Richard Sharpe is described in Bernard Cornwell’s books as being a six foot tall Londoner with long black hair. Sure, loads of folk love the Pertwee, but everyone remembers Tom Baker. In Doctor Who terms – really, the best way to make any analogy – Boromir is Jon Pertwee to Aragorn’s Tom Baker. It also can’t go without saying that Boromir is hardcore, having done frankly ludicrous work in defending Gondor from the forces of Mordor, getting in some 300 style defensive measures with only three other soldiers for company, and making his way to the Council of Elrond despite losing his horse. There’s probably a really dark edit of Spider-man to be made by splicing in footage from Red Riding. ‘It was so bleak and dark that we kind of laughed hysterically in the bar afterwards to release that tension’. Den of Geek scribe and all-round person Duncan Bowles’ paean to Baean sees our hero transcribing Sean’s words: Corruption and crime in period Yorkshire made for some staggering television, with a cast so good it was bordering on cheating.īean plays John Dawson, a businessman whose activities kickstart the trilogy in 1974, in a role that saw him pitted against Andrew Garfield’s reporter. Much like lifting a sofa up to a fourth floor flat, this is gripping, moving, and breathtaking stuff.Ī show so gritty the council watch it when the weather gets cold, Red Riding was adapted from the David Peace novels Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three. Again, a murderous triangle of relationships ensues. A number of films that show his range slip under the radar, though this one certainly got noticed.īean plays Simon Gaskell, a bored English teacher by day, by night the confident and brash Tracie Tremarco. He has a reputation – not just for death – but for villainy, action films, and casting him as a nobleman is shorthand for ‘dignified but conflicted’. Remember that thing about Sean Bean being fearless? If not, please consult a doctor. Basically no one would have minded if Trevelyan had won. * ‘Bonking’ is a term for sexual intercourse used only in the Nineties that appears to derive from the notion of two objects colliding, rather than the comedy sound effect so beloved of programmes such as Bodger and Badger, Jigsaw, and Jonathan Meades’ tvSSFBM EHKL.īean played Alec Trevelyan, who in turn played Bond by faking his own death and forming a big ol’ crime syndicate. Lady Chatterley has the advantage, however, of seeing Bean running naked through the forest while saying ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH’ in a way that isn’t totally sinister. Scandalous.įans of seeing all of the outside of Sean Bean were well served in his early career. Incidentally, does anyone else remember two actors from The Bill appearing on Live and Kicking? And yet, they never had anyone from Taggart on Fully Booked. Bean played Horace Clark, an unrepentantly violent young man (possibly reacting against being called ‘Horace’ but not being from the 1940s) and the first of many screen villains. Narrowly edging genre classic When Saturday Comes from the top ten (assuming said genre is ‘Films involving Sheffield United that aren’t brilliant’), way back in 1984 before this humblebragging scribe was even born, Sean Bean was appearing as a moving image on our screens in the new police drama that was taking the country by storm. As ever with these things, feel free to get needlessly angry that someone has a different opinion to yours, as if either of our thoughts matter in any actual way. Of course, he’ll also live forever in the way they mean it after the awards ceremony’s ‘Those We Lost This Year’ montage: through his work. What people don’t know is that Sean Bean is using his screen deaths in much the same way that an Emperor takes tiny quantities of arsenic, hoping to build up an immunity and thus live forever. Everyone knows, though, that Sean Bean dies.
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