Like Ghosh’s book, a large part of Tai Pan is written in pigdin of the time and I found that somewhat hard going too, authenticity or not. It struck me that I should be reading Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy instead, the first book of which I had read years earlier. The novel opens with the proclamation of Hong Kong as a colony of Great Britain, and the entire plan is dreamed up as Struan’s project.Įarly on, I had some impatience with reading a narrative entirely from a white man’s perspective. Struan is presented as a rakish, devil-may-care person with nerves of steel, who is both ruthless and who has luck on his side. It follows the fortunes of Dirk Struan, loosely based on the opium trader William Jardine. Tai Pan is set at the dawn of Hong Kong and the island’s transformation from barren rock to thriving port in the aftermath of the Opium War. I started with James Clavell’s Asian saga, specifically the Hong Kong books Tai Pan and Noble House. Wrong choice for the lead, slow, and uninspiring! The characters (actors) didn't pull it off, and many of them were definitely mis-cast.! I found Nobel House hard to keep up with, and I became disinterested altogether in the series to follow.So from my reading binge on books on China, I segued into reading books about Hong Kong. Fall asleep and you can carry on where you left-off.😂 It's irritatingly annoying to be able to concentrate and watch a scene with him in it.😒 If you turn the TV sound onto mute, you'd be guaranteed his character doesn't change in any scene whatsoever. His mouth (lips) doesn't seem to move or open much either when he speaks, it's as though he's a ventriloquist talking through his teeth, are they superglued.🤔. an Irish man, who looks Irish, playing an English Commander.!! Absolutely Not.!!! Who is doing these castings.? I find his acting, and him, to be quite stiff, wooden, cold, and quite an emotionless actor, whom always seems to have the same expression on his face, regardless of the scene, the occasion, or the emotional connection to a character he seems to be stuck in the same, and another thing, does his hair ever move? Not even a strand of hair is ever not out of s ridiculous.
Also, not unlike his portrayal of James Bond. He didn't quite fit the bill (so-to-speak) in my opinion.
A seven rating is really confusing for this drama.! Pierce brosnan playing Tai-pan (Head goncho) 'Ian Dunross' of the Noble House bank.
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