It looks like the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Gray is doing its best to disappoint as many fans as possible. The movie hasn't even been released yet, and all the news about it seems to be designed to make people cry. First up, it's been revealed that Jamie Dornan's penis won't be in the movie - leaving you with the full frontal view in the suspense thriller Gone Girl rather than in the ultra-sexy romance Five See the full front view in Ten Shades of Grey . Then, it was announced that Fifty Shades of Gray would receive an R rating instead of the more appropriate NC-17 or X or "For the love of God, don't take your children away" rating. Now we've received excruciating news: Fifty Shades of Gray will not have a tampon scene in the movie. sad times .
For those of you who haven't read the book and have only heard of Fifty Shades of Grey , the tampon scene is infamous when it became a super example of "mom porn." In fact, this was the first excerpt I read from the book. However, according to director Sam Taylor-Johnson in the latest issue of Variety magazine, "[putting a tampon scene in the movie] was never even discussed." Did you hear that? This was never even discussed . For a scene that's been discussed a lot among fans and haters alike, this is hilarious as hell.
Right, but the scene. You can read excerpts of this moment basically anywhere online, and find quite a few dramatic readings of the scene on YouTube, but long story short, [weird spoiler alert] the insatiable Christian Gray asked us When innocent heroine Anastasia Steele begins her performance, when she replies that it was just yesterday, he bends her over the sink, pulls out her tampon, and then Brought to the bathroom. "Have her," I mean. Which is great because it breaks any taboos about period sex, but it's also not that great because the poor girl just wants to take a shower, like, where are the boundaries?
Don't get me wrong. I'm really glad I didn't have to watch this scene on screen because I didn't even want to watch it in the book. I still shudder when I think about it and I can't tell you how quickly any of my relationships would end if someone had this kind of power over me. (Pun intended.) This is disappointing, however, because that infamous scene is one of the many reasons why even people who hate the novel are eager to see the movie. I mean, Fifty Shades of Gray is over the top in both the best and worst ways, but the movie seems to want us to take it more seriously than the book does. This is awesome. It's hard, but awesome.
All judgment on the film adaptation should be reserved until it actually hits theaters in February, but this is just more bad news for us all. At the very least, we can take comfort in the fact that the filmmakers are doing their best to make an adaptation that we're all happy with and not entirely ashamed of watching. It's more than you can ask for in this type of movie. (I'm still ashamed of having watched The Last Airbender ...)
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