He doesn't insist upon himself, we insist upon him. He'd kick you in the balls and club you with his rifle and say something pithy in a Yorkshire accent.
Sharpe was peak british 90's dadcore. If you had a dad that was into Michael Caine movies, you'd have watched Sharpe, it's also a respectable book series.
Correction: that most Americans didn't know about until YouTube popularized it. One of my English teachers in middle school (many years ago now) was a British expat. After learning about my interest in military history, she got me into Horatio Hornblower and Sharpe. This also was when Sharpe's Challenge came out, one of the very last things to be played uncensored on PBS when it was still a sort of poverty HBO.
Liz Hurley tiddies
A reminder of the above-mentioned thing about PBS.
Napoleonic Wars naval kino
Checked and that was also a good series. I remember watching some of it first run when little, but not fully getting it. Then upon rewatching it, I came to enjoy it.
I watched it half a year ago because of Cinemaphile threads and it's amazing. The only legitimate complaint is how the battles are 20 guys in a field but it only really aplies to few episodes, most of the time Sharpe is doing behind enemy lines action and later on in the series the big battles are properly big
I watched it on the history channel in the early 2000s back when played top shelf kino at lunch. I used to skip school just to watch shit like Sharpe and A Bridge Too Far and Mutiny On The Bounty.
Upon sighting the Sharpe thread, I naturally gave the order to post the copypasta. That's my style sir.
>Cheesy 80s guitar mixed with fife and drum intro plays >Small skirmish between the British and French >Tongue is missing as usual >Sharpe flailing his sword around while Hagman gives cover fire >They win the skirmish >Messenger on horseback approaches >"Lieutenant/Captain/Major Sharpe, you are summoned to Lord Wellington's tent" >"Bloody ell Patrick, what's 'e want now" >Sharpe arrives in old Nosey's tent >His spymaster of the day is there >As is a weasel looking British officer or French lord >"Sharpe, this is Lord Fricksworth, who has a dangerous mission for you - you will be enormously outnumbered, deep behind enemy lines with no support, oh and Major Ducos is around so watch out for him >Lord Frickworth insults him for being a poorgay but reluctantly accepts that this is Wellington's best man >"As ye like sir, Ah'll get it dun" >Cut to Sharpe and Patrick discussing the mission >"It dun maek bloody sense Patrick, why do they need us to tek this castle/find this woman/get these supplies/uncover this plot" >"Oh surely as the fields o' Ireland are green, sir, God has a plan for us, sir" >A few battles happen on the way to the objective >Oh look it's an attractive young woman who keeps looking at Sharpe suggestively >They frick >"Look Patrick! It's the thing we're here for!" >"LOOK OUT SIR" >Lord Fricksworth appears and betrays Sharpe >Ducos appears >"HON HON HON! Bamboozled you again my nemesis" >"Bloody Ducos" >Battle happens >Patrick goes "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH BANG" with the 7 barrelled gun >Wellington arrives >"Well done Sharpe! You've done it again" >Sharpe and his men march into the sunset >THERE'S FORTY SHILLINGS ON THE DRUM...FOR THOSE WHO VOLUNTEER TO COME...
>Ironically enough the non existent budget gives it extreme soul
Have you ever seen the documentary about how the final Blackadder episode came to be? It's a fricking miracle that they managed to make something so soulful out of the footage they had, all because of ideas that came to them in the editing booth trying to salvage the silly mess they'd shot.
>tfw you'll never see Napoleon on the battlefield and be completely content and able to immediately go back home to Ireland and frick some more babies into your Spanish hottie of a wife, until you're old and fat and your grandchildren ask you to tell your stories about taking an Eagle and seeing Napoleon again
>tfw because of Cinemaphile whenever I see Sean Bean in Sharpe all I can do is stare at his hair and wonder why it's so fricking thin with so much scalp exposed while not actually receding.
>Between £100-£700, it depends really on the regiment, rank and notoriety of it's wielder, and of course the condition.
Don't care about any of that except the condition obviously, any links?
This is a thousand times better than Sharpe because of the ships and less repetition with love interests etc. I'm still holding out hope that the Aubrey-Maturin series will get a prestige Game of Thrones-level tv show adaptation, to bring back boatkino.
You don't need to fight them off against each other, Sharpe is representing the army, Hornblower the navy. They two can co-exist and not clash that's the genius of it.
Sharpe would instantly feel insecure because Hornblower is an off*cer and Hornblower would dislike him because Sharpe is a brainlet commoner.
They would get into some shenanigans trying to get the thingie(complicated by Ducos) and they would learn to respect each other by the end.
I'm talking about the bloody shows not the characters or the services.
Sharpe would instantly feel insecure because Hornblower is an off*cer and Hornblower would dislike him because Sharpe is a brainlet commoner.
They would get into some shenanigans trying to get the thingie(complicated by Ducos) and they would learn to respect each other by the end.
