Fifty Shades of Grey

[MrsCatHead]

I love how this is billed as an erotic movie. For reals? The books are a weird amalgam of vanilla BDSM. Not erotic at all.

[chonies]

Even vanilla sex, or no sex at all, can be erotic if the mood is right. I know "erotic" is pretty much a YMMV thing, but this series is the antonym for erotic. Well, for me.

[bklynred]

Ditto.

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For real.

[GoldenFleece]

Surprise, surprise:

But there's one thing fans should know before stepping foot into the theaters next year: the sex scenes are going to be much tamer than in the E.L. James erotica novel.

"It's less racy than the book," a source recently shared with us. "They felt it would be too much, so they have dialed those scenes back."

And another shocker...

Just a few days after the film's producer Michel De Luca told us that the chemistry between costars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson is super hot, E! News has learned that there's a little bit of tension between director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Fifty Shades author E.L. James.

"Sam is getting annoyed about the way the script is being handled," a source tells E! News exclusively. "E.L. James wants the movie to match the book exactly, but Sam has a different perspective. Sam is reminding E.L. she writes books and she makes movies. This has caused some tension between the two of them."

Why does it seem that the worse the writer/source material, the more the author wants to be involved in the movie's production?

From Lainey: Dakota as Anastasia/E.L. James

[FotoStoreSheila]

Dec 9, 2013 12:55:55 GMT -4 MrsCatHead said:

I love how this is billed as an erotic movie. For reals? The books are a weird amalgam of vanilla BDSM. Not erotic at all.

All I can think of when someone classifies a movie as "erotic" is the terrible Seinfeld movie that later became a terrible musical Rochelle Rochelle-- A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.

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"Sam is getting annoyed about the way the script is being handled," a source tells E! News exclusively. "E.L. James wants the movie to match the book exactly."

From the part of the book I read and excerpts I've seen on Jenny Reads 50 Shades, the book relies heavily on the reader being privy to Anastasia's thoughts. How does E.L. James expect that to translate to film? Should Anastasia have thought bubbles in various scenes that say "oh my" and discussing how Christian's pants (sweatpants, jeans, dress pants, ALL pants) hang in "that way" and make her feel "tingly down there"? How about a representation of Anastasia's subconscious chastising her throughout the movie where a cartoon bitchface suddenly pops up and slaps Anastasia in the face every now and then so that we know that Ana isn't as entirely stupid as her dialogue and behavior indicate. There's no way this movie can be any good without veering far, far away from the source material.

[GoldenFleece]

Jan 23, 2014 12:07:41 GMT -4 @highondegrassi said:

From the part of the book I read and excerpts I've seen on Jenny Reads 50 Shades, the book relies heavily on the reader being privy to Anastasia's thoughts. How does E.L. James expect that to translate to film? Should Anastasia have thought bubbles in various scenes that say "oh my" and discussing how Christian's pants (sweatpants, jeans, dress pants, ALL pants) hang in "that way" and make her feel "tingly down there"? How about a representation of Anastasia's subconscious chastising her throughout the movie where a cartoon bitchface suddenly pops up and slaps Anastasia in the face every now and then so that we know that Ana isn't as entirely stupid as her dialogue and behavior indicate. There's no way this movie can be any good without veering far, far away from the source material.

Not to give E.L. James the benefit of the doubt, but she might be hung up on them condensing scenes and characters, which is fairly typical for book-to-movie adaptations, but if she understands film as well as she does writing... She did write all those "oh mys" and "holy craps" in the first place, so she probably wouldn't see the issue with onscreen narration/voiceovers.

Overall, though, since the 2000s, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter were huge blockbuster movies and relatively faithful to the texts compared to how studios would have hacked up properties like that decades earlier (and even then, they were thinking about an American Hogwarts or condensing the early books into one movie). All the big book series that get adapted now, the studios make a great show of playing to the fans and courting their loyalty and keeping true to canon. It's primed audiences to expect fidelity to the text, to a large degree, in a way people first walking into, say, Gone with the Wind, wouldn't have expected.

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First 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Poster Revealed: 'Mr. Grey Will See You Now'

Fifty Shades of Grey fans have their first poster for the upcoming erotic drama.

The poster shows Christian Grey, played by Jamie Dornan, looking out at a Seattle view, with the text reading "Mr. Grey will see you now."

The film, based on the EL James novel, also stars Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, an intern who becomes involved with Grey. The film also features Eloise Mumford as Anastasia’s best friend, Kate Kavanagh; Victor Rasuk as Anastasia’s close friend José; Jennifer Ehle as Anastasia’s mother, Carla; Max Martini as Grey’s bodyguard; and Marcia Gay Harden as Dr. Grace Trevelyan Grey, the adoptive mother of Christian Grey, Mia Grey (Rita Ora) and Elliot Grey (Luke Grimes).

The film from Universal and Focus Features hits theaters Valentine's Day 2015. Sam Taylor-Wood is directing the project.

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Mr. Grey looks like a dweeb.