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posted 16 years ago by benthehat
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In the goofs section for this episode it has:

"Revealing mistakes: After the battle, one of the "dead" French can be seen looking at the camera and opening and closing his eyes."

This is true but another guy which is dead leaning on the door also has his eyes open looking at the camera at the same time. He doesn't make it look as obvious, he's kinda squinting but he is doing it.

It's quite a bad mistake really. It nearly ruins Sharpes Siege it's that bad. How did they miss that in the editing?

Great series btw. I brought them to watch over Christmas. I watched them when they first aired on TV when I was a kid with my dad. It's great to watch them all these years later and still enjoy them.

[–] Marlburian 16 years ago

Just because there's been a battle and people are lying around on the ground doesn't mean to say that they're dead; they could be badly wounded,in their death throes or coming around after being concussed. I would guess that more people are wounded in battle than are killed, yet it's a feature of so many films that all we see after a fight are people lying still on the ground (apart from the occasional movements seized on as goofs), with no-one screaming, moaning or writhing. And does a person always close his/her eyes on dying? I've seen a number of death scenes on screen where the deceased eyes have to be closed after he passes away.

[–] benthehat 16 years ago

I think having multiple gunshot wounds and being covered in blood kinda gives it away mate.

[–] joan_h-smith-1 16 years ago

That depends, IMHO. Don't forget that e.g. Field Marshal Montgomery happened to have been shot through the lung in WWI - yet he survived. Some soldiers were damn badly wounded in WWII, having been shot in chest, yet some of them are still about. Or in the Irish Rebellion of 1916, a fellow named Cathal Brugha bled from two dozens of wounds for several hours - yet he made it.

[–] 4cSlater 16 years ago

by the way! ducos- are we to assume he similarly wasnt killed in sharpes honour just injured ? or is it just that the writers regretted killing him and are sneakily pretending it didnt happen?

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[–] joan_h-smith-1 16 years ago

I suppose it was a combination of what you've said. They had him killed off but then regretting it (such a good villain he was) - so they brought him back to life and hoped we were going to say "ah, he wasn't killed, after all" - it could work considering it was not such an "obvious" death as that of Obadiah Hakeswill in Sharpe's Enemy. (In this case, they thought it would have been a bit over the top to bring him back for Sharpe's Challenge, so they had to create another evil sergeant instead.)

[–] ctsamados 15 years ago

I've just watched Sharpe's Siege and the guy opening and closing his eyes is definately not a goof. He is just serverely injured. You've got to remember in battles with flint lock rifles most people wouldn't have actually been killed instantly by being shot, more likely they would have died from gangrene or blood loss some time after. With regards Ducos I thought it was a bit silly that he came back and I liked the fact he was killed by some French soldiers looting, as he was such a pompous idiot. But the films are based on the books so I guess the author of the books wrote him back in.

[–] kastjones1 13 years ago

The author of the books never killed him in the first place. Ducos doesn't die until Sharpe's Revenge.
Then again very little about Sharpe's Siege is accurate to the book, in the book Bampfylde is the Captain of a Royal Navy ship that drops Sharpe and his men off at a coastal fort and then abandons them.