Okay where do I start!??
I haven’t posted much since part came out because I am still processing everything. To sum it all up though it was delightful🪷
Luke and Nicola were everything and you could see the little things which I love and appreciate<33 The carriage scene was a 10/10 the fluff, angst, and sexiness??? All in one scene as well oh myyyyy🤧 Also Luke’s dialogue delivery was ON POINT I would have not had it any other way.
I’m so impatient for part two! I saw the teaser and it looks sooooooo good.
However I didn’t like my princess Penelope being so sad all season. I just want her to get the love she deserves, she will but Colin doesn’t know she’s Lady Whistledown yet so there’s still so much angst to get through.
Also THAT penelosie scene??? Fucking shattered my heart😕 “would you like to see some of my new books” pleasee Penelope I’ll come see your new books🤧🤧
First kiss scene OMG I DIED AND ASCEND The emotion in that kiss😮💨😮💨
Okay but I wasn’t a fan AT ALL of the brothel scenes like wtf??? We just ignore that so anyways
Violet being a polin shipper literally love her she know wtf going onnnnn
Also COLIN ON HIS KNEES FOR PENELOPE🙂↕️ I mean me too Colin but jeez😭 love that for my girl tho
Anyways it’s 12:00am and I don’t feel like proofreading so sorry for any typos. If you’re still reading my ranting I LOVE YOU and I hope your pillow is cold tonight🥰🫶
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Part Two on June 13th🪞
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Okay so here, I think, is why I think Red, White and Royal Blue succeeds spectacularly as a romcom, and actually to me is a better-than-average take on the genre.
First, the leads have absolutely scorching chemistry. They are incredibly believable as two men absolutely infatuated with each other. They each kiss like drowning men shown water, right down to how each grabs at the other, at hair or back or neck and face.
They each have developed their character having a specific characteristic even when flirting or kissing. Henry grabs Alex's hair, for example, every single time, in a way that makes it clear he spends serious time thinking about that hair.
Fair enough, Henry.
They also do something even goddamn better.
They are friends. They are believable as two people who could actually get along long enough to fall in love.
They are allowed to become FRIENDS.
They are given time to get to know each other before they get physical. You can feel their interest in each other growing. And, to my opinion, you can tell that Henry is feeling Alex out through texts to see if the interest might be reciprocated even though he thinks it can't possibly be.
One thing that kills me about romcoms is how the leads will have witty "sexy" banter but don't seem to actually like each other. They are enemies who fall into bed but aren't really believable as lovers.
Henry and Alex are believable, because they... Well. They're impossibly silly even when tearing at each other's clothes. They have awkward moments.
They laugh.
Alex laughs in bed. He holds Henry in a way that is romantic, openly so. Henry is overcoming the conditioned hesitation and avoidance he has, his smiles and warmth and laughter come with rare vulnerability - Alex is a man who throws himself head first into life and has no such compunctions in the moment. He laughs because this is awesome and Jesus Christ, Prince Henry is too hot to be real.
They like each other, they stumble, they laugh.
But also, another reason this works so well?
The sex scene isn't scorching.
Watching the sex scene felt realistically intimate. It felt like I had walked in one real people and needed to leave. It was intense in a way that felt like something I maybe wasn't meant to see.
It was filmed so well. So much romanticism and deeply felt adoration in a simple grasping of a hand, the look in soft eyes, a hand pressed against a back. The edge of a knee just in frame. Looking up and looking down.
It felt like we walked into their room during and saw them both laid utterly bare.
Henry's look of vulnerability and nerves and pleasure, Alex looking slowly over his face to take it all in. Moving slowly, then, when everything they do before this is hurried or hidden.
It works as a romcom because you believe 100% these two men could get to like each other, fall in love, and stay that way.
You believe Henry's very real terror of rejection from the public because he already knows his family, beyond his sister, will reject him. You believe that Alex is a headstrong idealist who is sure that you can bulldoze through any wall too tall to climb.
And you believe that between the two of them, they can find a way around the wall entirely.
This movie is a master class on how a movie can get you to suspend so much disbelief if the leads sell their characters. The importance of believable chemistry.
And also... Isn't it nice to see a queer love story in a world that is, in some ways, just a few shades better than our own?
P.S. you cannot tell me Stephen Fry did not chew the goddamn scenery in circles all around everyone during his single scene. That man was having a ball.
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