave it a like, that's my style, Sir.
It's moments like this when they show how cold-blooded Wellington could be. I don't think he derives any pleasure from it, it's just a necessary action from his viewpoint.
As the old saying goes: It's lonely at the top, to win a war he has to send good men into a meat-grinder by the thousands, it's certainly not a job I'd want. Funny thing his relationship with Sharpe is Wellington truly admires him, Sharpe is one of his very best officers, but he can't afford to be giving a man jumped up from the ranks too much praise, the pretentious fops who bought their commissions would never stand it and he needs the fops.
@@FerretJohn
I was referring more to his using the other officer to convince the explosives expert.
But the secret to military leadership has always been to figure out who actually does the job, and then work them to death.
That is very true.
@@FerretJohn - Wellington is a father figure to Sharpe, Harper is his brother and the King' Army is his somewhat dysfunctional family
FerretJohn For king and country.
Gaston is now my favorite character in all of fiction/history
As much as I disapproved of the change in actor of Wellington, its scenes like these that totally changed my mind about this new chap. Wonderful job.
The was a reason for the actor change which was recently mentioned in a history podcast
@fifthof then I suggest listening to the History Hack podcasts on Sharpe on podbean or Spotify :) worth a whole listen especially as they have Jason salkey , Sean bean , the chosen men etc all on the podcasts at various points. They also have another Sharpe one coming out next week with both Wellington's among others
I never quite got to like Hugh Fraser in the role. There's just nothing about him that says the Iron Duke. I would have preferred David troughton to stay in it, and it would be great if this other guy actually answered your question, LOL.
@@jameswg13 what reason? What was the reason for the cast change?
@@jameswg13 Oh ffs that is ridiculous.
So Wellington was trying to hide this particular mistake made by Ross, but Ross decided not to hide it from Sharpe...
And that's my boys why I like this series so much.
It could not very well have been kept secret, given their orders, it would surely have come out.
Pycroft admits it was his own fault at the end of this episode.
One of Ross' best traits is that he doesn't hide his mistakes or blame them on others.
Well Ross was smart. Better to just go and spill that bit of information, and show that he's remorseful as well as hurt himself for what happened, instead of have Pyecroft drop the bomb later on Sharpe so that Sharpe can have some trust in him
It shows good leadership by both of them. Wellington not undermining Ross’ position by overtly laying blame on him, and Ross taking responsibility for his failing.
The different shades of character from each actor makes the scenes such a dynamic experience to watch. Addicted to this show haha
"Personally I'd rather call for the surgeon and have him cut off my Goddamn foot with a saw." Priceless
Considering how horrible medical tech was back then, I wonder if anyone ever specifically targeted medical supplies.
Imagine how demoralizing the screams from the medical tent would be, when there's no anesthetic left.
It wouldn’t have done much good, the most irritating thing they could steal would have been ligatures for tying off blood vessels and arteries. There was no anaesthetic at this point in history not till the 1840’s (amended thank you Lee below).
Alcohol was used to dull pain however it is a blood thinner so was only consumed by the patient after surgery was completed!
@@mjg1477 There have been many anaesthetics such as Nitrous Oxide or chloroform used a century before the 1940's. Not sure where you are getting your info from.
@@leeboy26 Thank you! 1840's !!! I look like a tit there, thank you I shall amend!!
@@leeboy26 Yes, there were many differeny painkillers in the late 20th century, but my dentist insisted on not using them if at all possible, to save money, time, and trouble...! His famous line was "try and see how you get on, laddie..."
I share Wellington's sentiments about poets. As Heinlein once said, "Poets who read their own verse in public may have other nasty habits."! And Shillington was a plagiarizer besides.
Poets are cringe
As a poet, I say screw both of you. ;-)
King David was a poet, who was also the greatest warrior in human history. And he wasn't born a king.
@@davidowens4145 to be fair, I don't think Heinlein was referring to those divinely inspired.
@@davidowens4145
This would be the King David who when challenged to a sword fight cheated and in effect "shot" his opponent?
I love how Wellington is basically one of the boys at heart.
