Why does everyone keep saying I remind them of the 50 Shades of Grey guy?
In the past few weeks in the lead-up and release of the film version of 50 Shades of Grey, nearly every person who saw it has told me the Grey character “kindov reminds me of you” [me]. And given the nature of the movie, 100% of those people have been either female or homosexual males.
Should I be disturbed by this?…
At the time of this writing, I know pretty much nothing about the story other than it began as a smut novel that originated as Twilight fan-fiction and became wildly popular among that same pre-mentioned Twilight demographic. As far as I know, Graybles McGrey is a wealthy coffee software baron in Seattle (since I know he lives there and I think those are the only 2 industries billionaires inhabit in that region) and he sexually abuses the main character of the story and she likes it, cuz duh (see: women).
I don’t understand what’s going on here…
What the hell, people? That’s nothing like me. I hate Seattle. [audience laughter].
I mean, I don’t hate it like I hate San Fransisco, I just don’t see the point of its high praise as one of the best cities ever, and it has that San Franny posh-hippie vibe that makes me wanna punch something. but then again I’ve never been there and it’s geography looks cool and it seems a lot cleaner and less homeless-riddled than San Fran, so maybe I just changed my mind about the city.
Okay. Nevermind. I’m exactly like that Grey dude.
Nah. JK. But why are so many comparing me to a whip-and-chain-er dude with power issues? I was joking about the whole “I’m not like him cuz I don’t like Seattle” schtick, but I for-real have no interest in leather goofy slip slap nonsense so i’m not sure what this silly-seeming-similarity is spawning from. The whole “suspend me from the ceiling and whip me with a leather tassel” garbage sounds like a total waste of time to me. And the petty power games i’m told the character is all about sounds equally counter productive. I verbally demean people who are bad – not whom I like and wanna get off on treating them poorly. and I only physically abuse robots, dragons and other kaiju that threaten the safety of humanity – not defenseless naive stupid girls alone in the big city.
Is there something else I’m missing? Is this guy a villain or a badass or something in between? Cuz he seems kind of lame from what I know. I was more down with being compared to Rumpelstiltskin from Shrek 4 than Master Grey. Is this all a writers-prompt of you peoples own Richard-fan-fiction extrapolated from me referring to myself in the third person, as “Daddy”, and demanding basic standards of behavior and efficiency?
I’ll probably sample the movie at some point in the future just to make fun of it but in the mean time I’m enjoying approaching it from a reference point of total ignorance while being constantly compared to what appears to be a wealthy pompous sexual sociopath.
You people are weird.
Now lick my boots like the bitches you are….
Nah, JK. Daddy don’t wear boots.