Fifty Shades of Grey has so far taken a record amount at the box office for an 18-certificate film. Virginia Ironside, however, will not be contributing to the film’s profits. The author writes in this week’s issue of the Spectator that she has no desire to see the film adaption of E L James’s novel, after being left unimpressed by the novelist’s ‘appalling writing’.
‘All this fuss about Fifty Shades of Grey! I wonder how many people have actually read all three books? Sado-masochism is only half the story. When you’ve waded through the entire oeuvre, if such appalling writing can be dignified with that term, you discover that the whole story is one of redemption. The ostensibly wicked, but aptly named, Christian is actually a tormented man who was cruelly abused by his mother and re-enacts this cruelty towards his lovers. But with a good woman (and a baby), pervy dungeons vanish and love conquers all. Pure Mills & Boon.’
While the film has received a more favourable response from the critics than the book, this could change with the second instalment. The website Variety claims that James wants to write the script for the second film, which will be based on her book Fifty Shades Darker. The screenplay for the first film was written by Kelly Marcel.
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