Tricking your commanding officer into thinking you've just eaten a poisonous mushroom after he was supposed to have shown you which ones weren't poisonous....now that's French soldiering!!
I dig Gastone (?) the mushroom eater....Dude has a sense of humor.
Gaston! Gaston!? AHHHHH HAAAAA HA HA :D :D
It’s more like huhuhhuhhhuhuhhuh
Nooo Onnne
Chokes like Gaston,
Makes bad like jokes like Gaston,
On the battlefield nobody smokes like Gaston!
Oh what a guy!
Gaston!
there is an authenticity to the military politicking in this series that is unmatched
I had no idea what was going on there and would have 100% tucked into some poisonous mushrooms without a second thought
Calvert is something that most of the officers in this show are not… An honourable man
This is a great segment.
The Londo Mollari and Vir Cotto of the French Army.
A man of culture I see! I dont know if I used that meme right but it kinda makes sense
@@GingaGingaGingaGinga Thank you, lol.
"What do you want, you moonfaced assassin of joy?!"
Take a bow for a fantastic quote from a very underrated show
@@alangulliver3212 I know the show only from clips on CZcams. I suspect Sharpe is the same for many people, I really must watch it properly
I wish Gaston and Galvet had their own series
'From Russia With Love'
Calvert is the "French Sharpe".
@Great Man not quite, he came from humble origins and was promoted by merit and by Napoleon himself to General. He tells Ducos he remembered when soup was a luxury.
He calls his soldiers his "children" and like Sharpe had to serve under a horrible CO in Marshal Soult aka the robber of Cadiz.
@@SantomPh
There were worse French marshals to be commanded by than Soult. After all, when the allies smashed the French at Vitoria, it was Soult who reorganised the shattered French forces and stopped Wellington from advancing into France in 1813. He couldn't stop him in 1814 but he still bought l'Empereur time to face the northern allies.
I love the general's passion for food. 🍄
General Calvet experienced the hardships OF Napoleon's Army starving after the failed Invasion Russia.
"Have you done anything heroic"
"I'm afraid not"
Pfft, come off it. Even your live interests are heroic.
Yeah but he knew what the poet was he could tell, he wasn't going to put up with that if he could help it
I only saved Wellingtons life took the French Eagle rescued two women and saved my unit from anilation and lead the counter attack at the seige of badajoz
AW: "You know how to hurt him"
Me: "Damn"
Love this show
The youtube subtitles for this are EXCELLENT fun.
Exactly how I've always imagined Wellington to have been.
Dude cracks me up
Yeah, a right wanker
I wish you would label these clips with their season and episode numbers/titles!
Captain Hastings did well for himself. General now.. nice work.
I was always amazed he had managed to reach captain in poirot
Gaston is the best,.I'd have watched a whole series that just follows him for sure.
This old bachelor officer enjoys hearing the ladies cooo.. Oh RICHARD.
What's fucked up is that Calvet seems like a better, kinder commander than literally everyone Sharpe ever worked for
Except for Wellington, of course.
Yeah but from the way the show presents Wellington and the War, the British Army only beat Napoleon through the sheer force of a few good men pushing the utter monsters and incompetent bullies into doing the right thing. Wellington must’ve felt like he was going insane most days
Yeah but from the way the show presents Wellington and the War, the British Army only beat Napoleon through the sheer force of a few good men pushing the utter monsters and incompetent bullies into doing the right thing. Wellington must’ve felt like he was going insane most days
Yeah but from the way the show presents Wellington and the War, the British Army only beat Napoleon through the sheer force of a few good men pushing the utter monsters and incompetent bullies into doing the right thing. Wellington must’ve felt like he was going insane most days
Which episode is this from?
studinthemaking Sharpe's Mission.
@@MrIrishscouse thanks
Wait a minute, was that Peter Hudson, was that Highlanders James Horton? Why the hell did I just now recognize him?
Gaston should have his own show
1:58 Being humble. NOW THAT'S SOILDERING!
Why did you folks skip over Sharpe's Regiment? It's about the only film in the series that makes an attempt to be faithful to the novel, not to mention Sharpe's Siege.
