50 Shades of Grey Trailer
50 Shades of Grey Trailer
#150 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/24/14 at 11:45am
The trailer for the new 50 Shades of Grey movie is out. I wasn't expecting much from this movie but it looks good! The two leads seem to fit the role, although he had to grow on me a bit. I'll definitely be seeing this when it comes out.
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#250 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/24/14 at 2:31pmI'm sure it's going to be relentlessly silly and I would have zero interest in seeing this one if Jamie Dornan wasn't starring. He is a fantastic actor and preternaturally beautiful. If you still need to warm up to him, I highly recommend checking out his performance in The Fall, the British/Irish miniseries on Netflix in which his performance pretty much dares you not to fall in love with a serial killer.
#250 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/24/14 at 3:40pmThis is going to be so ridiculous and I can't wait!
#350 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/24/14 at 4:03pmIt looks (and sounds, in the trailer) like a perfume ad. I'm surprised they didn't go with a redband trailer--it's not like they're marketing this towards kids (though I assume it will get a lot of teenaged girls...)
#450 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/24/14 at 4:56pm
Whoever the marketing team is for this movie is doing a killer job. This has to be one of the toughest source materials to advertise for. It's not literary genius, hell it's barely pulp. But it did tap into the zeitgeist of many of the women in America. How do you advertise a movie where everyone knows what it's about, nobody respects it, and its subject matter can't be clearly displayed publicly due to it being "taboo"?
You go for less. You hint and you tease. And you wink knowingly. The first teaser image, the teaser for the trailer, and the trailer itself all have that. I have no intention of reading those assembled scraps of paper calling themselves books, and I had no intention of seeing the movie. But I have to say that this advertising is killing it.
Disney has no excuse now for its lack of advertising for Into the Woods. That movie is cake in terms of subject matter compared to Fifty Shades of Grey.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#550 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/25/14 at 12:12am
Agree. Great trailer for something that will be ridiculous.
Count me in.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 7/25/14 at 12:12 AM
#650 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/25/14 at 5:07amI am obsessed with that new arrangement of "Crazy In Love".
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#750 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/25/14 at 9:08amLooks like crap. Might be worth a look on HBO or something.
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#850 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/25/14 at 7:30pmI was thinking more Lifetime--they had better trailers for Flowers in the Attic. How is this a great trailer? What exactly is enticing about it? The fact that everything is so clean?
#950 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/25/14 at 8:41pmI have no interest in seeing the film but I can't understand why any one would call him ugly. That man is HOT. Seriously.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1050 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/25/14 at 9:58pmThe spirit of Zalman King lives!!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#1150 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/25/14 at 10:47pm
Eric-It's great in terms of how it approaches the material. Is it enticing? No, because the source material it's based on is the opposite of enticing. But it does what a trailer is supposed to do (though not always does). It's honest about what they're advertising, provides the audience watching it with a sense of tone and atmosphere, and drums up interest in the (sadly) legions of fans this series has.
What makes it so clean to you? Is the trailer supposed to be raunchy? How is this cleaner than any other trailer for a * supposedly * steamy movie? You can't ever actually SHOW the acts, you can only hint at it. And I think that this trailer does that while also winking at the fact that this movie is probably going to be ridiculous, if only because the books are.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#1250 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/26/14 at 4:48pmI don't know--I just thought, given what everyone knows about it, they would have gone for a red band trailer and showed some skin. Then again, maybe they don't want to give away one of their selling points.
#1350 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/26/14 at 5:41pmIf this destroys the lovely Dakota Johnson's career, I'll be upset. I liked her a lot on Ben & Kate. Never read the books but Dornan does not look the dark and mysterious kind although he is certainly good looking. I probably should check out The Fall but I am really surprised the trailer let's the freak flag fly on this film and almost nothing on the dark past (never said I didn't read the Wiki entry) that really annoyed people to the point of actually calling the franchise sex-negative. Matt Bomer was a popular choice during the casting rumors process and I could buy him in the role.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1450 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/26/14 at 6:09pmThis looks like more materialism-porn than sex-porn.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#1550 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/26/14 at 8:00pmThat's being true to its source--which (I've only read the first novel) name drops appliances as much as it does sex moves.
#1650 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/26/14 at 9:55pm
I apparently live in an alternate universe as I know nothing of the 50 Shades of Grey franchise. The trailer reads 'The Bella & Edward Story For Grownups', so I get the appeal of the movie at least.
What I find interesting though is that the source material is another novel that was roundly rejected by the literati only to later attain massive commercial success.
Apparently highbrow doesn't always translate into success in the marketplace. And I believe that male editors, publishers, screenwriters, directors, consumers, husbands, lovers and bff(s) don't always get what's going on in the hearts and loins of the distaff side.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
ScottyDoesn'tKnow2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/22/14
#1750 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/27/14 at 2:40am
Great…another doormat female character who will "grow" and gain her voice. The whole "there's nothing to tell…just look at me" to him saying something about not being into romance…
I'm happy we're getting more successful material from female writers, but I feel like we're (or the authors) are trapped into this whole self-proclaimed plain, loser girl who is really better than she is and it takes a man to bring it out (I read Divergent). This trailer really shows that 50 Shades of Grey is a young adult novel that so happens to have S&M.
There were so many YA-genre cliches in that trailer that I really had to laugh at the whole thing. I get why young female readers would be into it, but I wish adult women didn't still feel like they were Bella Swans (and characters like her). But I guess they do for a myriad of reasons. It is why Elphaba resonated with so many people. Fiyero knew how beautiful she really was…blah blah blah.
Updated On: 7/27/14 at 02:40 AM
billygoatgirl300
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/04
#1850 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/27/14 at 12:45pm
The reason why it looks like a YA movie is because the book was Twilight fan fiction. The author just changed the names of all the characters when she decided to publish it.
The towel waving reminded me of a Per?nist rally. I kept chanting "Evita!" whenever they'd pan to the crowds. - SM2
#1950 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/27/14 at 1:13pm
I can't see Jamie without a beard. It's so weird.
And the song is awesome.
#2050 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/27/14 at 1:52pm
"I apparently live in an alternate universe as I know nothing of the 50 Shades of Grey franchise. The trailer reads 'The Bella & Edward Story For Grownups', so I get the appeal of the movie at least. "
You know it started off as Twilight fan-fiction, right?
#2150 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/27/14 at 2:01pm
"You know it started off as Twilight fan-fiction, right?"
Nope...had no clue. Thanks for sharing!
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
#2250 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/27/14 at 2:14pm
#2450 Shades of Grey Trailer
Posted: 7/27/14 at 3:11pmForget dinner, I'll go straight for the cake(s).
