We see awkward, ditzy college student (and virgin) Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) sitting across from an impossibly wealthy businessman Christian Grey as they discuss the terms of her agreement to submit to his sexual enslavement - a contract in their mutual interest. James' over-100-million-copies-sold novel, a crass cross-pollination of the Harlequin romance genre with top-shelf sadomasochistic porn. Singer Jon King addressed a lover who "dreamed of scenes / like you read of in magazines," only to find frustration, as disillusion set in with the chorus: "Is this really the way it is? Or a contract in our mutual interest?" Cut to the middle of "Fifty Shades of Grey," director Sam Taylor-Johnson's much-anticipated adaptation of author E.L. The lyrics to the Gang of Four song "Contract" (from their seminal post-punk album "Entertainment!"), set to brittle guitar chords and thrashing drums, explored the distance between the bedroom and the boardroom.
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