![]() ![]() As a journalist, I'm offen–just kidding, I don't care. But in the movie, it's a vindictive political journalist named Miguel who made out with Alex on the campaign, is eventually rejected, and takes out his revenge on the First Son by spilling the beans. In the book, Alex and Henry's intimate correspondence gets leaked thanks to the Richards campaign. That's all! A new conflict leads to The Leaked Emails Incident. Growing up and recognizing that certain old friendships had queer aspects you may not have identified at the time is a pretty common experience, and it would have been nice to see that dramatized. However, I really liked the way Book Alex re-evaluated his relationship with Liam, a possibly more-than-friend from his childhood, and reconnected with him while he was figuring stuff out and flipping back through past experiences. We've had enough movies like that, right? He doesn't need to pull a Nick Nelson and start Googling. In the long run, it's probably best to have more characters in mainstream romantic comedies who don't struggle with coming out. He's just bewildered and has to unpack some "latent bisexual tendencies," as Nora puts it. It's not that he's harboring internalized homophobia or biphobia. In the book, however, he's a little more surprised by his attraction to Henry and growing romantic feelings. ![]() He's had two hook-ups with male partners in the past and even if he had identified as straight before, he just kind of happily shrugs his way into bisexuality. In the movie, Alex is pretty quick to accept that he's "into guys," as he puts it. Alex's bisexual awakening is much smoother.Ĭonflict free, even. And I hope that, since the Cornetto scene from the book isn't in the movie but is on the official IG for the character, we'll eventually see it as a deleted scene. Oh, and NBD but Alex's parents are not divorced in the movie and he's already in law school. I'm thankful that people can always look to the book to find their other two dimensions. It is a little bit like the director/screenwriters took a red pen to everything interesting about the female characters in the book and crossed them out, muttering "nope," "don't need it," and "boooooring." That's okay! The story is not about them. Princess Beatrice's past and drug addiction is not mentioned in the movie. There's also no indication that she's Alex's ex-girlfriend or queer in the movie like she is in the book. ![]() Nora is there but doesn't talk like a calculator (affectionate). How To Watch ‘Red, White, & Royal Blue’.That makes the plot a little more streamlined but does mean that Ellen Claremont's path to reelection doesn't get any gifts. Richards is still present as Alex's mom's political opponent, but just in the background. Well, two scandals: the sexual harassment scandal and the emails scandal. ![]() The Senator Richards scandal is not in the movie. Instead of a grandmother calling the shots he has a grandfather: King James III, played by Stephen Fry. (We'll get to that new character in a bit.) Henry's posse of friends and family, on the other hand, is relatively unchanged with one exception. Rafael Luna, a gay senator and Alex's mentorĪlex doesn't have a ton of friends in the book or the movie, but he still has more people to talk to in the book.June Claremont-Diaz, Alex's journalist sister.But it does mean that a lot got left on the proverbial (or possibly literal) cutting room floor. On one hand, it's kind of exhilarating–like you're falling in love alongside Alex and Henry. That's to be expected from any book adaptation that's not a miniseries, IMHO. It just feels like a whirlwind compared to the slower burn of the book. There aren't any huge changes that make the characters unrecognizable. In general, the movie speeds through the plot of the book. But how different is the movie from the book? Let's get ready to nitpick! Lovingly, of course. It's true: Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine feel like they leapt off the page as Alex Claremont-Diaz and HRH Prince Henry of Wales. So far, a lot of the praise for Red, White & Royal Blue, the Amazon Studios original romantic comedy directed by Matthew Lopez and adapted from Casey McQuiston's book of the same name, has focused on how perfectly cast the two leads are. ![]()
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