Pete Postlethwaite was one of the finest English character actors ever. He played the ultimate villains and the most lovable of men. A great Shakespearian and classical actor too. His ability to excell in all roles, is truly the measure of a great actor. RIP Pete.
In the first book that features Hakeswill it mentions the fact that he was condemned to hang for raping, and killing, a ministers young daughter, the executioner didn't stay around long enough to make sure the job was finished, somehow the rope broke and he survived, having nowhere to hide, he encounters an army recruiting squad, and takes the kings shilling thus avoiding justice, but the incident causes him to believe that no one can kill a man that was born to hang.
No. Hakeswill attempted to sexually asssault another child when he was 12. He was sentenced to hang but a relative cut him down (presumably with a bit of brain damage from the strangulation which might explain the twitching/mental illness) when the executioner and the spectators ran for shelter during a sudden downpour.
As the other guy stated, the rope didn't break, but the way he survived was even more casual and that's why he believed he was immortal: he was hanged at 12, but the hangman didn't measure the rope properly (the main cause of death by hanging was the neck breaking for the fall being abruptly stopped by the rope around the neck, but if the hangman cut the rope too short and didn't let the body get enough inertia, then the neck wouldn't break and the condemned would be left to suffocate), so he would have died like that if a sudden downpour hadn't made all people including judges and hangman take shelter away from the gallows, allowing his uncle (mom's brother) to cut his rope and set him free. After that, he went to a recruiter of the 33rd Rgt. to become a drummer boy, then fully enlisting as private when he turned 16, and then rising to the rank of Sergeant by the time they were in India. After that, he survived being thrown into the tiger's pit in the first book, surviving being crushed to death by an elephant trained for executions in the second book, and being thrown in a poisonous snake pit in the third book (all courtesies of Private/Sergeant/2nd Lt Sharpe), so by the time he managed to get in the Peninsular War, he had survived a hanging and three attempted murders plus a few battles....can't really hold against him if by that time he thought he was immortal
@@DonPatrono You're a little inaccurate with the broken neck thing. Until fairly recently hangings were done by the short drop which rarely if ever breaks your neck and leaves you slowly strangled over ten to twenty minutes. The standard and long drop methods were invented in the UK because we suddenly decided that a broken neck was more humane than slow strangulation. I don't want to even try to guess how many criminals were beheaded while the Home Office were getting the calculations right...
@@joebloggs5318 "I don't want to even try to guess how many criminals were beheaded while the Home Office were getting the calculations right" ... At a stretch I would say quite a few.....oh wait...
When you read the books, you understand how exceptional the casting was for the series. Not only Pete Postlethwaite, but even supporting characters like Girdwood.
And simmerson. Prob my favourite would of course be Hogan. I haven't seen much of the series outside of clips amd I think Eagle and Rifles, but as a long time reader of Cornwell's books I have been rather impressed with the casting choices.
RIP, Pete, you're sadly missed. A vastly under rated actor, whom Spielberg, no less, described as the greatest actor he had ever worked with. He had me screaming at my TV in rage and disgust, as I loathed Obidiah with such a passion! Not many have moved me to such emotions over a fictitious character. One of the greats!
Yes. Great acting. If you hate the character then they have nailed it . I once played a Gestapo Officer in an amateur dramatic play and my partner asked me to stay at my Mum's house because I was so awful she didn't want to sleep next to me. Odd, but the best compliment you can get.
First time I ever saw Mr Postlewaite in anything was in the Fantasy-Adventure film Dragonheart where he portrayed the very likable Brother Gilbert. He was an amazing talent. RIP Pete🙏
3:13 This is one of my favorite scenes in the series. The scenery and the song kicking in as we see Sharpe, with this look of stoic tragedy about him. He's just lost his wife, given up his child and the revenge against the man who killed his wife brought him no pleasure. He looks lost emotionally and ready to breakdown. But then composes himself, turns his back to his feelings (quite literally) and soldiers on like a proper officer. Because that's what his men need him to be.
Would've been much better had Sharpe himself instead of some random Redcoat delivered the final fatal shot to Hakeswill's heart which is exactly what happens in the books.
@@DragonHeart613 I fon't think so. I mean, it is what happens in the books, but I don't think it's better. There's a reason Sharpe says "take it away" about Hakeswill: revenge brings no happiness, no satisfaction, no nothing. It can't bring Theresa back, can it? Hakeswill's execution is justice, not revenge; a thing that needs to be done under the law. Sharpe knows that. If he had been the one to pull that trigger in the end, the message would have been lost.
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Bernard Cornwall does a really good job of writing Sharpe's grief. I saw this show before reading the books and even knowing what was coming I was surprised.
The TV series couldn't possibly show the deep hatred and history these men had together in India. Sharpe mentions it off handedly but it isn't until you read the books you realize just how slimy and dirty(and immortal) Hakeswill is. He's worse than this series could ever convey and had been a thorn in Sharpe's side for years. First Sharpe tried to feed him to Tipu Sultan's tigers after Seringapatam, then Sharpe turned an elephant trained to execute men by stepping on them on to Hakeswill at Ahmednuggar. Then he threw him into a pit of snakes after taking Gawilghur fortress. Hakeswill kept sliming his way out of every situation and coming back at Sharpe hard and sometimes somewhat successfully. Now THAT'S soldiering.
@@benpickens9918 very very close were the British to reaching space. The Americans even admit Britain could have been first to space and possibly the moon with actual funding
Also, they never funded America. In fact, America funded Britains space programs when they sent them their first rockets to go to space with. Also, the British satellites were built in the United States.
