Sharpe's Honour - first viewing - Reaction Post
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I'm watching with Spanish subtitles switched on. I don't always notice them, but when I do I take the occasional note for future use.
00:20 Love the way the words "Sean Bean" come up on the screen at the first note of the electric guitar. Perhaps Sean is the electric guitar to Bernard Cornwell's orchestra.
Ah, Alice Krige. So this is the one with the Marquesa. Set in 1813.
1:50 Fucking Ducos.
3:00 Who's playing Napoleon, looks familiar.
3:50 Is it plausible that Ducos has to actually tell the Emperor that Sharpe took an Eagle at Talavera?
8:10 I hadn't realised that going at the Marquesa all night was so soon after the death of Teresa. Though tbf it's also after he gets hanged so I guess maybe a fair amount happens in the meantime.
08:25 Oh, Raoul is her lover, the General, and not her husband.
8:25 Helene and her apparent lover are calling each other usted, as did Harper and Ramona. So does that mean Sharpe and Teresa called each other usted? Or did I read somewhere that these subtitles are South American Spanish, not Peninsular?
10:35 Le puedo destruir - as Carina said, le goes with usted. BUT WHY?
11:15 Me da asco - you disgust me, says Ducos. "What a pity," says Helene, "when I find you so attractive." I like her.
14:10 As ever, so much going on that you can't spot it all at once. Hagman rehairing his bow while the minister rants on.
14:55 Le curtiré el culo - I'll tan your arse. Except that curtirer translates in French as bronzer, ie the colour, not the action... However, I've also found "curtidor - a craftsman who tans skins and hides" so maybe it's gt that's got it wrong. More likely I guess.
15:05 The Spanish major slaps Sharpe across the face with his glove - classic duel challenge - but Sharpe totally wasn't expecting it and takes it as an ordinary attack and goes to drag him off his horse. Patrick gets him in a shoulder hold fast. All Sharpe's men have turned back to watch.
This one must be the last filmed in the second year. In the Crimea?
16:50 Sharpe really does have spectacular self-confidence in his military abilities, which never tips into arrogance. "The Marques is a very fine swordsman. He's been taking lessons in Paris from Bouillet." "Well, he can take lessons in Spain from me." With Sharpe I honestly hardly ever feel I'm watching an actor playing a role. Presumably this is what people mean when they say Sean Bean IS Sharpe.
17:00 As Sharpe approaches the duelling place with Harper and d'Alembord, Pat is either some distance behind or he's downhill from Sharpe, because he looks shorter.
Just noticed, the channel has changed its name from Capitan Crusher to just Crusher. Good job I came in via my History rather than searching.
17:10 Taking part in this duel makes no sense in any context whatsover apart from Sharpe not caring whether he lives or dies now Teresa has gone, and happy to do something which may settle the matter one way or the other. Or one way.
18:05 He's really got Sharpe's wildness and grief on his face.
18:10 The Marques does all the fancy flickering and Sharpe just stands there with his sword at the ready in both hands.
18:25 And he's already looking more alive with the duel about to begin. Atavistic excitement.
20:00 Right on the point of the killing blow, Nairn arrives with three Provosts. Sharpe's face looks shocked and empty and sad and cruel. And unhappy.
21:15 This shitbag priest speaks Spanish very oddly - is he supposed to be French? He's got the accent down, but he pronounces every word in a clear and stilted way, giving full value to every letter and syllable in a way that Spanish speakers simply don't.
22:20 Christ he's a piece of shit. He brings a man to execute the Marques and prays over him while he does it.
23:05 Sharpe looks shocked and horrified. They've all got red noses from the cold but Sharpe is in shirtsleeves so Sean must have been freezing.
23:25 He's given his word of honour that he didn't kill the Marques and Nairn still goes ahead and arrests him. He looks devastated. Given that awards tend to look for "range", he really should have got a BAFTA for the whole of Sharpe. Can't offhand think of an emotion that Sharpe didn't have and Sean portrayed perfectly, over the years.
23:30 The pain in his face. By his own definition he is a totally honourable man and he's torn apart by the realisation that Nairn doesn't believe him.
