From pages to movie screen, ‘Mr. Grey will see you now’
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ movie staring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan shares no kinship to its popular book trilogy
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is based out of Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The movie follows the unconventional relationship of a dominate and submissive couple
July 7, 2026
While reading the “Fifty Shades of Grey” books the expectation of the movie tremendously height- ened with each page that was fin- ished. Believing that finally a ro- mantic, yet kinky, novel has been transformed into a two dimen- sional picture was exciting.
The sensation of definite disap- pointment and distain that was felt leaving the dark theater room was overwhelming. Consider- ation of asking for a ticket refund
certainly crossed the minds of many and the salaries of local psychologists skyrocketed after the mental trauma moviegoers received in those two hours.
Usually, reading the books be- fore the movie came out is a chal- lenge because of the struggle to find hours in the day. However, the amount of tribute and fasci- nation that surrounded the tril- ogy by E. L. James had played a part in using rare ‘extra’ hours in the day, to finish the book before the movie released.
Surprisingly finding time to
read “Fifty Shades of Grey” was an excellent choice for the sheer point that the movie was clearly created for audience members that had already read the book.
If an audience member had not read the paperback they would have been utterly lost throughout the movie. Not only did the mov- ie not represent any back-story of what kind of characters Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey were, but also the movie actually altered the characters so much that by the end of the movie the amount of distain focused towards Grey was intolerable.
In the novel, Grey did not seem as sadistic and aggressive as the movie portrayed him to be. May- be Grey was always this antago- nistic all along but the juicy en- counters between Steele and Grey led the readers to believe that they shared love, or something similar, between them. However this was not shown in the movie.
In the movie Grey just pounced in and started controlling Steele almost immediately. Perhaps it was just a directing flaw that caused Grey to come on this strong so fast. After all, you re- ally can’t ease into character de- velopments when the director is trying to cram an exuberant amount of sexual activity into a two-hour movie slot. The styles of sex scenes shown in the movie are those that can be easily classified as porn.
This movie’s love making scenes were ‘not suitable for anyone’. Un- less of course you’re comfortable watching soft porn in a crowded theater room and consider the sound of chewing popcorn to be relaxing on a Thursday night.
What can you expect from a movie based off an erotic book? Perhaps if direction of the mov- ie could have tried to add some deeper character connection be- tween Steele and Grey, the two- hour porno could have been somewhat tolerable.