So yes, I went to go see it, and I loved the books so of course I was going to see the film. And no I am not into all that BDSM, but in both the books and the film I just love the romance and love story behind all that, and I just find both Ana and Christian as characters so intriguing and interesting. I went to see it with my best friend on Valentines day, a proper girls afternoon! ;-) And I have to say, I really liked it.
Now if you haven't heard or seen or read "Fifty Shades of Grey", which I highly doubt from its global success. Its basically based on a literature student Anastasia Steele, whose life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey. And its the story of their relationship.
Now before watching it, I was reading through reviews and comments about the film and it got very mixed responses. I have to highly disagree with most of them as I thought it was a really good film. It stuck to the books incredibly, to the finest detail! And Sam Taylor Johnson directed the film beautifully, as the books are very graphic and it wouldn't be suitable for the cinema screens, but she managed to show enough to keep to the books, but she shot it so it was elegant and romantic, rather than porn basically. And I think she did a great job overall, especially in the "Red Room of Pain" scenes, where again she shot enough to satisfy audiences but so it looked artistic and she did it with no faults. She made such a sexy, romantic and elegant film given the nature of the books and I really admire he work in this film. This film would have been very difficult to film but she did it spot on.
Now Dakota Johnson stole the show for me, she was my favourite part of the whole film. First she really lived up to the role of Ana, and her performance really lived up to the character in the book. And seeing her character grow throughout the film was amazing and Dakota delivered the performance beautifully! And of course, my hat goes off to her for them really intense sex scenes in the film. As she is fully naked in most of the film and that would have been incredibly difficult to film as well as keeping up with that character performance. Because those scenes were intense, you saw everything! But in those scenes both Dakota and Jamie Dornan delivered it so elegantly. And this is important as it is being shown in cinemas. Dakota did not half make me laugh in this film, as Ana really showed her humourous side which was key to evening out the sexual tension throughout the film and she just made me laugh as she was just Anastasia from the books! And because she was funny. But overall Dakota's performance was flawless, elegant and just simply faultless, and I really admire her for how much she gave to the role. Dakota you are one sexy lady!
Jamie Dornan, well just look at him, he is beautiful, he is Christian Grey. But he didn't half have some cheesy lines, but I liked that because I love film cheese! And all the cheesy lines were directly from the books, so they were just keeping to the book. But overall he too gave a brilliant performance, as Christian is a very damaged, mysterious character and Jamie lived up to that throughout the film. And he didn't half deliver in the intense sex scenes, he really lived up to the dominant Mr Grey that women fell in love with in the books. My goodness he was hot! And to say he is Irish his American accent was spot on all the way through. And like Dakota's characters, you could see Christian change through the film and Jamie performed this too without fault.
And both Dakota and Jamie had such amazing chemistry throughout which was so crucial as both Ana and Christian have such an intense releationship and both Jamie and Dakota made that relationship feel so real through the film.
Overall there are some extremely cute scenes, and very intense sexual scenes. Now I see a lot of people complaning there isn't enough sex in the film, but I think there is more than enough! Yes, fair enough the book is based around Ana and Christians sexual relationship but I think its more based around their romantic relationship and how they fix eachother and the obstacles they face together. So I think there was the right amount of cute moments and sex to satisfy audiences all over the world and keep true to the books. And I think the film worked brilliantly.
And the soundtrack! Oh my the soundtrack! I think its the best soundtrack for a film in a very long time, each song is just beautiful and fits with the film perfectly. It was the scene when Christian takes Ana in his helicopter for the first time, they are gazing at eachother whilst flying over Seattle, we see beautiful shots of Seattle, and all this whilst the amazing Ellie Goulding song "Love me like you do" was playing. Oh just so many feels. And I love The Weeknd-Earned it, Sia-Salted Wound, Beyonce-Haunted and Crazy in love! Oh the soundtrack is just so sexy, can you tell how much I love it? They feautured most of the songs through the film and that made the film so much more sexy.
So, Fifty Shades was released on the 14th February, and had taken over $81.7 million over 3 days! And $158 million worldwide so far! So it has done extremely well in the box office, being the biggest grossing film so far this year. This is no suprise to me at all! But I can't believe it ended on such a cliffhanger, obviously I know what happens because I have read the books but still!
When I first went to see Fifty Shades of Grey I didn't know what to expect, what do you expect? But overall I was completely satisfied! I thought it was so romantic, sexy, intense and shot beautifully. The performances were flawless and it was overall a very good film. And I am just waiting for the comformation of the sequels. I would recommend people to go see it, but if its not your cup of tea, its not your cup of tea. But I just think its such a unique love story and its just so intriguing and mysterious! Oh, I just loved it.
Have you seen it? What did you think? Let me know!
Thankyou for reading and speak soon. :-)
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