These photos of Jamie Dornan running are getting a lot of play on the blogs today, and I’m not really sure why. I don’t remember any big running scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey, and it’s pretty obvious Jamie is in character in these photos as Christian Grey. Why is Christian running? Is he running away from his terrible past? Is he running to Anastasia Steele? Is he running because he feels too much? Is he running towards a whip? We won’t know until we see the film. I suspect that Sam Taylor-Wood is using “Christian’s running” scenes as some sort of artsy evidence of his inner turmoil and angst.
While I was definitely pro-Dornan when he was announced as Christian Grey, the more photos I see of him in character, the less jazzed I am. I mean, he’s cute and everything. But this character has made a naturally hot man seem rather bland and vanilla. Give him some scruff or something! Make him jog shirtless. Something.
I’m also including the recently-released first poster for Fifty Shades. This is a better poster than the film deserves, I strongly suspect. It’s perfectly anticipatory, I like the boldness of not using Jamie’s face (or Dakota Johnson’s face, because she’s not even here, but we, the viewers, take her place), and I like the coldness of the image. This is a really messed up dude, remember?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
He’s trying to run away from this god awful movie.
‘ Is he running towards a whip?’
ahahah!! dying of laughter!
lol Good one, Aims. 🙂
I think he will be decent in this movie, but she will suck horribly. I have no intention of watching the movie, but do read posts about it. They should’ve picked a different actress.
That is a good poster, imo.
I kind of like that poster.
Yeah, I like it as well. I never read the book and don’t intend to see the movie, but if it has good promotion like this poster, it may be on my rental watch.
YOU GUYS I SAW THIS POSTER THIS AM ON MY WAY TO WORK AND THOUGHT OF ALL OF YOU!
I take the same route everyday, so they must have put it up yesterday it is HUGE and at first i wasn’t even sure what it is for. But isn’t a year out a bit much!?!?!?!
I live in Seattle. In order to have that view, he would be standing in puget sound…. C’mon people.
hahahhaha! There’s a “he’s wet” joke in there somewhere.
+1
-waves from Everett-
I’m moving to Seattle at the end of the year. -waves to future sorta neighbor lol
You can make a good poster for it, but nothing can save this terrible movie.
Not everything has to be made into a film. This book is one of them…and I cringe at calling that cheesy porn rag a ‘book’.
Anybody else think the legs look funny? I like the poster but I think they messed with the legs.
I think the trousers are too short for him, and the way the fabric draps gives him kardashian butt.
He looks really short in the picture too. Maybe it’s because it’s a long frame and all the buildings are tall. Not a fan of the poster.
He’s incredibly hot. I don’t like the idea of seeing him naked in the movie, but damn he’s a good looking man!!
Weird, because I don’t find this guy good looking at all. He’s not nearly good looking enough for the character. Not that I’m going to see the movie. Well, maybe on Netflix eventually. But in a theater??? Hell no! No way am I wasting a babysitter and a rare night out on that pile of dog poo.
Not digging that poster at ALL. The silhouette makes him look odd. He has a long torso, short legs, and an hourglass shape topped off by a giant head. I’m pretty sure he has a better body than that IRL
“but we, the viewers, take her place”
Isn’t that the entire point of 50 Shades?
I had never heard of Jamie Dornan before he got cast in this movie, but I was home sick recently and decided to give Once Upon a Time a shot, even though I knew nothing about it except that Sebastian Stan was in it at some point. Turns out Jamie Dornan was in it, too. And holy hell, that show is awwwwwwfuuuuuullllllll. I couldn’t get through season one. It was just so bad. I was embarrassed for everyone involved. But Dornan was in the first handful of episodes and he was actually the only tolerable thing about it. I am convinced he’s at least a decent actor because he managed to get through OUAT without turning to the camera and apologizing after every line. He does look better with a beard, though.
I felt the same about Once Upon A Time. Good idea, terribly executed. I was embarrassed for the actors too.
Flicking through channels, I caught 10 mins of a new episode and it’s even more cringeworthy now.
Yeah you need to see him in the BBC series with Gillian Anderson. He is smoking hot in it.
If you want to see some Jamie watch The Fall, he is really good in it as so is Gillian Anderson. It’s a great show can’t wait for season two!
He was great in The Fall. Great show, too.
He doesn’t have enough presence from the back. Weak silhouette and all. Now this one… http://savepic.su/4063583.jpg
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Mr Grey seems rather proportionally-challenged on the poster.
That is a good poster. If I didn’t know how awful the book was, I might actually be persuaded to see the movie (as it is, I’ll wait until it’s on Netflix and use it as an excuse for some ridiculous drinking game).
I was thinking the same thing.
The running shots are apparently not in the book, but they are in the fanfiction. In the fic, Edward – sorry, Christian stalks Bella – sorry Ana, when she leaves him. He basically runs past her apartment every day for a week or so pining for her return. Proof if proof were needed, they’re actually pulling stuff from the fanfic to pad this out. This should never have been made into a film.
OMG, there’s fanfic of a book that was itself fanfic, and they’re putting THAT in the movie? That is … I haz no words.
I saw a fan-shopped version of this poster where they’d made him nude below the waist, i.e. a suit jacket and a bare booty peaking out below that.
And THAT was the perfect poster for this movie. Rev up the perviness, studio–we all know why people bought this book.
I am so sick of these PR movie shills pushing this movie so hard on women. What movie do you see daily shots of and every move they make while filming is getting ridiculous. By moving the movie up a year they have lost momentum. the BDSM fad is over for the mommy porn lovers and have moved back to vanilla sex stories.
Also, Jamie without his beard is off putting. He looked beyond sexy with the light beard.
I have been reading the author is pissed the director is moving away from the original story she wanted it to exactly resemble the book. While the first is the strongest of the three I kind of agree with the author. The other two are going to be shit fests if they follow that story line.
There are too many daily shots of this film. Why? I feel like I’ve seen most of the film except for the sex scenes. What else is there? It looks like everyone involved with the film are desperate and worried. Why else would they allow this kind of access to the film set and the actors. This looks like it is going to be a mess. Good luck to them.
Oh lord, they’re literally dressing him in shades of gray? Is that an actual thing in the books?!?!?
Confession time: I tried to read the books so my hate would at least be an informed one. I tried giving it 50 pages (I fell asleep at page 25). I tried reading one of the sex scenes and I’m fairly sure my vagina started the process of fusing together to become a sexless Barbie doll mound 😳
so I’ve been snowed in indefinitely it seems as us southerners dont have snow plows and the main roads in my town are 3 inches of ice so…im here until it warms up.
Anyway, i found a website where you can read all the fifty shades books for free and i didnt hate the first one. It wasnt terrible terrible (i reserve that for twilight, which was terrible)
but it wasnt great either.
I think this should have been a Starz series or something. not a theater movie. I dont like Dornan as the lead and Charlie hunnam would have been better as he is more intense or Matt Bomer had a better look.
that being said, i will still watch it with my girlfriends. I
Good call on Starz. Let’s just say I was an AVID fan of all the Spartacus series *sob, Andy Whitfield, sob* and I appreciated their dedication to…. um…. equal opportunity nudity 😉
The ‘Mr Grey’ thing makes me think of Mr Grey from the Stephen King book Dreamcatcher. That is all.