Was going to post this thank you
If you like Master and Commander check this series out
thats new kino for me, thanks.
anything else i should check out if i want napoleonkino? i've only seen the 1970s film.
thank you ridley sc*tt for getting me interested in actual napoleon films.
the napoleon film is the current youtube algorithm target of "laugh at how shit this movie is", i haven't seen it but i saw it's full of historical inaccuracies and mischaracterizations of napoleon, though it's based on british propaganda of the time where he's depicted as a cuck. nevertheless why would someone present him like that in a prestige film trying to celebrate his battle accomplishments is just fricking weird
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>why would someone present him like that in a prestige film trying to celebrate his battle accomplishments is just fricking weird
Because it's trying to do the exact opposite you fricking brainlet, did the number of deaths after each battle not clue you in enough? The whole thing is an attempt at deconstructing Napoleon's legend, and with it the insufferable resurgence of Great Man Theory homosexuals who shit up twitter.
It's still a terrible fricking movie and Scott obviously realized he could succeed where Kubrick failed long before it was released.
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Yes the whole film is deconstructing napoleon's legend based off british war time propaganda. Great fricking plan you have there bro. Let's also make a film deconstructing churchill using pat buchanan's propaganda.
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Wait what did Pat Buchanan say about Churchill?
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Anonymous
>churchill declared war on hitler for no reason >britain joining the war dragged rest of the allied nations into the war >churchill started ww2
basically
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>deconstructing napoleon's legend
Why does everyone forget that the guy LOST? Napoleon made many economic, political and strategic blunders which eventually cost him the throne.
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If I wanted to deconstruct him for the modern day viewers I'd simply show how the revolution declared all slaves in the French colonies free men, in line with their new ideals, but then later Napoleon betrayed those ideals, like he did in so many ways, and brought slavery back to fund his wars. But then of course you'd have to actually frame it as the revolution and its ideals being betrayed, instead of Napoleon being the despot figurehead of the whole thing who then gets defeated by the Good Guy Monarchists.
If that's too mundane for modern audiences, the Temeraire series would be a nice alternative. Napoleonic wars with dragons would be expensive but worth it.
I really liked the war parts of Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell. It was perfect that the army couldn't think of a good use for a magician on the battlefield because making rain visions or seeing a close-up image of generals just isn't that useful and so they just ignored him like one of the King's nephews who just want to hang out and pretend to be a soldier, until he shows them that he can make perfect roads for them to march on wherever they want to go and then have them disappear right after so that the frogs can't follow them. No need for flashy shit, just give them a good road and you'll be God to them. The bits where some soldiers end up transported to remote parts of The Americas was also fun.
Fun fact, Hornblower's BFF was originally going to play Sharpe. While shooting the first movie he hurt his leg playing football with the crew and it just wouldn't heal because of the shitty healthcare in whatever country it was being shot in. So he had to give up the role and go back to England and they reshot the scenes with Sean Bean.
I seriously can't envisioning him playing Sharpe as well as Sean did. He just doesn't come across as working-class scum enough. And if he'd been busy playing Sharpe he wouldn't have gotten cast in Hornblower, where he excelled.
Bro those homies can't even name the monarchs involved. Every time I try to bring up this show or this era around Bongs I meet, I end up looking like I'm the weird one because they just don't have the first bit of trivial knowledge about it.
Watching it on YouTube. It's a lot of fun. I enjoy how well written the characters are, how earnest they are about portraying the soldiers, and it just has a great sense of pacing where it balances politics, the military, and the regular lives of soldiers so well.
I'm having a lot of fun with the show so far, and this is easily my favorite Sean Bean role.
I just recently finished watching it as well. It makes the time fly by real fast with how engaging it is. Also the women are extremely frickable and Hagman is the fricking GOAT
1) threadbare budget - talavera is a battle involving about 20 men apparently. Not their fault , they did their best.
2) bean has this weird thing where he is super quiet sometimes, other times he is ultra loud.
3) tv sharp is far too honourable, book Sharpe was more of a cutthroat rogue
4) he sleeps with the French chick betraying frederikson
Luv a remake with a proper budget and no blacks trannies etc , just lots of white men
>threadbare budget - talavera is a battle involving about 20 men apparently. Not their fault , they did their best. >Luv a remake
You know damn well that any battle scene made in current year would be a horrible CGI slopfest. 20 dudes in some farmer's field they rented for the day is unironically better. To be honest the only real option for authentic Napoleonic era battle kino is Bondarchuk's Waterloo.
>To be honest the only real option for authentic Napoleonic era battle kino is Bondarchuk's Waterloo.
Austerlitz and Borodino in War and Peace are kino as well
>budget
It's still better than grey blue piss filter Hollywood shit. Try looking at Napoleon (new movie)'s soulless battle scene for comparison. Sharpe at its worst is better than that slop.
