50 shades of grey red room movie#
He hopes that the movie will help people look more positive on the lifestyle and enable them to explore their fantasies and fetishes more freely. He has been a part of the lifestyle for 15-16 years. We also talked about how the BDSM lifestyle is portrayed in the movie. They ended up with several pieces designed by Mark Brazier Jones which have a very distinctive look to them. It originally was more old world English dark woods with French carved legs. The furniture design for the Red Room changed after the pre production. The crew kept covering her in blankets between takes to keep her warm. They had to do 10-12 takes of the scene and by the end Dakota had chattering teeth and was freezing. He said that during the filming one of the neighbors in an upper apartment wasn’t happy about the filming and kept ringing out a cow bell to disrupt the filming. This was the filming with it “raining” on her while she wore a white shirt and dark pants for the ending. He had to custom fit the cuffs for her wrists as they were very small. Gord spoke of having to visit the set on the day that they filmed Dakota in front of her Seattle Apartment. He did not make the canes in the Red Room, but shared with the prop people what type of material to use and sourced it. He has a distinguishing three groove marking on the handles of all his pieces. The same with the riding crop, cuffs and other pieces in the room. This included not only the leather and narrow pieces but also the rivets and handle. The challenge with it was that it had to be a unique and high quality piece but also be distressed to look like it was well used by Christian Grey. He designed and made the flogger which was used in the movie by Jamie. He has never seen a room before which was set up like the Red Room in the movie with the ceiling grid, leather tile floors and covered walls. Not having a cross in the Red Room is also something that is not standard. The cuffs that he made for Dakota are called suspension cuffs but do not usually have the type of attachment hardware on them that is used in the film. The grid system on the ceiling that Christian attaches Ana to is not something normally seen or used. Gord also consulted with the set decoration people on the placement of the pieces on walls and racks in the Red Room. The movie uses a song called Bliss for this scene. The scene in the Red Room with the Thomas Tallis music from the book was added in after the filming originally began, so those pieces had to be quickly designed and made. He had to quickly speed up his process to meet the filming deadlines. After he began making the pieces for the movie they notified him they were moving the filming up to December 1, 2013. He originally met with the production people in October 2013 and was told they would begin filming in January 2014. His new pieces are available online and at several adult stores in Vancouver BC and Seattle. Now he was able to share with me his experience with the movie. Universal had him sign a NDA so that he could not talk about what was used and/or sell the same pieces until the movie was released. He has his own line called Red Room Originals and it closely replicates what is used in the movie. He is the person who designed and made many of the implements used in the Red Room in Escala.
I had the opportunity to chat with Gord who was involved with the Red Room in the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie. I’ll leave it up to you to create that over time. They are all very similar to the toys and restraints in the movie with the exception of the aging…. In our products, you will notice items of browns and brass, all part of our Red Room Originals collection. The movie hit the box offices in February, 2014 and I finally got to see my work on the big screen. The project was completed in January, 2014. A lot of midnight oil was burnt keeping up with the shooting schedule. A small mistake or slip after hours into a piece could mean scrapping it and starting again. The work was painstaking, careful detail and sequencing had to be followed to get the desired effect.
Making quality was not difficult for us, but making quality toys that looked well used and still looked of top quality was a new challenge with an interesting, difficult learning curve. We would be supplying both the props department and set decoration. Colour themes were set and designs were chosen, the work started. In November the creating and prototyping started. We were going to make toys suitable for a billionaire’s play room. In October, 2013 Bound2Please was chosen create the toys and restraints for the Red Room in the movie Fifty Shades of Grey. He tells of his story below from his website:
You can also order any of his pieces from his website. Gord now has his new website up Bound2Please and you can visit there to read his story about his part of Fifty Shades of Grey.