Dear Sir,

Of the Sharpe Films/Characters……..Not based on your books……………Which film and character(s) were your favourite?

Officially there are 2.  Sharpe’s Mission and Sharpe’s Justice.  But I tend to include Sharpe’s Gold in this.

My Favourite was Sharpe’s Mission.  For 2 reasons:

1)            There’s a touching moment in there when Sharpe confirms his trust and faith in Harris, after it appears that Harris has committed murder, but Sharpe posts him to his own house to look after Jane.

2)            And forgive me because I saw the films before I read the books, (which directly led to me buying them all) it were the first clue in the films that Jane would betray Sharpe if the right offer came along.

My favourite non-Bernard Cornwell Sharpe character is Major Mungo Munro.  He makes me chuckle, but I feel he pretty much,  is Hogan but played by a different actor; but unlike Wellington when he changed actors, the TV series makers possibly felt that they could change the character’s name with the actor.  Whereas Wellington was possibly seen as essential to the story and Peninsular War story? Ha ha.

I do enjoy the films, although I am grateful (in a way) I saw them first or that may not have ended up the case.  Weird statement coming up.  Even though I know Sharpe is a Londoner, when I’m reading your amazing books, all I can hear in my head and please forgive me, is Sean Bean, Daragh O’Malley,  Hugh Fraser, and Brian Cox even though he’s Scottish and not Irish, when their characters are speaking.

Lee