

The tone can’t be sustained though, and by the time you need to invest in the drama, it’s too late to take it seriously. Hard.” was surely designed for ironic whoops rather than genuine cooing.

James’ 2011 novel of the same name and stars Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, a college graduate who begins a sadomasochistic relationship with young business magnate Christian Grey, played by Jamie Dornan. It wills you to laugh at some of the dialogue and scenarios the book wants you to take seriously: a line like “I don’t make love – I fuck. Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2015 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, with a screenplay by Kelly Marcel.The film is based on E. What makes Fifty Shades so anticlimactic is that it actually starts promisingly: the light-touch first half is actually pretty funny, to the extent that it feels like a good movie-within-a-movie, a smart parody of the source material. The supporting cast are basically a collection of Gap models scattered around for set dressing. At times it feels more like an interiors magazine than a movie. His car collection and wardrobe get the same treatment. Like the book, the film is clearly intended as wish-fulfilment fantasy: the camera pervs over Grey’s hotel-like home, shooting it with the same drooling lenswork that adores his sculpted abs.

I gotta go, though.Īnastasia Steele: I told him.The playroom interludes aren’t the only thing that’s slick and soulless. Tell me where you are.Īnastasia Steele: A long way from Seattle! A long way from you.Ĭhristian Grey: Which bar? What's it called?Īnastasia Steele: I don't know. Come here, come here! Go away!Ĭhristian Grey: That's it. No, stay away from me Ana! I don't want you! Get away. I want you to go home right now.Īnastasia Steele: You're so bossy! Ana, let's go for a coffee. I mean the head right on the nail.Ĭhristian Grey: Listen to me. Where are you?Īnastasia Steele: Oh, I'm in line because I have to pee really bad.Ĭhristian Grey: Anastasia, have you been drinking?Īnastasia Steele: Yeah! I have, Mr. Thanks though for the kind gesture.Ĭhristian Grey: You're welcome. I'm sending back your expensive books because I already have copies of those. MischaLeCroixĬhristian Grey: Anastasia.Īnastasia Steele: Yeah, this is me. Although, she enjoys the bondage sex with Grey, she feels that she has to make a step that will take her all her strength and courage, for Christian Grey is a very dangerous man. In the course of their troubled relationship Anastasia slowly comes to uncover Grey's troubled past and realises that he is not good for any woman, let alone for himself. His pursuing eventually brings a result - Anastasia and Grey start dating. Later, Grey invites her to a cafe and also sends her first edition copies of two Thomas Hardy novels, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles, with a quote from the latter book about the dangers of relationships, on an accompanying card. Soon after it, he visits the hardware store where Anastasia works and offers her to do a photo shoot to accompany the article for which Anastasia had interviewed him.

During the interview, Christian Grey takes an interest in Anastasia. Anastasia Steele, an English literature major at Washington State University, agrees to interview for the college newspaper a billionaire, Christian Grey, as a favour to her roommate, Kate Kavanagh.
