Who cried
I cried loads when Harris and Hagman died. Did anyone else?
shareI sobbed for about a week!! I still cry everytime I see it! It's just so heart-wrenching when their hands meet...God, I'm at it again!
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I wish I had. I was very touched when their hands met. I was very sad, but I was too angry to cry.
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It was such a sad scene, and they were so brave.
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i didn't cry, but i came bloody close...
shareI almost cried for Rossendale.
shareI shed salt tears...Harris was one of my favourite characters! And it was so unjust, that they'd survived this long, and then he kicked Hagman, unbalanced him, and...it was all over so fast! *weeps again*
shareIts worse in the book. Hagman is just randomly shot in the face during the assault by the Imperial Guard on the South Essex. Nothing heroic about it.
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could it be that they died side by side touching hands was coz they were gay?
shareIn previous episodes they're shown chatting up and getting familiar with women, and Hagman had a relationship with a woman in Sharpe's Justice.
shareIn previous episodes they're shown chatting up and getting familiar with women, and Hagman had a relationship with a woman in Sharpe's Justice.
I don't think it was intended to mean that the characters were gay. However, I do think that it was meant to show that they loved each other. I don't mean in a sexual context, but more like a "brotherly" love. You can't go through all the things they did together without something deeper than simple friendship developing. share
he's not shot in the face!
In the book, Hagman is shot by a skirmisher just before the Imperial Guard shows their faces. He's dying with a bullet in his lungs when Sharpe finds him. He apologizes to the old poacher, promising to get him to the surgeons. Dan shakes his head, states, "Bugger them surgeons, Mr. Sharpe," and dies.
Harris is not even mentioned in the book.
I never understood why hagman tries to get on the Prince William of Orange's horse....was he going to abandon Harris?
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I think that he was trying to stop him from fleeing the battle.
shareI wish Sharpe had managed to shoot the Prince through the neck.
Anyway, I don't think the deaths were as emotional as they could have been, Parkers is alot more sad and had me crying for weeks however Hagman just gets shot in the face and Harris bayoneted in the back and dies a second later, the hand touching thing was emotional but nothing that makes you cry.
I think Perkin's death touched me the most during the whole series', although the two fine Chose Men going out like that was sad obviously. I was also a bit sad to see Rossendale and Capt Jack go, both flawed fellows.
And of course let's not forget The Needle :O(
I was so sad when Hagman, Harris and Perkins died, my brother was a bit of a pain though and had told me that Hagman and Harris died in Waterloo before I watched it. I didn't cry when any of them died, but I always tend to get a blocked up throat when any of the awesome (flawed and just generally cool) characters die, especially when it's a suicidal sort of 'let's bring down as many of them as possible before we go' sort of thing.
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I know, I hated Cornwell for writing that type of death for Hagman. I did not care that the death was not heroic. What boiled my blood was that Cornwell only dedicated a few plain sentences to the death. He only allowed Sharpe to say, "I'm sorry, Dan, I'll get you to the surgeons," then had Sharpe move on, as if Hagman was never an important person in Sharpe's life.
It angers me now just thinking about it!
May you Rest In Peace, Daniel Hagman. And sorry that Cornwell was too self-absorbed to promote you to at least corporal or sergeant, since you were the best shooter.
Perkins' death touched me deeply.
It was pretty much a dramatic scene. What touched me most was the dialogue between him and Parker. Perkins cried for his mother and Parker said something like: "Mommy never left you".
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I probably cried when I first saw it on TV, but not this time, rewatching it on DVD, they were lovely characters though, so sorry to see them expire.
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Chiming in a little late here LOL, but I cried loads too, and I've never been able to watch it since...
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This is also a late bump, but I just watched this.
I was another one of the 'too angry to cry' folks. I wanted to, I felt I ought to but I was just not so pleased at the way they did this.
One can barely hear what Hagman says when he tries to get on the horse, I did like Harris' moment when he tries to shoot the empty gun and screams. The hands thing was cool, as was the fixed expression on Dan's face. Everything else felt clunky.
It's OK to me that their deaths might have been 'pointless' but I found the direction during their deaths to be jerky and too abrupt. Tom Clegg normally does better work than this.
I agree with others that Perkins' death is the one that was really well done. They kill a lot of folks in the Sharpe series but not all deaths are instant, Perkins' painful, lingering fright-filled end was a good dramatic rendering.
Sad deaths and they could have been avoided if they hadn't gone back to defend the farm and presumably to get a glimpse of Boney. I was wondering if Harris had a misfire with his rifle when he tried to save Hagman rather than it being empty?
Also did anyone else notice in the last few films of Sharpe that they brought in two new Chosen Men (neither of which spoke)? One had side burns and the other smoked a pipe, but strangely neither of them were in Sharpes Waterloo.
Those two new (and non-speaking) Chosen Men: www.riflemanharris.co.uk/photos/harris17.htm
shareThe one who smoked the pipe (Rifleman Moore) was played by Richard Moore, who was the Military & Technical Adviser / Armourer on the show.
shareI cry at some point in most of the Sharpe films - it's quite pathetic really. Battle is the worst one for tears, but yes I find Hagman and Harris' passings very hard to watch.
I suspect the problem is that you have too many paperclips up your nose