I have a personal message from Pete Postlethwaite to my son when i met him in a service station in Church Stretton in 2007, he used to live in the village next to me, a real Guinness drinker, RIP.
@@omnipotentpumpkin9755 Unfortunately, it's not just the "woke" who are hating on it. Compared to previous seasons, and the first four seasons especially, there's a notable drop in quality, character development, and consistency. Anyone who's played an RTS for more than 30 minutes was probably annoyed as hell by the way the battle of Winterfell as handled too.
@@roykliffen9674 The one with Ioan Gruffudd of course! Love that series! Watching it currently with my family actually for kicks even though we've seen it _many_ times before. XD It's funny that you should comment this right now. XD Also I can prove I'm a big fan, the guy at 0:10 standing in the center screen ironically playing another french guy here, actually plays another French character in the very first Hornblower TV movie The Duel. He played the captain of a prize ship that the Indie captured and that Hornblower was supposed to sail to port but unfortunately sank due to the fact that it was holed.
I love how Sean Bin shudders as he sees the guy getting shot. I must say that the only tine I witnessed someone getting shot my reaction was very similar. Super believable. Even though he was a professional soldier, violence outside the field of battle is still alien.
That it is psychological thing. Natural human instinct is not to harm one another (regardless of what feminists tell you (evil toxic males that have to be curfewed at 6pm)), unless you are a psychopath. Even some of the most evil murderers cannot shoot a man in the face, unless they are psychopaths who can't feel remorse or have very little attachment to their emotions. Violence in battle is different because you are fighting for your life - natural instincts of self preservation. Lindybeige did a fantastic video on this very subject.
I think he was actually begging for his life, thanks to Pete's fantastic acting. The second "You can't kill me" with the bit of inflection was basically the character asking "please don't kill me".
@@Razzy1312 No, I think if that was his intention he would have said that. This form of words is more that of a nutter who thinks he is impervious to death. Someone begging for life would not have spat on the soldier offering a blindfold. If I was in a firing squad and someone did that to me, I might retaliate by aiming for his nuts.
@mulonzee877 Nah, he's not begging for his life, he's a nutter like Steve said; earlier in this film, Sharpe's Enemy, Sharpe says to Hakeswill that he can't die, because he was hanged but survived with a scar, and Hakeswill does seem to have gained the delusion that he can't be killed. Hakeswill also talks to his mother, out loud, at to a picture in his hat too, and does that head nodding twitch quite a lot, so that's the sort of nutter he is. Also, it happened differently in the books, because Sharpe wasn't even watching the execution, and then it's him that kills Hakeswell with a rifle when the 14-man firing squad fails.
In the books, instead of a nameless British officer, Sharpe is the one who finishes him off after the firing squad fails to do it. And he uses his rifle.
Pete Postlethwaite was a truly great actor who brought Obadiah Hakeswill to life. Sharpe's face when he says "you can't kill me" is priceless. R.I.P Pete Postlethwaite.
I love the Sharpe's series, damn shame it never continued. This scene is really solemn, but we know Sharp is desperate for this evil guy to be dead for REAL. The officer approaching to finish the very close range heart shot was a nice detail.
Well it did continue with a few more movies. Keep a good thing going too long and it'll be a grind and lose it's flavor and character, Sharpe ended at the best possible time before it turned into something it isn't 😁
@Baron Von Grijffenbourg. I agree about the officer who is in charge of the "coup de grâce". It's his duty to finish the job. But I have a question : are you sure one of the shooters had a blank loading at this time ?
Gentlemen, unless the firing squad didn’t load their own rifles there would be no way to have a “blank” as discussed. Anyway, these are muzzle-loaded black powder ball rifles. And it would take some time to pour, tamp, load etc. In which the condemned would suffer. No such thing as brass cartridges in those days. Blank or otherwise. Or an openable breech to load a round into. The hammer hits a copper percussion cap which sends spark and flame through a fire hole into the sealed breech end. A blank round only has powder and no projectile. So with every man loading his own rifle he’d know which was blank even if the practise was adopted. In a huge Napoleonic-era army I doubt any officer would risk the effect on morale of having a man’s own intimate comrades compose a firing squad, he’d task another unit. More importantly there’s no way the brilliant actor with a hole in both sides of his chest could speak his final words, with collapsed lungs. It’s called fiction, and very good fiction at that.
"It was supposed to be done with a pistol, but Sharpe pulled back the flint of his rifle and he knew that the curse would be gone when the flint snapped forward."
I know some people would have preferred it if Sharpe had been the one to finally kill Hakeswill like it was in the books but people need to understand that the movies portrayed Sharpe as a hero, not a rogue like in the books. If Sharpe had personally killed Hakeswill not only would it break his character but it would also give Hakeswill the grim satisfaction that he died bringing Sharpe down to his level. Like others have said, revenge won't bring Theresa back for Sharpe so what would be the point? Sharpe did the right thing in Theresa's memory by letting justice take its course.
I agree it was sad and you could see his rage he was right on the edge of it but I think it was better in the video but just my opinion I not read the books I be quite interested in getting hold of them to get that other perspective of him x
I want to thank this channel for uploading these clips. I don't know how, but it found my recommended feed, I watched several clips and now I own and am watching the first season on DVD and loving it! Thank you so much!
Everyone is commenting on the “Can’t kill me” line, yet no one wants to address the fact that Sharpe’s daughter is never mentioned in the shot after Teresa’s death
He's JUST below cartoonishly evil. He dips into that a bit but its perfect in the context of the show/history and just all credit to the performance. Masterclass in villainy. "Sharpie..." is burned into my memory. The twitch and his weird thing for his mom. Just amazing.
