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According to the Bernard Cornwell website - http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm?page=12 The story behind the film version of Sharpe's Gold - when they were filming it the actor who was first cast as Sharpe broke his leg. Filming had to stop while an insurance claim was made. Sean Bean then replaced the original actor, but the producers decided that if they re-shot the original script the insurance company would claim they had suffered no real loss. So that script was abandoned. Jooler 07:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
There are two separate re-enactment societies fighting for the spot on the external links section who have been having an edit war at one point 81.178.243.81 replace the rival web adress with www.growup.com and User:Samuel Blanning reverted to this version. Jooler 11:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Would it be helpful to list the dates of the original book next to the film title?
Maybe turn the list of episodes into a table something like this:
Title | Location, Year | First Broadcast | Book written | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sharpe's Rifles | Portugal, 1809 | May 5, 1993 | 1988 | |
etc. | ||||
etc. | ||||
Sharpe's Challenge | India, 1817 | April 23 & 24, 2006 | 1998 & 1999 | Based on the novels Sharpe's Triumph and Sharpe's Fortress set in 1803 |
Can't get the borders to look right, but you get the idea.
Bryces 01:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
According to Cromwell's webpage http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2.cfm?page=1&seriesid=1 he never wrote the stories in order. Should the list of books not be on this page? Also how come this page doesnt mention about "Sharpe the Legend" which was a special episode made in 1997 and is set after the battle of Waterloo where Rifleman Cooper is sitting in a tavern explaining the legend of Sharpe.
BOOK TITLE Historical Order of stories' Year Book written Sharpe's Skirmish (short story) 2002 Sharpe's Christmas(short Story) 2003 Sharpe's Story 2007 Sharpe's Tiger (1) 1997 Sharpe's Triumph (2) 1998 Sharpe's Fortress (3) 1999 Sharpe's Trafalgar (4) 2000 Sharpe's Prey (5) 2001 Sharpe's Rifles (6) 1988 Sharpe's Havoc (7) 2003 Sharpe's Eagle (8) 1981 Sharpe's Gold (9) 1981 Sharpe's Escape (10) 2004 Sharpe's Fury (11) 2006 Sharpe's Battle (12) 1995 Sharpe's Company (13) 1982 Sharpe's Sword (14) 1983 Sharpe's Enemy (15) 1984 Sharpe's Honour (16) 1985 Sharpe's Regiment (17) 1986 Sharpe's Siege (18) 1987 Sharpe's Revenge (19) 1989 Sharpe's Waterloo (20) 1990 Sharpe's Devil (21) 1992 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.3.35 ( talk) 23:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi gang. It seems to me the Sharpe articles need a serious spring-clean. Here's some thoughts about where I think we should go with this and related articles:
Well, those are just a few suggestions. I'll be trying to tackle as many of these as possible by myself, but any help appreciated! Added the much-needed infobox prior to this. Palaeologus 02:04, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
There is a big debate going on Wikipedia-wide about the place of individual episode pages, with some editors arguing for a blanking and redirect for all existing pages not fully compliant with WP:EPISODE. It might be worth keeping an eye on the debate at Wikiproject television discussion and Village pump. There are some constructive suggestions by a number of people (with sandbox examples) amidst the emotive mud-slinging. Perhaps we can all contribute and reach a suitable consensus/policy. Gwinva 14:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
The following link keeps getting inserted into this article:
which is relevant to the 95th Rifles article, not this one. Repeated attempts to add it in can be considered spamming. -- BrokenSphere Msg me 18:28, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
In the table it lists Siege first, but Mission is actually first. This is evident when watching (Col Calbert is healthy and happy in Mission and utterly destroyed in Siege.
IMDB also lists them in this order: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190206/ Skydive23 ( talk) 04:54, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Several times this rank is mentioned; shouldn't if be leftenant or however the Brits spell it? Wschart ( talk) 17:51, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering if it was appropriate to add some details about the Blu Ray release. Sharpe is an interesting case as it was produced in an age of Standard Definition 4:3 TV, but was shot on film allowing a retrospective conversion to High Definition 16:9. Unlike Firefly (which was in a similar position) it didn't have any visual effects to complicate the matter. Malak1000 ( talk) 14:57, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Paul Trussell as Rifleman Isaiah Tongue (1993) – disappears after Sharpe's Eagle and never returns, he may be dead or left the army to go back to England. /In Sharpe's Gold (the novel), he was killed off.
