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this scene was both, "Do you think that there is a corner of this Earth that you could travel to far away enough to free me from this torment?" and "I will stand with you between the heavens and the Earth. I will tell you where you are. Do you love me?"

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Henry may be blonde but he is NOT the golden retriever boyfriend. If anything he’s more black cat coded, but I also wouldn’t label him fully as the black cat boyfriend. Alex is 100% the golden retriever boyfriend.

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It's honestly annoying, all the ppl trying to write full length analyses on the RWRB movie as if it were some high calibre queer drama instead of a fucking light hearted romcom.

"It's unrealistic! It's cheesy! It looks low budget! It wasn't raunchy enough!" ohmygod please just stop.

I saw a post earlier from someone saying it was too 'sanitised' and that queer people don't want movies like this that are just like the millions of straight romcoms out there, but to me, that's such a braindead take because? Isn't this what we've wanted since forever? A level of equality in the film industry where we can have the same variety of movies centred around queer romance as those centred around straight relationships?

As a bi girlie, I want them all. The serious movies, the silly movies, the dramatic heart wrenching ones, and the ones that are so sweet and fluffy I end up with a toothache. I just want more of ALL of them!

If romcoms aren't for you, that's FINE. You do not NEED to like this film. But you can say that without disparaging it to the point where you come off sounding like some wanna-be high-brow film critic asshole who thinks movies like this aren't worth being made because they fucking ARE worth it. Some of us WANT something sappy and sweet every once in a while! Don't you fucking dare try to speak for the entire queer community by telling those large production companies that nobody wants movies like this because that is just plain untrue!

Now to be clear, I'm not talking about the people who aren't happy with the movie as an adaptation - however you feel about that, you're valid cause I know this book meant a hell of a lot to many people, and it sucks that so much of it had to be stripped away. Personally that aspect of it didn't bother me much cause I went into it knowing 2 hours was never gonna be enough to include all of those side characters.

Anyway, that's my rant. Let people enjoy the fluffy warm and cuddly comfort movie please and thank you ❤️

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I LOVE THEM, EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU CASEY FOR CREATING SUCH AMAZING QUEER CHARACTERS

CASEY MCQUISTON in

Red White & Royal Blue (2023) dir. Matthew Michael López

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Listen, as much as I loved the RWRB movie, I hope we (by that I mean all fanfic writers and readers) collectively agree on the book being the groundwork for every fanfiction, right????

Like, I cannot go on AO3 and read stuff without June, Cash, or Amy and her wife in it. I can't, I refuse to, OKAY?!?!?

#rwrb movie #rwrb #red white and royal blue #firstprince #Listen the movie was beautiful #But not as much as the book #And we need the book details for great fics #archive of our own #fanfic

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spoilers:

ive been thinking about how they changed things in rwrb. and especially with the email/photo leak and while it was different from the book, i dont think it actually is any less heartbreaking.

not only are their private emails splashed out for everyone to read, the difference in how it comes out, and what comes out, hurts in an entirely different way from it being part of an election smear campaign.

in the book, absolutely, theres an initial fear it was luna, but that is quickly dispelled and luna is outraged about it (and works to out richards as being behind it), and the photos that leak are of them in the car or footage from the DNC hotel - i don’t think there were others but i’m not checking. they were all ostensibly public spaces that didn’t really have any great significance to alex & henry, and the email leak was by a political rival - not by someone trusted.

in contrast, the film puts up the emails being leaked by (or at least done so with the knowledge of) someone alex trusted enough to hook up with - because of jealousy? because he felt slighted? who can say for sure. this is much more personal than it being richards, this isn’t for political scrambling, this seems intended to hurt alex - and not just as collateral damage from trying to ruin ellen’s campaign.

in the case of images, the security footage from the v&a is leaked. henry loves the v&a at night because there isn’t anyone there to see him, he can exist separately from his role as the prince… and then that is exposed in the tabloids known for their gutter press style. this absolutely takes away henry’s favourite space, i doubt he would ever feel fully comfortable there again. while the v&a is a public space, it’s different from the book images’ public spaces as it’s somewhere that felt safe to him, somewhere henry could be himself. and it’s taken away from him.

both alex and henry are impacted so much more by the email leak, on a much more personal level, in the film than in the book. of course, that’s not to say the book one is not devastating, but rather that people who are seeing the film one as lesser are missing a lot of the nuance that went into it - in my opinion.

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Quick reminder to everyone to spread positivity on social media around this movie, even if there are obviously aspects of it that can and should be criticized.

Cause the better the reactions, the higher the possibility of many, many more queer, sweet romcoms for teenagers and kids growing up queer. And God, is this needed.

I definitely think big platforms such as Amazon are aware of their general audience, and if everyone goes crazy about how bad it all was, that's not gonna be helpful.