Pete Postlewaite did such a great job of playing that bastard Hakeswill, his character was so despicable it made me associate Pete with evil until I saw him in other films. I love that little twitch thing he did whenever Sharpe was talking to him, and then there was the whole talking to his "mother" inside his cap, right in front of other soldiers, what a psycho.
That little head twitch that Pete Postlethwaite does, which he did throughout this series, is nothing less than brilliant. What a gifted actor he was, he really made you hate the character.
If an actor can make you crazy by his performance, than he is great at playing the villain. RIP Mr. Postlethwaite, and thank you for all the great characters you played. 😢😇
Just started reading the series, starting with Sharpe's Tiger and wanted to see Hakewell die lol when this was recommended. Pete Postlewaite did the role justice.
"You can't kill me..." Doubtless that was the actor Pete Postlethwaite speaking -- clearly he understood that someone had altered the script. It couldn't be HIM, after all, Sean Bean is the one who dies in everything he's ever in.
The only two celebrity deaths that have ever effected me were Terry Pratchett and Pete Postlethwaite. A truly gifted actor. You would never believe that Hakeswill, the monk in Dragonheart, and the hunter in Jurassic park lost world are the same man. Amazing actor.
Pete played on of the most vile, evil and memorable villains ever!!! Definitely sharpes greatest enemy! I was glad to see him get his justice but in a way wished he was in a few more!! R.i.p Pete u are still missed nearly ten years on what an actor x
Having the firing squad reload and fire again would be considered barbaric, hence the it was the officer’s solemn duty to deliver the coup de grace if the condemned survived.
Pete Postlethwaite was also in Last of the Mohicans as the British captain who met the Nathaniel and company at the fort entrance. He was more visible when he arrested Nathaniel.
"Can't kill me." The officer approached Hakeswill, cooly cocked his pistol, pressed the muzzle to the condemned man's heart and pulled the trigger. Thus passed the great great great great great great great grandson of the Black Knight.
@@Lightingwarrior true but Sharpe didn't gloat about it , even as deserving as O's death was , Sharpe more likely hated that O, wasted his life chosing the wrong things and the consequences that followed .
@Leigh Covey I don't think Sharpe felt like gloating since he was still moarning Thearsa, remember when Obadiah was brought before him, all Sharpe felt for him was disgust for him, he wouldn't even acknowledge him as a man, and said as such
@@Lightingwarrior Sharpe displayed integrity . He let the military court deal with O, as not to ' dirty' his character in taking revenge even though no one would have blamed him.
Wow...cool flashback to one of the better series depecting the Napoleonic war...Early Sean, classic Pete and supporting cast and country. Making history fun and dramatic. Thanks for the post.
@@keithklassen5320 And the habbit of sharing their flag with everyone without a proper flag of their own (according to British discretion, what constitutes a propper flag)
Britain made the common man a play thing crown and lords. Hakeswill was first condemned to death age 12 under the british bloody code (included 220 capital offenses, by yesterday standards we're all in deathrow)
At 1:38 you can why they're having so much trouble killing him; there's a bleeding bullet wound on his lapel but the vest behind is uninjured. Obviously some sort of advanced bio-armor. Tha's why the officer had to shoot through and already weakened area at close range.
when he was shot at 1:57 someone in post-production/editting had the presence of mind to include the echo of the shot from the mountains at 2:04 - that's attention to detail at the highest quality.... :-)
I was just randomly sat having some inner talk with myself about horribly perfect movie villians, and i fully said Obediah Hakewill to myself aloud in a eureka moment 😂
I've only read Tiger, Triumph, and halfway through Fortress, and I can tell the casting choice for Obadiah was spot on. He is exactly who I picture in he books - appearance, voice, mannerisms and all. Brilliant actor.
Part of is those book were written after the TV series so Cornwall could make Obadiah match the performance a bit more like making Sharpe more closely match Bean
I'd like to think that they missed his vitals on purpose in order to make him suffer before death. A quick death was too good for the monster that Hakeswill was.
Pete Postlethwaite was a hero of mine who was a most amazing person in my experience Speaks Truth Unto Power May he R.I.P. Geoffrey Stansfield from Todmorden
I'm about 8 books through the series and Cornwell mentions at the end of a few of the first books how accurate Pete Postlethwaite' performance is, how he pretty much inhabited Hakeswill' skin completely
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He was, although that bit of acting there wasn’t particularly great..🤦🏻♂️😬😅
But where can we "Buy" the series on dvd?
Pete Postlethwaite was one of the finest English character actors ever. He played the ultimate villains and the most lovable of men. A great Shakespearian and classical actor too. His ability to excell in all roles, is truly the measure of a great actor. RIP Pete.
@BigLBA1 True that, he could turn his hand to any role and make it convincing. 🐊😊
RicTic66 agreed, truly great actor.
Yep, great actor.
I think he was Aliens also on that Prison Planet Ripley crash landed on!
Watch him in Brassed Off.
"You can't kill me"
Officer: "So anyway, I started blasting."
Well, he only blasted once.
The crossover I never thought I’d see
He lived apparently. Crawled out of his grave and still roams the countryside to this day. Fact. The End.
"I'm about to end this man's whole career"
Double tap
"you can't kill me"
Sean Bean: "Yeah, you'll get over that feeling eventually, trust me"
Yeah, that got a genuine LOL out of me! :)
Sean Bean to all script writers: "You can't not kill me."
I heard that with Sean Bean's accent, it's perfect.
anyone notices this is the first movie series where Sean Bean doesn't die.
yooor offer.....from mr Sose.....has been rejected.
