Love the extra playing the dead french Soldier at 0.11 seconds staring at the camera and blinking and then remembering to be dead just before the camera pans up 😂
I actually feel sorry for Calvet almost every time he appears. He seems to be a good officer who genuinely cares for his men, and ends up getting dragged around and stomped on by whatever stupidity is forced on him.
This is the third time Ducos has really screwed the pooch with Calvet. 1st was the time he told Calvet that Sharpe had no Artillery. Wrong. 2nd was when he convinced Calvet to use his powder reserves as bait, which were exploded. And now he has him march away from the war to help him fight a personal vendetta, leading to the expedition being annihilated. Ducos is a dip shit looking for a field promotion to well dressed corpse.
0:11 this wasn't bad acting. he was checking his surroundings before deciding to play dead so the victor doesn't bayonet him through the jewels. obviously, it worked.
Moving a force defending Marshal Soult's flank to pursue a personally vendetta against a man who broke your spectacles that's Ducosing and piss poor strategy.
Wasn't just that, Ducos believed Wellington was moving his forces there (as Wellington wanted him to believe), vengeance against Sharpe was just Sauce for the Goose.
@@FerretJohn I like that, Sauce for the Goose, here in America we say Icing on the Cake. Ducos still had a perfectly legit 15 year spy come out of hiding to capture a single major in a breached castle held by only 50 men. Men without connons, supplies, reinforcements, or even a powder magazine. Easiest road to victory would have been to skirmish out thier remaining ammo and then put it to the sword. It was piss poor strategy all around. Even worse since you let both english forces in the castle have a victory, even if the colonel's "victory" was a ploy/ruse.
The performance of Wellington's spy network is extremely underrated throughout this series. He's clearly studied French generals and in particular the Napoleonic strategy of defeat-in-detail, and Sharpe owes a lot of his victories on the field to the preparatory work done in the background by Wellington and Hogan.
@@dont-want-no-wrench Certainly not, but there was something fundamentally cruel about Dickensian England. It was a common theme throughout Sharpe Novels contrasting the rationality and cleanliness of the Netherlands or France compared to the primitive barbarity of Spain and the "high tech" Barbarity of England. Sharpe loved his king and his country but he was under no illusions that the UK at this time was a wicked place and ended up living in France after the war. It was like the industrial age met Feudalism and it took a few generations for society to catch up but during that time we had the wonders of modern technology mixed with the brutality of the medieval age. Which just made the whole era a particularly noxious part of British history. My own paternal ancestor was given over to indentured servitude to a black smith and rather than be what amounts to a slave for 7 years he jumped a ship for the USA in 1817. My very existence as an American is a testament to the cruelty of that age.
@@patrickturner6878 fishing for info mate. I have no idea how other perceive the english. So, the dislike shown in the novel is an accurate depiction of today's sentiment toward the english?
I think about how his career would have been different, had Sean bean beaten pierce brosnan to the bond role in 94. I once read it was close. He would have been better. Just my opinion. His ability to convey ruthless brutality, but also tender compassion, would have made him a great bond.
@@justinbergmans36 Sharpe and Bond actually share a lot of similarities : both are orphans, know a lot about women but all the women they've known never stayed for long. The only difference is that Sharpe is not alcoholic.
Pretty much. In the books, Sharpe knowingly or sometimes inadvertently, ruined several of Ducos' plans. It wounded his pride that a common soldier, of perceived limited intellect, kept wrecking his meticulously planned political machinations. Breaking his glasses just added insult to injury.
Duco is duplicitous and arrogant and had tried to steal French treasure not once but twice. He is not there for the French cause and was nearly executed for losing a French Column to Sharpe's rocket artillery and Fredrickson's company. He's nearly a French Simmerson.
i like how they make "50 miles" sound very near. thats practically an entire day of marching, and the terrain there looks like even thats not possible.