Just use your imagination you plank, the small budget is part of the charm. Would it truly make any difference if there were 10k cgi soldiers in the background to what the series is? If you say yes, you're a soulless homosexual.
He doesn't, unfortunately. Denying us Sharpe going after the pleasures of bibis is as much a crime as denying us the "bloody great naked melons" described in the novels.
>kid in an 90s ex-commie country >absolutely no regulations >tv channels play everything western to catch up for half a century >go home from school at noon >they're showing Sharpe, I Claudius, Plague Dogs, Watership Down and some erotic American movies while you're doing your homework
What a life.
Probably. While marching you'd cut your hair with a knife whenever it was long enough to fall into your eyes and obstruct your vision, which naturally leads to a mullet. In earlier eras soldiers/knights/kings who would otherwise want long hair would still cut their hair so it didn't cover their eyes, but back then they'd leave themselves some bangs because it would soak up blood and sweat in battle and stop it from running into their eyes under their helmet where they can't wipe it off easily. This was obviously less of a concern by the Napoleonic era.
dogshit
In one book Sharpe has a flashback to the days of powdered queues and how much they sucked, and is glad they don't do that shit anymore. Getting rid of the stiff collars is a significant plot point in the first book and the first movie
I gotta go with my boy Dodd from the India stuff, dude was the perfect real life Gaston. That Mark Strong character takes #2.
I'd pure Purefoy above them but he hardly counts as a villain, he was a traitor but a good guy
i DL'ed this a bit back when i was in my napoleonic war phase, haven't watched it yet since i heard it's some kind of monty python version of napoleon instead
...lieutenant troony led the advance.
You may say he is tied to me by discord, but is it a tie of server to tie my tounge and rob a brave poster of it's just reward? No sir.
It's always nice to see some aristo c**t get his just deserts, especially when delivered by a proven military man so that you can feel some meritocracy at work.
The fat irish guy who goes from being a cheeky disobedient subordinate, to a competent friend, to basically his personal manservant is a weird relationship.
>to basically his personal manservant
That's just the best place to be for any working class lad who finds himself on friendly terms with an officer. It gives you the ability to order other people of your rank around because it's in service of an officer and since you're "busy seeing to my officer's things" you won't get ordered to dig latrines or any other shit job. The same thing happened in the navy, where regular seamen would hope to get on friendly terms with young midshipmen or officers and get made into their manservant once they reached a rank where one was allowed/needed. Because then instead of hauling on ropes or scrubbing the deck you'd instead mostly be seeing to their dinner and washing/mending their clothes, much easier tasks.
>Personal manservant
He becomes the Regimental Sergeant Major, do you know what that means? It means even Officers can't frick with him and those above him must even respect him, they may still think him scum but they will not dare to go against him. His word is law among the soldiers, and only answers directly to Sharpe.
>tfw you have to say farewell and adieu to your Spanish lady, farewell and adieu to your lady of Spain... For the king commands and you obey, over the hills and far away
Whenever i see these repeats on the telly i just get sad at the current state of media and that we'll never get demographically accurate telly ever again
20% is the diversity quote in the Royal Shakespeare company, the BBC and ITV at the moment so you are correct. They're wanting to push it up to 25% as well.
Blacks make up about 10% of the population here yet are about 50% of the castings in adverts and programmes. I wouldnt care if it was set in the 'hood', but quality is being sacrificed for this pandering. And it does have an effect on the overall quality of a show if it doesnt feel believable. Its not just about the plot and the acting etc, the accuracy of the cast plays a big part but due to this quality has just degraded over time and now theres a new bar which a lot lower than it was 20 years ago - when there was an artistic vision and a story to tell, but it wasnt sacrificed for politics and diversity quotas.
Even my older relations have noticed in the difference of the television soaps. Running on the freeview channels are "Classic" versions, in reality they're from the early 2000s. But my older relations have all said what a difference from then to now and that's only 20 years, in casting, in story telling, in story lines, in the camera work and feel of the shows.
If it's noticeable even in the most shite of television, I've no doubt in productions that take more effort and talent it's virtually impossible to pull off anymore a television show like Sharpe.
You're only 5 years younger than I yet I watched them growing up. Are you not British perhaps that would explain it? I say this because as other anons have pointed it out, Sharpe is re-run on the television all the time. I think at the moment it's currently on the t.v. channel called Drama throughout the week at the moment.
Ah ok, fair enough. I hope you enjoy and if you have any questions feel free to make a thread and ask anons, trust me when I say other than watching Sharpe there is nothing more anons like myself enjoy than talking about it.
They compliment each other well, when I'm in for a working class hero, Napoleonic British army down in the mud and dirt mood I'll do a Sharpe marathon.
When I'm in for a take on the Royal Navy during the similar time period, wind and sail, rope and canon, I'll marathon Hornblower.
What I like is both characters are intelligent and more often than not don't only use brawn to get out of situations but their brains.
>moderate themes
What did they mean by this?