In the first book that features Hakeswill it mentions the fact that he was condemned to hang for raping, and killing, a ministers young daughter, the executioner didn't stay around long enough to make sure the job was finished, somehow the rope broke and he survived, having nowhere to hide, he encounters an army recruiting squad, and takes the kings shilling thus avoiding justice, but the incident causes him to believe that no one can kill a man that was born to hang.
No. Hakeswill attempted to sexually asssault another child when he was 12. He was sentenced to hang but a relative cut him down (presumably with a bit of brain damage from the strangulation which might explain the twitching/mental illness) when the executioner and the spectators ran for shelter during a sudden downpour.
As the other guy stated, the rope didn't break, but the way he survived was even more casual and that's why he believed he was immortal: he was hanged at 12, but the hangman didn't measure the rope properly (the main cause of death by hanging was the neck breaking for the fall being abruptly stopped by the rope around the neck, but if the hangman cut the rope too short and didn't let the body get enough inertia, then the neck wouldn't break and the condemned would be left to suffocate), so he would have died like that if a sudden downpour hadn't made all people including judges and hangman take shelter away from the gallows, allowing his uncle (mom's brother) to cut his rope and set him free. After that, he went to a recruiter of the 33rd Rgt. to become a drummer boy, then fully enlisting as private when he turned 16, and then rising to the rank of Sergeant by the time they were in India.
After that, he survived being thrown into the tiger's pit in the first book, surviving being crushed to death by an elephant trained for executions in the second book, and being thrown in a poisonous snake pit in the third book (all courtesies of Private/Sergeant/2nd Lt Sharpe), so by the time he managed to get in the Peninsular War, he had survived a hanging and three attempted murders plus a few battles....can't really hold against him if by that time he thought he was immortal
@@DonPatrono You're a little inaccurate with the broken neck thing. Until fairly recently hangings were done by the short drop which rarely if ever breaks your neck and leaves you slowly strangled over ten to twenty minutes. The standard and long drop methods were invented in the UK because we suddenly decided that a broken neck was more humane than slow strangulation. I don't want to even try to guess how many criminals were beheaded while the Home Office were getting the calculations right...
Think his mother and uncle cut him down, after the executioner left? Hence his adoration for Mothers. I might be wrong
@@joebloggs5318
"I don't want to even try to guess how many criminals were beheaded while the Home Office were getting the calculations right"
...
At a stretch I would say quite a few.....oh wait...
When you read the books, you understand how exceptional the casting was for the series. Not only Pete Postlethwaite, but even supporting characters like Girdwood.
And simmerson. Prob my favourite would of course be Hogan. I haven't seen much of the series outside of clips amd I think Eagle and Rifles, but as a long time reader of Cornwell's books I have been rather impressed with the casting choices.
Many more books in the series than film versions. Plus lots more details in the books.......
There really needs to be a comedy version of this where he keeps not dying and they keep having to come up with funnier ways to get rid of him.
Just a flesh wound
Reminds me of Snatch.
‘Tis but a scratch!
They end up catapulting him into a wall lol
@@jakebattleday8211 and after every kill you hear a weak 'Not dead yet!' and everyone groans.
RIP, Pete, you're sadly missed.
A vastly under rated actor, whom Spielberg, no less, described as the greatest actor he had ever worked with.
He had me screaming at my TV in rage and disgust, as I loathed Obidiah with such a passion!
Not many have moved me to such emotions over a fictitious character.
One of the greats!
Yes. Great acting. If you hate the character then they have nailed it . I once played a Gestapo Officer in an amateur dramatic play and my partner asked me to stay at my Mum's house because I was so awful she didn't want to sleep next to me. Odd, but the best compliment you can get.
I hope you said to her "for you, Tommy, the snores are over!" and then had it away on your pins before she could gut you like a clam? 😂
Other than that he was good to his Mum..
I was glad they finally ended Obidiah...I was kinda hoping to see Sharps group be the firing squad, but the red coats where good too.
First time I ever saw Mr Postlewaite in anything was in the Fantasy-Adventure film Dragonheart where he portrayed the very likable Brother Gilbert. He was an amazing talent.
RIP Pete🙏
3:13 This is one of my favorite scenes in the series.
The scenery and the song kicking in as we see Sharpe, with this look of stoic tragedy about him. He's just lost his wife, given up his child and the revenge against the man who killed his wife brought him no pleasure. He looks lost emotionally and ready to breakdown.
But then composes himself, turns his back to his feelings (quite literally) and soldiers on like a proper officer. Because that's what his men need him to be.
Would've been much better had Sharpe himself instead of some random Redcoat delivered the final fatal shot to Hakeswill's heart which is exactly what happens in the books.
@@DragonHeart613 I fon't think so. I mean, it is what happens in the books, but I don't think it's better. There's a reason Sharpe says "take it away" about Hakeswill: revenge brings no happiness, no satisfaction, no nothing. It can't bring Theresa back, can it? Hakeswill's execution is justice, not revenge; a thing that needs to be done under the law. Sharpe knows that. If he had been the one to pull that trigger in the end, the message would have been lost.
Bernard Cornwall does a really good job of writing Sharpe's grief. I saw this show before reading the books and even knowing what was coming I was surprised.
"Can't kill me... Can't kill me."
Officer's pistol: Allow me to introduce myself
lol
Lol
He put the barrel over another wound so it was guaranteed to get past his thick skin
Pistol Ball to Wound Allow me to get intimate with you!
Tom Price Ja
RIP Peter Postelwaite. Outstanding actor and gentleman.
Heard he was a lovely man
Steven Spielberg called Peter Postlethwaite "the best actor in the world". He was one of the very best !
