Dornan, however, is not a natural smiler, and in an early scene in which he deflowers Ana, he looks downright grim-faced as he climbs atop.
Fancypants.”Ĭhuck ZlotnickThere’s been some buzz about the lack of chemistry between Johnson and Dornan, but most of their trysts have a decent amount of heat. Her character, round-shouldered in her schlumpy cardigans, has some backbone - she even drunk-dials Christian at one point, razzing him as “Mr. Johnson, for her part, makes Anastasia less annoying than the golly-gee-whiz hayseed she is in the book. The inscrutable Dornan’s a pretty good fit for control-freaky Christian, though he can’t keep that Irish lilt out of his lines. (Christian’s big on paperwork for their first date, he serves her a glass of white wine and a nondisclosure agreement.) (“You’re the complete serial killer!” she chirps, in what may or may not be a nod to Dornan’s chilling role on the BBC show “The Fall.”) No, he’s not a murderer - he just has “very singular tastes,” as he puts it when he gives Anastasia a fat contract asking her to become his legal sex slave. Soon, he’s showing up at her job in a hardware store, slyly asking for help finding cable ties and rope.
He’s complicated, we can tell - he’s hung a giant framed Rorschach blot in the hallway, uh-oh! - but he takes a shine to Ana’s unvarnished honesty. Grey, model-handsome CEO of a large and vague corporation English major Anastasia, filling in for her ailing journalism-student roommate Kate (Eloise Mumford), comes to interview him for their college paper, literally falling through his office doorway in her cartoonish clumsiness. It’s a timeless story, the one about the naive young woman and the wolfish seducer. Still, the film never pretends to be other than what it really is: soft-core porn for the ladies, diluted with an “R” rating. Gone are the truly dreadful aspects of the book, and the biggest surprise may be that Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and Grey have developed senses of humor. Roses are red, and so is the X-rated playroom of bondage-loving billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) in this steamy, cheesy adaptation of the best-selling novel by E.L. Ladies, start your engines: “Fifty Shades” is here, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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