Kawaii desu-san “Ah, I wish I could, sir, but I can’t, you see. Cos I’m a gabbler man, you see. READYAIMFIRE! No style, no finesse, but, you know, it gets the job done.”
Apart from the great costumes, I think this opening is great because it sneaks in tidbits of information about who's who in the story. Blackadder is the first to visibly shout orders, you know he's got some sort of authority, yet not enough to be more distinguished from the crowd. Everyone turns and salutes Melchett and Darling, showing them to be above and separate from the soldiers. Melchett is in front and above Darling, with Darling having to lean to be visible from behind Melchett, showing his direct subordination to Melchett. George is the second to shout, showing he's got authority too, but less than Blackadder, but with more exaggerated form and tone than Blackadder, showing he's more enthusiastic about his position than Blackadder. Then you have Baldrick, who spends the entire scene running about disorganised and needing "sheet notes" to play a single triangle note, showing his low rank and lack of intelligence in the series.
Be N S O N My my, this is the first time I’ve ever seen a well-worded paragraph without spelling errors as a comment on a RU-vid video. I once saw a comment in which the writer misspelled “earth” as “earf”. I’m serious.
One cracks up just as Hugh Laurie calls his EYES RIGHT...look over Laurie's left shoulder, second from the front...he tries to cover his smile by cranking his head for the eyes right and sticks out because he's a second behind the others.
In the Christmas episode of Mr. Bean when he plays with the nativity scene and pushes a marching band in front of it, you can hear him humming the Blackadder Goes Forth theme!
@@PawelSlab He's actually right tho. After Mr Bean hummed the British Grenadiers, you could faintly hear him continue with the Blackadder theme before he brought the sheep into the Nativity scene.
once my friend told me I can't be a real rowan atkinson fan if i hadn't seen johnny english ( which i hadn't at the time ) and i just looked at her and replied "have you seen black adder?" and she just went silent and i was like _thought so_
"It's not funny, it's deadly serious, we're in trouble. So I shall _eat_ the evidence for lunch. And if anyone asks you any questions at all, we didn't receive any messages and we definitely did *not* shoot this delicious plump-breasted pigeon."
Baldrick, you wouldn't recognize a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning Plans Are Here Again".
Wipeout325 I guess he's criticising the make-up quality. But saying Stephen Fry looks like a 50 yr old is actually a compliment. 😅 Since he was about 30 at the time and supposed to look 50+ yr old general.
I think he was saying that they failed to age him up convincingly, because the make-up was designed for the studio sets where they filmed most of the series instead of this outdoor location.
Contrary to "L'Orchestra Cinematique," the Royal Marines Bandmaster is not saying "stand to attention!" Firstly, this is not a real order, the Royal Marines' way of calling a squad to attention is "Company, shun!" Secondly, before giving the order to march, an order is given to say who in the front the squad will take their pace from. In this case, it is the person at the front, center position, as the Bandmaster is saying "By the center, quick march!" In most cases, it is the front left or front right, in which case the order would be "By the left/right, quick march!"
I have only one criticism with the entire scene. I don't like how Hugh Laurie seems to be smiling when he salutes Stephen Fry. I know it's a comedy and Hugh Laurie's character supposed to be a goof. But I do think it's spoils is a little bit. What do you think?
The 1980's? Yeah to be honest I have to agree. The Troubles were the most blatant example of a fight for national identity that Europe has seen since the end of WW2.
The first thing he says is "At attention" and then after that "quick march". I got this info from the subtitles provided with the DVD. It is hard to understand what the many yelling is saying because apparently British commanding officers are notorious for grunting orders instead of clearly shouting them. There is a similar joke in a Mr. Bean episode where he makes guttural noises to screw with a nearby regiment's drills.