Blinking French guy keeps blinking maybe he's just dying and not dead yet. Maybe he's wounded. Or maybe he just fell down and played dead and he's thinking about his life style choices. Despite Sharpe's blistering 3 rounds a minute, there is not a 100% casualty rate involved, ok. Surviving a musket ball? That's soldiering.
Okay don't take it that literally I k n o w dead people don't blink lmao and i don't think there's anything to my knowledge that proves whether it was an overlooked hiccup or if it was intentional either way it's just funny
@@SantomPh Oh, I wish I could see that! LOL Calvet: "Major Ducos, may I ask for your assistance? This chicken needs to be tenderized." *furiously flogs him with chicken*
:12 seconds in and the guy on the bottom left is blinking calmly. I only realize they are supposed to be all dead rather then just being lazy soldiers later.
Fredrickson has no desire for promotion as his Captain rank keeps him close to his men and away from the big politics Sharpe has to deal with. Like Harris he prefers to read books and keep his head down.
They really should have hired people that were better at playing dead. I realize most people focus on the French soldier closest to the camera, but the guy behind him also squeezes his eyes shut even harder at one point as well.
Love the extra playing the dead french Soldier at 0.11 seconds staring at the camera and blinking and then remembering to be dead just before the camera pans up 😂
He's biding his time, waiting for his moments. Twenty years after the war is over, that's when he'll strike.
Leave it to the French to mess it up 😂
😂😂😂I was same
you don't always die instantly
Or ... and this is just a suggestion .... people don't always instantly die when mortaly wounded : P
He closed his eyes because he is in pain.
I actually feel sorry for Calvet almost every time he appears. He seems to be a good officer who genuinely cares for his men, and ends up getting dragged around and stomped on by whatever stupidity is forced on him.
This is the third time Ducos has really screwed the pooch with Calvet. 1st was the time he told Calvet that Sharpe had no Artillery. Wrong. 2nd was when he convinced Calvet to use his powder reserves as bait, which were exploded. And now he has him march away from the war to help him fight a personal vendetta, leading to the expedition being annihilated.
Ducos is a dip shit looking for a field promotion to well dressed corpse.
@@spartanxmonster spoiler alert... :D
@@archonix Oh? Whoops. I guess that makes me FILLLLTTHHHH
@@archonix the General in Sharpe's Enemy (the no artillery one) is Chaumier rather than Calvet
It was Cresson not Ducos who convinced Calvet to use his powder reserves as bait.
0:11 Spying on your enemy under the guise of playing dead...
C'est soldat!
0:11 this wasn't bad acting. he was checking his surroundings before deciding to play dead so the victor doesn't bayonet him through the jewels.
obviously, it worked.
He was a casualty of nappy time.
Are they friendlies?... No... I'm dead dont mind me
😂😂😂😂 blink
Now, thats soldering!
well in that time of war, I would have done same as him. fake my death amongs the dead corpse. This is real acting
Moving a force defending Marshal Soult's flank to pursue a personally vendetta against a man who broke your spectacles that's Ducosing and piss poor strategy.
Wasn't just that, Ducos believed Wellington was moving his forces there (as Wellington wanted him to believe), vengeance against Sharpe was just Sauce for the Goose.
@@FerretJohn I like that, Sauce for the Goose, here in America we say Icing on the Cake.
Ducos still had a perfectly legit 15 year spy come out of hiding to capture a single major in a breached castle held by only 50 men. Men without connons, supplies, reinforcements, or even a powder magazine. Easiest road to victory would have been to skirmish out thier remaining ammo and then put it to the sword. It was piss poor strategy all around. Even worse since you let both english forces in the castle have a victory, even if the colonel's "victory" was a ploy/ruse.
@@spartanxmonster Never cared much for Armchair Quarterbacking, too many people who sit in front of their screens thinking they're a Tactical Genius.
@@FerretJohn : /
Marine Corps Raider Regiment, 3rd Battalion, MARSOC/USSOCOM
Sleep tight.
@@spartanxmonster Yeah, and I'm a Jedi Master trained by Yoda himself. May the Force be with you.
