Is Somebody A Sploshie? - English Ally's 1st time reaction to RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
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A First time reaction video for the Amazon Prime film Red, White & Royal Blue. Based on the novel by Casey McQuiston and directed by Matthew López
0:00 Introduction & ally bona fides
4:56 Apology for some technical difficulties
7:09 Reaction/Commentary
52:05 Thoughts/Analysis
/ yaynayormeh
/ yaynayormeh - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
They actually filmed in the V&A. They were not allowed any lighting, so had to film with the lighting on the statues. The room where the “king” was smoking only allowed it because it was Stephan Fry.
I'm actually rather proud of myself that I spotted the V&A without looking it up.
Did anyone else almost yelled DON'T when he stoped at 28:09 before punchline of "and I thought that Alexander bla bla was a mouthfull"?. Been loving the reaction so far!!
And I loved how he laughed at the boarding school joke
I really have been kicking myself over that one...
And some reviewers omit the cute, sly (cheeky?) look Henry gives after saying, "He is".
Also fun fact that Alex's bodyguard Amy is also transgender in the book.... So I think that it was really really cool that they were able to get a trans actress to also play in the role for the movie. Even if it is a really small part in both the movie and the book. Very very cool!
I LOVE Amy, the character and the way she was played. Every sentence she gets to utter is pure comedic gold. A lot of people don't catch that quick wink she gives when saying about the firecracker kid "it was good he was in a hospital." I love her interaction with Alex on the plane going back when they talk about her dog. The quick bit where we see her and Alex out on the campaign trail apparently playing a card game in a hotel room.
But this is also a part of the overall way all the roles were so inclusive, and yet done so subtly, I missed the extent of it the first few times I watched. That is a world in which I'd want to live.
OMG, im so glad someone finally asked who perfume genius is. He's an artist. and he's incredible. i think his cover is also used as a little nod to Alex coming out and immediately getting into queer culture and history (in the books). it's a deep cut, but perfume genius is perfect for that, which just goes to show how important it is to have queer voices in the room and behind the scenes.
I loved the movie. Being gay, it’s great to see a romantic comedy about a gay couple, especially as prince and first son. These are rare. Watched the movie many times, and watched just about any reaction video on TH-cam. It was great seeing your reactions and explanations. Very entertaining.
Ditto, ditto, ditto, and more ditto. At last a gay romance with a happy, even sappy, ending. Like you, watched every scrap of info about this movie, in particular the movie itself, endlessly.
"ofc he's doing the Freddie Mercury" yesss!! you should always have Queen songs in every karaoke/musical scene or romcom like this 👑👑
They actually had his last name be Mountchristen-Windsor in the book but I think they changed it in the movie because it’s too closely related
They had to change it because they can’t relate the movie entirely to the royal family…
Casey McQuiston actually likes Taylor Swift now, and hasn't talked negatively about her in years. Some people just like to bring up the past and cause drama.
Saw something in passing when I was trying to get their pronouns right. Didn't look too far into it.
@@yaynayormehyeah, to be fair a lot of people didn't like Taylor back then. Because she was extremely extremely vague about her political stance due to her management telling her to stay vague. And so a lot of people due to Taylor's background (and some old lyrics that she has since changed)... Assumed that she was a Republican. And due to the Republicans being absolute trash towards lgbtq+ people... people then assumed that she had those values... And so a not small amount of queer people REALLY didn't like Taylor back then... Because they, incorrectly, assumed that Taylor was voting towards of party that was ACTIVELY trying to dismantle their rights.
But also I will say that Casey Mcquiston was VERY catty and mean and rude towards Taylor back then. They said some misogynistic and body shaming things... Really horrible shit in truth... But again sometimes people get defensive and snarky and mean when they're scared their rights are going to get taken away, right? It's the fight part of the fight, flight, freeze, fawn response, I guess. And Taylor was a public figure that was visible and so people were able to direct their fear and anger towards her. I'm not trying to defend that type of behaviour. At all. It's horrible. But I do psychologically understand how it can happen.
