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Sharpe for the first time really annoyed me!

posted 16 years ago by 4cSlater
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Ok this may just be a me thing but did anyone else find that he had gotten all upper class . never before would sharpe have galloped everywhere colonel or no with hagman and harris trailing behind him. i know it was his own horse from the farm but it just felt so wrong! there isnt much difference between the prince of orange forcing hagman off his horse and harper and sharpe galloping away from oncoming battle with the two running behind them.
i suppose it is more realistic - they are grown experienced and subordinate men- but it didnt look very compassionate it looked rather simmersonly actually.

there are other irksome things sharpe does i cant remember them. he had become more of a gentleman really you know despite the whole swearing at sill billy thing.

oh and for anyone who's seen sharpes justice did jane actually want to come bk to richard? i actually feel quite sorry for her she has no idea what shes doing.

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[–] Mad Dog McLagan 16 years ago

Officially as an Aide to Silly Billy he was meant to carry out his orders, relay messgaes to him, and survey the battlefield on his behalf - quickly. It was his duty to ride on horseback. He seemed to have Harris and Hagman on as members of staff as well, though, so it would have been nice to give them some horses - but they WERE infantryman and Sharpe had been living on a Lieutenant's half-pay...

I suspect the problem is that you have too many paperclips up your nose

[–] anatja 16 years ago

Bah! Sily complaint as it was totally realistic!

As for Jane, sod her, she got no sympathy from me after that dressing down she gave him.

Ghastly woman, serves her right.

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[–] dangerous_ideaz 15 years ago

As the last movie in the series, this one disappointed me.

I didn't like the idea of Sharpe assassinating a prince, even if the guy was causing the death of so many soldiers on the field. I didn't like the resolution of the feud between Sharpe and Rossendale. And I wish they had saved time at the end for wrapping up the personal stories: seeing Jane getting the news of Rossendale's death, Sharpe laying Hagdale and Harris to rest, and Sharpe returning to Lucille's arms.

Ending with Sharpe and Harper finally getting a glimpse of Bonaparte seemed rather artificial and not as moving as the other storylines.

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[–] kastjones1 13 years ago

In the book Sharpe intends killing the Prince but only hits him in the belly (also throughout the book series it is told that as many English officers were killed by their own men as by the French, which I believe is historically accurate.).
Also in the book Hagman and Harris are nowhere to be seen, it is Sharpe and Harper, that's it, and Sharpe keeps trying to get Harper to leave before he gets hurt.
Sharpe and Rossendale quarrel, Sharpe gets the promissory note, which is worthless, and as he is riding away Rossendale is killed by some French.

[–] Mad Dog McLagan 13 years ago

Yes, Billy lives - it's historical fact that he was wounded in the belly but survived the bullet. The episode just leaves it slightly ambiguous along with a lot of other details, which is something I enjoyed about it. The book has a lot of resolution, but I enjoyed seeing Sharpe vanish into the gunsmoke and the French line with a lost fortune, a woman who wants him dead and a witness to an assassination attempt all hanging over him.

I suspect the problem is that you have too many paperclips up your nose