![]() ![]() ![]() Over what purports to be a typical week in the life of Hong Kong, Struan & Co. A pouting, 21-year-old Tia Carrere gives a splendid performance as a mistress by the name of Venus Poon. Deborah Raffin white of stocking and padded of shoulder is the love interest and Ben Masters plays a silver-haired corporate raider. As a casting choice, Pierce Brosnan could not have been improved upon, playing the taipan, or chairman, of Struan & Co., which is modeled on the real-life conglomerate Jardine Matheson. The ne plus ultra of such depictions is Noble House, the 1988 TV miniseries that is a dumbed-down adaptation of the James Clavell novel of the same name. Great events a devastating typhoon, a transfer of sovereignty provide epoch-shifting denouements to stories of unsurpassed venality. Willowy Eurasian sirens in brocade skirts set honey traps at every turn, and the duplicitous locals care for nothing but share-trading and cognac. ![]() ![]() They are pitted in urgent struggles against bloodless communists or mustachioed triads with a penchant for quoting Confucian maxims. Follow western film and fiction, Hong Kong is a fabulously implausible place of strong-jawed Caucasian protagonists and their sinewy Chinese sidekicks. ![]()
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