As an #OfficialFifty blog, I was honored by an invitation to the Fifty Shades First event on the TODAY show in NYC to see a screening of this highly-anticipated movie early on February 6th! Since so many of you are curious about it, here are some of the biggest things that stood out to me…
First, I was most impressed with how closely the movie captured the exact FEELING from the book. The mood was a perfect match!! The movie was true to the story in the book (several lines are almost exact and all the important scenes are there). The sex scenes were HOT. Like WOAH. They really do not hold back! The Red Room is stunning. Most importantly though, the love story at the center of it was so strong and you could really see the progression that Christian and Ana went through both individually and together — the conflict, the passion, the intensity, it was all there! Plus, there’s actually a lot of humor in it! I’m also a huuuge fan of movie music and the score was just beautiful and powerfully complimented each scene. Some of you were worried about Dakota but trust me when I say that SHE. WAS. INCREDIBLE. Truly. She WAS Anastasia. Ana is supposed to be the heart of this story because at the end of the day, even though this is a romance, this is her story that she tells us and honestly, Dakota just WAS Ana. You could tell that the audience felt everything she felt. And Jamie really embodied Christian’s inner conflict. As a huge fan of the book, I couldn’t be happier with this movie!!!!
This movie is just the first book and, like I said, it’s very true to that story. 3 books, 3 movies.
Oh also, on a random note: it was really cool to feel the audience’s reaction to everything that happened in the movie. This is the first time I’ve quite literally HEARD an entire room of people collectively swoon. Swooning has a sound!! And it happened several times!
The whole Fifty Shades First experience was really just amazing and surreal. Everyone got to the theater early in the morning and were treated to all kinds of drinks and refreshments, made our way down the “grey carpet” with red roses and movie posters lining the sides, found our reserved seats in the beautiful Zeigfeld Theatre, got to see the main cast (Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson) and filmmakers (author EL James and director Sam Taylor-Johnson) answer questions live on the Today Show in the theater, watched the movie, then saw another interview filmed. And we were also given the coolest swag — authentic movie replica Red Room keys and never-seen-before movie posters — to take home. Whoever planned this event truly did a fantastic job!
All in all, this was an experience that I will always remember and I’m just so incredibly thrilled to see what an amazing job the Fifty Shades movie team did creating it. This is a story that is dear to millions of readers and I really felt like the people who made the movie “got” the story. They really got it.
Fifty Shades of Grey opens in theaters February 13, 2015.
I highly recommend seeing it!!
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