WHO SAID ROMANCE IS DEAD??? (these boyfriends changed my life) | Red, White & Royal Blue REACTION 

Ohhhh let me tell you: I have not read the book. I didn't even pay attention at some Instagram stories or posts about the movie until I stumbled upon a teaser just a week ago... Then I got excited! Watched the movie just when it came out and I am SO IN LOVE with Alex and Henry as a couple. I love with what they showed of their story in the movie, soooo I ordered the book the next day! 🤭 'Cause I bet it will be even better!

@yeess you’re gonna love the book. The movie was so great but the book is just chefs kiss🤌.

@@youmsn6953 I bet it is. 😄 Also, I ordered the Collector's Edition because I am a hardcover type of girl and that edition looks cuuute! 🥰

@ Uhh wise decision👀

​@JulieUrena thats exactly what you should do!!! then come back and watch the film again when you get to know them better. the book is so romantic, like it only deepens how much you know them. the actors nailed it. perfectly.

Oh my! I did not know about that. Thanks for sharing that information.

Oh wow. I didn't know that. Thank you for telling this.

oh my god that's so sad :(( thanks for the info!

Taylor did very good jobe I hope he knows his sister is proud of him

Great now I’m in tears reading this

awww

I think many people melt hearing that "baby" 🥰🥰

@@slothochdonut3099 Yes, we melted

Yes! Which they played up Alex calling Henry 'baby' and secretly enjoying the effect it has on him. It would've added even more to this already beautiful movie. ❤

I haven't read the book and the way he says baby got me too. I'm ordering the book haha

omgggg we the fallen soldiers of young royals s1

@@seagurl9369 exactly pft

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

Same 💖

I replayed that like 100 times!

Dear Thisbe, I wish there weren’t a wall. Love, Pyramus Iykyk😭

@@youmsn6953 and that was officially too much..... ☺️

if these two were real, they would both know there is no way for them to have a fully 'private' conversation via their electronic devices. they are all monitored by their security agencies for their own good. and if one of them would try to buy/obtain a phone like you and me from a vendor, they wouldn't get away with it for 10mins

There's actually a whole separate subplot within the email subplot in the book.

​@@youmsn6953great, now I'm crying. Thanks 😭(all these reactions I've been watching are making me wanna reread the book)

Samee I was like REALLY shocked 😭😭

tbh she was the only actress i liked in the whole movie(no offense to anyone else) i thought the movie would have more of her and shaan🫠

I agree, she's so iconic !! A literal queen both in the movie and book ! The actress ate and left no crumbs portraying her ! 👑

Same!!! She’s the only one who understood the assignment

for me, nick and taylor *nailed it* being henry and alex. i really couldn't ask for different actors, it's like they were *born* to portray firstprince 🤍 so i was very happy watching

Sameee😭😭

Samee gurlll 😭😭😭😭

The last time I got this stuck was with We Best Love a Taiwanese LGBTQ series.

same here. I can't watch Heartstopper now, kids stuf. I'll read the book

This could be like an 8/10 eps long drama.

She's selling her character so well to be honest, its brilliant how they made her over react since its her job as a PR of the president and its in the middle of the campaign. Anything could go wrong in her perspective, and she's not having any of it. And its funny I literally laugh the entire duration of the scene.

I havent read the book but she is one of the best characters in the movie ngl

@@blix99 I love the fact that you love the character despite not reading the book. She’s truly a gem of a character.

Yes! Zahra's entire job is making sure that the PR is on point and nothing gets in the way of the president's re election campaign. Of course she's gonna be pissed that the president's son is shagging a literal prince in a hotel room where they so easily could get caught and throw off an entire election without a heads up. That feels like a very normal stress level, bc if they get caught, it's her mess to clean up.@@seanchesteralexisexamen5964

i think that because they took out a lot of the stuff about the re-election, which is part of what makes henry and alex's relationship like a big deal, zahra's reaction seems a bit overkill in the movie

Same!

TRUEEEE!!!

the actress was perfect for the role

Zahra is not the PR person of Madam President. She's her Chief of Staff. She basically RUNS the office of The President of The United States and is therefore Alex's boss from the moment he goes on the campaign trail to Texas.

YES! This!

LMaO at "hiding in a bush", so perfectly said

Hahaha! Yesss, THIS is the feeling!

The emails with the p.s.’s at the end is some if the most romantic shit I’ve read in a while

Hii where can I read the book??, should I buy it??if so where is it available??i already saw the movie and now I wanted to read the book

​@@btsarmyyyforever3781your local library should have copies if you live in the US! It was the most popular fiction book by a new author of 2019, so they should have stocked at least a couple of copies.

@@amcuevas Thanku ❤️

I loved Henry so much more in the books. He was such a romantic!

Yeees! Not to mention that, in addition to being extremely American and a PR, it's the relationship between two people of the same sex (I'm a queer person, but let's face it, the whole world would stop to watch this and it certainly influences the election), two people who hold enormous public power, influence, money - in fact, the main thing in all this is public money, although it wasn't made explicit in the movie - and in the middle of Ellen's re-election campaign, it's more than natural that she went crazy, I thought Sarah's performance was incredible.

I WISHED for the list alex made for Henry through emails😭and the fight scene was SO different from the movie🚶🏻‍♀️but their dance kinda made up for it ngl

I read to book and reread it afterwards and honestly I like the pacing of the movie more… While I would love to have more of their E-Mails, the meetings in the book sometimes felt weird to me or rather unrealistic in a way. Seeing as it is just one movie the cutting was necessary and I love that the focus was on them actually become a couple and falling in love rather quickly.