But yeah, in recent years Taylor has been super open about her politics... And Casey has FULLY apologized for their behaviour back then and has posted Henry and Alex edits that they find online that have Taylor Swift songs onto their Instagram story so clearly, they don't hate Taylor's music. If they are publicly liking and sharing edits of their characters with her music in it.... And to be honest Henry and Alex DO fit a surprising amount of Taylor songs! They are an extremely Taylor coded relationship as the younger people would say lmao. So yeah everything is on good terms... it was a very one-sided hate as Taylor Swift probably had ZERO clue that Casey Mcquiston existed back then.... But yeah everything is good now that Taylor is open about her politics.
All we can really do is expect someone to apologize and SHOW that their behaviour has changed and Casey has done that. Not everyone has to forgive them but I think a LOT of Taylor Swift fans have forgiven them after they took accountability and apologized and showed changed behavior.
But yeah I don't necessarily think badly for the people who don't forgive them as Casey did do some pretty heinous stuff... nothing completely unforgivable, in my opinion but still really really unnecessarily mean stuff that absolutely didn't need to be said to any person. But again people WILL get cruel when they are scared and hurt and angry... It's unfortunately a part of human nature.
The descendants of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip without royal titles are Mountbatten-Windsor. Prince Philip famously complained that he was the only man in Britain who couldn't give his children his last name. So, naturally he got his way.
His actual name was Battenberg but he and his uncle changed their names to Mountbatten to avoid the German connotations when they became British.
Apparently, Nicholas Galitzine (and Taylor Zakhar Perez, for that matter) have never publicly confirmed that they're straight. I guess some people just assume they are by default.
Saw something in passing that said he was straight. Whatever his orientation, he sizzles with Taylor.
I think I like not knowing as either way, their performance together was epic.
I looooved your reaction, love how you were making correlations of things on the story with real world things it was very interesting. Can't wait to watch more videos ❤❤
They had the name Windsor in the book, but changed it for the movie.
You deserve a following. People just cant really do with long videos. As someone born in 84, I appreciate long video formats.
I absolutely LOVED your commentary about the very niche fetish of cake squishing.... Because you're absolutely correct a LOT of people would pay a lot of money to see someone squishing a cake or getting squished by a cake and getting cake all over them... That is absolutely a thing that I've stumbled across on the internet. It's definitely not MY thing but it very much is a thing for other people and I've never seen anyone else mention it but yeah...thats a THING out there on the wild internet. Gotta love humans and the very strange and obscure things that can make them horny.
I like too that while in the book, they land on the cake, in the movie, it lands on them. So dumb and thus so so fun.
Great reaction video. I love how you inserted the Texas speech and other information. I love the movie. Finally, a queer feel good rom-com, instead of some sad depressing story with both characters dying in the end.
This reaction is so lovely! As a queer person I really loved your perspective and and appreciation of this adorable film! It's goofy and cheesy and I love to see more queer media like that, it's pretty rare.
I really enjoyed your reaction and the inserts of other movies and that "special" speech by Kemi Badenoch (sad speech). I love this movie with it's bad CGI, tropes and all. There are not a lot of happy queer rom-coms. The movie made me laugh, cry, dream of the impossible, and believe that loves wins. It was so important to also watch a s*x scene between two men that was gentle, sensual, caring, loving, too often it's the opposite. I really hope they do many more because we deserve to see ourselves in these romantic scenarios too. For 2 hours the harsh world did not matter. Thank you for your allyship.
Did you see Bros? Speaking as a straight man, the s*x seemed sensitively done.
@@yaynayormeh I have not seen Bros yet, it's on my list. Waiting for it to be available on streaming - amazon
Actually his name in the book is Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor
They probably changed the name to make it clear it's a different Royal Family. Mountbatten-Windsor is the official name of the descendants of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth who have no other Royal title.
A definite’ yay’ for me, I found RW&RB to be one of the best rom-com’s in recent memory. As you indicated, a bit cheesy and perhaps on the Hallmark movie side but definitely a good watch and a very funny movie. The casting was superb as was the chemistry- among all actors. Your thoughtful review brought forward several interesting points. Thanks!
I’ve been loving reactions to this movie, this is the first with the extra political context which I really enjoyed! Thanks!
im so glad you said the thing about kristen stewart in runaways! (or if you've seen 'Speak'), people doubting her based off Twilight is so annoying, especially because her Bella was so accurate lol. great review!
I’m so mad you paused at the one of the most memorable moment like when they said their full names???? 🤧🤧🤧
I've been kicking myself with every reaction I've watched. I was too keen to do the whole 'That's not the name of the Royal Family' thing.
