#matthew lopez please

[i-know-the-endss]

never forget what they took from us…

tzp in a fucking turtleneck.

[shvmblr]

NPMD paulkins.. I love them

[lesbians-4-riovidal]

if y'all don't stop talking about Matt Murdock when Maya Lopez is RIGHT THERE-

[rockingtheorange]

Alex's guitar topic:

So, you're telling me we have Alex playing the guitar in the credits, then again it's in his room all the time and he's spent a night around a campfire (the most guitaristish location) but we got no clips of Taylor playing it???

Bullshit, I say. GIVE US THE CLIPS!

I KNOW YOU'RE GATEKEEPING THEM SOMEWHERE MATTHEW!

TAYLOR KNOWS HOW TO PLAY IT SO YOU HAVE NO EXCUSES 🤺🤺🤺

[meraki-yao]

RWRB Movie Thoughts: Choreography and Rehearsals

There’s been a couple of great essays on the one-shots in the movie and the theatricality of those scenes (see here, here and here), and I just want to talk a little about choreography and ferally scream a little about rehearsals.

Taylor mentioned in one of their interviews that a lot of the intimate scenes had a certain musicality to them, and as the boys both have theatre experience, Robbie communicated with them on the subject almost like creating a dance. It’s essentially, choreography. So here’s my interpretation of the choreography part.

I love dancing and took ballet classes for 14 years, and something really important in dancing and choreography is beats. And there are two ways to go about this.

One is literally every beat is a specific motion, it’s a series of sharply changing movements. It’s very apparent for Henry/Nick during the first section of their first hookup in Alex’s room. You can literally count 8 beats as you would for a piece of music, and for every beat, Henry/Nick is doing a specific move:

1: Block the door -> 2: Push open the door -> 3: Right Hand grab Alex/Taylor’s Neck -> 4: Kiss -> 5: Left Hand Grab Alex/Taylor’s Arm -> 6: Left Hand moves to Alex/Taylor’s Neck-> 7: Blank/No New Hand Movements -> 8: Left Hand in his Hair

You can literally count the beats, and hell, in this scene in Henry/Nick’s case, the beats are fairly even. You can almost follow the motions with a metronome.

The other kind is hitting marks: as in there are “key poses” to strike at certain times, but how to get from one pose to the other is more up to the actor. (There’s a great video explaining this idea in fight choreography/sword fighting: check it out here) I think that’s what the red room kiss counts as the boys have certain marks to hit: both of them hitting the wall, Alex/Taylor grabbing Henry/Nick’s thigh, then pushing him onto the table, then grabbing his waist while Henry/Nick grabs his hair etc. They have specific places for their hands and legs and well, themselves to be, but everything in between is pretty continuous motions that I don’t think can be precisely designed. You can still sort of count a beat, but it’s much less clear than the example of Henry in Alex’s bedroom.

 

So here’s my question.

How many of the scenes in the movie are choreographed, and what scene was which kind of choreography?

There are the two literal dance scenes, and then most of the intimate scenes go without saying, because it’s not just a matter of the choreography, but also requires discussions on intimacy and boundaries. Among the photos Matthew posted about rehearsals, I’m assuming all photos with the boys on a couch are the intimate scenes. (Matthew said the first hook-up was shot exactly as rehearsed)

But another photo Matthew posted was the hospital storage room scene, the absolutely adorable photo with Nick and Taylor squeezed together in the middle of a bunch of chairs.

Which means the mess of Henry and Alex falling into the storage room then flailing their limbs trying to figure out how sit properly without crushing each other was choreographed. And honestly…how? Because that scene looked like such a mess and so damn chaotic, I really can’t imagine any part of it being designed besides the general idea of “fall over, push each other a bunch, end up with Henry/Nick on the right and Alex/Taylor on the left.”

Also the Paris scene. Of course that has to be choreographed, but I just… can’t imagine how? Like the red room scene, Alex’s room, the polo tack room, if I don’t immerse myself in the movie I can sort of see the performance, the directing aspect of the scene, but the Paris scene, I completely can’t. It’s so well done, it looks so damn real. Of course, I know it’s not, but I can’t see it. That’s how well done the scene is. How in the fucking world did they do that? On top of that apparently, people who went to the March screening said there were three positions (which, please fucking release everything PLEASE), so again, how the fuck did they do that?

What other scenes were choreographed? They had two weeks of rehearsal (although Taylor said he got Covid on the second week so I don’t know how they went about that), how much did they do?

God I know Matthew’s slowly releasing behind-the-scenes footage and I’m guessing a, he has a lot, like a lot b, he’s understandably taking his time, but I wonder if he’ll ever let rehearsal videos see the light of day. Besides my own curiosity about how their rehearsal worked, there's also that one adorable picture of what looks like Taylor said something that made Nick laugh which is just so cute, it would be nice to see what the boys themselves were like during rehearsals and what their banter was like

Anyways all this to say MORE BTS FOOTAGE PLEASE 

[bigassbowlingballhead]

i love one pocket sized director

[sincenewyorks]

the only people who have beef with each other are matthew and taylor, and tbh it’s more of a one sided beef bc matthew can’t stop taylor from yapping

[honey-bri-books]

Sequel please. Or ANYTHING with this dream team.

[rapha-reads]

Alex Claremont-Diaz to Henry Fox in Red, White & Royal Blue movie:

"It's like there's a rope attached to my chest, and it keeps pulling me towards you."

Rochester to Jane Eyre:

"I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly."

[princeconsortroad]

Matthew via his Instagram stories; 26.12.23.

[thisnerdetteoverthere-blog]

OKAY rwrb fandom I have a question for those of you who‘ve been following all things concerning the movie bc i am confused and feel like i should probably know this:

In the newest teaser/trailer/royal family teaser, there is no queen but instead there is a king and at least in this scene, he seems to be quite ok, maybe at least, of henry and alex - and like, does anyone know how Marys character from the book even appears (be it as the queen or another character taking over her role as a new movie-only-character) ?? or was she was cut completely ???

Just to be clear, i won‘t make an opinion about that before i‘ve seen the movie, i just wondered wheter that was already common knowledge that I forgot or missed

[rockingtheorange]

Metthew gripping Taylor, like his life depends on it, feels exactly like me rewatching RWRB for the millionth time, cause life's too hard, but Alex stormed a fucking castle to look at Herny in the eyes and tell him that he loved him, knowing that he wouldn't say back.

So no, imma watch it again cause knowing every dialoge by heart isn't enough for me

Cr Matthew on Instagram

[meraki-yao]

So I just watched Matthew's interview on the YouTube channel Gayety

And apparently, the karaoke scene was only the third day of filming????

You're telling me that Taylor's freaking performance where his eyes were screaming "Alex is so in love that he could die" was ONLY THE THIRD DAY OF FILMING???

what the— Oscars for the boys please what the absolute fuck

also, Matthew pranking Nick and saying they lost all footage from that day and poor baby's face just falling exactly like how Henry's did when he heard about the email leak is making me feel things

[bunbunbl0gs]

cassie &luke 🎶🌙🖤

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[meraki-yao]

I wanna cry, this is the sweetest thing ever?????

Nick and Taylor hugging each other after scenes where they had to be nasty to each other and Matthew asking Taylor to be mean to Nick for the scenes because he was too nice all the time 😭

and

"When Nick and Taylor were in a room for the first time, they just liked each other and they just got on so well. Over the course of filming this movie, I watched these 2 actors grow as a unit and grow as individuals." ❤️‍🩹

[industryhbo]

Hurry. Please. I'll break the sound barrier for you.

Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) dir. Matthew Lopez