Liz Hurley tiddies
>yfw liz gets her baps out
PICKED UP
based
sheeeeeeit.
climate change is real, but not human caused
Who the hell is sharp and why does he insist upon himself so much
He doesn't insist upon himself, we insist upon him. He'd kick you in the balls and club you with his rifle and say something pithy in a Yorkshire accent.
He's the best man we have, Sir.
A filthy ruffian raised from the ranks.
A King's man, to the end.
>FILTH! THAT MAN! SCUM!
Frick off, Boney!
Chosen man.
I'm convinced this is one of those shows nobody knew existed until youtube's algorithm started pushing it.
Sharpe was peak british 90's dadcore. If you had a dad that was into Michael Caine movies, you'd have watched Sharpe, it's also a respectable book series.
>I'm convinced this is one of those shows nobody knew existed until youtube's algorithm started pushing it.
Life existed before youtube, zoom bro.
Correction: that most Americans didn't know about until YouTube popularized it. One of my English teachers in middle school (many years ago now) was a British expat. After learning about my interest in military history, she got me into Horatio Hornblower and Sharpe. This also was when Sharpe's Challenge came out, one of the very last things to be played uncensored on PBS when it was still a sort of poverty HBO.
A reminder of the above-mentioned thing about PBS.
Checked and that was also a good series. I remember watching some of it first run when little, but not fully getting it. Then upon rewatching it, I came to enjoy it.
...and redcoat-pilled.
No, this is one of those shows nobody knew existed until Cinemaphile started shitposting about it.
you're zoomers and should shut the frick up.
It was a show made for men.
Of course someone like you didn't know about it.
Good morning sar!
Are you literally 12 years old?
some of us read books homosexual
Frick off back to
then, this board is not about mindlessly looking at letters it is about watching thought provoking art
(you)
Turned into a meme because of youtube but it's always had popularity.
Audiobooks even use sean bean's accent and it turns into pure kino
I knew about it because my sister, who read History at Oxford, had a massive crush on Sean Bean lol
Cinemaphile got me into this and Hornblower. Thank you anons, including the guy who recommended Rescue Me.
a friend streamed it and i watched some of it and then finished it myself. that first movie alone is so great
I never heard of it until these Cinemaphile threads, but I'm American. I might give it a watch, looks entertaining.
I watched it half a year ago because of Cinemaphile threads and it's amazing. The only legitimate complaint is how the battles are 20 guys in a field but it only really aplies to few episodes, most of the time Sharpe is doing behind enemy lines action and later on in the series the big battles are properly big
I watched it on tv in the 90's. Used to look forward to every new series.
Imma go ahead and say that most people who had dads growing up knew this and shows like it.
its unironically an oldgay Cinemaphile meme and i like it because its kino
tldr its been popular on Cinemaphile for 10 years
bruh, my dad watched this growing up, so I did too. Frickin zoomers
>bruh
frick off you dumb zoomer
I read the books after Empire Total War came out and became a bit of a Britaboo for a while.
>getting dozens od replies with a single sentence
now that's baitering
I watched it on the history channel in the early 2000s back when played top shelf kino at lunch. I used to skip school just to watch shit like Sharpe and A Bridge Too Far and Mutiny On The Bounty.
King George commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
One of the greatest tv series ever.
the fact that every battle scene is about twelve people just makes it that much more comfy
Upon sighting the Sharpe thread, I naturally gave the order to post the copypasta. That's my style sir.
>Cheesy 80s guitar mixed with fife and drum intro plays
>Small skirmish between the British and French
>Tongue is missing as usual
>Sharpe flailing his sword around while Hagman gives cover fire
>They win the skirmish
>Messenger on horseback approaches
>"Lieutenant/Captain/Major Sharpe, you are summoned to Lord Wellington's tent"
>"Bloody ell Patrick, what's 'e want now"
>Sharpe arrives in old Nosey's tent
>His spymaster of the day is there
>As is a weasel looking British officer or French lord
>"Sharpe, this is Lord Fricksworth, who has a dangerous mission for you - you will be enormously outnumbered, deep behind enemy lines with no support, oh and Major Ducos is around so watch out for him
>Lord Frickworth insults him for being a poorgay but reluctantly accepts that this is Wellington's best man
>"As ye like sir, Ah'll get it dun"
>Cut to Sharpe and Patrick discussing the mission
>"It dun maek bloody sense Patrick, why do they need us to tek this castle/find this woman/get these supplies/uncover this plot"
>"Oh surely as the fields o' Ireland are green, sir, God has a plan for us, sir"
>A few battles happen on the way to the objective
>Oh look it's an attractive young woman who keeps looking at Sharpe suggestively
>They frick
>"Look Patrick! It's the thing we're here for!"
