![]() ![]() A miniseries would suffice better, I think. As it is, there are elements of greatness - plus the novelty of seeing Bryan Brown in a leading role - but it could have been so much more. If it had told events at a much faster pace, it would have been able to include a lot more of the details and subtleties that are missing here. ![]() ![]() I do understand that films are very different to books and that adaptations have to cut material out, but TAI-PAN has a two hour running time and a lot of it is slow-paced. The story is reduced to the human relationships and particularly the family rivalries between the main characters, but there was so much more to it than that. Tai-Pan means supreme power and seadog Dirk Struans Noble. The whole background is missing, the Triad stuff, the politics, the trade with the Chinese. It describes the British occupation of Hong Kong in 1841 and an empire built upon opium smuggling. Freeditorial more than 50.000 ebook to download free Freeditorial more then 50. Sadly, I was left feeling that the filmed TAI-PAN is a crushing disappointment, purely because it cuts so very much out of the story. James Clavells Tai-Pan read online and download free ebooks for your reading devices. If I hadn't read the book beforehand, I probably would have enjoyed this adaptation a lot more. It's worth pointing out that I came to this film having read James Clavell's excellent novel, TAI-PAN, on which this is based. ![]()
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