I thought it was pretty sad that only Sharpe and Harper made it through the war alive. I especially liked Hagman, he deserved better.
@@simonlaw9234 According to the Sharpe series Wikipedia article, the actor who played Cooper had a disagreement with the production team.
It's war; comrades die.
Are you saying Sean Bean played a role in which the character he plays survived?
@@OnlyKaerius Sean Bean is not dying in this series. (DING!)
Hagman was the best
The performance of Wellington's spy network is extremely underrated throughout this series. He's clearly studied French generals and in particular the Napoleonic strategy of defeat-in-detail, and Sharpe owes a lot of his victories on the field to the preparatory work done in the background by Wellington and Hogan.
Hogan always gets him to the places where he'll do the most good
In the words of Sir Henry Simmerson, “well, he’s only an engineer, sir.”
They spent almost a decade dreaming of going home, only to find a miserable existence with no work, no food and no fks given. Sad irony.
not the first, nor the last, soldiers to have that experience
@@dont-want-no-wrench Certainly not, but there was something fundamentally cruel about Dickensian England. It was a common theme throughout Sharpe Novels contrasting the rationality and cleanliness of the Netherlands or France compared to the primitive barbarity of Spain and the "high tech" Barbarity of England. Sharpe loved his king and his country but he was under no illusions that the UK at this time was a wicked place and ended up living in France after the war.
It was like the industrial age met Feudalism and it took a few generations for society to catch up but during that time we had the wonders of modern technology mixed with the brutality of the medieval age. Which just made the whole era a particularly noxious part of British history.
My own paternal ancestor was given over to indentured servitude to a black smith and rather than be what amounts to a slave for 7 years he jumped a ship for the USA in 1817. My very existence as an American is a testament to the cruelty of that age.
@@patrickturner6878 Huh, is that why both the irish n the scots dislike the english in the novel?
@@eleethtahgra7182 The Scots and Irish dislike the English even today. What's your point?
@@patrickturner6878 fishing for info mate. I have no idea how other perceive the english.
So, the dislike shown in the novel is an accurate depiction of today's sentiment toward the english?
it's a testament to the writing that it captures the emotion of soldiering without all the cgi of modern cinema
What a great character driven episode. And macabre so as not to let us get to ahead of ourselves about war.
Opening your eyes and looking at the camera when you are dead. Now thats soldiering
(insert observation from clip) now that's soldiering!
0:11 When you check your surroundings to see if you should be dead... That is soldering
Now that’s commenting
Hats, now that's soldiering
Go watch the Golden Throne Webway Gate and stop commenting on Sharpe, Vulkan.
@@mwnciboo I am watching the Gate! I just watch a few vids on my break is that so wrong!?
Glad that injured officer with the crutch survived, he was one of the good ones
as he grew up in a fishing village one suggests he also came from the ranks like Sharpe
🤣
Yeah, I really liked Captain Palmer :)
Palmer then kicked the colonel in the balls
Idk why, but for some reason it would really be a treat to see Sean Bean put on the uniform he wore in Sharpe one last time while in his 60's.
I want to see him in Adran blues as Field Marshal Tamas in the adaptation of the Powdermage Trilogy
I think about how his career would have been different, had Sean bean beaten pierce brosnan to the bond role in 94. I once read it was close. He would have been better. Just my opinion. His ability to convey ruthless brutality, but also tender compassion, would have made him a great bond.
@@justinbergmans36 Sharpe and Bond actually share a lot of similarities : both are orphans, know a lot about women but all the women they've known never stayed for long. The only difference is that Sharpe is not alcoholic.
I feel like Duco did more to hinder the french then he did to help them just to get a guy that broke his glasses.
Pretty much. In the books, Sharpe knowingly or sometimes inadvertently, ruined several of Ducos' plans. It wounded his pride that a common soldier, of perceived limited intellect, kept wrecking his meticulously planned political machinations. Breaking his glasses just added insult to injury.
Duco is duplicitous and arrogant and had tried to steal French treasure not once but twice. He is not there for the French cause and was nearly executed for losing a French Column to Sharpe's rocket artillery and Fredrickson's company. He's nearly a French Simmerson.
