@@Michaelkayslay apparently he only got a black eye from it. I’m guessing he got enough mud between his skull and the horse hoof to provide a little protection, and the benefit of soft mud for his face to bash into.
According to the man himself: ‘I've never really hurt myself badly. I suppose the closest I've ever been to an accident is in Sharpe's Regiment, when a horse landed on my head. They actually used that take. The bank collapsed and the horse's hoof sort of sprung off my head as he was jumping. I got a bit of a black eye and a bit of a neck problem.’
Wow, Sean is tough: the horse's hoof hit him (causing a black eye & a bad neck) but it could have killed him. That's why you have stunt performers! To stay in character, not knowing if he was badly injured, was really impressive. Less impressive is Harper dunking his musket! No powder (or it's sodden), wet pan, calls himself a Rifleman?! Not long after Sharpe's got it...but it's highly unlikely to work!
0.25 speed, it’s like the back right hood makes the grass/mud slip and gets pushed into his face while the hoof actually presses on his upper chest. It’s not really the face, but soldering nonetheless.
@@bezukaking6860 Technically correct, the Cavalry Staff Corps (Provosts) wore red, but, Sharpe depicts them in blue, for some reason, it's also known that Provosts originally wore their cavalry uniforms, and Enlisted Provost Troopers, Corporals and Sergeants, carried Carbines, so they're easily confused with Dragoons unless you know what to look for (the Corps was also referred to as the Dragoon Staff Corps) but despite the uniform problem I believe he's meant to be a Provost nonetheless.
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 these are not provosts but the local militiamen. as Girdwood's operation is not a real active battalion he likely has no members of the Provost actually serving with him. And yes, Sharpe seems to depict the Provost as the Horse Guards for some reason, probably to differentiate them and the redcoats +riflemen
Members of Sharpe and Harper's regiment, the South Essex. Sharpe wanted to avoid killing them if possible, especially since he needed reinforcements to take back to the 1st Battalion for the invasion of France.
@@royalhero4608 He is supposed to be given this regiment to command. But when he shows up to the fort there is a skeleton crew of men and no regiment to be found. That leads him here, undercover to get to the bottom of where his unit disappeared too.
I just read about the hoof injury, in an interview with Bean and found out Paul McGann was originally given the role, but hurt himself playing football ( soccer) he tried working through the pain during Sharpe's rifles but his doctor said he was making it worse , so he had to pull out to recover. So Sean Bean got the job, i can't imagine McGann or anyone else playing Sharpe .
In the book the stake was the target when Harper was supposedly safe, and he had two minutes before they came after him on his way to it. Also Simmerson wasn't there.
I have a lot of experience with shovels and some experience with horses. You are not going to sweep guy off of a horse by smacking him with a shovel, but hey, it's just a movie.
This scene doesn't make big sense to me. When riders are pursuing Harper or Sharp, don't they watch their target and see to which ditch he just jumped? Or is it: "If we don't see the man, our horses cannot run?"
The terrain looks flat, but it's a series of raised dry parts, where the horses can move, and boggy lower parts, where they'd get stuck. Harper and Sharpe are letting themselves be spotted on the upper causeways, then dropping down into concealment and still moving. The riders lose sight, and have to keep scurrying about on the broken terrain as they spot the two, only to lose sight again.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher I'll vouch for that. It was filmed on sea marshes just outside the sea wall of the island. The crust would not take the weight of a horse, indeed in an earlier scene, we were all standing there mounted, and my horses feet, all four broke the crust, wend down like an express lift !. Surprised it never turned up on an out-take, as the camera man did say it was caught on film.
YT has hit me with two dozen of these Sharpe clips. I saw the one where the guy with the handlebar mustache loses his mind in the river crossing. I saw the one where the over-acting gray haired guy is dying in bed and is delirious. Hard to even guess what the timeline could be where this scene happens.
Sean Bean dies so often in film because it's a novelty for him as in invulnerable immortal. Gets up, quick as you like ,after getting stepped on by a horse.
Wait a minute is the British officer leading this human hunting party is he the same actor that played Snidley Whiplash on the live action Dudley Do Wright movie?
I was going to say the same thing about the horse, It must've hurt when it stepped on Sharpe's head , I'm pretty sure it was Sean Bean and not a stunt man , Yet he pops up & carries on like nothing happened, I'm surprised he wasn't injured ⚔
Watching these clips without having seen any of the show is disjointing. One moment Sharpe is fighting the French, the next he is working with them, the next he is fighting some British officer. ????
