Shut Up! Stop Talking!

Shut up! Stop talking!

going through the tag was so much fun before the movie dropped, now i get annoyed at every other post i see. the expectations some of you had for this movie? unfathomable to me. imagine if they had included june and rafael and leo and all the plot points you cry about not making the final cut and think about the scenes they would have had to delete to make room for all of that. idk about y'all but i rather have them focus on the love story and make the most of that instead of taking bits and pieces from every other storyline without fleshing out any of them. would it have made a great tv show? YES. did we get a tv show? no, we got a movie and a damn good one at that. if you miss june or "cornbread knows my sins, henry" that's valid but how about you just read the book again? it isn't gone just because the movie came out. read the book, love the book and simply view the movie as additional content instead of a replacement of the source material, it's not that hard.

SAY IT LOUDER FOR PEOPLE IN THE BACK

maybe it's just because i re-read the book recently, but i think that everyone who expected the rwrb movie to be this perfect adaptation was just kidding themselves xD because, honestly—while i don't know shit about film-making, i know enough to understand that it must have been a fucking hard book to adapt. not only is it pretty long, it also has so many characters and sub-plots that are virtually impossible to cover in a meaningful way within 2 hours of runtime. most of alex's bisexual crisis is told through internal monologue. also, so much of the book is told in an epistolary format. that has to be rly difficult to adapt onto screen, and i'm glad they did what they could and left out the rest, rather than trying to include everything and fucking it all up. are there quotes and plot points and characters i severely missed? sure. but it was never gonna be this super faithful, on-the-nose adaptation, and reading the book itself is enough to discern that (and i say this as someone who can be a huge snob about book-to-movie adaptations). frankly, i'm shocked at how true it did manage to stay to the book. at the heart of it, it was a truly sincere movie that was a love letter to the original, and that is so much more than can be said about so many movies these days.

PLEASE *sobs*

we can have a full 10 movie saga:

• 2 Red White and 2 Royal Blue

• Red White and Royal Blue: Third Times the Charm

• RWRB: 4th in line

• RWRB: Royal Five

• RWRB6

• Red White and Royal Blue: 7 Cakes

• RWRB: Forever ♾️ (like an 8 get it?)

• RWRB: In Space

• RWRB: 10 things I love about you

LMAO

Henry:

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