fantasticstrawberrydream-blog

[fantasticstrawberrydream-blog]

Okay so I'm a little late to the party and I don't think I've ever posted something here, but I saw the rwrb movie like five or six times since it's been released and I have things to say.

Might contain spoilers because I am unable to write a review that's completely spoiler free so be warned.

Okay so first of all, the book is one of my favorites and I was so hyped for the movie and the waiting nearly killed me but it was so worth it.

The movie did not disappoint me in any way, it was beautiful from start to finish.

Yes, they cut a lot of things from the books (June and Leo for example) and I feel like the thing with the emails could have been explained better, like who leaked them and how, but I feel like we all still know who did it.

The movie has a running time of exactly two hours (there is a little post credit scene so keep watching you guys!!) and I have to say that when I watched it for the first time, I was crying for one hour straight because the second half was heartwrenching.

Nick and Taylor totally understood the assignment, I couldn't imagine a better cast for our FirstPrince. The banter in the beginning was just so perfect, the cake scene was hilarious and I am so glad we get to see it on screen now. One of my favorite scenes is the one in the supply closet in the hospital where they properly talk for the first time and the friendship starts blooming.

The filmmakers visualized the texting between Henry and Alex in a very cool way, I won't say much because spoilers.

I kinda missed Alex's bi panic after Henry kissed him, in the book it was way funnier, but I understand that you can't include every little detail in a movie and it was a bit fast paced but still, it was perfect.

Matthew Michael López said they would not hesitate to show how two men have sex with each other, and even though you don't see very much (because it's no porn obviously) the scene when Alex and Henry first sleep together is both sexy and romantic, but not in a super erotic way (I don't know how to describe it it was just very beautifully made in my opinion.)

My most favorite scene in the book is the one where Alex storms into Kensington Palace to tell Henry that he loves him. Now in the movie it wasn't exactly like in the book, not so wild and chaotic, but they used a lot of the original quotes from the book and Nick and Taylor absolutely killed it. They were crying, I was crying, I think the whole world was crying and you could see that they were really feeling what their characters felt. It was just perfect.

The scene in the V&A was also perfect (I feel like I use that word a lot but honestly, the whole movie was perfection). They didn't dance to your song but to can't help falling in love with you instead, and in my opinion it fits so much better, I was a sobbing mess when they played that song, and Alex saying „History, huh? Bet we could make some“ out loud just completed the perfection of that scene.

When the emails got leaked the whole affair was a little cut short but you could still feel the hurt and devastation that Alex and Henry felt, and Alex's speech in the White House had me crying my eyes out. Same when the two of them talk to the King and there are hundreds of people infront of Buckingham Palace weaving pride flags, I don't think I've ever cried this much.

Election night was also a little cut short and I am realizing now that I kinda missed Liam too, he was a funny guy in the books, but the very end where they go to Alex's childhood home in Austin stayed true to the books.

This felt like writing an analysis for school, but I think I coverd everything I wanted to say.

That movie is beautiful. Maybe very different from the book at times but beautiful nevertheless.