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’50 Shades of Grey’ Director: I Nailed The Sex
The Daily Beast ^ | February 10, 2015 | Justin Jones

Posted on 02/10/2015 8:54:20 AM PST by C19fan

Adapting a worldwide phenomenon like Fifty Shades of Grey into a film can be a huge risk. There are millions of fans to appease, an author’s own vision to consider, and a taboo subject to navigate for the masses.

But for director Sam Taylor-Johnson, all of those risks motivated her.

“I knew it was going to be an enormous challenge,” Taylor-Johnson told The Daily Beast. It’s only her second feature film—her first being 2008’s Nowhere Boy, which chronicled the early life of John Lennon—and the subject was relatively unfamiliar territory for her. “But that’s partly why I did it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 50shadesofgrey; bdsm; culturewar; dailybeast; fifty; pig; porn; pornification; pornography; shades
Let me understand what the Clerisy is telling me. Mommy porn and the porn on Lena Dunham's GIRLS = socially acceptable to be celebrated. Porn guys like = at best keep it to wherever you are watching it.
1 posted on 02/10/2015 8:54:20 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan
I was there to talk about sex—something that has always come easy for the formally trained artist.

And hookers too!

2 posted on 02/10/2015 8:56:43 AM PST by PGR88
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To: C19fan
It's not a sex scene unless it includes close-ups of ******s plunging into ******s
3 posted on 02/10/2015 9:03:02 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan; GeronL; MeshugeMikey
"NAILED IT!"


4 posted on 02/10/2015 9:26:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: BenLurkin

My understanding is that the sex in this story revolves around choking and BDSM.


5 posted on 02/10/2015 9:27:49 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: C19fan

I’m hoping that this movie is one major FLOP.


6 posted on 02/10/2015 9:34:00 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: C19fan

I nailed the sex and more chicks than a commercial hen house.

The director is engaged in fantasy...


7 posted on 02/10/2015 10:00:15 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: mowowie

It won’t be. Last report I saw said presales was over $60 million for opening weekend. It’s probably going to be the highest grossing February release ever.


8 posted on 02/10/2015 10:01:50 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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The director is engaged in fantasy...

This director also is 47 and is married to a 24 year old pin up boy actor. She definitely doesn't have an, uh, traditional view of sexual relations.

9 posted on 02/10/2015 10:22:22 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: a fool in paradise

Yuck


10 posted on 02/10/2015 11:21:00 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan
Let me understand what the Clerisy is telling me. Mommy porn and the porn on Lena Dunham's GIRLS = socially acceptable to be celebrated. Porn guys like = at best keep it to wherever you are watching it.

Let me make it simpler: if women like it, then it's good. If only guys like it, then it's nasty.

Something like guys being called "immature". My response is "Guys will always be considered immature, as long as women get to define 'maturity' as 'Acting like women want you to'"

11 posted on 02/10/2015 11:25:59 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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as long as women get to define 'maturity' as 'Acting like women want you to'"

Ah, but deciphering "like they want you to" is the work of a lifetime.

12 posted on 02/10/2015 11:33:59 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: C19fan
Let me make it simpler: if women like it, then it's good. If only guys like it, then it's nasty.

Just to add to my prior posting, as an example, let's consider a movie about a man, a successful 40-year-old stockbroker, who goes to Jamaica, finds a gorgeous 20 year old girl with which he has wild, passionate sex, and falls in love with her.

Women would find the movie "creepy" and look down on any man approving of such behavior. They certainly would not go to see it, especially with their husbands.

But switch the sexes, and have it be about a 40-something WOMAN and her boy-toy, and you have the successful How Stella Got Her Groove Back

13 posted on 02/10/2015 2:09:00 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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Sam Taylor-Johnson

Good Lord! A hyphenated woman with an androgynous first name ... Nothing good can come of this.

14 posted on 02/10/2015 2:12:01 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

And an ugly one too.


15 posted on 02/10/2015 6:24:32 PM PST by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Henry Hnyellar
"And an ugly one too."

Not hideous. I'm glad you guys get to be so picky.

16 posted on 02/10/2015 6:51:44 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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