Isiah Tongue and Sharpe met again in "Sharpe's Enemy" there Tongue helps Sharpe's to defeat the bunch of the desertes under Hakesville and that French cook. He explained to fellow desertes, he left the army for being unreconised for all his deeds. Sharpe later remembered him to have been with him at Talavera. -- 84.119.33.219 ( talk) 11:36, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi just reading this article, strange that it mostly seems concerned with how the TV series relates to the books, various discrepancies etc.
There is little or no reference to what people thought of it at the time, how it catapulted Sean beans career, how it has been viewed since. Thinking on it more there is no real discussion of the historical accuracy... and why playing playing a heavy electric guitar rift over your classical music intro is the height of culture!
The TV show was a big deal at the time and is probably due some 90s nostalgia revival, reading this you'd think it was a side show to the books. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.123.138.56 ( talk) 08:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
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What was the reason to exclude the "King's German Legion" and Captain Lossow? Was and is it still a problem to show how british and german soldiers fought together in the past? -- Exodianecross ( talk) 22:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
A change was made recently to incorporate the season numbers into the episode table. Season references see extensive usage, and it's suprising that they weren't included, see for instance the clips on the Sharpe YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZmLOTIMjug), IMDB ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12749392/episodes?ref_=tt_eps_sm), the fact that DVDs are sold referring to them ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/BBC-HOME-ENTERTAINMENT-Sharpe-Season/dp/B072LMWH4T), TV guides ( https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-a9eyxe/sharpe-season-3/)....
User:Bazza_7 doesn't want them included, and would rather revert reasonable edits and demand a discussion, so here it is. Despite citing WP:BRD, they fail to follow it; they fail to note that their revert is in bad faith per WP:ONLYREVERT, and their edit history of the page frankly looks like WP:OWN. 194.83.163.215 ( talk) 11:57, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
I was looking for more sources and found an article from The Daily Mail. [3] Unfortunately some editors have priorities other than making a better encyclopedia and WP:DAILYMAIL is not allowed, not even for reviews.
Editors who are interested in improving this encyclopedia might be interested to look out for the book "From Crimea with Love: Misadventures in the Making of Sharpe’s Rifles" by Jason Salkey [4] -- 109.76.192.175 ( talk) 02:13, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
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According to the Bernard Cornwell website - http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm?page=12 The story behind the film version of Sharpe's Gold - when they were filming it the actor who was first cast as Sharpe broke his leg. Filming had to stop while an insurance claim was made. Sean Bean then replaced the original actor, but the producers decided that if they re-shot the original script the insurance company would claim they had suffered no real loss. So that script was abandoned. Jooler 07:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
There are two separate re-enactment societies fighting for the spot on the external links section who have been having an edit war at one point 81.178.243.81 replace the rival web adress with www.growup.com and User:Samuel Blanning reverted to this version. Jooler 11:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Would it be helpful to list the dates of the original book next to the film title?
Maybe turn the list of episodes into a table something like this:
Title | Location, Year | First Broadcast | Book written | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sharpe's Rifles | Portugal, 1809 | May 5, 1993 | 1988 | |
etc. | ||||
etc. | ||||
Sharpe's Challenge | India, 1817 | April 23 & 24, 2006 | 1998 & 1999 | Based on the novels Sharpe's Triumph and Sharpe's Fortress set in 1803 |
Can't get the borders to look right, but you get the idea.
Bryces 01:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
According to Cromwell's webpage http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2.cfm?page=1&seriesid=1 he never wrote the stories in order. Should the list of books not be on this page? Also how come this page doesnt mention about "Sharpe the Legend" which was a special episode made in 1997 and is set after the battle of Waterloo where Rifleman Cooper is sitting in a tavern explaining the legend of Sharpe.
