Sam Taylor-Johnson is a director with a background in photography and this is clearly evident in the stylistic framing and muted colour scheme of her and Seamus McGarvery’s simple yet elegant cinematography. Why don’t we start with the positives? There may be some of you quick to dismiss Fifty Shades as a piece of trash (or there may be some hoping to witness such a thing) when in actual fact the proceedings are told in a very meticulous and pleasingly shot fashion. Grey, soon discovering that there is a dark past to the mysterious man. As Anastasia considers her role, she tries to get under the skin of Mr. This contract, however, is concerned with his very particular sexual habits, as he asks Anastasia to become his submissive. After pursuing her, Christian offers Anastasia a contract before they can become further involved.

She instantly becomes infatuated with the man, and he with her. From what I can gather, this adaptation has been toned down a great deal, a decision which amounts in something that is less problematic (a good thing) but un-engaging and rather quite dull.Īnastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) is an English Literature student who, after filling in for her journalist room-mate, gets the chance to interview the allusive young, and successful, business man Christian Grey (Jamie Doran).

Never one to let a phenomenon pass me by, I set out to see the first adaptation of James’ work, awaiting to see what it is that people find so alluring. I haven’t read any of the books, but their notoriety is such that you don’t need to have done you have enough knowledge from other people’s conversations to know what all the fuss is about. The phenomenon that is EL James’ Fifty Shades of Grey is one of those properties in which you cannot help but engage with.

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