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A Wonderful Mini Series. From the opening sequence it had me hooked, the style and mystique of the Orient. Set in Hong Kong, where east meets west, ancient traditions collide with super wealth and power. Pierce Brosnan as Taipan of the Noble house. The Taipan, the leader of the great chouse and company, Stuans. Involved in shipping it seems, bit hard to workout what exactly they do apart from make money. And make money they do. Hand over fist it appears. Ian Dunross (Pierce Brosnan) is ripe to be raided by the ugly American from Parcom. Ad to the mix the evil rival magnate Quinlan Gornt (John Rhys-Davies) and we are plunged into the seedy world of counter espinonage and the criminal underworld. As The Tipan and Gornt fight it out over a tense week fighting each other on the stock exchange and forcing great sums of money to change hands, ruining small banks in the process. All just to save face. The Noble House is a grant romp through the 80's when greed and power were wonderful. It is full of wonderfully memorable catch phrases and cliches, The Noble House of Chen, Number One Son Chen, Taipan, Joss (luck), The Old Hag, and the list goes on. I would have liked to have seen a few extras on the DVD. The apartment building collapse towards the climax is great to see in clear slow motion. However the aftermarth is a bit far fetched, knowing what we do now, with the likes of Threadbo, and The Twin Towers. A grand story, well told and well made.
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There are a few issues here with Amazon and the DVD. I almost listened to someone who said it had scenes deleted, but I went back to look at the discs. Upon first glance, you might assume it is only 3 hours of 4.5 hours long, if you assumed one episode was on one disc and one was on another. The runtime is accurate within a few minutes. The VHS copies I have had all ran about 6 hours, save one version that missed the whole last two hours. This is close to the 376 minutes stated. WooHoo!
Everything seems to be here.
However, I need to look at my VHS versions. I got a little hinky when I saw that the 1988 movie was in 16x9. It may very well have been filmed in 35mm. Not sure there. If you look at the opening credits, you will see the stars in the coin, but the top of the coin looks lopped off. I am getting they cropped 1.33-1 down to 1.66-1, or something like that.
The runtime on IMDB is 355 minutes. Originally it showed 8 hours, but the people who input the data do not always take commercials into consideration, and on some DVD sets they do not think that the opening and closing credits might show up less often than after each episode.
I am not as happy with cropped 16x9, as my player can stretch the film to the proportions I want. That said, I still feel terribly happy this made it to DVD finally, having been pulled out of the maelstrom in the toilet of pre-DVD Age Mini-series.
Last thing, which has to do with Amazon. Like, guys! I have about a dozen movies that you were supposed to email me about when they were available. Dudes, take note. This is the third of the twelve that has come out and I received doodly squat from you in the way of a warning. I would have ordered this weeks ago if y'all were on your toes. Good thing I randomly check things out. I would hate to miss it and have to pay your marketplace scalpers 200 for a copy. Can you dig it, Amazon? I knew that you could.
Okay, I am happy now.
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Noble House is Clavell at his best....add The London Philharmonic Symphony...toss in Pierce Brosnan and John Ries-Davies....and for good measure put them all in Hong Kong and its magnificent photographic features and you cannot miss!!!!!!!!!!!!! An excellent film!!!!!!!!! For me, it was intersting to see s lot of the city from the air instead of being down below with everyone else. Having been to Hong Kong, the entire film was absolutely charming, wonderful and a great experience. How I missed this when it was televised I do not know, but I missed a good one. Glad to have the DVD. I may wear it out.
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My husband and I have been huge fans of the Noble House movie for a long time. He watched it for the first time when it was on TV in it's original form, and I watched it shortly before we went on a trip to Hong Kong together. Few movies capture their original source material well and this one does a good job of taking James Clavell's novel and putting it into live action. It can be at times over-acted and soap-opera-esque.
Regardless, we are thrilled it is finally on DVD as it is always been our fallback movie on nights when we cannot agree on another title.
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Noblehouse is a great miniseries with a great author have read the book too. Some differences but that's to be expected but I enjoyed it when it was first out on TV and now just as much on dvd! Well worth the price, just wish Shogun werent' so spendy! Both wonderfully done!
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