To be fair his plans often are sound, when cunnings and luck were given Sharpe got second, third and fourth servings
This is a magnificent series.
Winning the war and not dying. Now that’s soldiering.
Laughing cos you've killed people then walking up to them and being sad you've killed people. That's actually soldiering
The soundtrack to this series is just epic! I wish it was available for streaming...
There's an LP somewhere. Lots of John Tam's singing on it...
I have the album, ‘Over the Hills and Far Away: The Music of Sharpe’. Well worth a listen if you can find the CD.
When you find a shortcut home on some crappily drawn map. That's soldiering!!
that's reconnisance. and that looks like a map from the fortress
Being used as Wellington's Bloody Bait, Now that's Soldiering !
As long you live to tell the tale. With mission a success.
i like how they make "50 miles" sound very near. thats practically an entire day of marching, and the terrain there looks like even thats not possible.
Oh, that's more than a day's marching.
25 miles for a healthy adult is generally about the max for a single day.
@@charlesoppland7778 and that's if they are well-fed & 'shod'.
Napoleon's men were expected to march 50 miles per day.
Full packs?
0:11 When yer the first one to wake up at a sleepover.
Blinking French guy keeps blinking maybe he's just dying and not dead yet. Maybe he's wounded. Or maybe he just fell down and played dead and he's thinking about his life style choices. Despite Sharpe's blistering 3 rounds a minute, there is not a 100% casualty rate involved, ok.
Surviving a musket ball? That's soldiering.
Me: "Sharpe, whats soldiering ? "
Sharpe:"...."
Poor Calvet. Not enough soup consumed
Soup is an important reminder of when you had no soup.
with Gaston injured he can't soup
He should have ate Ducos like they did in Russia. Then poor poor Gaston would be fine and happy like we all want him to be.
I wonder how many aides and intelligence officers he has eaten. I wonder how Gaston cooks them.
Love the guy on the floor opening and closing his eyes
I just assumed he was wounded.
0:11 The french man in the back has his eyes open then closes them.
Helping your Major up, now that’s soldiering.
0:11 fella quickly resurrects and dies again
Blinking repeatedly while playing dead?
Now that's soldiering!
Gotta love the thumbnail.
That thumbnail.
P:
French soldier pretends to be dead
now that's lying!
He's Napoleon's real spy...
Leads The Fallen Vlogs Did you expect them to be dead for real?
Not lying, acting! ^^
Did... Did that dead Frog just blink? Fetch me a bayonet.
Fighting is over, don't be a war criminal. They're just soldiers, and Sharpe always will let them surrender.
@@spartanxmonster sorry, my imperialism was showing.
The weapons of that time, meant you often died slowly and unnoticed on the battlefield. Good acting by that extra.
0:14 this one French still breathes
0:11
He is staring right at your soul through the camera lens
Sweet William wot a great character
*Spits on ground* Now THAT'S soldiering.
Sharpe - "I want to see my wife before..."
*END OF THE SENTENCE WALKS UP AND HUGS HIM*
Sean was great in the movie Troy
Frederickson reminds me of Herr Drosselmeyer from the Nutcracker.
Getting a free watch. Now that's soldiering!
Is... is that a dead rooster on calvets table? Kind of poetic. 😆
0:09 The way Harper smiles creeps me out
Harper is Jeremy Clarkson's grandad, change my mind
....Sean Bean is not dying in this scene....
The thumbnail is perfect
That thumbnail is just perfect 🤣
0:40 managing to make dying sounds without moving your lips - Now that's soldering!
When you start the video, take a bite of food, and that dude spits a big ball of mucus. Thanks, man(!)
He survived!
HAHAHAHAH, The wee guy lying at the front (0.13 secs), ya had one job....ONE JOB...to be dead and ya couldn't even get that right!!! Superb!!
can we please talk about the dead guy blinking at 0:11 xD
Michael Cabrera he’s pretending to be dead cause he’s scared the English will finish him off.
