For those of you familiar with the Sharpe series, I thought it was high time Sergeant. (Later RSM) Patrick Harper deserved his own set of clips...
For those unfamiliar with said series, Sergeant Harper (played brilliantly by Daragh O'Malley in the films) is the epitome of the right-hand man - to Richard Sharpe, from his beginnings as a Lieutenant to his career Lieutenant-Colonel and beyond... Harper also gets the best one-liners.
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I bet Captain Frederickson would've had that tooth out in no time with all of the practice he's had. I'm thankful a Baltimore dentist hated the pain he caused his patients and decided to try ether. Seeing a sawbones before anesthesia had to be a terrifying ordeal, even for a tooth.
The wedding is funny, but poor Sharpe: he's in excruciating pain after that battle with Leroux, and then they come and tell him that Harper might be dying.
4:20 was tne part where I realized this show can't be taken seriously. It made no sense that a man willing to start a fistfight with his commanding officer and who is on his way to executed for it would show so much loyalty to the crown, nor does it make sense he could reload a musket so fast no matter how many short cuts he took in the process. I doesn't even show him pouring powder into the breech, which is a necessary step.
and what a team they made....i actually just found this series about a week ago. now i have the books on the way. got to find out what Harris's first name is....lol
I visited Apsley house (the home of the Duke of Wellington) which is now a museum the other day (Hyde Park Corner, London). There were 2 demonstrators on duty that morning, one showing instruments used by surgeons in the day, the other had a selection of arms, one of which was a French sabre that was in the battle of Waterloo. Also was a replica of a Baker rifle used in the Sharpe series and also a sword which looks uncannily like the one Harper presented to Sharpe. Also an original Brown Bess. My background is in historic shooting and I'm also a fencer. I have to say commenting on the French sabre.....it's a wrist breaker!!!!! How a French Cavalryman could sustain fighting with it is beyond me. The sword, which "maybe" the one featured in the video clip here has a lovely balance to it, felt at ease. I need to consult an expert on appropriate techniques, certainly felt more comfortable than the French sabre. The balance, grip and sight of the Baker was great, I was assured by the demonstrator that the feel and weight distribution is close to the original.
Harper hated the English, and probably still wanted to kill Sharpe at this point. But he wasn't so stupid as to beleive that Spanish bastard was going to let him waltz off to America with a bag of gold. The minute he put his gun down he was a dead man.
Explain to me why he had to reforge the blade? I can understand modifying the guard, but the blade was already solid. And where did Harper learn to be a bladesmith
In the book version, he doesn't get a high-quality blade from the priest's collection. He gets an old British heavy cavalry sword (the same type as the one that broke) and then fixes it up for Sharpe. It's a key plot point so they had to keep it in, even though it doesn't really make sense given the new source of the sword.
Sharpe saying “don’t go naming it after me” is quite funny because in the books, Sharpe and Harper each name their first sons after each other (Sharpe has one son in the books by Lucille)
They way they all look at him after Sharpe says 'We need blood" is too funny. It's not as funny as Harper realizing WHY they're looking at him, though...
I thought I might add to this, 8 years after the last post? Every hero needs a side-kick that is even harder than the protagonist? Not trying to 'big myself up' but me and John, holy fuck, better avoided than look to fight us. It was just a fact. No word of a lie, we were at a party and I was doing very well for myself but John seemed to be getting belligerent, like a true friend, I got us both out of there before it all 'kicked off', if anybody even touched John it'I would have been war, especially as John could bring a war all by himself. Abs no bs, when we we were leaving the party, just to see if I could still kick above my head. I kicked a sign, not for any bad reasons, just to see if I could? Well, John caught the sign and crushed it between his mighty paws.There are movies where people mess with Batman, but you definitely don't mess with John! This is the same guy who literally ko'd two 'serious players' in the time it took him to throw two punches, left and right, bang bang end of discussion. If anybody could 'channel' Harper, it would be John. Pax vobis.
I was never happy with the ending of this one. I think Harper should have said "I've been with you through everything sir. I intend to be with you at the end". Then they both go down the hill. I also think they should have had a burial for Harris and Hagman, Perkins got one.
Harper gets the sergeant major marks of rank as a dead one's chevrons are unceremoniously ripped off by Harris. Good TV but I wonder whether that was actually done in the Napoleonic Wars.