24:00 Helene to Raoul "Come soon". Helene to herself "But you always do."
27:20 The look of desperate hope on his face when he asks his bumbling defending counsel if he's done this before...
28:30 God, this really hurts, to see him so bewildered and upset, he's only just lost his wife and now this is happening to him and he's all alone. Really heartbreaking.
30:15 Christ, the arsehole president of the court is telling him "gentleman you may not be but you will behave like one in this court" and even though I know how it turns out I am utterly torn apart by the total despair and desolation on his face.
30:25 The idea that private soldiers would risk their own lives to protest and protect their officer seems pretty far-fetched to me as a general principle, but it is totally plausible in this case, and that's because of the character of Sharpe and the way we've seen him develop, and the incredible relationship with his men that Sean's acting has sold us.
31:00 Honestly this is some class acting.
31:15 The President of the court is doing a fair job of looking sorry for Sharpe but tbf that could just be the actor's only expression.
32:55 His sword is pointed towards him. The finding of the court is "Guilty". When the head of the court says he will be stripped of his rank, there's a tiny moment where he hopes that is the extent of his punishment.
33:25 "Permission to die in my Rifleman's jacket, sir." "Denied." I'm sobbing. Seriously. Though I know it turns out all right I am in floods for the poor man.
33:30 Yup, the President of the court does look sorry for him, and he definitely winces and looks unhappy when he denies Sharpe the right to die in his Rifleman's jacket.
33:55 Sharpe's men all armed and ready to save him from the gallows.
34:00 Wellington has them surrounded. He knew exactly what they would try to do and is decent enough to not let them do it.
34:25 Maldita sea - damn it
34:55 As the moment approaches, Sharpe's men are still surrounded by an armed guard.
35:25 The bench is kicked away. Ridiculous that I feel so emotional at this. The piece of shit cleric is grinning.
38:25 "...y las brujas que vuelan con el viento" "...and the sidhe riding the wind."
38:50 The grins on their faces are totally ADORABLE when they see each other. So utterly sweet. So why didn't Harper raise a smile like that in Peril when Sharpe turned up after they'd been told he was dead???
39:50 ArtimaNas - shenanigans
40:00 gabacho - Frenchie
40:50 This pos priest speaks Spanish very strangely. Is he supposed to be French or something? Or is the actor English? He speaks with a clarity and giving full value to every single letter in a way that in my limited experience Spanish speakers simply do not do. Right, looked him up and he's English.
41:35 "Ramona is part of us - just like Major Sharpe was". That is such incredibly high praise for an officer.
41:50 I think maybe Sean wasn't such an experienced rider when he made Honour as he was by the time he did Peril. Definitely looks clumsy here, then he fell off later on - though he was acting a wounded leg at the time which may have been a factor.
42:00 Burning village - never seen that before lol.
42:50 I love the way the arse shots flow naturally from the scene and the necessary action. Someone seriously pays attention to the blocking so they can fit them in lol. And we know this because no-one else gets their arse so consistently on screen in close-up.
Sharpe has left his rifle with Harper. When did Harper get the Nock? Didn't it feature in Enemy. Did we see it actually appear, or were we just told its backstory when Hakeswill wanted to take it away?
43:05 Nice demonstration of how well they work together. And how the hell does he do that whistle?
44:55 Sharpe says "Aye" in the normal way, but the next sentence "The partisans will see us soon enough" gradually gets more RP, which is weird.
45:45 He certainly does do a reasonable RP here. Possibly this is why he did it before, when the spotted the convent, to get into it. It slips often, but it's not at all clear whether that's Sean or Sharpe that can't sustain it. I wouldn't necessarily expect Sharpe to be able to but I have read that *everyone* leaves RADA with "impeccable" RP.
48:40 "You wish to do more than - talk - with the Marquesa?" Sharpe and Harper laugh along with El Matarife but exchange sick glances, given what Sharpe has just "been hanged" for.
51:30 Sean Bean had such lovely golden hair back then, even up to 2006, then suddenly in 2008 it was mid-brown. [Nah, I've since read that they streaked his hair blond for Challenge. But WHY? And why not for Peril?