Okay don't take it that literally I k n o w dead people don't blink lmao and i don't think there's anything to my knowledge that proves whether it was an overlooked hiccup or if it was intentional either way it's just funny
He isn't dead. Dying.
Which sharpe is this?
After his tours in France, there was a thing going on called Beanie Babies. And they weren't dolls.
I'm gonna spend all day wondering if there's a connection between Ducos and Calvet's untouched chicken.
Look sir, Voltaire!
Calvet will beat Ducos with it later
@@SantomPh Oh, I wish I could see that! LOL
Calvet: "Major Ducos, may I ask for your assistance? This chicken needs to be tenderized." *furiously flogs him with chicken*
0:11 lol, playing dead in order to take nap,....now that is soldiering! :D
ps. first time I ever used that line
What part of the series is this?
Sharpe's Mission. Not derived from the books though
Correction Sharpe's Siege. Much altered from the book though
Going home, now that's not soldiering.
Duco is just the French Simmerson at this point
Thats my style sir.
does anyone know where i can stream this series??
Steven Lee uktv on now tv apps has all the series.
Any body else notice the dead guy blinking.
Did Sean Bean die every episode?
only a little.
Y'all see the dead guy blinking
God's Work mate
They fought for days over this fortress and now both armies leave it in the same night
War ist stupid.
Yeah they were a distraction force to free up the enemy’s flank for wellingtons army to be victorious
Como eu faço para ver essa série????
Tem no TH-cam cara. Porém tu vai ter w entender um pouco de inglês
Why did he move?
0:11 - 0:15 the dead soilder at the bottom of the screen black hair keeps opening his eyes an looking at the camera.
Lol 👍😁😂😭
0:21 Hes just scratching an itch before dying. Its not unrealistic.
Playing dead on top of a pile of your dead mates ........... That's soldiering 0:11
0:11 that soldier playing dead with his eyes open then he shuts them.
Think its not suppose like that.
2:03 It was in this moment that Ducos knew he fucked up
0:12 you had one job man
I’m not dead yet. You are not fooling anyone.
There should be an American front to this
God knows that Americans don't blink.
Nothing like a good kick in the pants Ask Blumfield
Did the English ever lose a battle in this show
@Hoa Tattis Wellington and his men were beasts ! No wonder England was powerful !
Major Sharpe major Sharpe give me a quick one before you go.💃
0:11 "I'M NOT DEAD YET!"
“Hey! He says he’s not dead!”
@@georgemorley1029 *stab*
Having simultaneously too much and too little hair,
Now that’s Soldiering.
:12 seconds in and the guy on the bottom left is blinking calmly. I only realize they are supposed to be all dead rather then just being lazy soldiers later.
when they come through gate look for french moving his hand
Off course the French pretending to be dead
Sorry my OCD just bit me 00:14 second in look to bottom left the dead French Soldier blinked! Sorry LOL
how do you say “ fuckez vous”
0:11 Dead guy at the bottom of the screen is not really dead, have at 'im, boys!
he's dying not dead, stop commenting about it
@0:15 I've got a live one!
My man deadass forgot he was dead
I’m here before 3k views
Cuttlefish Cake?
i like how the french look spanish
Oh, please. the opening shot? The Brits would be looting the dead and wounded, looking for valuables.
That dead guy is alive!
Fredrickson for Major
And Palmer.
Fredrickson has no desire for promotion as his Captain rank keeps him close to his men and away from the big politics Sharpe has to deal with. Like Harris he prefers to read books and keep his head down.
He became a pretty good lawyer!
Going home? Now that's soldiering!
12-16 seconds in..... the “dead guy” at the bottom of the screen....
YOU HAD 1 JOB BRUH!!!
Play dead!!!! 🤦♂️
Chemical Sharpe , War crimes ....
They really should have hired people that were better at playing dead. I realize most people focus on the French soldier closest to the camera, but the guy behind him also squeezes his eyes shut even harder at one point as well.