Queer people need silly, funny, idealistic RomComs too!! It's a book adaptation, not an exact copy of it.

#rwrb #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue #firstprince #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex claremont diaz #Obviously it is okay to point out bad aspects #However lets just send a positive signal out there #We should not have to fight that much for representation but we still have to

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Very quick reaction: with the format they had, they did a great job. A mini series would've given them the space and liberty to have other arcs implemented like Luna or June but I'm happy with the final product.

Also I stopped counting the times I felt the need to look away from the screen because I was intruding on something or I realized that I was grinning because they're lovesick idiots.

Girlies who like the M/M genre just to drool at the kissing scenes can go watch something else. This is every bit the sweet, fun, intimate movie it was supposed to be.

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As someone who was in hs (and mostly closeted but got outed twice) when Love, Simon came out, I love how (for me, anyway) it was the first time i saw a movie (or show) put emphasis on how wrong outing is and that i later on got to see that same message again as i left hs/entered uni with Heartstopper and now with Red White and Royal Blue. Too many cishets still don't realise how truly dangerous and vile and fucking horrible it is to out someone (even if youre part of the community too! Miguel is queer and still very much part of the problem, my hs crush which avoided me as her friend group talked shit once it got revealed i liked her then went to pride a few years later! Queerphohia perpetuated by queer people still very much hurts and counts!). I'm just hoping that soon we'll get to see something like this for sapphics too (and that it wont get cancelled).

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It's great that we're getting all this queer representation, but if we want to keep it going, we have to show the Big Companies that we love and support it and want more. We have to keep the demand going (especially with the strikes going on).

In today's day and age, shows and movies that don't generate revenue simply get nixed. And pirating doesn't generate revenue. Instead, get yourself a free trial for Netflix and/or Amazon Prime (all you need is an email address and a credit card that won't be charged), and you can even cancel it immediately afterwards without cutting your trial short (at least with Prime Video and other services I've used, not 100% sure about Netflix).

Also, with the SAG-AFTRA (actors) and WGA (writers) strikes going on, we have to continue the demand for new (non-AI) media, so that the studios realize they have something to lose and have an incentive to negotiate. (See for example Neil Gaiman's posts about this.)

Watch Heartstopper on Netflix. Watch Good Omens and RW&RB on Amazon Prime.

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Obsess over it for the next few months xoxo

so uh, what do we do now the movie’s out?

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If I see one more straight girl cry about "how cringe" the movie was, I will actually riot.

Queer media is so often made to cater to straight audiences, but this movie wasn't. It was just as cheesy as any romcom, but also unapologetically queer, and I am sick of straight girls fetishizing gay men and then being pissed when movies are not made that way.

You guys only want the "hot scenes" to thirst over the actors instead of actually trying to understand queer romance even for a millisecond, sorry not sorry.

#rwrb movie #red white and royal blue #firstprince #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #I really am feeding into the angry lesbian stereotype today #well anyways #Sick of straight people fetishizing queer people #rwrb

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I see so many people say "too much from the book is missing in the film"

and while I kinda get it, I am a firm believer that this was not a mistake by the director or screenwriters - they did something amazing with the time they had.

It simply should have been a series instead of a movie, because more time was needed to truly do the book justice.

As for the movie, I honestly do not know which scenes I would have replaced or changed. Even the sex scenes were really necessary, as they also showed emotional development. The political stuff was important for Alex's character. And we got Karaoke, The Lake, Kensington, The V&A, even though they were shorter, they were in the movie and had the exact same vibes as in the book.

In conclusion, don't hate on the filmmakers, but instead on Amazon Prime for giving every mediocre straight love story a series but this queer one a movie lol.

#rwrb #rwrb movie #firstprince #red white and royal blue #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex claremont diaz #prime video

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I am absolutely convinced the King wasn't as homophobic and mean in the movie as the Queen was in the book because Steven Fry simply would have imploded trying to act this out LMAOOO

#rwrb #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue #Steven Fry #I have to admit I liked it tho #My poor baby Henry looked on the verge of tears the whole movie anyway

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"I stormed a fucking castle to look you in the eye and tell you that I love you, knowing that you wouldn't say it back" might just be my favourite, angsty quote from the movie ...

#rwrb #rwrb movie #firstprince #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex claremont diaz #red white and royal blue

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I'm just so afraid people are gonna be too harsh on the movieeeee. Like guys this is SUCH a big deal. My sister (who hasn't read the book) just said that "it was alright, it just kinda felt like a generic romcom" and do you know how big that is!!! A queer movie!! Generic!! Implying that it's 'normal' and 'nothing special'. Like GUYS. That's HUGE. It wasn't that long ago a movie like this would be considered scandalous and controversial in ways that would probably ensure it was never made.

Idk. That just makes me happy. That something queer can be generic and bland. Maybe that's silly, but it still means a lot in terms of the progress that the world has made.