53:45 So fucking surreal - he won't hit the nuns so he's swinging a chicken around his head to keep them back.
54:40 How is she even staying on that horse - she's sitting behind his bedroll and having to lean a long way forward to hang on round his waist. I suppose they had no time to move things around.
58:55 Patrick is god-save-irelanding about a glimpse of knee when she puts the (under?) trousers on but Sharpe is just blatantly staring at her.
1:01:00 El Matarife sees his men coming back with two spare horses and he says "Cabrones" according to the Spanish subtitle, but we don't get an English translation. Turns out it means "bastards" which is nicely symmetrical. According to google translate it also works for arsehole and shithead. So, a word worth remembering then... [If I'm reading gt correctly it literally means goats.]
1:03:25 The Marquesa making it remarkably clear what she's offering Sharpe here, by the way she caresses his fingers. One of the benefits of having to be subtle for the timeslot is just that - subtlety. It's quite refreshing.
1:04:20 Always lots of subtlety in the way this show is directed. Harper cocks his rifle as someone appears in the distance while the camera pans very slightly so we see, out of focus behind him, the Marquesa climbing off of Sharpe in a hurry. And when we go into close-up they're both out of breath.
1:07:05 Honestly, post-AIDS screen kisses are such crap there's no point even showing them. It's just embarrassing how artificial they look.
1:07:45 That's remarkably clean for a newborn, but I suppose they figured it was easier that way and who would know anyway. Apart from all the women who'd ever had a baby, and everyone who'd ever seen a baby born.
1:08:55 If she is to be escorted to her call of nature, what is the point in going so far? Harper is still going to be right there.
1:09:00 So Harper escorts the Marquesa off to have her pee, leaving Sharpe asleep, wounded, quite possibly shagged out, and unguarded.
1:11:25 Calling her Hélène in front of her husband - rather than Madame or something - is surely intended either to be disrespectful or to give Raoul a clue about what she's been up to.
1:12:55 Blimey that looks cold back at Wellington's camp - snow over everything. Given the amount of standing around that filming apparently involves, people must have been freezing.
1:14:05 "Did he interrogate her?" "Oh, he was at her all night sir." And if Nairn takes that at face value he really doesn't know Sharpe.
1:15:50 There's something very - internet - about using Youtube to watch a programme I've got on DVD, and looking up the translation of the Spanish subtitles to find out exactly what's been said in English that I couldn't quite catch due to Harper's accent despite several repetitions. anguila - eel. Again, so totally believable that Sharpe's men would be so happy that he's not dead. None of them ever said a word about Dunnett and Murray dying.
1:17:00 Dammit, Ducos has a point - Sharpe *was* stripped of his rank. He's officially currently a civilian and Ducos has no need to give him the courtesy due to his rank. Sharpe is unhappy and angry and stubborn and contemptuous. How can I see all these emotions when I'm normally so hopeless at that? *Is* Sean over-acting like I saw someone say yesterday? Am I just guessing from context and seeing what I expect to see?
1:18:00 I love cheeky arsehole Sharpe, I really do. "It was her birthday; I'd made her a cake."
1:18:50 Nice foreshadowing (I'm guessing). Ducos breaks Sharpe's precious telescope and Sharpe looks very closely at the broken bits when Ducos says "An eye for an eye." Rings some kind of a bell from the book, anyway. Nope, he just attacks one of the other guards in the gut with it.
1:21:40 He's not offended at being called a fool, because he knows very well he is not. Which maybe says something about the lemon-sucking look he got when Marie-Angelique called him ignorant in Peril.
When they rescue Sharpe from Ducos there's an interview somewhere that I think John Tams says there was a bit of confusion and Sean actually "attacked" him thinking he was one of the French and the punch actually landed. Or something along those lines.
1:29:30 I'm grinning like a fool at this. Sharpe is back with his men, he's been given back his command by Wellington and he's saving the day. Ah, triumphal music around Sharpe's theme - that would do it. And I didn't even notice the first time.