>"LOOK OUT SIR"
>Lord Fricksworth appears and betrays Sharpe
>Ducos appears
>"HON HON HON! Bamboozled you again my nemesis"
>"Bloody Ducos"
>Battle happens
>Patrick goes "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH BANG" with the 7 barrelled gun
>Wellington arrives
>"Well done Sharpe! You've done it again"
>Sharpe and his men march into the sunset
>THERE'S FORTY SHILLINGS ON THE DRUM...FOR THOSE WHO VOLUNTEER TO COME...
Read it all in the characters' accents.
THERES FORTY SHILLINGS ON THE DRUM
FOR THOSE WHO VOLUNTEER TO COME
SOVL
S
O
V
L
>Upon sighting the Sharpe thread, I naturally gave the order to post the copypasta. That's my style sir.
here's a (you) just for that
if this is the composite episode, this sounds low brow and kitsch af
D-on-t enjyaouu slummin it with the lads ofyyiscaaa
cawntt say i ecryuxspectesd thawwerrt
You have lost the King's friendship, good morning Sir
you forgot the most important part of every Sharpe movie where he always looks back before leaving
Except for the last one, where he steadfastly looks forward towards the future before disappearing in the smoke of battle:
Ironically enough the non existent budget gives it extreme soul but god I wish they had the budget to actually depict the books in full
>Ironically enough the non existent budget gives it extreme soul
Have you ever seen the documentary about how the final Blackadder episode came to be? It's a fricking miracle that they managed to make something so soulful out of the footage they had, all because of ideas that came to them in the editing booth trying to salvage the silly mess they'd shot.
>tfw you'll never see Napoleon on the battlefield and be completely content and able to immediately go back home to Ireland and frick some more babies into your Spanish hottie of a wife, until you're old and fat and your grandchildren ask you to tell your stories about taking an Eagle and seeing Napoleon again
Pointing soijacks
your brain is rotted from seeing too many shitty zoomemes
They look just like it, man
And shags the Guy’s bird
damn he's too old to play snake from mgs but he looks just like the big boss.
>tfw because of Cinemaphile whenever I see Sean Bean in Sharpe all I can do is stare at his hair and wonder why it's so fricking thin with so much scalp exposed while not actually receding.
How much would a historical Sharpe's saber cost?
Between £100-£700, it depends really on the regiment, rank and notoriety of it's wielder, and of course the condition.
>Between £100-£700, it depends really on the regiment, rank and notoriety of it's wielder, and of course the condition.
Don't care about any of that except the condition obviously, any links?
>Saber
It's a (dragooner) sword, you can see it's a straight blade not curved.
Sharpe hates sabers since they're too light for his taste
We'll never get a get another real one like Georgie G...
>p-please buy my b-book, it's on sale right n-now. PLEASE...MY CHILDREN ARE STARVING
Why did he never get a job again?
Napoleonic Wars naval kino
why do the welsh refuse to have normal names
This is a thousand times better than Sharpe because of the ships and less repetition with love interests etc. I'm still holding out hope that the Aubrey-Maturin series will get a prestige Game of Thrones-level tv show adaptation, to bring back boatkino.
You don't need to fight them off against each other, Sharpe is representing the army, Hornblower the navy. They two can co-exist and not clash that's the genius of it.
>the army and navy doesn't have to be rivals, they can just co-exist and not clash
lol
lmao
I'm talking about the bloody shows not the characters or the services.
>and not clash
Sharpe would instantly feel insecure because Hornblower is an off*cer and Hornblower would dislike him because Sharpe is a brainlet commoner.
They would get into some shenanigans trying to get the thingie(complicated by Ducos) and they would learn to respect each other by the end.
kino
>their superior officer starts endangering their men with insane orders
>they just glance towards each other and nod
Was going to post this thank you
If you like Master and Commander check this series out
thats new kino for me, thanks.
anything else i should check out if i want napoleonkino? i've only seen the 1970s film.
thank you ridley sc*tt for getting me interested in actual napoleon films.
The Duellists obviously.
Also some of the War and Peace adaptations are not bad. You could watch the one with classic Dano.
I think you misunderstood. I absolutely loathe ridley scott's napoleon film. I used to think gladiator was rad but I might have to re-evaluate.
The Duellists is far better than Gladiator. I haven't seen Napoleon but I'm guessing it's better than that as well.
the napoleon film is the current youtube algorithm target of "laugh at how shit this movie is", i haven't seen it but i saw it's full of historical inaccuracies and mischaracterizations of napoleon, though it's based on british propaganda of the time where he's depicted as a cuck. nevertheless why would someone present him like that in a prestige film trying to celebrate his battle accomplishments is just fricking weird
>why would someone present him like that in a prestige film trying to celebrate his battle accomplishments is just fricking weird
Because it's trying to do the exact opposite you fricking brainlet, did the number of deaths after each battle not clue you in enough? The whole thing is an attempt at deconstructing Napoleon's legend, and with it the insufferable resurgence of Great Man Theory homosexuals who shit up twitter.
