A series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars as he fights both Napoleon's forces and the strong prejudice of British aristocra... Read allA series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars as he fights both Napoleon's forces and the strong prejudice of British aristocracy.A series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars as he fights both Napoleon's forces and the strong prejudice of British aristocracy.
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- TriviaPaul McGann was originally cast as Sharpe. Two weeks into filming he ruptured a cruciate ligament playing football during a break, but attempted to keep going as the ailment was misdiagnosed. However, the injury was aggravated while shooting a fight scene and again during a rock-climbing scene, to the point where McGann had no choice but to drop out. When Sean Bean was cast, the majority of the season had to be reshot. A planned third episode based on Sharpe's Gold was dropped as the delays cost them too much time.
- GoofsSoldiers are frequently seen going into battle while wearing their packs, which they do not do because of the added weight.
- Quotes
Sgt. Patrick Harper: God save Ireland!
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Scotts: Episode #1.4 (2021)
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'Now that's soldiering.........'
A really great series. I've not read the books so this was my first introduction to Sharpe. Each episode is quite long but they're well paced and good fun. The villains are proper villains, treacherous, wicked and delighting in their misdeeds. Sharpe is introduced as a hard but decent man raised from the ranks, from humble beginnings, now commanding a company of loyal misfits with his right hand man ever at his side. The costumes and attention to detail are good, you can tell they filmed it abroad, most episodes are set in Spain and Portugal. The modern score works quite well, they took a brave risk including electric guitar but I was surprised how well it worked. Some of it is pretty low budget but some pretty ladies turn up luckily throughout the series for Sharpe to flirt with. A lot of the fighting is actually very brutal and real, not lots of slick acting and fast editing but generally much more realistic with men grappling, wrestling, grunting, going for a low blow. Towards the end it Sharpe starts to seem like he's blessed with nine lives. There's another interesting episode where the war is over and Sharpe is working for the local yeomanry, but his sympathies lie more with the common people than the mill owners he's paid to protect. I like this one because we get to see Sharpe out of his comfort zone while we explore the poverty of Yorkshire in the 1810s. There's also a running gap in the series about Sharpe often being mistaken for a common solider rather than an officer. Many people are astonished to discover this rough mannered low born man is in fact an officer. Many of these men though lack his battle readiness and skill. Not that Sharpe is perfect, he has a weakness for women, he sometimes struggles to control his temper and he can occasionally be quite blind about certain things.
The casting is spot on, especially Sean Bean. Themes of social class, army life and justice/injustice, betrayal, jealousy and loyalty run throughout the series.
The casting is spot on, especially Sean Bean. Themes of social class, army life and justice/injustice, betrayal, jealousy and loyalty run throughout the series.
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- Dec 27, 2023
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- Приключения королевского стрелка Шарпа
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