1:31:00 Poussez-voi - get away [as in get out of my way]
1:32:00 Sharpe's men are looting in the baggage park but he hasn't got time - he's got El Matarife and the Marquesa to see to.
1:33:00 So now Sharpe's going to do the chain fight with El Matarife. Using a knife he's never handled before instead of his own sword. As you do. Catching the knife is handily just off the bottom of the screen - I guess they didn't want to risk Sean hurting himself. BUT then he brings it up into shot, so I'm guessing he had it in his hand already.
1:35:00 He makes El Matarife confess in front of his men to working for the French and killing the Marques, then he lets him go and turns his back. He's more concerned about releasing Helene than the fact that El Matarife is not as stupidly trusting and forgiving as he is. Happily Major Mendoza shoots El Matarife as he's about to either throw the knife at Sharpe or get up and run at him with it (I'm not sure which). Harper was holding his rifle and Hagman had his sword.
1:36:30 "y tanto" - quite [as in yes, absolutely]; maybe it's like "and how" which would probably be the American version.
1:36:40 It feels very out of character for him to say "Hello" when Helene walks into his tent. I would expect him to say "Marquesa." Or ma'am. Or Helene, just about.
1:38:30 She asks him to visit her in her house on the Seine and he agrees, saying they'll be passing through [Paris]. So it will be very interesting to find out whether that meeting is going to be in Sharpe's Assassin. But of course by that time he's with Lucille.
1:39:25 She kisses him, then he kisses her back, then she suddenly pulls back and disappears out the tent. I'm not entirely sure how to read his reaction but I think it's disappointment, wistfulness, too-late realisation that he wanted her to stay, and some kind of happiness and acceptance.
1:40:10 The look-back is relatively calm and happy this time.
1:40:35 I do enjoy these final shots as he walks into the distance, normally uphill. And I always cry a bit when he turns to look back. Honestly this fucking lockdown has completely done for any mental stability I used to have, I just start crying at the slightest thing all the time nowadays. Right now I'm crying because this is over and that's another episode which I will never again see for the first time. Totally daft. But it's an important part of why I stay up so late nowadays, so I can react how I want to to things without people walking past every two minutes.
I'm watching with Spanish subtitles switched on. I don't always notice them, but when I do I take the occasional note for future use.
00:20 Love the way the words "Sean Bean" come up on the screen at the first note of the electric guitar. Perhaps Sean is the electric guitar to Bernard Cornwell's orchestra.
Ah, Alice Krige. So this is the one with the Marquesa. Set in 1813.
1:50 Fucking Ducos.
3:00 Who's playing Napoleon, looks familiar.
3:50 Is it plausible that Ducos has to actually tell the Emperor that Sharpe took an Eagle at Talavera?
8:10 I hadn't realised that going at the Marquesa all night was so soon after the death of Teresa. Though tbf it's also after he gets hanged so I guess maybe a fair amount happens in the meantime.
08:25 Oh, Raoul is her lover, the General, and not her husband.
8:25 Helene and her apparent lover are calling each other usted, as did Harper and Ramona. So does that mean Sharpe and Teresa called each other usted? Or did I read somewhere that these subtitles are South American Spanish, not Peninsular?
10:35 Le puedo destruir - as Carina said, le goes with usted. BUT WHY?
11:15 Me da asco - you disgust me, says Ducos. "What a pity," says Helene, "when I find you so attractive." I like her.
14:10 As ever, so much going on that you can't spot it all at once. Hagman rehairing his bow while the minister rants on.
14:55 Le curtiré el culo - I'll tan your arse. Except that curtirer translates in French as bronzer, ie the colour, not the action... However, I've also found "curtidor - a craftsman who tans skins and hides" so maybe it's gt that's got it wrong. More likely I guess.
15:05 The Spanish major slaps Sharpe across the face with his glove - classic duel challenge - but Sharpe totally wasn't expecting it and takes it as an ordinary attack and goes to drag him off his horse. Patrick gets him in a shoulder hold fast. All Sharpe's men have turned back to watch.
This one must be the last filmed in the second year. In the Crimea?
