Sharpe's Revenge - Viewing Notes
.
2:20 Dammit they've got a new Calvet. I hate it when they do that.
2:55 That's quite posh quarters Sharpe has got here. Portraits on the wall and whatnot.
3:10 Huh, Mistress Bitch-Face wakes up - if she was really asleep to start with - and the first thing she does is check out Sharpe's list of assets rather than going to him.
3:13 This is probably a very interesting list, if we look back at where he got all this stuff. But it all nearly all seems to be dated 1813, with only one item from 1810.
He's nervous of today's battle. "I'm going into battle today. And I'm getting older."
4:45 Wow, it adds up to 10,000 guineas. This is the bit I've referenced in Confession, where he wanted Jane to have it all if he died.
5:20 Mi amada Jane - my dear Jane
6:05 Christ she is a controlling fucking cow. OK, she's frightened for him, and asks him to promise to ask to be sent back to England after the battle. That's reasonable, but then she goes straight to a really heavy threat:
"Promise me you'll come straight back to me. Break that promise, Richard, and I promise you I will be on the first boat back to England and you will never hear from me again." Totally fucking out of order. He jokes that he can't let that happen because she'll get all his money, but she is totally serious, and has a vicious look on her face as she states her terms to prove it.
10:10 "You did your best, Wigram," says Ross, making it very clear that Wigram's best was totally inadequate. Then he sends in Sharpe and his skirmishers, as Wigram should have done and draws his own sword with great determination, purpose and panache. "Piper - play me a tune."
11:15 Molly says "He's in no danger, Jane: Colonel Wigram is with him." Glad she explained that.
13:55 Interesting - I thought this was Colonel Brand's theme, but it's playing as Private Hobbes, who I don't recall seeing before, runs forward with the grappling hook. Nice occasional glimpses of people being busy reloading.
14:35 And now Ross is walking his men straight up the hill under fire exactly the same as Wigram did. So what's the difference? Maybe we're supposed to note that Ross's men follow him while Wigram's ran away?
15:05 Hobbes falls and Sharpe is twice as upset about that as about all the others we've seen fall in the past ten minutes put together, and Harper puts a hand on Sharpe's arm before Sharpr'e even knelt down with Hobbes. And soon after that we see that, unusually, Harper has a hand on Sharpe's shoulder to comfort him. [This could be a transcript fic]
15:55 Ross falls, and instead of doing as he says and keeping the men moving, Wigram abdicates responsibility for the charge in favour of helping Ross to his feel. So Sharpe runs down the hill and starts giving orders. He knows how to lead a brigade, even if Wigram doesn't.
16:00 Sean has what could have been a nasty slip on the rocky hillside, but catches himself in time.
16:18 Lol I didn't notice this before - Ducos jumps when a gun goes off near him while Calvet takes no notice of it.
18:55 Christ, Sharpe's a vicious bastard when he's angry. Crushes Ducos' hand onto his glasses. Not but what he doesn't deserve it of course.
repliez-vous = fall back
20:40 Wigram is goading Sharpe to a duel for some reason, telling him he's ill-bred and being with him is degrading to Jane. Fucking hell. Sharpe knees him in the goolies instead. Oh, right, that's taken as the challenge. Frederickson steps forward as his second. Pistols at dawn. Sharpe reckons that having Wellington put him on the first ship home for duelling against standing orders will please Jane. Poor innocent. Nothing will please that cow.
22:40 Lol, Frederickson tells Sharpe he wants "a woman who will let me take my time". Then he never bothers asking Lucille to marry him, just skips straight to "tell Sharpe he's best man".
25:30 Ah, this is where Ducos' plot starts. He dismisses Maillot back to Normandy and says he will write a statement from him. Then he kills the guards of the Emperor's treasure. I'm guessing he's going to steal it and have Maillot's statement say it was Sharpe what done it.
27:00 "There's a ship sailing at 3 [from Bordeaux, apparently] and we can be on it." Hmm, it's 150 miles from Toulouse to Bordeaux.
28:25 Wigram really is a fucking coward. He deliberately provoked this duel because Sharpe showed him up on the battlefield and now he's taken his shot and waiting for Sharpe to take his he's suggesting he might apologise. Useless piece of shit.
28:50 And I now realise that I've managed to use an exact quote from Ross in Major Sharpe's Nightmare - "No point beating about the bush". OK, so it's hardly an unusual phrase, but I do like to keep people in character.
29:35 Absolutely all that's left in the room is his greatcoat.
