#henry rwrd

[beautifulhigh]

"The prince's heart did beat freely, once again."

No but why is this one line so much MORE than the email in the book? Because in the book that armour was protecting him after his father's death and yeah, grief does that to you. The need to protect yourself and those around you.

But in this? This is a prison he has been put into by the king. This was done to him until the "devastatingly handsome peasant boy" came along and pulled away at that prison, piece by piece.

And the prince is scared of what it would mean to be without his armour, without his protection, because even though it was a prison and even though he's not free with it, he is safe. Nothing will ever happen to him while he wears it.

The peasant boy is pulling at it, trying to free him, wanting to free him, and even though he can't because the prince can't let go, he does make some space. There's space for Henry to be free, to love Alex, to want everything with him. To be brave for them both.

He just has to learn to let go of that final piece of armour, the one that hides his "shames" and his secrets.

When he's with Alex, his heart beats freely again - the way it did before he had talk of duty and responsibilty and made to feel like his feelings were "selfish desires". With Alex, Henry is free.

AND I AM EXPECTED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS HOW?

[captainendgame]

I realized in the lake scene when henry kissed Alex's triceps, alex was actually offering henry to rest his head on his arms 😔

[you-came-back]

Never Tell Me The Odds.

This moment is one of my favorites from the book so I knew I wanted to draw it with Taylor and Nicholas since it wasn’t in the movie.

[lonelyfox16]

They can't adapt every line from the book. This movie was an adaptation... As much as I loved June and Henry's mother putting the queen in her place and so many more scenes, this movie captured the emotions of the book. It made me giggle, it made me cry, I have enjoyed it so much. And for those who criticize it for not being perfect... Fight me.

And for all the people calling it cringe, I deserve stupid queer romcoms. My teenage self deserved it, adult me deserves this. Let entertainment be entertainment. Please, I needed this.

i'm here as a hater.

i watched red white and royal blue and i'm here to be a hater.

i was having such a great time on tumblr, looking over people's posts and then i went to letterboxd to leave a review and my fucking god. why are there so many people bashing this film for being a bad adaptation. worse yet, why are they queer?

i understand, trust me, i completely understand loving a piece of media and waiting impatiently with bated breath to watch the adaptation of it into another recognisable medium. i'm a mortal instruments girlie, i'm a last of us girlie, i'm a fault in our stars girlie, i'm a watchmen girlie. i get it. i do. sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.

but bruv, i am also a person who works in the film industry and you have no fucking clue the amount of effort it takes to make a film let alone a film that's an adaptation of a pre-existing, utterly loved piece of fiction that is revered by so many. and this movie goes one step further. this is a cheesy, cutesy rom-com about a queer couple. how many of those do we even have? no. really. how many hopeful, easy-going, cheesy queer rom-coms have you watched? can you count them on one hand? do you need a google search to remind yourself of them?

this film is a rare commodity and fine, maybe that's not a good enough reason for you to be 'lenient' to it... but it kinda is. no adaptation will be perfect, not really, not for everyone. every piece of media has it's flaws but adaptations most of all. but this film does something that you cannot dismiss simply because your favourite scene wasn't in it. personally i so miss alex's speech before the election results are announced. i miss ellen's powerful and amazing speech when she does win. i miss june, i miss raphael and i miss leo, and the powerpoint presentations and i miss cornbread knowing alex's sins.

but none of that will ever take away from the beauty of being able to sit in front of my laptop and watch the most intimate queer love scene i have ever laid my eyes on. it just won't.

anyway.... i'm rambling. the point that i was trying to make before i got lost in all this, was that you are obviously allowed to hate on the movie but like... be kinder about it? don't hate it because it's not a straight up remake of the book. don't hate it because it's cheesy. idk man, just hate kindly, if possible.

this is a huge step for us.

i don't want the response to this film to seem negative in a way that gives the (already reluctant) studious more reason to not make queer media for queer people, you know?

there will come a time in this life where we can hate and critique queer media without worrying about all this context but we're not there yet?

so i guess, like henry, i'm also asking for y'all patience.

however, whoever fucking said that nick and taylor don't have chemistry can suck my huge ugly metaphorical dick. fuck you. they made me week in the knees.

[pleasantly-weird-devil]

I love him on purpose

I love him on purpose

I love him on purpose

I love him on purpose

I love him on purpose

I love him on purpose

I love him on pupose

I love him on purpose

I love him on purpose

[dumbasses-in-love]

Just realised that had Henry & Alex been a real life couple, then we would have never heard that amazing story. Not sure if that makes me ecstatic or melancholic but it's definitely one of those two.

[pleasantly-weird-devil]

Okay so Cash and Amy and probably a whole bunch of other security personnel ONE HUNDRED PERCENT gossip to each other about Henry and Alex. They definitely had a betting pool for when Alex would FINALLY figure out his feelings (let's be real, that informing of the rivalry Alex mentions in the beginning of the book absolutely mentioned that is was probably not really vindictive feelings that made Alex be like that towards Henry)

And how long it's gonna take them to get caught

Lemme know y'alls headcannons for this!