16:50 Sharpe really does have spectacular self-confidence in his military abilities, which never tips into arrogance. "The Marques is a very fine swordsman. He's been taking lessons in Paris from Bouillet." "Well, he can take lessons in Spain from me." With Sharpe I honestly hardly ever feel I'm watching an actor playing a role. Presumably this is what people mean when they say Sean Bean IS Sharpe.
17:00 As Sharpe approaches the duelling place with Harper and d'Alembord, Pat is either some distance behind or he's downhill from Sharpe, because he looks shorter.
Just noticed, the channel has changed its name from Capitan Crusher to just Crusher. Good job I came in via my History rather than searching.
17:10 Taking part in this duel makes no sense in any context whatsover apart from Sharpe not caring whether he lives or dies now Teresa has gone, and happy to do something which may settle the matter one way or the other. Or one way.
18:05 He's really got Sharpe's wildness and grief on his face.
18:10 The Marques does all the fancy flickering and Sharpe just stands there with his sword at the ready in both hands.
18:25 And he's already looking more alive with the duel about to begin. Atavistic excitement.
20:00 Right on the point of the killing blow, Nairn arrives with three Provosts. Sharpe's face looks shocked and empty and sad and cruel. And unhappy.
21:15 This shitbag priest speaks Spanish very oddly - is he supposed to be French? He's got the accent down, but he pronounces every word in a clear and stilted way, giving full value to every letter and syllable in a way that Spanish speakers simply don't.
22:20 Christ he's a piece of shit. He brings a man to execute the Marques and prays over him while he does it.
23:05 Sharpe looks shocked and horrified. They've all got red noses from the cold but Sharpe is in shirtsleeves so Sean must have been freezing.
23:25 He's given his word of honour that he didn't kill the Marques and Nairn still goes ahead and arrests him. He looks devastated. Given that awards tend to look for "range", he really should have got a BAFTA for the whole of Sharpe. Can't offhand think of an emotion that Sharpe didn't have and Sean portrayed perfectly, over the years.
23:30 The pain in his face. By his own definition he is a totally honourable man and he's torn apart by the realisation that Nairn doesn't believe him.
24:00 Helene to Raoul "Come soon". Helene to herself "But you always do."
27:20 The look of desperate hope on his face when he asks his bumbling defending counsel if he's done this before...
28:30 God, this really hurts, to see him so bewildered and upset, he's only just lost his wife and now this is happening to him and he's all alone. Really heartbreaking.
30:15 Christ, the arsehole president of the court is telling him "gentleman you may not be but you will behave like one in this court" and even though I know how it turns out I am utterly torn apart by the total despair and desolation on his face.
30:25 The idea that private soldiers would risk their own lives to protest and protect their officer seems pretty far-fetched to me as a general principle, but it is totally plausible in this case, and that's because of the character of Sharpe and the way we've seen him develop, and the incredible relationship with his men that Sean's acting has sold us.
31:00 Honestly this is some class acting.
31:15 The President of the court is doing a fair job of looking sorry for Sharpe but tbf that could just be the actor's only expression.
32:55 His sword is pointed towards him. The finding of the court is "Guilty". When the head of the court says he will be stripped of his rank, there's a tiny moment where he hopes that is the extent of his punishment.
33:25 "Permission to die in my Rifleman's jacket, sir." "Denied." I'm sobbing. Seriously. Though I know it turns out all right I am in floods for the poor man.
33:30 Yup, the President of the court does look sorry for him, and he definitely winces and looks unhappy when he denies Sharpe the right to die in his Rifleman's jacket.
33:55 Sharpe's men all armed and ready to save him from the gallows.
34:00 Wellington has them surrounded. He knew exactly what they would try to do and is decent enough to not let them do it.
34:25 Maldita sea - damn it
34:55 As the moment approaches, Sharpe's men are still surrounded by an armed guard.
35:25 The bench is kicked away. Ridiculous that I feel so emotional at this. The piece of shit cleric is grinning.
38:25 "...y las brujas que vuelan con el viento" "...and the sidhe riding the wind."
38:50 The grins on their faces are totally ADORABLE when they see each other. So utterly sweet. So why didn't Harper raise a smile like that in Peril when Sharpe turned up after they'd been told he was dead???