Borracho como una cuba - blind drunk [drunk as a vat]
36:55 Lol another small detail I missed first time round - Colonel Wigram groans in pain as he gets up off his shot-up arse.
39:30 "We're spending so much ... my husband's a rich man." She is so thick. Does she honestly not understand that she is currently in control of Sharpe's riches and is currently pissing through them at a rate that shocks even her?
40:00 Molly leaves Rossendale in the bedroom with Jane, and tells him to stroke her hand. Compromising position all arranged...
43:00 Harper is to take Sharpe's letter to Jane to England, and he offers his hand to shake before he leaves. Most unusual between a man in the ranks and an officer.
44:35 I haven't seen this bit, this must be where Ducos' men come and kill Colonel Maillot, who turns out to be Lucille's brother. But the bloke sitting in her kitchen looks about 15 and nothing like the man I thought was Colonel Maillot.
48:35 Frederickson goes into what looks like a complete panic when Lucille shoots Sharpe. Practically screaming, almost out of control.
50:35 At this point he's supposed to be passed out with the pain of the cauterising, but he's still moving his head from side to side.
51:26 So Lucille's husband apparently died at Talavera.
"When my husband died I didn't think I could find happiness with another man."
"And now?"
"Now? Maybe" she says, looking at Sharpe rather than Frederickson.
52:50 Jane appears to have no capacity for thinking for herself whatsoever.
56:45 "Better man, best man? - Oh merde" Lol.
57:55 Major Sharpe who can get up and fight with a bullet wound in the belly has been unconscious for ten days from a few nails in his leg.
1:02:25 The letter from Sharpe appears on Jane's bedside table where she's in bed with Rossendale. "He asks after my health most tenderly, and then almost as an afterthought tells me his troubles." I hope she at least feels guilty about that. The poor man is so naive.
1:06:50 So he's hungry now but he's got to wait while she kills the chicken, draws it, plucks it, joints it, cooks it. Right.
1:09:05 At this point he can't possibly know anything about Jane being with Rossendale. The last news he has is from Ross, saying she took ship for England, and from the lawyer guy ?Ronald? saying she'd taken all his money out of the bank. But I think we're about to go into the scene where Pat comes back, and in that he asks if she and Rossendale are lovers. So why would he ask that out of the blue?
1:12:10 Ah. "Jane and Molly are being looked after by Lord Rossendale."
1:17:10 He seems to have a strap for his rifle attached to the buttons of his jacket, rather than it being on the normal sling/strap.
1:17:20 When Sharpe is taking his leave of Lucille to go with Calvet and Gaston and their men (and Harper and Frederickson), I think it's the same music playing in the background that we get the song for at their next parting.
1:18:00 Jane thinks Sharpe is coming to attack her or sending "his" men to do so. Quite apart from the fact that supposed to be under arrest and hasn't officially got any men, he's far too busy saving himself from execution and hasn't given her a thought for weeks.
1:35 Why is Lady Molly in court, and not only that, but in the front row right next to Harper?
1:38:10 Sharpe doesn't look especially happy when Frederickson tells him "your woman is waiting for you". Frederickson walks away and we see Sharpe framed totally alone. Maybe that's the moment he realises it's all over, all the fighting, and his closest colleagues are dispersing. Or does he still feel obliged to go back to Jane? Nope, he says to her "We're going home." Maybe he just feels bad for Frederickson.
1:39:20 Sooo, Lady Molly tells Jane Sharpe has cleared his name and is free to come home, but doesn't mention that he openly walked out of the courtroom with Lucille?
1:40 A really genuine-looking parting scene there between Sharpe and Lucille. Almost looks like a real kiss as well. Apparently he really is going back to England. And yay, there actually are trees and a lane just beyond the gate, very similar to what I've been picturing for the farm in the Marie-Angelique series.
Will you go, or will you tarry
Will you wait or will you marry
Would this moment last for ever
Kiss me now and leave me never.
Sung with a lot of feeling by John Tams in his best voice as Sharpe kisses Lucille goodbye. Apparently it's called Love Farewell, but I haven't yet discovered whether he wrote it for Sharpe or just decided it would work. Which it very much does. Very poignant.
1:40:30 And one of the best look-backs, because there's a genuine plot and character reason for it - he's leaving Lucille and she's standing there watching him go. *tears falling here* I don't think we get told *why* he's going, but presumably now he's been cleared it's his duty to rejoin his regiment tout de suite. I think I read somewhere that at the end of Justice he buys himself out so he can go back to Lucille.