@nicolehoh3905 Oh, I agree. cutting was nessasary. I'm not someone who expects adaptations to be one to one. I just mean you can tell where scenes were removed from the original cut. Some scenes are jumpy and cut short, and I wish there was more tying them together(like in the book)! A little more time for their relationship to breath and develop(just a little like maybe 20 minutes more). Especially in the beginning. I would've liked a little more of the one sided enemies part. Also my biggest flaw is the changing of the motivation for the emails being leaked feels a little more shallow compared to why Richards did it in the book. That's just my opinion tho and really the only problems I have. It was still a great adaptation all things considered.

I disagree. I love them both. It's just two different versions of the same love story. If you read an interview with the director he explains it well.

​@@WhatsGnatfor me they should have focused a little bit more on the presidential race because it was a bigger part in the book and in the movie, i didnt really feel anything when they won, it didnt have the same satisfactory effect then the books, also the way that they meet in the books and how they worked it out was so good in the books and i missed that in the movie. I think it was really fast paced in the movie, and they could have fleshed it out a little bit more. But i couldnt imagine better actors to play Alex and Henry ❤❤❤❤

I only watched the movie and She's ICONIC

I thought that in her first appearance in the debate scene about the cake chaos it would have been clear that it's her job as PR to maintain good impressions with the media and the public, but apparently it wasn't so much. which is a shame, because not only Zahra is one of my favorite characters in the book, Sarah also did an incredible job and was super faithful to the original character.

That’s the first thought I had when I saw that scene..like sweaty and all?? But maybe for him 😂😊

Would highly recommend reading the book! It's 10/10, and the movie had to cut out so many important topics (Henry's depression, Alex's acceptance of his bisexuality, the leaked emails full scandal) and characters (Alex's sister, his step dad, Princess Catherine). Your library should have a copy or two, since it was so popular back in 2019.

Yo should really read (or listen to) the book. It is even better than the movie.

@@amcuevasagreed! Just finished it. Great material…

hear, hear

I didn’t read the book (yet) but I definitely agree. A lot of newer movies (in my opinion) seem to be rushed for some reason. Kinda like watt pad fanfics (lol) where they just wanna get to the juicy bits. I still really liked this movie though, it’s cute.

I read somewhere that the movie was initially 3 hours long but had to be cut down into 2, hence why some of the scenes felt cut short. The fast pacing is a bit disappointing for us, readers but it made the movie enjoyable for non-readers so it's okay The book pacing would work for series though

should've been a short series

Yeah it is supposed to 3 hours…hope they release the longer version soon

I guess they had to change it to fit it all within 2 hours. But its also nice that Alex already accepts he is bi from the get go.

@@TheCrazeace its nice of course but it didnt give his character as much depth as henrys had especially since they also made his parents stay married and took away his sister

@@IBEtripz Yeah as a non book reader I was shocked when I found out that they left his sister out of the adaptation.

@@TheCrazeace yeah, they claimed they wanted to focus more on the relationship, but they could’ve included her and just cut most of her lines

I thought this would be better as a show in a way because a lot of the development was missing in the movie compared to the books

you’re not alone sweetheart! 😉

yup, that's me. i bought the collector's edition last week and it's totally worth it... found it on amazon.

😭😭😭😭 naurrrrr

Like hello? False advertising😂

@@MonicaCatapusan omg! gurl I am still watching the video and here you are replying to me. Gurl from 11 Aug to today I have watched it 10 times. I am obsessed 😭😭😭 P.S. you earned a new sub

I would have loved for Henry to have been a little jealous there.

I’ve been in my FEELS lately😭😭😭

@@MonicaCatapusanhaven’t we all with the shows that have been coming out this august… so much excellent representation and so much pure love!! We need more of this

It should have been a 1-season series rather than a movie.

@@cagnazzo82 Considering we might be getting a sequel, there's room to expand on what we couldn't see in the first. Heck, they could even give us an extended directors cut. Wait and see I suppose.

@@shaungerald23 Certainly hope so. The dynamic between the two leads was so good it left me wanting to see an episode 2, 3, 4, and 5. But it's already all over. Hopefully you're right and they eventually release the director's cut. Technically should not even be following cinema release length cuts considering it's streaming.

@@cagnazzo82 Two hours is the normal standard. Unfortunately they have to go with the standard because that's "what works" and "what sells". Anything longer than that (if it's not a high octane action or fantasy movie) may lose viewers from boredom etc. But I feel like proper pacing between plot points could have made this one a bit longer. The beginning def felt rushed. I wanted to see more of a build up for the kiss. More of Alex' viewpoint and understanding. Longing. Sadness. etc. The pacing was better the 2nd half but slowed down. But I'm really hoping we get some kind of extended cut. Because that last shot of the cake scene I felt like they should have kept that in instead of throwing it in at the end. But I believe they wanted to play it safe with this considering the director was new etc. So we'll see I guess. Hopefully it's a hit? And we'll get some kind of extended cut or a sequel with more characters that we weren't able to see in the first one. I'll remain optimistic because despite the limitations, this was really good.

Sí😭

The movie was mediocre at best.

Omg thank you so much!! Welcome to the channel🥰

😭😭 I think her stress was stressing me out

Hey! Since you cannot watch it unless it’s from RU-vid videos, Ethan Clark has made a reaction video too, but with more scenes if you’re interested! He’s also super lovely💜

She was also in This is Us.

I never expect to get it right😂

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Thank you so much😭 Welcome to the channel!!