The famous travels of the venetian Marco Polo were told countless time on movies, each one exposing in different way the notorious traveller and explorer, this overlong feature did not enough to tell the whole story properly, however give a sample as it really happened as wrote in is a book pick up of its logbook meanwhile travelled all around the Asian continent.
The Story is portraits for himself to a cellmate Pietro D'Albano when he stayed arrested in Genoa's prison for a ramson from Venice, his adventures is reported by endless flashbacks, since when his father took him to China passing through Jerusalem with two Priest, followed the silk road crossing Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan passing by India until reach China ruled by the powerful Kublai Khan (Brian Denehi) the grandson of the famous Genghis Khan, there Marco Polo received protecting of the wise Queen Chabi (Luo Yan) also gaining the teaching of Lord Chenchu (Kai Tong Lim) the beloved professor and mentor.
Soon Marco was assigned to work as Ambassador in a rebel province and aftermaths ruling as Governor, slowing rises on Kublai Khan's concept, bring back to Shangdu Palace to next assignment to travel around the whole China to drawing a most accurate maps with his faithful servant Pedro (BD Wong), they travel together for all territory drafting maps and also bringing some artefacts belonging those several places frequented.
Aside as Venetian be in Europe where the civilization were in developing process after the the pest,, Marco Polo was often entitled as "The Barbarian" due the Chinese and Mongol ethnicities assumed the Europe as delayed people, due they didn't any idea about powder and the compass among other goods and expertise.
I agreed with some reviewers that Brian Dennehy was miscasting for the role of a Mongol like Kublai Khan, somewhat disqualifying the whole thing, also all them spoken in English naturally, there no one translate each other, it was a crying shame, downgrading deeply the veracity of the long feature!!
Thanks for reading.
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.5.
The Story is portraits for himself to a cellmate Pietro D'Albano when he stayed arrested in Genoa's prison for a ramson from Venice, his adventures is reported by endless flashbacks, since when his father took him to China passing through Jerusalem with two Priest, followed the silk road crossing Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan passing by India until reach China ruled by the powerful Kublai Khan (Brian Denehi) the grandson of the famous Genghis Khan, there Marco Polo received protecting of the wise Queen Chabi (Luo Yan) also gaining the teaching of Lord Chenchu (Kai Tong Lim) the beloved professor and mentor.
Soon Marco was assigned to work as Ambassador in a rebel province and aftermaths ruling as Governor, slowing rises on Kublai Khan's concept, bring back to Shangdu Palace to next assignment to travel around the whole China to drawing a most accurate maps with his faithful servant Pedro (BD Wong), they travel together for all territory drafting maps and also bringing some artefacts belonging those several places frequented.
Aside as Venetian be in Europe where the civilization were in developing process after the the pest,, Marco Polo was often entitled as "The Barbarian" due the Chinese and Mongol ethnicities assumed the Europe as delayed people, due they didn't any idea about powder and the compass among other goods and expertise.
I agreed with some reviewers that Brian Dennehy was miscasting for the role of a Mongol like Kublai Khan, somewhat disqualifying the whole thing, also all them spoken in English naturally, there no one translate each other, it was a crying shame, downgrading deeply the veracity of the long feature!!
Thanks for reading.
Resume:
First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.5.