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Cooper is so talented, not only did he survive being killed off in the first chapter of Sharpe's Rifles to appear in other books, he managed to survive all the way through the TV show too despite disappearing suddenly between episodes- or maybe that's what saved him as we didn't get a chance to see him die onscreen!
Rewatching the series recently, he gets slashed across the arm badly by a Sabre in " Sharpe's gold....personal theory: He gets invalid-ed out of the army from the injury, that's how he's here speaking in an "English pub"
17:55 Pretty sure that horse actually stepped on him. Ouch. Edit: Googled and found this - "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. And about six hours before I were in the hospital getting me finger stitched up because I'd just cut that open...." He pauses to show me which finger. "And then in the afternoon the horse landed on my head. That were close 'cos I watched it back, and it were a bit iffy...." He pauses again as he reflects on the gravity of what might have been - the realisation that if the horse's hoof had landed anywhere else on his head, he might actually have been killed."
This was shown on television once. I changed channels and came upon this halfway through and somehow, despite being totally unaware of the existence of Sharpe the television series, knew within a few seconds that he was talking about Sharpe. It took a few years after that before I found the box set at an affordable price and was able to see it for myself.
This was released separately on VHS as well, I remember it used to be in my library about 20 years ago for rental. In the 90's they used to make these weird clip show videos from popular TV series usually with a character (often whoever was cheapest to get) narrating them, it was a way to get more money out of the franchise on the cheap. I recall they had several for the 90's TV show Soldier Soldier that would be really scraping the barrel stuff like "Best romantic moments of Donna and Dave", it was utter crap really just recycling old footage.
@@Groundsey Absolutely agree - I'm still recovering from the final episode, which ended almost two hours ago, and he deserves a BAFTA for it. But I think he doesn't get anything like enough credit for the job he did in Sharpe, showing just about every possible emotion, aging the character over the years (his and Sharpe's!), showing his ease with increasing responsibility etc. And when you consider that saving Wellesley wasn't the first scene he filmed, you realise that he went back and changed the look and the characterisation for that one scene, then did a kind of half-way house in the scene where he gets briefed on the mission.
Getting shot and stabbed and slashed dozens of times...with rotten food, no pay and often incompetent commanders...and refusing to die...now that's soldiering!
Michaels narration is so good! His voice, facial expression and the theme of the bar is so perfect to immerse you into the world of Sharpe. Michael's voice is awesome!
video ideas , the legend of the chosen men (best bits of all the rifleman who put on the white stripe ) fallen heroes (all the deaths of comrades who died on the battlefield ) super villains ( all the devious , murderous , scoundrels sharpe went up against ) you don't f**k with the boss (wellington dishing out rollockings )
Sharpe was a brilliant TV series. I really enjoyed watching them. Sharpe is a brilliant Infantry Officer. He has all the qualities of what a good officer should be, courageous, smart, good with rifles, swords and with ladies!
Sharp is a Commander of a complete german Unit.The Sharpshooters was a Unit,build from Hannoveranians only.king George was the king of Hannover.The Rifle Brigade has as an Basement the German Cross.The german Infanterie Regiment 79,Based in Hildesheim , habe the cuff title Gibraltar.
Oh that music! Every week when Sharpe was on that was the anthem that it was time for 'real' heroic stuff :). And there wasn't a man alive, whose attentions favoured the ladies, was not at least a little in love with Miss Teresa. She might not have had much in the way of curves but she had grace and swagger to cap any woman.
Love it! I watched the whole show because of these clips. Bought a BBC subscription for a month to do it. And now I'm 10 books in. I haven't learned much, aside from how to kill frogs.
You will learn a lot. Napoleonic warfare, get curious at those newfangled rifles and the unit that used them. Got me into it's history, painting model soldiers, dioramas, now writing with dip pen and ink and letterlocking to seal letters. Been a real trip, ....my daughter thinks her mum is crazy, but I do love my riflemen.
You did a good thing uploading all these to RU-vid! Out of nostalgia, I've bought the whole Sharpe TV series and am making my way through the books as a result!
"the sharpe companion" is an amazing reference book. it shows where the various sharpe books fall into the actual history. one of the best reads ive ever picked up !
Joining two or more items together by melting and putting a filler metal into the joint, the filler metal having a lower melting point than the adjoining metal? That's soldering!
"Cooper" must have done at least a couple of these; I'd have to go check, but I'm sure that the one on one of the DVDs that I have is a different version. (edit: If I'd paid attention to the time length, I'd have noticed that this was much, MUCH longer than what I had seen, which amounted to a commercial for the series on the DVD.)
It's actually Bernard 'Cornwell' and I am amazed at all the gushing comments about actors and the historical British Napoleonic military and figures, that the fact that Bernard Cornwell was the one who created this sublime piece of historical fiction with such erudite and swashbuckling, romantic and dry comedic prose (as is his norm) is not mentioned - yours is the first mention of his name - more often. The screen writers for these series have done well to stay true to the books.
sharpe got his battlefield commission not in spain but india. at assaye. and he didn't kill 3 enemies after wellesley but a dozen or more. i am glad for the sharpe shows but they pale in comparison to the books.
Ended up buying myself a heavy cavalry sword because of this show, things is too heavy for me to dare hang it on any wall - im amazed people had strength to wield it as a weapon, especially when my blade is probably better quality steel and lighter than those that people fought with
My mate collected them got an original from the period tbh to wield it on foot you need to be huge height and strength, hence a cavalry weapon, from up high 😆
Wasn't Cooper the pickpocket and thief? "Why would I have need for a set of pick-locks sir?" Sharpe claimed he only knew how to do three things FIGHT, WIN and STAY ALIVE!!!! P.S. posted this when I STARTED the video... LOL
The words maybe, apart from over the hills and far away. I remember those from an old English folk song, which I heard as a child, and I'm 74 now. The tune also slightly different from the one I remember. Don't remember the reference to King George either, or even if it was military.
they didn t quite say if Copper died in the War, got Wounded & Survvied it to be honest, they kinda left that part out, he part of the Series for long time & then just "he is gone & nothing about it" was really Strange.
According to Jason Salkey who plays Harris, Michael Mears (who plays Cooper) had a falling out with the Production team and left filming early. So he's not in as much of the series as he should have been. This always then makes me wonder why they chose him to narrate this episode
i dont care who he was, i just wondered why those in command allowed the prince of orange to command troops when he didnt have the knowledge to do so? oh i know, this was a time when inept nobles bought commissions
In the book, besides the wives, there was a pretty handful of ladies, right from his private days. But then, as he said..."Riflemen are lucky that way".
They did in the end: in the Starbuck Chronicles Sharpes eldest son Patrick Lassan mentions that his mother and Father married shortly before his father died.
