Anastasia Steele, tweeted, “Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. ![]() Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey gave Time this ringing endorsement: “It wasn’t a film that I wanted to do particularly.” Emma Watson, upon hearing rumors she was in consideration for the female lead, a.k.a. The original choice of actor to play the hero - whose name in the books is Christian Grey-was Charlie Hunnam, who, ahem, pulled out director Sam Taylor-Johnson vaguely explained to Vanity Fair, “There was just some sort of nagging reservation, and … there was definitely scheduling issues.” Um-hmm. It isn’t a good book.” Time magazine coyly noted, “The book amassed an impressively catholic group of critics: committed feminists, committed Christians, committed users of grammatical English and even committed practitioners of BDSM.” Bret Easton Ellis, who wanted to write the script, didn’t he said of the book, “I realized, Oh, this isn’t well written. One’s head spins trying to imagine the naughty love child born of that bunch. This isn’t surprising, considering that James, who was reportedly ever-present on the set, lists her all-time favorite films as Casablanca, Good Will Hunting, Cabaret, Aliens, The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo and It’s a Wonderful Life. Is there anything worse than disappointment like that?) (Alas, one product tie-in has spawned a class-action lawsuit against James - one of the many, many varieties of official Fifty Shades sex lubricant, with the aggrieved claiming that it doesn’t actually have “beneficial and aphrodisiac properties to increase pleasure and enhance orgasms,” as advertised. ![]() She also notes that the official Fifty Shades crop is “really lovely, simple, and elegant, and hopefully easy and fun to use.” If you have trouble figuring out how to use it, though, it’s no doubt easier when you’re pairing it with the official Fifty Shades wines. “I very much like the nipple clamps,” James says in her genteel-sounding British accent in an infomercial for her wares. James, has cannily created her own lines of jewelry, lingerie and sex toys, including blindfolds and massage oils that you can purchase at Target, among other outlets. In Britain, management at the B&Q chain of hardware stores sent free copies of the novel to each of its stores, with the suggestion that staffers read it so they can better prepare to meet the needs of customers who want to purchase rope, cable ties and duct tape so they can play along with the movie at home after they view it. I can’t fathom sitting in a darkened movie theater surrounded by besties while a woman willingly gets tied up and whipped on-screen.īut I’m in the minority, apparently. ![]() I blush if I watch sex scenes in movies when I’m sitting in my own living room with my husband. ![]() This is about 10 times as many friends as I have, let alone friends I could corral into seeing Fifty Shades with me. In New York City, Lyss Stern is going to the movie with 50 of her friends. But apparently a lot of other people are doing all of these things, since advance ticket sales for the movie have surpassed those for any other R-rated feature ever. My husband isn’t taking me to a screening for a date night. Nor will I be queuing up to see it with a bunch of my best girlfriends on Saturday, Valentine’s Day. I won’t be standing in line to see the premiere of the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey on Friday.
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