I've now watched this all through twice so next it's on to Justice
2:20 Dammit they've got a new Calvet. I hate it when they do that.
2:55 That's quite posh quarters Sharpe has got here. Portraits on the wall and whatnot.
3:10 Huh, Mistress Bitch-Face wakes up - if she was really asleep to start with - and the first thing she does is check out Sharpe's list of assets rather than going to him.
3:13 This is probably a very interesting list, if we look back at where he got all this stuff. But it all nearly all seems to be dated 1813, with only one item from 1810.
He's nervous of today's battle. "I'm going into battle today. And I'm getting older."
4:45 Wow, it adds up to 10,000 guineas. This is the bit I've referenced in Confession, where he wanted Jane to have it all if he died.
5:20 Mi amada Jane - my dear Jane
6:05 Christ she is a controlling fucking cow. OK, she's frightened for him, and asks him to promise to ask to be sent back to England after the battle. That's reasonable, but then she goes straight to a really heavy threat:
"Promise me you'll come straight back to me. Break that promise, Richard, and I promise you I will be on the first boat back to England and you will never hear from me again." Totally fucking out of order. He jokes that he can't let that happen because she'll get all his money, but she is totally serious, and has a vicious look on her face as she states her terms to prove it.
10:10 "You did your best, Wigram," says Ross, making it very clear that Wigram's best was totally inadequate. Then he sends in Sharpe and his skirmishers, as Wigram should have done and draws his own sword with great determination, purpose and panache. "Piper - play me a tune."
11:15 Molly says "He's in no danger, Jane: Colonel Wigram is with him." Glad she explained that.
13:55 Interesting - I thought this was Colonel Brand's theme, but it's playing as Private Hobbes, who I don't recall seeing before, runs forward with the grappling hook. Nice occasional glimpses of people being busy reloading.
14:35 And now Ross is walking his men straight up the hill under fire exactly the same as Wigram did. So what's the difference? Maybe we're supposed to note that Ross's men follow him while Wigram's ran away?
15:05 Hobbes falls and Sharpe is twice as upset about that as about all the others we've seen fall in the past ten minutes put together, and Harper puts a hand on Sharpe's arm before Sharpr'e even knelt down with Hobbes. And soon after that we see that, unusually, Harper has a hand on Sharpe's shoulder to comfort him. [This could be a transcript fic]
15:55 Ross falls, and instead of doing as he says and keeping the men moving, Wigram abdicates responsibility for the charge in favour of helping Ross to his feel. So Sharpe runs down the hill and starts giving orders. He knows how to lead a brigade, even if Wigram doesn't.
16:00 Sean has what could have been a nasty slip on the rocky hillside, but catches himself in time.
16:18 Lol I didn't notice this before - Ducos jumps when a gun goes off near him while Calvet takes no notice of it.
18:55 Christ, Sharpe's a vicious bastard when he's angry. Crushes Ducos' hand onto his glasses. Not but what he doesn't deserve it of course.
repliez-vous = fall back
20:40 Wigram is goading Sharpe to a duel for some reason, telling him he's ill-bred and being with him is degrading to Jane. Fucking hell. Sharpe knees him in the goolies instead. Oh, right, that's taken as the challenge. Frederickson steps forward as his second. Pistols at dawn. Sharpe reckons that having Wellington put him on the first ship home for duelling against standing orders will please Jane. Poor innocent. Nothing will please that cow.
22:40 Lol, Frederickson tells Sharpe he wants "a woman who will let me take my time". Then he never bothers asking Lucille to marry him, just skips straight to "tell Sharpe he's best man".
25:30 Ah, this is where Ducos' plot starts. He dismisses Maillot back to Normandy and says he will write a statement from him. Then he kills the guards of the Emperor's treasure. I'm guessing he's going to steal it and have Maillot's statement say it was Sharpe what done it.
27:00 "There's a ship sailing at 3 [from Bordeaux, apparently] and we can be on it." Hmm, it's 150 miles from Toulouse to Bordeaux.
28:25 Wigram really is a fucking coward. He deliberately provoked this duel because Sharpe showed him up on the battlefield and now he's taken his shot and waiting for Sharpe to take his he's suggesting he might apologise. Useless piece of shit.
28:50 And I now realise that I've managed to use an exact quote from Ross in Major Sharpe's Nightmare - "No point beating about the bush". OK, so it's hardly an unusual phrase, but I do like to keep people in character.
29:35 Absolutely all that's left in the room is his greatcoat.
