FIFTY SHADES OF GREY BOOKS MOVIE
From there, the novel quickly becomes an overwrought description of funny feelings down below, while the movie wisely keeps things in comedic territory for as long as possible.Ĭomedy and chemistry are not mutually exclusive, but during this opening scene of supposed animal magnetism, the spark doesn’t quite materialize. In both the movie and the book, the awkward first meeting begins with Anastasia taking a spill as soon as she enters the office. The slightly unkempt Anastasia is there to interview the 27-year-old self-serious entrepreneur for the school newspaper. It’s immediately clear that Johnson is up to the task of transforming an annoying, even embarrassing character into a likable one: When Anastasia first enters the Seattle offices of billionaire Christian Grey, she looks around in wonder at the tall, impeccably dressed blondes that work for him, before glancing down at her own getup with a hilarious look of dismay.Ĭasting Dakota Johnson as the lead was a smart decision. The pair stripped out the more idiotic dialogue - leaving behind one “holy cow” -streamlined the preposterous plot and, most important, made a very smart casting decision by placing Dakota Johnson, the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, in the lead role.īetween pratfalls and perfectly timed facial expressions, Johnson brings a steady stream of humor to the part of college senior Anastasia Steele, while also nailing the sexy ingenue vibe. So you have to hand it to director Sam Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel for making a film that, while not as titillating as the book, is a much better adaptation than the source material deserves. Millions of readers paid their dues, skimming countless boring scenes with a narrator who says nothing more profound than “holy cow!” and “double crap!” so they could get to the good stuff: bondage-laced sex scenes between the story’s innocent protagonist and her impossibly hot, impossibly rich damaged-goods love interest.
James’s best-selling book “ Fifty Shades of Grey” was always destined to be a blockbuster the quality of the film was beside the point.Īfter all, the erotic romance novel, based on saucy “Twilight” fan-fiction, did great business, despite being a 500-page lesson in how not to use a thesaurus.
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