39:50 ArtimaNas - shenanigans
40:00 gabacho - Frenchie
40:50 This pos priest speaks Spanish very strangely. Is he supposed to be French or something? Or is the actor English? He speaks with a clarity and giving full value to every single letter in a way that in my limited experience Spanish speakers simply do not do. Right, looked him up and he's English.
41:35 "Ramona is part of us - just like Major Sharpe was". That is such incredibly high praise for an officer.
41:50 I think maybe Sean wasn't such an experienced rider when he made Honour as he was by the time he did Peril. Definitely looks clumsy here, then he fell off later on - though he was acting a wounded leg at the time which may have been a factor.
42:00 Burning village - never seen that before lol.
42:50 I love the way the arse shots flow naturally from the scene and the necessary action. Someone seriously pays attention to the blocking so they can fit them in lol. And we know this because no-one else gets their arse so consistently on screen in close-up.
Sharpe has left his rifle with Harper. When did Harper get the Nock? Didn't it feature in Enemy. Did we see it actually appear, or were we just told its backstory when Hakeswill wanted to take it away?
43:05 Nice demonstration of how well they work together. And how the hell does he do that whistle?
44:55 Sharpe says "Aye" in the normal way, but the next sentence "The partisans will see us soon enough" gradually gets more RP, which is weird.
45:45 He certainly does do a reasonable RP here. Possibly this is why he did it before, when the spotted the convent, to get into it. It slips often, but it's not at all clear whether that's Sean or Sharpe that can't sustain it. I wouldn't necessarily expect Sharpe to be able to but I have read that *everyone* leaves RADA with "impeccable" RP.
48:40 "You wish to do more than - talk - with the Marquesa?" Sharpe and Harper laugh along with El Matarife but exchange sick glances, given what Sharpe has just "been hanged" for.
51:30 Sean Bean had such lovely golden hair back then, even up to 2006, then suddenly in 2008 it was mid-brown. [Nah, I've since read that they streaked his hair blond for Challenge. But WHY? And why not for Peril?
53:45 So fucking surreal - he won't hit the nuns so he's swinging a chicken around his head to keep them back.
54:40 How is she even staying on that horse - she's sitting behind his bedroll and having to lean a long way forward to hang on round his waist. I suppose they had no time to move things around.
58:55 Patrick is god-save-irelanding about a glimpse of knee when she puts the (under?) trousers on but Sharpe is just blatantly staring at her.
1:01:00 El Matarife sees his men coming back with two spare horses and he says "Cabrones" according to the Spanish subtitle, but we don't get an English translation. Turns out it means "bastards" which is nicely symmetrical. According to google translate it also works for arsehole and shithead. So, a word worth remembering then... [If I'm reading gt correctly it literally means goats.]
1:03:25 The Marquesa making it remarkably clear what she's offering Sharpe here, by the way she caresses his fingers. One of the benefits of having to be subtle for the timeslot is just that - subtlety. It's quite refreshing.
1:04:20 Always lots of subtlety in the way this show is directed. Harper cocks his rifle as someone appears in the distance while the camera pans very slightly so we see, out of focus behind him, the Marquesa climbing off of Sharpe in a hurry. And when we go into close-up they're both out of breath.
1:07:05 Honestly, post-AIDS screen kisses are such crap there's no point even showing them. It's just embarrassing how artificial they look.
1:07:45 That's remarkably clean for a newborn, but I suppose they figured it was easier that way and who would know anyway. Apart from all the women who'd ever had a baby, and everyone who'd ever seen a baby born.
1:08:55 If she is to be escorted to her call of nature, what is the point in going so far? Harper is still going to be right there.
1:09:00 So Harper escorts the Marquesa off to have her pee, leaving Sharpe asleep, wounded, quite possibly shagged out, and unguarded.
1:11:25 Calling her Hélène in front of her husband - rather than Madame or something - is surely intended either to be disrespectful or to give Raoul a clue about what she's been up to.
1:12:55 Blimey that looks cold back at Wellington's camp - snow over everything. Given the amount of standing around that filming apparently involves, people must have been freezing.