His ability to make a character come to life and to stir your emotions was exceptional! Rest in peace
Brassed Off, & if you've not seen the TH-cam clips, check him out as Ragano in Cyrano de Bergerac
Kaiser Sozee's lawyer
Maybe the best ever character of pure psychotic evil!
@@royperkins3851 m.j
Over the hills and far away. This whole series was legendary. Absolutely brilliant and a little history lesson built in.
Hakeswill: "Can't kill me.."
Officer's Pistol: "And I took that personally"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Word. That pistol is Michael Jordan.
@@DanStrayer shot 100% from the field
@@rcflem Curly white haired dude with a mullet, a grin and glasses shrugs shoulders.
The TV series couldn't possibly show the deep hatred and history these men had together in India. Sharpe mentions it off handedly but it isn't until you read the books you realize just how slimy and dirty(and immortal) Hakeswill is. He's worse than this series could ever convey and had been a thorn in Sharpe's side for years. First Sharpe tried to feed him to Tipu Sultan's tigers after Seringapatam, then Sharpe turned an elephant trained to execute men by stepping on them on to Hakeswill at Ahmednuggar. Then he threw him into a pit of snakes after taking Gawilghur fortress. Hakeswill kept sliming his way out of every situation and coming back at Sharpe hard and sometimes somewhat successfully.
Now THAT'S soldiering.
Uhhh...that really makes Sharpe look like the psychopathic scumbag.
Like Murdock on MacGuyver!
@@bobbyologun1517 Naturally, he escaped death's grasp many a time. That's his style, sir!
"Can't... kill me... Can't kill me."
British Officer: I'm about to end this man's entire life.
XD
He took it as a challenge.
"really? well lets just see about that then"
Please stop
as opposed to what? Ending half of his life?
I'd say that officer enjoyed taking out Obadiah after he spat in his face.
"I'll be damned if we don't reach the moon someday with one of your blasted rockets."
Hey....only took about 150 years, but we was right.
Aaron David Kapner
But not with British rockets.
@@benpickens9918 the ROSSIYA
@@benpickens9918 very very close were the British to reaching space. The Americans even admit Britain could have been first to space and possibly the moon with actual funding
Will Girvan
Actually, no. Not really. Britains first man in space reached orbit on the 18th of May, 1991, so...
Also, they never funded America. In fact, America funded Britains space programs when they sent them their first rockets to go to space with. Also, the British satellites were built in the United States.
Perhaps the boldest thing Major Sharpe could ever do would be UPLOAD ALL THE SHARPE MOVIES DAMN YOUR REGULATIONS GOOD MAN
They were before back in 08 untilat least 13
michael debolt those were the days, when men were free and the sharpe movies were uploaded in the “comedy” category
@@kakabukkake0 hehe was it really comedy category?
That's what you get when you raise from the ranks. 🧐
The whole set on dvd is still available to buy.......
I have a personal message from Pete Postlethwaite to my son when i met him in a service station in Church Stretton in 2007, he used to live in the village next to me, a real Guinness drinker, RIP.
If Sean bean hadn’t been killed off in GOT, the last two seasons wouldn’t have been an embarrassment. He’s that good.
The Curse of Bean
We don’t talk about that show anymore mate….
The last season was great. The hate is just an internet bandwagon people who are bored jump on to feel like they are part of the woke crowd.
Then again , the story of GOT would be different now. There wouldn't be a civil war. Most of the best storyline wouldn't have occurred.
@@omnipotentpumpkin9755 Unfortunately, it's not just the "woke" who are hating on it.
Compared to previous seasons, and the first four seasons especially, there's a notable drop in quality, character development, and consistency.
Anyone who's played an RTS for more than 30 minutes was probably annoyed as hell by the way the battle of Winterfell as handled too.
Arguably one of the best and most classic TV movie series that was ever made.
Absolutely, although I also thoroughly enjoyed the Hornblower series.
@@roykliffen9674 The one with Ioan Gruffudd of course! Love that series! Watching it currently with my family actually for kicks even though we've seen it _many_ times before. XD It's funny that you should comment this right now. XD Also I can prove I'm a big fan, the guy at 0:10 standing in the center screen ironically playing another french guy here, actually plays another French character in the very first Hornblower TV movie The Duel. He played the captain of a prize ship that the Indie captured and that Hornblower was supposed to sail to port but unfortunately sank due to the fact that it was holed.
"I'm invincible!"
Officer with a Pistol: ".. You're a looney."
Tis but a scratch.
@@akinadownhillace Well played XD
[Pistol shot to the heart]
"... All right, we'll call it a draw."
I’ve had worse....
You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Pete Postlethwaite does not get enough credit for playing as Obadiah Hakeswill. One of the best villains up to that time in TV history.
I love how Sean Bin shudders as he sees the guy getting shot. I must say that the only tine I witnessed someone getting shot my reaction was very similar. Super believable. Even though he was a professional soldier, violence outside the field of battle is still alien.
Not sure what you are on about. It's little different.
That it is psychological thing. Natural human instinct is not to harm one another (regardless of what feminists tell you (evil toxic males that have to be curfewed at 6pm)), unless you are a psychopath. Even some of the most evil murderers cannot shoot a man in the face, unless they are psychopaths who can't feel remorse or have very little attachment to their emotions. Violence in battle is different because you are fighting for your life - natural instincts of self preservation.
Lindybeige did a fantastic video on this very subject.
@@peterbray5383 just stop
@@Anarchik654 let the man speak
@@Anarchik654 hush
1:55 he looks the pistol wielding man in the face like, "I didn't mean YOU."
