Spoiler alert: If you have not read or seen Fifty Shades of Grey and do not want to know how it ends stop reading now.
After spending two hours establishing the relationship between Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele Fifty Shades of Grey caught many viewers by surprise with its rather abrupt ending. In the films final few scenes, Ana asks Christian to show her just how bad things can get in his playroom. After he obliges her by spanking her six times with a belt she spends the night in tears only to wake up and leave Christian. Walking out of his apartment, Ana gets on the elevator and in a scene that mirrors their first meeting we watch as the doors clos and then the screen fades to black.
More specifically in the book, the scene begins when Ana finds Christian playing sad music at the piano which then leads to the two of them talking about his desire to punish her and his refusal to tell her why he is the way he is. Unable to imagine leaving him behind Ana asks Christian to show her. In her words Punish me. I want to know how bad it can get. Sound familiar?
From a storytelling perspective, though, it certainly seems like a strange choicethe film spends its entire run time building a relationship, only to tear it apart in the final 20 minutes. If the first Fifty Shades ends up being the only book in the trilogy that's adapted, fans could certainly argue that director Sam Taylor-Johnson and her screenwriters should've changed the ending. Considering how unlikely it is that Universal would pass up on the money-making machines that would be Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed it is understandable that the ending stayed as it was. In fact, its probably the bravest thing the film does if anything, audiences going into Fifty Shades are not expecting things to suddenly fade to black.
0 Comments