Upcoming scene: The battle of Hastings
(That was a Poirot reference)
1:53 now that's Soldiering!
Not gonna lie I'd have loved a spin off series with Calvet and Gaston.
No one fakes mushroom poisoning like Gaston!
Wellington really is a Chief you’d give to war for.
Is this a Serie würde can i watch IT
I hope colonel cresson doesnt get killed. I like him already (and yes i didnt see sharpe at all cos im italian)
Nah he's fine...oh except for the bit where Calvet has him killed for not following the emperor's orders and belches loudly as he falls to the ground (seriously, he does).
@@TheCormTube dont spoil it for the old italian
episode?
Only 16 episodes, 1 a year after the first two.
Wellington: Of all of our officers; Major Sharpe is certainly one of them.
Septimus Pyecroft?
Sounds like a Harry Potter character.
I assume this series is not too popular in France?
Since Wellington is played by the same great actor who was Captain Hastings in "Poirot", I like to imagine that Captain Hastings is related to Wellington, lol.
No one rides like Gaston
No one fights like Gaston
No one trolls their own CO quite like Gaston!
I am curious which episode this is, so I can buy it?
Sharpe's Mission
Most are on Dailymotion
James Horthon the Watcher as French officer?
That's James Horton!
this is it! my theory is proven! Watchers are Immortal too! they have to be, who else could follow them across centuries and cultures?
/s
I saw this meme once and i would like to share it here :
McDonalds cashier : Order 66!
Me to the kid with the toy lightsaber : 0:14
The masked Napoleanic Batman character is actually not found in any of the Sharpe novels.
:27 I have a cunning plan!!!
...and it would have worked if I hadn't accidentally poisoned him with the wrong mushroom.
Arthur Wellesley was not yet Duke of Wellington!
He was created Viscount Wellington in 1809.
Now that, s mushrooming
Wellington:"I'd rather have my foot cut off with a sword!" that much about poets...
1:54 how would somebody from a newspaper in London coming to the front not know about Sharpe, they state that his career is covered in the papers in London in multiple episodes from when he took the Eagle. It makes no sense for Shellington not to know his name
Sharpe sounds like a fairly common name, and Wellington didn't declare him as anything special, simply ''one of our officers'', so he may have been trying to see if it was THE Sharpe by asking if had done anything heroic and dismissed it when Sharpe said no
didnt he turn out to be a fake?
The Postal Gril possibly I though he turned out to just be really shit at his job, like he’d quote stuff and Harris would correct it while he was trying to seduce Sharpe’s wife (surprised he failed tbh with how easy it was later in the series lmao). Like he wasn’t a fake reporter he was just not very good at it. (But I haven’t seen it in ages so I could be wrong)
@@user-ns3vs3bp3e ya he was a hack, he gets caught lying about composing a poem for Jane when Harris quotes the true poem and names it actual author. it opens the floodgates on him and exposes his whole facade
@@Wildtrexkid Sharpe is about the closest Wellington has to a special operations type unit.
As a trusted asset, he gets results and Wellington looks after him when he can, Army Politics around him being raised up making thag more tricky.
Personally I’d rather have the surgeon cut of my goddam foot with a saw!
XD
Shellington? Seems like he'd be better suited as an artillery officer.
Shellington, "Have you done anything heroic?"
Sharpe, "Saved Wellington's life. Captured an Imperial Eagle. First on the walls at Badajoz. Helped destroy the Army of Deserters. Other than that, nothing really. You?"
me gustaria saber que grado militar tiene sharpe y a que ejercito pertenece....gracias
En este capítulo Sharpe tiene el rango de mayor en el ejército del Reino Unido
3:08 Did Shape just snort something? What was that?
1st - Just wanted to post this, just once, for the hell of it. Je Suis Colonel Cresson.
Sorry, but how hard can it be to blow up the Rocha powder magazine? It's a big cave full of gunpowder FFS! NOT blowing it up accidently would be harder.........
I like how Wellingtons medal is just a piece of cloth 4:09 gotta love low budget
That was standard practice then. More practical than wearing gongs all the time. Admiral Nelson had them as well.
