


Ana, for her part, responds by looking quietly dazed with lust, distilling the rich and complicated subtext of James’ novel - oh my god, he’s so hot - into a single oh-my-god-he’s-so-hot expression.įollowing their interview, Christian and Ana heighten their mutual attraction with a few not-so-chance encounters. Speaking with Ana in his glass-walled Seattle office, Christian fixes her with the iciest of come-hither stares, his cheekbones practically slicing through the narrative torpor.

A nervous, dark-haired English literature student at Washington State U., Anastasia “Ana” Steele ( Dakota Johnson) has been assigned to write a school newspaper article on Christian Grey, a 27-year-old business magnate and university benefactor who turns out to be not just obscenely wealthy and successful, but (as played by Jamie Dornan) impossibly good-looking to boot. At any rate, it may partly explain why our heroine spends much of the movie looking not entirely in control of her lunch.
