Fifty Shades of Grey
Unfortunately for theFifty Shades of Greymovie, a solid cast, good director and unique premise only help to expose the inherent weaknesses of the source novel.
InFifty Shades of Greywe keep up the strange odyssey of Anastasia Steele ( Dakota Johnson ) , a lit student whose journalistic favour for a ill friend results in a fateful meeting with Christian Grey ( Jamie Dornan ) , a handsome young billionaire .
Christian is ingest with Anastasia after their very first meeting , and soon put in his headstrong presence into her life sentence . But as her mysterious wooer get to open up his iron - clad personality , Ana find out that Christian ’s " queer " predilections for control , pleasure and sometimes punishment may kill any hopes of them having a normal and fulfilling family relationship .
As I often say : a movie can fail for a diversity of reason . Sometimes , it ’s the performance of the histrion ; sometimes , a want of directorial vision ; and sometimes , the premise just can not support itself through an intact cinematic journey . Unfortunately for theFifty Shades of Greymovie , a solid cast , good director and unique premiss only help to expose the inherent weaknesses of the source novel - leaving this pic ( like its central love story ) doomed from the start .
From a cinematic stand , manager Sam Taylor - Johnson ( Nowhere Boy ) does an admirable job with the visual theme of the film . As a movie , Fifty Shadeshas a competent and well - crafted visual stenography , complete with thematic motif ( door gap and closing ) ; colour palettes ( disgraceful , clean , passion red and of course , equivocal gray-haired ) ; rich timbre courtesy of camera operator Seamus McGarvey ( Avengers , Godzilla ) ; and some telling sequences that make this titillating drama unambiguously qualified for large - screen viewing .
More to the point : in Taylor - Johnson ’s hands , there is real prowess and meaning fetch to the " polemically " titillate theme topic the Christian Bible series is far-famed for . The handling of the BDSM sex activity play is dismally cliched in footing of structure ( 3 ignite romps and a last dramatic one ) ; however , the actual presentation of the " making love scenery " recalls the style of director Adrian Lyne ( treasonous , Nine 1/2 Weeks ) , favoring artsy close - ups of human variety , curvature and the knowledgeable esthesis of touch , experience and response , rather than the raw lasciviousness see in something likeBasic Instinct(my generation ’s landmark erotic thriller movie ) .
On the insolent - side , director Paul Verhoeven clearly had a blink oculus on the pulpy , flashy story that wasBasic Instinct : Taylor - Johnson and screenplay author Kelly Marcel ( Saving Mr. Banks , Terra Nova ) show no such self - awareness , presenting the material in E.L. James ' novel with an almost black slavishness to the written textile . Hearing the dialogue out loud ( or witness some of the awkward melodramatic moments shoehorn into the material ) , it may be hard for even the most warm lover of the Quran to deny the lack of timber in the writing .
The original DNA of James ' novel ( which go out as ego - publishedTwilightfan - fiction ) is also all too apparent in the movie . From the Bella / Edward " dilemma " ( get it on her = hurting her ) , to the featherbrained " dearest triangle " with friend - zona Jacob ( here rename José ) , theTwilightparallels are painfully apparent , leave us with a copy of an master copy that was n’t that masterful or canny to begin with . Fifty Shades of Greyis a minefield of unintentional laughs and uneasy acknowledgment of the silly material - even within its target demographic . Worse than that , at two hours it feels draggingly boring in its teasing revolution around the " Will she ? / wo n’t she ? " selection Anastasia is weighing .
To their credit , star Dakota Johnson ( Ben and Kate ) and Jamie Dornan ( The Fall ) do an admirable job convey their respective character to life . Johnson twist out to be feisty , likable and surprisingly peculiar as Anastasia - which only make it that much harder to buy some of the sappy and downtrodden decisions the story requires her to make . The thin melodrama of James ' story often feels at odds with the gamey and sovereign reading of Anastasia that Johnson create onscreen .
In Dornan ’s case , it ’s clear that someone saw his complicated , nuanced and frightening turn as a wild in series grampus in the UK TV seriesThe Falland attempted to port that persona over to the Christian Grey character . As it stands , Dornan ’s stoicism , stillness , and smooth assurance really do read well to this new fibre ; it ’s up to a unlike crowd to settle on his qualification as a sculpted heartthrob , but as a performer , he ’s well above having to deliver cringe - suitable parentage like " I ’m fifty shades of f@*#ed up . "
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Surrounding the principal two are a card of hearty actors who all get very little to do ( at least in this first installment ) . Max Martini ( Pacific Rim ) barely gets a word in as ' Mr. Grey ’s ' driver , Taylor ; odder still , we scantily get to have a go at it the ensemble of Luke Grimes ( True Blood ) , UK singer Rita Ora , or Marcia Gay Harden ( The Newsroom ) , who play Christian ’s family member . Even Anastasia ’s entourage - BFF Kate ( The River ’s Eloise Mumford ) and acquaintance zona fellow member José ( Victor Rasuk fromHow to Make It in America ) - are barely given any shades of personality at all . Maybe in the sequels ?
As it stands , Fifty Shades of Greymovie is going to make a draw of masses wonder how this floor was ever a " Worldwide Phenomenon " deserving all those Bible sell . belong forward , the films should probably slew away from the lean source textile and expend the collection of talent on hand to create something deeper and more desirable of cinema .
wide-eyed curiosity will indeed entice a large viewership into the dramatics ; however , in an earned run average where any and all sexual taboos are but a keyword search away from pry middle , Fifty Shades of Greyoffers very little to see , and even less that excites .
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Fifty Shades of Greyis now play in theaters . It is 125 min long , and is Rated R for impregnable sexual cognitive content including dialogue , some strange behaviour and graphical nudity , and for oral communication
ground on the Christian Bible by E.L. James , Fifty Shades of Grey is the first film in the trilogy that follows naive literature student Anastasia Steele ( Dakota Johnson ) , whose life exchange upon meet the complicated and tormented billionaire Christian Grey ( Jamie Dorman ) . thread to each other , the two originate a romantic relationship where Steele bring out Grey ’s secrets - and explores her own personal desires .
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
