![]() ![]() 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. James Clavells Tai-Pan is a board game published by FASA in 1981 that is based on the best-selling 1966 novel Tai-Pan by James Clavell. ![]() 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. The whole background is missing, the Triad stuff, the politics, the trade with the Chinese. 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. If I hadn't read the book beforehand, I probably would have enjoyed this adaptation a lot more. In 1841, he achieves the goal, but has many enemies who try to destroy his dream. 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. Tai-Pan's Chinese for supreme leader the man with real power.Such a Tai-Pan's Dirk Struan who's obsessed to make Hong Kong the jewel in the crown of her British Majesty. ![]()
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