Tai Pan Streaming
Monday, January 25th, 2010 |
Tai Pan Streaming.
Movie Title: Tai Pan Tai Pan is available for streaming or downloading. |
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Tai-Pan is based on James Clavell’s novel. It is a saga of 19th century Hong Kong and a noble hero (Bryan Brown), a dastardly villain (John Stanton) and a woman, of course
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Recommended for James Cavell’s fans (but the book TaiPan is better IMHO) and fans of early Hong Kong.
Gunner February, 2008
This film is a greatly condensed telling of Clavell’s novel Tai Pan. As such, it necessarily leaves out a great deal of the detail and many of the sub-plots contained in the excellent novel. This was unavoidable because the novel is intricate and complex. I am not sure that even a mini-series would have successfully encompassed the scope of the novel.
With that caveat, I enjoyed this film a lot more than I thought I would. The acting is generally quite good, and the story, while truncated, is coherent and interesting. This is the story of the birth of Hong Kong as an improbable British colony and outpost on Chinese soil. It is further the story of the rivalry between two great British trading houses: Noble House, and Brock & Sons. The latter conflict, which is more or less a bitter clan feud between two Scottish families, is well-told and interesting, and not too far off-track from the story told in the novel.
Within its necessary limitations, I thought that this was a pretty good film, well worth watching.