Reminder kids, *always be specific*
I think he was actually begging for his life, thanks to Pete's fantastic acting. The second "You can't kill me" with the bit of inflection was basically the character asking "please don't kill me".
@@Razzy1312 No, I think if that was his intention he would have said that. This form of words is more that of a nutter who thinks he is impervious to death. Someone begging for life would not have spat on the soldier offering a blindfold. If I was in a firing squad and someone did that to me, I might retaliate by aiming for his nuts.
@mulonzee877 Nah, he's not begging for his life, he's a nutter like Steve said; earlier in this film, Sharpe's Enemy, Sharpe says to Hakeswill that he can't die, because he was hanged but survived with a scar, and Hakeswill does seem to have gained the delusion that he can't be killed.
Hakeswill also talks to his mother, out loud, at to a picture in his hat too, and does that head nodding twitch quite a lot, so that's the sort of nutter he is.
Also, it happened differently in the books, because Sharpe wasn't even watching the execution, and then it's him that kills Hakeswell with a rifle when the 14-man firing squad fails.
In the books, instead of a nameless British officer, Sharpe is the one who finishes him off after the firing squad fails to do it. And he uses his rifle.
Pete Postlethwaite was a truly great actor who brought Obadiah Hakeswill to life. Sharpe's face when he says "you can't kill me" is priceless. R.I.P Pete Postlethwaite.
I was 13 or 14 when I saw this and never forget his ignominious demise :D
Obadiah: "You can't kill me"
Officer: "Let me tell you why you're wrong"
I love the Sharpe's series, damn shame it never continued. This scene is really solemn, but we know Sharp is desperate for this evil guy to be dead for REAL. The officer approaching to finish the very close range heart shot was a nice detail.
Well it did continue with a few more movies.
Keep a good thing going too long and it'll be a grind and lose it's flavor and character, Sharpe ended at the best possible time before it turned into something it isn't 😁
@@ToreDL87 In the films, did Sharps unit ever make it over to the North America?
In the books, the guy that delivered the CDG was none other than Sharpe himself.
The 16 movies and the 22 books are very interested for me, the books are very easy to read. I like the books and movies.
@@jonathanbair523 no they didn't go to North America, but Sharpe has 2 missions in India.
"You can't kill me"
Turns out, he was
dead wrong
YEEEEAAAHH!
get out
Good one !
Badum tss
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUHH
Pete's portrayal of Obadiah is simply brilliant. He brought to life one of T.V's best villains ever. R.I.P Pete.
Truly loved to hate him. Saw him in Jurassic World and thought, "Hey that's Obediah!"
One of the most satisfying scenes in all of Sharpe.
Great actor and wonderful person! Thank you, Pete. May you travel over beautiful hills, though far away...
Pete Postlethwaite: "You cant kill me!"
Sean Bean: "You can't NOT kill me!"
Love it when Harper shot him from the window and could not believe he got back up.
"Can't... kill me.... can't kill me"
British officer: That's where you're wrong, kiddo.
Edit - "Hold my beer"
Order the squad to reload and shoot him again if you have to. No rule says you can't.
Nothing personelle
@Baron Von Grijffenbourg. I agree about the officer who is in charge of the "coup de grâce". It's his duty to finish the job.
But I have a question : are you sure one of the shooters had a blank loading at this time ?
Gentlemen, unless the firing squad didn’t load their own rifles there would be no way to have a “blank” as discussed. Anyway, these are muzzle-loaded black powder ball rifles. And it would take some time to pour, tamp, load etc. In which the condemned would suffer. No such thing as brass cartridges in those days. Blank or otherwise. Or an openable breech to load a round into.
The hammer hits a copper percussion cap which sends spark and flame through a fire hole into the sealed breech end. A blank round only has powder and no projectile. So with every man loading his own rifle he’d know which was blank even if the practise was adopted.
In a huge Napoleonic-era army I doubt any officer would risk the effect on morale of having a man’s own intimate comrades compose a firing squad, he’d task another unit. More importantly there’s no way the brilliant actor with a hole in both sides of his chest could speak his final words, with collapsed lungs.
It’s called fiction, and very good fiction at that.
Would've been funny if at 2:12 he started repeating "You can't kill me" again xD
"Nigel. Get the cannon."
"It was supposed to be done with a pistol, but Sharpe pulled back the flint of his rifle and he knew that the curse would be gone when the flint snapped forward."
What are you talking about Sharpe didn't shoot Hakeswell!
@@justanotherbrickinthewall2843 this is about the t.v series not the books
@@colinkinch3445 it's about the books, they a bit different, but mostly the same
Yeah its always the same the books are better than the films
@@valhallastiger2960 No, books and movies are equally good, just that the series changed the story a wee bit
Fun fact. Sharp was the only person in the history of the British army who was not required to wear a cover.
I don’t think he ever wears it after the second movie
Sharp is a fictional character, so not part of the history of the British army.
@GodIsLove-hr5ly wooosh
Nice,no comments section fact checkers
I know some people would have preferred it if Sharpe had been the one to finally kill Hakeswill like it was in the books but people need to understand that the movies portrayed Sharpe as a hero, not a rogue like in the books. If Sharpe had personally killed Hakeswill not only would it break his character but it would also give Hakeswill the grim satisfaction that he died bringing Sharpe down to his level. Like others have said, revenge won't bring Theresa back for Sharpe so what would be the point? Sharpe did the right thing in Theresa's memory by letting justice take its course.
I agree it was sad and you could see his rage he was right on the edge of it but I think it was better in the video but just my opinion I not read the books I be quite interested in getting hold of them to get that other perspective of him x
RIP Pete Postlethwaite - gone but never forgotten !