@@vilo_h5541 Wow, I had no idea. Wouldn’t a piece of cloth on your chest look silly to see in person though?
Are the actors playing the French actually British? I may be imagining it but I swear I’m hearing English accents whenever they say an English word while speaking French.
I'm not French, but I can speak French and I'm pretty sure they are British actors. The way they pronounce English words is a giveaway, but also while their French is good, their accent is very light, but British nonetheless imo.
Gaston was Turkish in real life I seem to rememebr
I wonder if British actors speaking French sounds as funny to French people as British actors speaking American sounds to Americans. (Or indeed, as American actors speaking British sounds to Brits.)
Not French, but speak it decently and watch French TV. It sounds really weird. The English accent was really obvious in this scene
I like the Sharpe series, I think that it is well done, that the (relatively) low budget forces them to focus on story, not spectacle. But every once in a while, you clearly have a lot of English actors with terrible French accents!
Sharpe is the British skortzeny
What did Ned Stark sniff?
It’s basically powdered tobacco
It's kinda unsettling how well the Frenchmen pronounce English names.
What is that stuff there sniffing up there noise ??
Luke Williams snuff. A tobacco you snorted
It was 'SNUFF'... Snuff is PURE nicotine in powder form, often makes you sneeze and was used before cigarettes were manufactured. My old Nan used Snuff in England as late as 1995, however, I'm unsure if Snuff is still available at tobacconists.... She used to put some on the back of her hand, take a sniff like she was snorting coke and casually wipe away her runny nose with with a tissue... Snuff is MUCH stronger than any cigarette...
Gasto
Gasto!
Hahahahah
Whos the other officer, sir?
I was
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This is the guy who died burning down the White House in 1812
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@@SantomPh died trying to get to Baltimore after having burned the White House down.
*meet the demoman? That's soldiering.*
what are they snorting?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_(tobacco)
Can anyone Frenchman tell me if these are anglo actors speaking French or if they are actual Frenchman?
Gen Calvet and Gaston the only like able Frenchmen in the series
robert connor what about the colonel in enemy? Can’t remember his name but he brought sharpe hakeswill and Teresa’s body
3:07 snorting cocaine on the job now that’s soldiering
Tobacco, not cocaine
Watching the subtitles trying to catch up French into English is hysterical comedy gold....
What does he put up his nose?
Even back in the day there were simps like Shellington
What did sharpe take and sniff up his nose?
It was 'SNUFF'... Snuff is PURE nicotine in powder form, often makes you sneeze and was used before cigarettes were manufactured. My old Nan used Snuff in England as late as 1995, however, I'm unsure if Snuff is still available at tobacconists.... She used to put some on the back of her hand, take a sniff like she was snorting coke and casually wipe away her runny nose with with a tissue... Snuff is MUCH stronger than any cigarette...
Commenting memes about soldiering... Now that's soldiering.
"Puff? Rubbish."
yio tell me if im wrong the thing everybody keeps snorting is it coke?????
It's 'snuff'. Tobacco with additional spices and herbs mixed in.
It was supposed to be good for your health and mind (and bloody expensive, so a status symbol. Even more if you shared).
But then, this was the age where smoking was good for your lungs, and regular bleeding kept you healthy...
What it really did was give you a rush of nicotine, much more than when you inhale the smoke.
@@GorinRedspear shit ive never heard of it, thanks for the info!
Frederik, snuff was used up to comparatively recent times. I can remember as a young man working in heavy industry during the '50s many of the older guys used to take snuff. I tried it, I thought it was horrible.
3:07 Cocaine???
Snuff
Snuff. Far more civilized.
Snuff, leaches, bleeding, smoking for your lungs, best brown paper and parrafin oil.
Powdered tobacco.
Snuff, powdered tobacco. A habit of the officer class in the day and a small nod to Major Hogan, whom Ross is standing in for (although this movie is not based on book lore)
8th!
No one eats mushrooms like Gaston!
I love how censorship back then was super easy, just don't mention that you did anything heroic to journalists and the veil of shadows will hold!