Borracho como una cuba - blind drunk [drunk as a vat]
36:55 Lol another small detail I missed first time round - Colonel Wigram groans in pain as he gets up off his shot-up arse.
39:30 "We're spending so much ... my husband's a rich man." She is so thick. Does she honestly not understand that she is currently in control of Sharpe's riches and is currently pissing through them at a rate that shocks even her?
40:00 Molly leaves Rossendale in the bedroom with Jane, and tells him to stroke her hand. Compromising position all arranged...
43:00 Harper is to take Sharpe's letter to Jane to England, and he offers his hand to shake before he leaves. Most unusual between a man in the ranks and an officer.
44:35 I haven't seen this bit, this must be where Ducos' men come and kill Colonel Maillot, who turns out to be Lucille's brother. But the bloke sitting in her kitchen looks about 15 and nothing like the man I thought was Colonel Maillot.
48:35 Frederickson goes into what looks like a complete panic when Lucille shoots Sharpe. Practically screaming, almost out of control.
50:35 At this point he's supposed to be passed out with the pain of the cauterising, but he's still moving his head from side to side.
51:26 So Lucille's husband apparently died at Talavera.
"When my husband died I didn't think I could find happiness with another man."
"And now?"
"Now? Maybe" she says, looking at Sharpe rather than Frederickson.
52:50 Jane appears to have no capacity for thinking for herself whatsoever.
56:45 "Better man, best man? - Oh merde" Lol.
57:55 Major Sharpe who can get up and fight with a bullet wound in the belly has been unconscious for ten days from a few nails in his leg.
1:02:25 The letter from Sharpe appears on Jane's bedside table where she's in bed with Rossendale. "He asks after my health most tenderly, and then almost as an afterthought tells me his troubles." I hope she at least feels guilty about that. The poor man is so naive.
1:06:50 So he's hungry now but he's got to wait while she kills the chicken, draws it, plucks it, joints it, cooks it. Right.
1:09:05 At this point he can't possibly know anything about Jane being with Rossendale. The last news he has is from Ross, saying she took ship for England, and from the lawyer guy ?Ronald? saying she'd taken all his money out of the bank. But I think we're about to go into the scene where Pat comes back, and in that he asks if she and Rossendale are lovers. So why would he ask that out of the blue?
1:12:10 Ah. "Jane and Molly are being looked after by Lord Rossendale."
1:17:10 He seems to have a strap for his rifle attached to the buttons of his jacket, rather than it being on the normal sling/strap.
1:17:20 When Sharpe is taking his leave of Lucille to go with Calvet and Gaston and their men (and Harper and Frederickson), I think it's the same music playing in the background that we get the song for at their next parting.
1:18:00 Jane thinks Sharpe is coming to attack her or sending "his" men to do so. Quite apart from the fact that supposed to be under arrest and hasn't officially got any men, he's far too busy saving himself from execution and hasn't given her a thought for weeks.
1:35 Why is Lady Molly in court, and not only that, but in the front row right next to Harper?
1:38:10 Sharpe doesn't look especially happy when Frederickson tells him "your woman is waiting for you". Frederickson walks away and we see Sharpe framed totally alone. Maybe that's the moment he realises it's all over, all the fighting, and his closest colleagues are dispersing. Or does he still feel obliged to go back to Jane? Nope, he says to her "We're going home." Maybe he just feels bad for Frederickson.
1:39:20 Sooo, Lady Molly tells Jane Sharpe has cleared his name and is free to come home, but doesn't mention that he openly walked out of the courtroom with Lucille?
1:40 A really genuine-looking parting scene there between Sharpe and Lucille. Almost looks like a real kiss as well. Apparently he really is going back to England. And yay, there actually are trees and a lane just beyond the gate, very similar to what I've been picturing for the farm in the Marie-Angelique series.
Will you go, or will you tarry
Will you wait or will you marry
Would this moment last for ever
Kiss me now and leave me never.
Sung with a lot of feeling by John Tams in his best voice as Sharpe kisses Lucille goodbye. Apparently it's called Love Farewell, but I haven't yet discovered whether he wrote it for Sharpe or just decided it would work. Which it very much does. Very poignant.
1:40:30 And one of the best look-backs, because there's a genuine plot and character reason for it - he's leaving Lucille and she's standing there watching him go. *tears falling here* I don't think we get told *why* he's going, but presumably now he's been cleared it's his duty to rejoin his regiment tout de suite. I think I read somewhere that at the end of Justice he buys himself out so he can go back to Lucille.
I've now watched this all through twice so next it's on to Justice