I want to thank this channel for uploading these clips. I don't know how, but it found my recommended feed, I watched several clips and now I own and am watching the first season on DVD and loving it! Thank you so much!
Everyone is commenting on the “Can’t kill me” line, yet no one wants to address the fact that Sharpe’s daughter is never mentioned in the shot after Teresa’s death
I always wondered this. Why didn't they do a special where he had to help his daughter in the newer episodes
I thought the newer episodes were prequels where he was in india?
Because he leaves her to be raised by Teresa's family and he never sees her again.
Great dad Sharpe is..
@@Mephiston the books were but for some reason they used the same plot but made it after waterloo in the TV series
Imagine just losing your love but still putting on a smile to congratulate your fellow officers who helped you win.
Sharpe didn't know about Theresa until after the battle, she was shot by Hakeswill when he tried to escape.
Probably the most evil character I've ever seen put to film. Absolute masterclass performance from Pete Postlethwaite.
He's wonderful because he delights in his misdeeds and seems to be having the time of his life tormenting his victims.
He's JUST below cartoonishly evil. He dips into that a bit but its perfect in the context of the show/history and just all credit to the performance. Masterclass in villainy. "Sharpie..." is burned into my memory. The twitch and his weird thing for his mom. Just amazing.
Pete Postlewaite did such a great job of playing that bastard Hakeswill, his character was so despicable it made me associate Pete with evil until I saw him in other films. I love that little twitch thing he did whenever Sharpe was talking to him, and then there was the whole talking to his "mother" inside his cap, right in front of other soldiers, what a psycho.
@@01r1sh Yeah, we all know it wasn't his mother, that's part of the psycho thing.
@@01r1sh It was a picture of Colonel Windham's wife.
That little head twitch that Pete Postlethwaite does, which he did throughout this series, is nothing less than brilliant. What a gifted actor he was, he really made you hate the character.
If an actor can make you crazy by his performance, than he is great at playing the villain. RIP Mr. Postlethwaite, and thank you for all the great characters you played. 😢😇
Bean said that he forgot his lines when face to face with Postlethwaite because his performance as Obadiah was so mesmerising 😀
Just started reading the series, starting with Sharpe's Tiger and wanted to see Hakewell die lol when this was recommended. Pete Postlewaite did the role justice.
I hated the actor for years in the movies cos of this show😂 then I saw lost world and the extra deleted scenes and was like ok he was only acting 😂
"You can't kill me!"
*Officer comes in to do coup de grace* : actually, yes
He delivered I wrong tho, it should have been to the back of the head.
great series and acting. learning the history of napoleonic era makes it priceless
What a terrific villain Obadiah was. A fitting end for such terrible human being.
I love the Sharp series .Watched every episode several times. Never get tired of this man.!!
"You can't kill me..." Doubtless that was the actor Pete Postlethwaite speaking -- clearly he understood that someone had altered the script. It couldn't be HIM, after all, Sean Bean is the one who dies in everything he's ever in.
Not in Sharpe :) he should've died in pretty much every episode. I guess he's making up for it now :D
I don't remember him dying in "Ronin" either...
@@speedypt or the the 2 silent hill movies
An hour later he wakes up again.
Hakeswill: "Cant Kill...me."
Officer: "Sergeant get the blunderbus"
Hakeswill: "You can probably... kill me."
Later that evening a cannon was seen being rolled up and swore at by a raggedy figure
The only two celebrity deaths that have ever effected me were Terry Pratchett and Pete Postlethwaite. A truly gifted actor. You would never believe that Hakeswill, the monk in Dragonheart, and the hunter in Jurassic park lost world are the same man. Amazing actor.
Pete Postlethwaite, Rik Mayall and Paul Walker for me.
I still could not bring myself to read pratchetts last book.
@@FlorisGerberno me neither. Whilst it’s unread there will always be another Pratchett book waiting for me.
Pete played on of the most vile, evil and memorable villains ever!!! Definitely sharpes greatest enemy! I was glad to see him get his justice but in a way wished he was in a few more!! R.i.p Pete u are still missed nearly ten years on what an actor x
Hakeswill: "You can't kill me!"
Firing squad officer: "Hold my Madeira." *cocks hand cannon*
Made me chuckle, that
Thats the duty of the officer in charge of a firing squad.
It's better in the books, Sharpe is the one who finishes Obadiah off instead of the officer
@@Lightingwarrior "Says so in the scriptures!"
Officer: Looks like i could
"You can't kill me..."
"FIRING SQUAD -- RELOAD!"
"Now hold on gents, let's discuss this a moment..."
In some countries if you survive the firing squad, your sentence is considered fulfilled.
@@grisom5863 Seems that's what happened when they hanged Hakeswell.
Having the firing squad reload and fire again would be considered barbaric, hence the it was the officer’s solemn duty to deliver the coup de grace if the condemned survived.
Pete Postlethwaite was also in Last of the Mohicans as the British captain who met the Nathaniel and company at the fort entrance. He was more visible when he arrested Nathaniel.
"Can't kill me."
The officer approached Hakeswill, cooly cocked his pistol, pressed the muzzle to the condemned man's heart and pulled the trigger. Thus passed the great great great great great great great grandson of the Black Knight.
"I didn't pass! T'was only a scratch!"
Hakeswill: You can't kill me.
Sharpe: Lets stress test that shall we?
He did survive several executions up until that point.
Watching a fellow officer shoot Hakeswell in the chest... Now that's soldiering.
“See , you can’t kill me “
British officer quietly steps up
Pistol : “ uhm, yes ..right ..well then”😕
💥BOOM💥
SORRY. ! !😬
"Pete Postlethwaite is the best actor in the world" - Steven Spielberg
shoutinghorse He was fantastic in the film Brassed Off.
