50 Shades of Expectation Ends as British Premiere of Valentine Day Movie begin

by Benson Agoha | Woolwich | @bensonagoha

50 Shades of imagination ends as premier of epic movie begins.  But how will it end?

The British Premiere of the most expected Valentine Day movie is holding tonight, and if you aren't been invited to the event, you probably will be searching for fitting phrases to assuage your anxiety, or t `climax' of expectation?

If you are feeling like me, then you must have been running your own different versions of the '50 Shades' phraseology through your brain - perhaps for much longer than I have.

I managed to come up with a few this week of the premiere and release of this much hyped film - Like "50 shades of glorification"; "..of exploitation"; "..of implementation"; ".. of curiosity".

Actually, just slot in "50 Shades" and think out the matching phrase and, there you go.. "...of inevitability", "...of violation", "...of motherhood", "...of fatherhood", "...of charity", "..of consolation", "..of aggravation", "...of constipation", "...of consolation", "..of disappointment",  and even "... of hope" or "...of imagination." All can fit in. The list appears endless and, there is something chameleonic about each of them to which the prefix is attached "50 Shades..". Makes you wonder.

The successes of El James Novel appears to derive as much from the title, as it does from the story. And perhaps have derived more from the title than the story. But the journeys of writing a book and making a movie may be dissimilar. Only time will tell.

If you aren't a pupil of "etymology", you would probably wonder what else there is to learn from a movie that appears to re-teach us what we already knew from generations gone by.

Veteran Author Joan Collins once reminded us something when she said .... "I have been writing about sex for years," when she learnt about the book and its reported waves. It eventually sold more than 70 million copies world-wide.

The author had already brushed off her critics. And to show, she wasn't just cashing in on luck, she flogged her research materials recently, revealing a diverse collection of sex toys and bondage materials. But isn't bondage a weird sex practice?

As expectation reaches climactic proportions, and before the movie is available at the cinemas, bear one in mind before you go experimenting - the movie was not set on the experience of `commoners' or normalcy. Indeed, the lucky Mr. Grey (Jamie Dorman), who loved weird antics like bondages, is a billionaire.

Picture that. The only thing that checks a man who has risen beyond normal levels, is abnormal ideas. And Mr. Grey was no exception. His enormous wealth and weird ideas become an anti-climactic plasma on each other. So he appears normal to keep running his billion currency business.

Never mind his submissive student. Well, she said she felt intimidated and what lady wouldn't? So she became submissive - a thing any lady would have done, even for less money? Much less is a student.

Whatever the outcome of the movie, the "50 Shades" idea has certainly left its mark on our psyche, both as a book, and as a movie - not even to mention the pocket of the author.