It's still a terrible fricking movie and Scott obviously realized he could succeed where Kubrick failed long before it was released.
Yes the whole film is deconstructing napoleon's legend based off british war time propaganda. Great fricking plan you have there bro. Let's also make a film deconstructing churchill using pat buchanan's propaganda.
Wait what did Pat Buchanan say about Churchill?
>churchill declared war on hitler for no reason
>britain joining the war dragged rest of the allied nations into the war
>churchill started ww2
basically
>deconstructing napoleon's legend
Why does everyone forget that the guy LOST? Napoleon made many economic, political and strategic blunders which eventually cost him the throne.
If I wanted to deconstruct him for the modern day viewers I'd simply show how the revolution declared all slaves in the French colonies free men, in line with their new ideals, but then later Napoleon betrayed those ideals, like he did in so many ways, and brought slavery back to fund his wars. But then of course you'd have to actually frame it as the revolution and its ideals being betrayed, instead of Napoleon being the despot figurehead of the whole thing who then gets defeated by the Good Guy Monarchists.
>You could watch the one with classic Dano.
The potato scene is unironically the reason I rate Dano as a great actor and not just a meme.
The Terror season 1
Thanks for the recommendations. I really liked season 1 of the Terror, so I'll give some of these a watch.
I haven't seen this one. I'll check it out.
If that's too mundane for modern audiences, the Temeraire series would be a nice alternative. Napoleonic wars with dragons would be expensive but worth it.
I really liked the war parts of Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell. It was perfect that the army couldn't think of a good use for a magician on the battlefield because making rain visions or seeing a close-up image of generals just isn't that useful and so they just ignored him like one of the King's nephews who just want to hang out and pretend to be a soldier, until he shows them that he can make perfect roads for them to march on wherever they want to go and then have them disappear right after so that the frogs can't follow them. No need for flashy shit, just give them a good road and you'll be God to them. The bits where some soldiers end up transported to remote parts of The Americas was also fun.
Why did he marry a prostitute
She reminded him of his mother.
Horrible ending for the tv series
FROOGS?
jej
Horatio wienerblower mogs Sharpe
How? At least Sharpe EARNED his promotions instead of sucking his flag officer off like Hornblower
Fun fact, Hornblower's BFF was originally going to play Sharpe. While shooting the first movie he hurt his leg playing football with the crew and it just wouldn't heal because of the shitty healthcare in whatever country it was being shot in. So he had to give up the role and go back to England and they reshot the scenes with Sean Bean.
I seriously can't envisioning him playing Sharpe as well as Sean did. He just doesn't come across as working-class scum enough. And if he'd been busy playing Sharpe he wouldn't have gotten cast in Hornblower, where he excelled.
I believe it was shot in Ukraine so that tracks. You're right he would have made a dogshit Sharpe
He looks like moot.
I'm gonna be going to England in a month
Will people sperg if I bring up this show?
I think not many people under 40 will know about it or not in the military
Bro those homies can't even name the monarchs involved. Every time I try to bring up this show or this era around Bongs I meet, I end up looking like I'm the weird one because they just don't have the first bit of trivial knowledge about it.
Where abouts are you going? Don't tell me London, DO NOT FRICKING TELL ME YOU'RE GOING TO LONDON.
Watching it on YouTube. It's a lot of fun. I enjoy how well written the characters are, how earnest they are about portraying the soldiers, and it just has a great sense of pacing where it balances politics, the military, and the regular lives of soldiers so well.
I'm having a lot of fun with the show so far, and this is easily my favorite Sean Bean role.
I just recently finished watching it as well. It makes the time fly by real fast with how engaging it is. Also the women are extremely frickable and Hagman is the fricking GOAT
Based thread
If you watch that one Frankenstein show on netflix with Sean Bean, they reference his role in Sharpe too.
Fantastic horror show in the first season, ruined in the second season because they made it 100% supernatural.
I like it but it hasn't aged well.
1) threadbare budget - talavera is a battle involving about 20 men apparently. Not their fault , they did their best.
2) bean has this weird thing where he is super quiet sometimes, other times he is ultra loud.
3) tv sharp is far too honourable, book Sharpe was more of a cutthroat rogue
4) he sleeps with the French chick betraying frederikson
Luv a remake with a proper budget and no blacks trannies etc , just lots of white men
What's the matter only attracted to white men?
Yes.
You a homophobe or something
>threadbare budget - talavera is a battle involving about 20 men apparently. Not their fault , they did their best.
>Luv a remake
You know damn well that any battle scene made in current year would be a horrible CGI slopfest. 20 dudes in some farmer's field they rented for the day is unironically better. To be honest the only real option for authentic Napoleonic era battle kino is Bondarchuk's Waterloo.
>To be honest the only real option for authentic Napoleonic era battle kino is Bondarchuk's Waterloo.