Many people remark about this being an enemies-to-lovers type of story. But the two are not really enemies, except in Alex's head. They haven't had much interaction in the past where they fight or argue, mostly just glare at each other from a distance. In the book, this might seem longer as so much is taken up with setting up the story in the first chapeters, who the American characters are and how they relate, with an occasional jab at Alex's disdain toward Henry - which he images is returned.
Once they are in the closet, it feels like, in the movie, they have reset their relationship back to ground level. In the book, Alex overhears Henry's discussion of Star Wars with the young patient, and begins to think of Henry as a real human. In the movie, we only see Henry's comforting the child from a distance and we can also see Alex's heart to start to melt at that point. For the movie to continue with the enemy concept would seem a step back.
Alex doesn't realize he now likes Henry but how he says goodbye and his first reaction to the text message shows he really does, the hostile feeling has dissipated. Some reactors think the movie moved too fast on resolving this but I don't see how they could have dragged it out without it seeming petty on Alex's part. And this allows the movie to deal with the romance more instead.
Flirt away, little sidekicks.
When Alex said "the difference between rugby and football" he meant American Football (hand-egg), that's why it made at least a little sense for him to say it (also Americans just know nothing about rugby in general). You can really appreciate how impactful having a queer intimacy coordinator was when you see how heartfelt & believable the kissing/sex scenes are, knowing which of the played out gay tropes to avoid and which to embrace is a process that's becoming more nuanced by the day and this film really nailed that line well. I do agree with the "really, really high meh" prognosis, that's about where it landed for me as well.
I've also seen some compelling (unconfirmed) theories that the king himself in the story was also gay & hid it in order to "maintain a traditional royal image" which would explain why he would have read every one of the leaked emails and believe Alex & Henry's love was real based on their contents. It fits well with the fantasy, as sad as that reality would be for him personally
I knew he was talking about American Football, I still don't think it makes much sense.
@@yaynayormeh Fair enough
@@yaynayormeh I remember a comment of someone explaning how they understood this - that the kiss made Alex see the difference between his attraction to women (American football which is more popular in the US) and attraction to men (rugby which has different rules and is regarded as a more tough sport)
Still don't buy it...
you neednt have set aside those two minutes talking about the technical difficulties. The "f'n camera" text and maybe an additional battery died text flashing in and out wouldve been sufficient.
Having said that, this is by far the best review I've watched of this movie. Despite your giving it a "meh" (which you've explained and which makes me wonder what your yays are) I enjoyed your review because (as others have pointed out) of the additional information you've provided from other works.
And you've got an astounding level of knowledge of American politics which I assure you Americans do not have of British (or any other country's) politics, but I dont know if that is a personal trait of yours or points generally to the differences in our educational systems. It's obvious as you're watching and reviewing it that you are an active audience member (you get the implications of scenes immediately whereas other reviewers are like "ohhhh they were on the phone!" as Alex hangs up the phone.
I subscribed to your channel here and will look into the podcast because you are a person who appears to have a thorough mental library of movies and provide a rich (substantive---I dont need gawking or shocked faces or squealing and yelling while watching a review) feedback. While watching it I thought, "if he has any other reviews of movies I've already seen, I should come here and watch them with him again."
And even though I am neither a bi- or homosexual man and am like you, an ally, I think the word "feast" fits the description perfectly of what I experience watching this movie. I love it. I cant get enough of it which is why I search for reviews and yours was great! Kudos!
seriously, I watched your review a second time and I am enjoying it just as much as my first viewing of it. Good work.
That was a very interesting reaction. Aside from your unfortunate decision to give a potted history of the British royal family and their surnames over one of the funniest lines in the film 😆😆😆 I enjoyed your cultural and political asides - not something that you often find in TH-cam reactions! It's also nice to see a straight man who's not afraid to acknowledge how stupidly good looking the leads are. Seriously ... 🥵 I think overall your judgement on the film would be similar to mine - except that I absolutely love romance films so they don't have to be top tier for me to enjoy the heck out of them (repeatedly, in the case of RWRB).