1:14:05 "Did he interrogate her?" "Oh, he was at her all night sir." And if Nairn takes that at face value he really doesn't know Sharpe.
1:15:50 There's something very - internet - about using Youtube to watch a programme I've got on DVD, and looking up the translation of the Spanish subtitles to find out exactly what's been said in English that I couldn't quite catch due to Harper's accent despite several repetitions. anguila - eel. Again, so totally believable that Sharpe's men would be so happy that he's not dead. None of them ever said a word about Dunnett and Murray dying.
1:17:00 Dammit, Ducos has a point - Sharpe *was* stripped of his rank. He's officially currently a civilian and Ducos has no need to give him the courtesy due to his rank. Sharpe is unhappy and angry and stubborn and contemptuous. How can I see all these emotions when I'm normally so hopeless at that? *Is* Sean over-acting like I saw someone say yesterday? Am I just guessing from context and seeing what I expect to see?
1:18:00 I love cheeky arsehole Sharpe, I really do. "It was her birthday; I'd made her a cake."
1:18:50 Nice foreshadowing (I'm guessing). Ducos breaks Sharpe's precious telescope and Sharpe looks very closely at the broken bits when Ducos says "An eye for an eye." Rings some kind of a bell from the book, anyway. Nope, he just attacks one of the other guards in the gut with it.
1:21:40 He's not offended at being called a fool, because he knows very well he is not. Which maybe says something about the lemon-sucking look he got when Marie-Angelique called him ignorant in Peril.
When they rescue Sharpe from Ducos there's an interview somewhere that I think John Tams says there was a bit of confusion and Sean actually "attacked" him thinking he was one of the French and the punch actually landed. Or something along those lines.
1:29:30 I'm grinning like a fool at this. Sharpe is back with his men, he's been given back his command by Wellington and he's saving the day. Ah, triumphal music around Sharpe's theme - that would do it. And I didn't even notice the first time.
1:31:00 Poussez-voi - get away [as in get out of my way]
1:32:00 Sharpe's men are looting in the baggage park but he hasn't got time - he's got El Matarife and the Marquesa to see to.
1:33:00 So now Sharpe's going to do the chain fight with El Matarife. Using a knife he's never handled before instead of his own sword. As you do. Catching the knife is handily just off the bottom of the screen - I guess they didn't want to risk Sean hurting himself. BUT then he brings it up into shot, so I'm guessing he had it in his hand already.
1:35:00 He makes El Matarife confess in front of his men to working for the French and killing the Marques, then he lets him go and turns his back. He's more concerned about releasing Helene than the fact that El Matarife is not as stupidly trusting and forgiving as he is. Happily Major Mendoza shoots El Matarife as he's about to either throw the knife at Sharpe or get up and run at him with it (I'm not sure which). Harper was holding his rifle and Hagman had his sword.
1:36:30 "y tanto" - quite [as in yes, absolutely]; maybe it's like "and how" which would probably be the American version.
1:36:40 It feels very out of character for him to say "Hello" when Helene walks into his tent. I would expect him to say "Marquesa." Or ma'am. Or Helene, just about.
1:38:30 She asks him to visit her in her house on the Seine and he agrees, saying they'll be passing through [Paris]. So it will be very interesting to find out whether that meeting is going to be in Sharpe's Assassin. But of course by that time he's with Lucille.
1:39:25 She kisses him, then he kisses her back, then she suddenly pulls back and disappears out the tent. I'm not entirely sure how to read his reaction but I think it's disappointment, wistfulness, too-late realisation that he wanted her to stay, and some kind of happiness and acceptance.
1:40:10 The look-back is relatively calm and happy this time.
1:40:35 I do enjoy these final shots as he walks into the distance, normally uphill. And I always cry a bit when he turns to look back. Honestly this fucking lockdown has completely done for any mental stability I used to have, I just start crying at the slightest thing all the time nowadays. Right now I'm crying because this is over and that's another episode which I will never again see for the first time. Totally daft. But it's an important part of why I stay up so late nowadays, so I can react how I want to to things without people walking past every two minutes.