BOOK TITLE Historical Order of stories' Year Book written Sharpe's Skirmish (short story) 2002 Sharpe's Christmas(short Story) 2003 Sharpe's Story 2007 Sharpe's Tiger (1) 1997 Sharpe's Triumph (2) 1998 Sharpe's Fortress (3) 1999 Sharpe's Trafalgar (4) 2000 Sharpe's Prey (5) 2001 Sharpe's Rifles (6) 1988 Sharpe's Havoc (7) 2003 Sharpe's Eagle (8) 1981 Sharpe's Gold (9) 1981 Sharpe's Escape (10) 2004 Sharpe's Fury (11) 2006 Sharpe's Battle (12) 1995 Sharpe's Company (13) 1982 Sharpe's Sword (14) 1983 Sharpe's Enemy (15) 1984 Sharpe's Honour (16) 1985 Sharpe's Regiment (17) 1986 Sharpe's Siege (18) 1987 Sharpe's Revenge (19) 1989 Sharpe's Waterloo (20) 1990 Sharpe's Devil (21) 1992 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.3.35 ( talk) 23:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi gang. It seems to me the Sharpe articles need a serious spring-clean. Here's some thoughts about where I think we should go with this and related articles:
Well, those are just a few suggestions. I'll be trying to tackle as many of these as possible by myself, but any help appreciated! Added the much-needed infobox prior to this. Palaeologus 02:04, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
There is a big debate going on Wikipedia-wide about the place of individual episode pages, with some editors arguing for a blanking and redirect for all existing pages not fully compliant with WP:EPISODE. It might be worth keeping an eye on the debate at Wikiproject television discussion and Village pump. There are some constructive suggestions by a number of people (with sandbox examples) amidst the emotive mud-slinging. Perhaps we can all contribute and reach a suitable consensus/policy. Gwinva 14:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
The following link keeps getting inserted into this article:
which is relevant to the 95th Rifles article, not this one. Repeated attempts to add it in can be considered spamming. -- BrokenSphere Msg me 18:28, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
In the table it lists Siege first, but Mission is actually first. This is evident when watching (Col Calbert is healthy and happy in Mission and utterly destroyed in Siege.
IMDB also lists them in this order: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190206/ Skydive23 ( talk) 04:54, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Several times this rank is mentioned; shouldn't if be leftenant or however the Brits spell it? Wschart ( talk) 17:51, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering if it was appropriate to add some details about the Blu Ray release. Sharpe is an interesting case as it was produced in an age of Standard Definition 4:3 TV, but was shot on film allowing a retrospective conversion to High Definition 16:9. Unlike Firefly (which was in a similar position) it didn't have any visual effects to complicate the matter. Malak1000 ( talk) 14:57, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Paul Trussell as Rifleman Isaiah Tongue (1993) – disappears after Sharpe's Eagle and never returns, he may be dead or left the army to go back to England. /In Sharpe's Gold (the novel), he was killed off.
Isiah Tongue and Sharpe met again in "Sharpe's Enemy" there Tongue helps Sharpe's to defeat the bunch of the desertes under Hakesville and that French cook. He explained to fellow desertes, he left the army for being unreconised for all his deeds. Sharpe later remembered him to have been with him at Talavera. -- 84.119.33.219 ( talk) 11:36, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi just reading this article, strange that it mostly seems concerned with how the TV series relates to the books, various discrepancies etc.
There is little or no reference to what people thought of it at the time, how it catapulted Sean beans career, how it has been viewed since. Thinking on it more there is no real discussion of the historical accuracy... and why playing playing a heavy electric guitar rift over your classical music intro is the height of culture!
The TV show was a big deal at the time and is probably due some 90s nostalgia revival, reading this you'd think it was a side show to the books. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.123.138.56 ( talk) 08:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
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What was the reason to exclude the "King's German Legion" and Captain Lossow? Was and is it still a problem to show how british and german soldiers fought together in the past? -- Exodianecross ( talk) 22:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
A change was made recently to incorporate the season numbers into the episode table. Season references see extensive usage, and it's suprising that they weren't included, see for instance the clips on the Sharpe YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZmLOTIMjug), IMDB ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12749392/episodes?ref_=tt_eps_sm), the fact that DVDs are sold referring to them ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/BBC-HOME-ENTERTAINMENT-Sharpe-Season/dp/B072LMWH4T), TV guides ( https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-a9eyxe/sharpe-season-3/)....
User:Bazza_7 doesn't want them included, and would rather revert reasonable edits and demand a discussion, so here it is. Despite citing WP:BRD, they fail to follow it; they fail to note that their revert is in bad faith per WP:ONLYREVERT, and their edit history of the page frankly looks like WP:OWN. 194.83.163.215 ( talk) 11:57, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
I was looking for more sources and found an article from The Daily Mail. [3] Unfortunately some editors have priorities other than making a better encyclopedia and WP:DAILYMAIL is not allowed, not even for reviews.
Editors who are interested in improving this encyclopedia might be interested to look out for the book "From Crimea with Love: Misadventures in the Making of Sharpe’s Rifles" by Jason Salkey [4] -- 109.76.192.175 ( talk) 02:13, 26 August 2022 (UTC)