Can't kill me... can't kill me
Bullet tooth Tony: You're taking the piss Boris
I find it commendable Sharpe didn't show pleasure in he death of O.
There is very little pleasure to be found, since it doesn't change the fact that the person you love is dead
@@Lightingwarrior true but Sharpe didn't gloat about it , even as deserving as O's death was , Sharpe more likely hated that O, wasted his life chosing the wrong things and the consequences that followed .
@Leigh Covey I don't think Sharpe felt like gloating since he was still moarning Thearsa, remember when Obadiah was brought before him, all Sharpe felt for him was disgust for him, he wouldn't even acknowledge him as a man, and said as such
@@Lightingwarrior Sharpe displayed integrity . He let the military court deal with O, as not to ' dirty' his character in taking revenge even though no one would have blamed him.
In the book it was Sharpe who fired the death shot into him
PETE POSTLETHWAITE: I'm going to die.
SEAN BEAN: First time?
Pete Postlewaite was one of the best English actors in the realm, The UK lost a little sunlight the day he died. .
Wow...cool flashback to one of the better series depecting the Napoleonic war...Early Sean, classic Pete and supporting cast and country. Making history fun and dramatic. Thanks for the post.
This series showed me that it wasn't The Crown ,Lord's or Parliament that made Britain. It was the common man that made Britain.
Isn't that true for any country?
Technically it was parliament
@@drakkon12 Technically it was internationally swindling nations with less technology.
@@keithklassen5320 And the habbit of sharing their flag with everyone without a proper flag of their own (according to British discretion, what constitutes a propper flag)
Britain made the common man a play thing crown and lords. Hakeswill was first condemned to death age 12 under the british bloody code (included 220 capital offenses, by yesterday standards we're all in deathrow)
I really like how the officer looked him in the eyes as he shot him.
“You can’t kill me”
Officer: “so you have chosen death..”
"You can't kill me" BANG. So much for his psychic abilities.
maybe you'll be saying that after 7 musket ball... nah your not tough enough
That’s about the only time I’ve ever known a officer to assist the enlisted in doing the same job 🤣
“You can’t kill me”. Officer “observe”
At 1:38 you can why they're having so much trouble killing him; there's a bleeding bullet wound on his lapel but the vest behind is uninjured. Obviously some sort of advanced bio-armor. Tha's why the officer had to shoot through and already weakened area at close range.
when he was shot at 1:57 someone in post-production/editting had the presence of mind to include the echo of the shot from the mountains at 2:04 - that's attention to detail at the highest quality.... :-)
It almost feels like Hakeswill's presence on sharpe's mind persisting even after death. Such was the effect he had on Sharpe.
@@SmokeyBCN yeah, you're right...i like that observation
Saying you can't kill me to the man who's entire career is his personal death note is the height of amusement and irony.
The sound of those old guns gives me chills
"You can't kill me."
"Say hello to my little friend!"
50 years later Hakeswill was reincarnated as Grigori Rasputin which explains his peculiar catch phrase "Can't kill me twice."
"Can't kill me... Can't kill me."
British Officer: Wanna bet?
1:17 Taking a man's spit to face for the acting, now that's soldiering
"YOU CAN'T......"
British officer: "Nothing personal"
"Nothing personal mate, but you're Gonna get fuckin' blasted" BLAM
Well, it was a little personal, Hakeswell did spit in the guy's face a moment earlier.
I was just randomly sat having some inner talk with myself about horribly perfect movie villians, and i fully said Obediah Hakewill to myself aloud in a eureka moment 😂
The series was absolutely blessed with great actors. Virtually all the villains in the show were brilliant, and stole every scene they were in.
"Can't... kill me... you can't..."
Pistol: "Hey, wanna see something cool?"
Thank you Pete! For such a memorable performance!
I've only read Tiger, Triumph, and halfway through Fortress, and I can tell the casting choice for Obadiah was spot on. He is exactly who I picture in he books - appearance, voice, mannerisms and all. Brilliant actor.
Part of is those book were written after the TV series so Cornwall could make Obadiah match the performance a bit more like making Sharpe more closely match Bean
Premium flutter on Sharpe's mullet in the wind 🤌🏻
_"Not one of you bastards can aim straight!"_
Would have been better last words.
I'd like to think that they missed his vitals on purpose in order to make him suffer before death. A quick death was too good for the monster that Hakeswill was.
@@SergeantExtreme No doubt about it. Could have been pure head shots at that range LOL
"Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"
Sorry, wrong war.
I loved this series and Obadiah goes down as one of my favorite bad guys.
the actor who played Hakeswell was bloody brilliant.
Watch in the name of the father
Pete Postlethwaite
Watch the town, the usual suspects and it goes on on......
What did the actor die of
Pete Postlethwaite was a hero of mine who was a most amazing person in my experience Speaks Truth Unto Power
May he R.I.P.
Geoffrey Stansfield from Todmorden
Love Watching Sharpe during Lockdown ..Because it's an historical series it doesn't look dated at all ...I just wish they made more episodes
Super film a super strih. Ďakujeme za pohodlie prezerania
I'm about 8 books through the series and Cornwell mentions at the end of a few of the first books how accurate Pete Postlethwaite' performance is, how he pretty much inhabited Hakeswill' skin completely
This was such an awesome show. When it was free on Prime I watched the whole thing.
Nobody but Pete Posthlelthwaite could have play Obdedia the evil one as magnificently as he does.
We all know Kubayashi doesn’t die here, he works for Keyser Soze much later 🖤