Austerlitz and Borodino in War and Peace are kino as well
>budget
It's still better than grey blue piss filter Hollywood shit. Try looking at Napoleon (new movie)'s soulless battle scene for comparison. Sharpe at its worst is better than that slop.
Just use your imagination you plank, the small budget is part of the charm. Would it truly make any difference if there were 10k cgi soldiers in the background to what the series is? If you say yes, you're a soulless homosexual.
in the POOPER
I like the live action but I want an animated series that follows all the books in chronological order. Sean Bean can still voice Sharpe.
Are the India episodes worth watching?
Will I have to endure Sharpe fricking a poofu?
They are good, Tobey Stephens (later of Butt Pirates fame) is a kino villain. There are hot Pajeetas but I don't remember if Sharpe sleeps with them.
He doesn't, unfortunately. Denying us Sharpe going after the pleasures of bibis is as much a crime as denying us the "bloody great naked melons" described in the novels.
>in my country, I am known as a top chef
>it's a Spain betrays the British episode
To this day, I have not found a show as comfy, sovful, life-affirming, positive and sincere.
God bless everyone who made this.
>life-affirming, positive
well, i felt good watching it. if only tv programmes were this good on average.
Frick Yeah it's life affirming. Just watching the ending of Waterloo episode lifts my spirits.
i prefer hornblower. Ioan was so handsome, my husbando <3
>was
He still looks fantastic for 50.
indeed, hornlbower preference is a sure sign of homosexuality. thats why they call it "horn blower
>kid in an 90s ex-commie country
>absolutely no regulations
>tv channels play everything western to catch up for half a century
>go home from school at noon
>they're showing Sharpe, I Claudius, Plague Dogs, Watership Down and some erotic American movies while you're doing your homework
What a life.
you were a smarter kid than I was, I couldn't get into I Clavdivs until my early 20s
loved it but it does fall off hard after Caligula bites it
A show no woman will understand.
Was the mullet fashionable in 1810s England?
Probably. While marching you'd cut your hair with a knife whenever it was long enough to fall into your eyes and obstruct your vision, which naturally leads to a mullet. In earlier eras soldiers/knights/kings who would otherwise want long hair would still cut their hair so it didn't cover their eyes, but back then they'd leave themselves some bangs because it would soak up blood and sweat in battle and stop it from running into their eyes under their helmet where they can't wipe it off easily. This was obviously less of a concern by the Napoleonic era.
Probably not
In the books they all wear mandatory powdered wigs and stiff collars
dogshit
In one book Sharpe has a flashback to the days of powdered queues and how much they sucked, and is glad they don't do that shit anymore. Getting rid of the stiff collars is a significant plot point in the first book and the first movie
I read the first three those had wigs
Prime Bean was such a chad
I need to know that Lucy died of crotch rot as a penniless prostitute.
Do you mean Jane Gibbons?
Who is your favorite Sharpe villain?
Mine is Hakeswill, with Simmerson a close second.
I gotta go with my boy Dodd from the India stuff, dude was the perfect real life Gaston. That Mark Strong character takes #2.
I'd pure Purefoy above them but he hardly counts as a villain, he was a traitor but a good guy
Just ordered the complete Sharpe and complete Hornblower for £12.38 on music magpie lads feeling pretty good
Wouldn’t get Sharpe in a modern format without confirming Liz Hurley’s nips aren’t out of frame
That's a hell of a deal
Thanks anon, always looking for good non pozzed shows to watch
Try looking for someone to have sex with, chuddy.
You'll have to keep looking because in this show they're always portraying Irishmen as rational and worthy of equal rights.
Disgusting.
Say it filth, say GOD SAVE IRELAND
>Slaves, cotton, and molasses
>kino
i hate zoomers so much
i DL'ed this a bit back when i was in my napoleonic war phase, haven't watched it yet since i heard it's some kind of monty python version of napoleon instead
>Boromir
>Alec Trevelyan
>Sharpe
Sean Bean has reached unthinkable levels of kino.
Yeah, three iconic characters is plenty for an actor.
Upon sighting a Sharpe thread, I naturally gave the order to reply.
That's my style sir.
And did any anon distinguish himself?
...lieutenant troony led the advance.
You may say he is tied to me by discord, but is it a tie of server to tie my tounge and rob a brave poster of it's just reward? No sir.
I have a report here from a tripgay that differs somewhat from your account, anon...
Sir Tripgay is merely a shitposter, sir.
the tripgay leaves the worse to the last. he says you lost the game
..the fault was not mine sir, major Oldgay mist answer!
MAJOR OLDgay ANSWERED WITH HIS PERMABAN!
I have cousins in the Mod IRC, sir, and friends in the Jannies.
not that's soldiering
>Commenting under every Sharpe Youtube clip by repeating the most quotable line and then ending with "that's soldiering".
Now that's commenting.
HOLY FRICK
I think the guy on the left is the bad guy in Death Wish 3
As a Boomer I feel compelled to ask, why did this scene compel such a large audience to it?
