He reaches between my legs and pulls on the blue string… what! And… a gently pulls my tampon out and tosses it into the nearby toilet. “Hold on to the sink,” he orders and pulls my hips back again, like he did in the playroom, so I’m bending down. “Good.” He releases me and turns me around. “Err… yesterday,” I mumble in my highly aroused state. “When did you start your period, Anastasia?” he asks out of the blue, gazing down at me.
Meanwhile, Pajiba tracked down full text of the original book passage, just to give you a taste of what we’re dealing with here: In movies? That’s how it works in real life too, isn’t it? …Guys? …Dangit, I knew I was doing something wrong. “I feel that in movies, the minute there’s penetration, it’s all over.”
“It’s the buildup that’s interesting,” the director says. We tried to balance the narrative correctly, so one doesn’t feel like it’s drowning in the other.” She made sure that each of the love scenes felt distinct - like a new character. “The story, of course, is of equal importance. “on the early draft, there was a sense there was way too much sex,” Taylor-Johnson says. Marcel’s initial pass featured more sex, but it was toned down through two rewrites. “It was never even discussed,” says director Sam Taylor-Johnson. One of the most infamous passages in James’ book, a much-talked-about-tampon scene, was never shot for the movie version. The tampon thing, obviously, makes a much better press tour question than, say, “So this Christian Grey guy: he wears grey suits with grey ties, lives in a grey building with a grey helicopter and dates a girl named ‘Steele.’ He must really like grey, huh?” Thus, director Sam Taylor-Johnson has had to field more than her fair share of tampon questions:
It sounds weird, but hey, let he who has never had to put a towel down throw the first tampon. (Okay, the grenade part was an exaggeration). As you may have heard, one of the most memorable scenes in the Fifty Shades Of Grey book – which I will keep reminding everyone was originally written as Twilight fan fiction under the pen name Snowqueens Icedragon – was when wealthy industrialist Christian Grey pulled out sheltered Anastasia Steele’s tampon and lobbed it out the window like a grenade so they could bang more.