Because the acting is great, Wellington going 0 to 100 on simmerson is cathartic.
It's always nice to see some aristo c**t get his just deserts, especially when delivered by a proven military man so that you can feel some meritocracy at work.
The fat irish guy who goes from being a cheeky disobedient subordinate, to a competent friend, to basically his personal manservant is a weird relationship.
but that's the natural relationship between the anglo-saxon and the lowly hibernian?
Would you rather live in London or Cork?
Richmond.
>to basically his personal manservant
That's just the best place to be for any working class lad who finds himself on friendly terms with an officer. It gives you the ability to order other people of your rank around because it's in service of an officer and since you're "busy seeing to my officer's things" you won't get ordered to dig latrines or any other shit job. The same thing happened in the navy, where regular seamen would hope to get on friendly terms with young midshipmen or officers and get made into their manservant once they reached a rank where one was allowed/needed. Because then instead of hauling on ropes or scrubbing the deck you'd instead mostly be seeing to their dinner and washing/mending their clothes, much easier tasks.
Harper is also Regimental Sergeant Major, which means he's basically God as far as anyone in the regiment is concerned.
>Personal manservant
He becomes the Regimental Sergeant Major, do you know what that means? It means even Officers can't frick with him and those above him must even respect him, they may still think him scum but they will not dare to go against him. His word is law among the soldiers, and only answers directly to Sharpe.
kino character
glad he got halfway redeemed in one of the newer ones
He got redeemed? The last time I remember seeing him he was selling soldiers like slaves for his own personal profit, or trying to rape a girl.
A show so kino boomers invented a meme before zoomers existed
not bad.
I dun get eet, sarge
>BLACK AS BOG
The only thing more satisfying than shooting Nazis is shooting French.
Was he redeemed?
>God forgive me but I wish it had lasted longer
PTAH!
Jannies
You may not Jannies me Sir.
Yes.
>tfw you have to say farewell and adieu to your Spanish lady, farewell and adieu to your lady of Spain... For the king commands and you obey, over the hills and far away
What time period is this show supposed to take place?
midevil era
Napolionic wars
between 2008 crash and defund police protests
It's isekai.
Spanish civil war
after robert's rebellion
the interwar period
Neolithic
They do use an awful lot of flint...
heh
Whenever i see these repeats on the telly i just get sad at the current state of media and that we'll never get demographically accurate telly ever again
20% is the diversity quote in the Royal Shakespeare company, the BBC and ITV at the moment so you are correct. They're wanting to push it up to 25% as well.
Blacks make up about 10% of the population here yet are about 50% of the castings in adverts and programmes. I wouldnt care if it was set in the 'hood', but quality is being sacrificed for this pandering. And it does have an effect on the overall quality of a show if it doesnt feel believable. Its not just about the plot and the acting etc, the accuracy of the cast plays a big part but due to this quality has just degraded over time and now theres a new bar which a lot lower than it was 20 years ago - when there was an artistic vision and a story to tell, but it wasnt sacrificed for politics and diversity quotas.
Even my older relations have noticed in the difference of the television soaps. Running on the freeview channels are "Classic" versions, in reality they're from the early 2000s. But my older relations have all said what a difference from then to now and that's only 20 years, in casting, in story telling, in story lines, in the camera work and feel of the shows.
If it's noticeable even in the most shite of television, I've no doubt in productions that take more effort and talent it's virtually impossible to pull off anymore a television show like Sharpe.
God. Save. Ireland.
Say it, filth.
lookin forwards to watching this so i can share memes in the next thread
t. '93 millenizoomer
You're only 5 years younger than I yet I watched them growing up. Are you not British perhaps that would explain it? I say this because as other anons have pointed it out, Sharpe is re-run on the television all the time. I think at the moment it's currently on the t.v. channel called Drama throughout the week at the moment.
no am a finn and didnt know this existed until 2 weeks prior
Ah ok, fair enough. I hope you enjoy and if you have any questions feel free to make a thread and ask anons, trust me when I say other than watching Sharpe there is nothing more anons like myself enjoy than talking about it.
You'll enjoy young Elizabeth Hurley.
Hornblower is like Sharpe with a worse lead but not nearly as repetitive and having more exciting set pieces.
They compliment each other well, when I'm in for a working class hero, Napoleonic British army down in the mud and dirt mood I'll do a Sharpe marathon.
When I'm in for a take on the Royal Navy during the similar time period, wind and sail, rope and canon, I'll marathon Hornblower.
What I like is both characters are intelligent and more often than not don't only use brawn to get out of situations but their brains.
VIVE L'EMPEREUR
>"Vive l'Emper-ACK"
Fights at Waterloo. There are 15 people there
>tfw you're just ten guys and told to form square against a cavalry charge
Picrel accurately depicts what Waterloo looked like to the average soldier so I accept it on that basis.