I am so obsessed with this film and watched it multiple times already, along with every clip, blooper reel, interview, and reaction video in order to squeeze out every bit of the experience I can. Now I'm circling around to rewatch some of my favorite videos once again, including this one. Sure I will return at some later once again, too.
I'm reminded of those Shakespeare productions where the stage is mostly bare and the audience has to focus on just the actors and their performances. (Not a particular fan - give me Gilbert & Sullivan any time.) In the case of this movie, it isn't the details, some of the low-budget production values, the story itself - it is the interaction of the characters/actors. There is such chemistry between them all, in particular the leads, but also the supporting actors, which comes through even in their off-screen interviews.
From the start with the cake scene, I remind myself this is a comedy, where things sometimes are over the top to be funny, instead of accurate. What a ridiculous impractical cake whose only role in life is to fall on these two. At the same time, there is no other solid food visible, not even snacks, just alcohol. I'm not a drinker but I'd be drunk as a skunk in that setting, being nervous and fidgety and wanting to hold something in my hand which would have to be a drink. Although Alex does a much classier job as getting sloshed.
By the way, Alex's fear of what fork to use is negated by apparently there not being any silverware needed, other than a dessert fork.
I love it
Great reaction, i laughed every time you did 😂 I love this movie
This is one of the best reaction 🎉
I don't know if you got the joke when they were in the coffee shop since you didn't put it in the reaction. When Alex says he thought his own name was a mouthful, Henry remarked that "he is". Probably a reference to his endowment.
I live in Texas and I grow up in Austin and while there aren't many places to ride horses, I guarantee the reason he said he doesn't know how to play Polo isn't because he can't ride a horse. He actually doesn't know the rules to polo.
Nobody knows the rules to polo...
Great reaction 😄
i don't think the royal family is homophobic. They want to protect the traditional image of the royals which is pretty much their main jobs.
Omg I've never listened to Kemi Badenoch before. I'm glad they made Sunak the leader over her. What BS was that. Btw I loved your reaction this was the best!!!
But Sunak is extremely anti-trans, Braverman wants to exclude LGBTQI + refugees who are in danger in their own countries and Badenoch doesn't support equality despite her Cabinet brief!
I am in Ireland and I know plenty of LGBTQI+ (esp trans people) who are trying to escape and move out of the UK.
Its quite a bit raunchy and not cheesy at all, but its just me. The book thoygh, was waayyy raunchier😅😅😅
I think ‘raunchy’ is way too harsh an epithet. Suggestive verbally (‘He is’ , ‘your Royal Hardness’ or ‘Big Ben’) or visually (the phallic references: Washington Monument, Eiffel Tower, or Henry riding his horse in the polo scene): yes. The love scene is both incredibly sensual, intimate and yet visually chaste. In the book the visual references are absent. The story involves 2 young adults in love, their sexual activity perfectly normal and certainly not ‘raunchy’.
I don't know how modern movies are made, but I suspect they film all the scenes with a green screen as needed, and then the film is sent off for post production. If for some reason Amazon cut back on the funds or whatever and the cgi was done poorly, it is too late - I would think - to reshoot the scenes and somehow get around the need for the green screen.
So many classical old Hollywood movies were made with characters sitting in a fake car and the background rear-projected. To modern eyes, painfully obvious, but at some point, it also becomes part of what makes it a period film. Or maybe if the demand is there, the movie could be re-cgi'ed?
I agree that rear projection in moving cars is part of the aesthetic with vintage movies, but you make allowances because that was the best that was available at the time. The Green Screen in RWRB is not the best that's available now. I've seen movies with smaller budgets than this have better Green Screen.
Please read the book!
I'm not sure whether I'm impressed or not with how little you focused on the sex and sex-related banter in the movie. I'm going to lean toward impressed. A very classy and well-researched review overall. I learned a lot. And I agree that Sarah Shahi RULES
Yes, cheesy, but in a Wallace & Gromit level of appreciation.
To me, this is just a modern fairy tale, better rooted in the real world than say Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty. A knight in shining armor (sort of) comes to rescue a royal offspring trapped in a castle tower (even if the "walls" are as much of his own indoctrination as they are real). And in this case, the knight also gets rescued by his prince.
Great reaction!
I thought the BBC protected you from the likes of the Hallmark Channel; just kidding. I know you guys have Sky and streaming. I have been wanting to see a reaction from an adult from the UK. You gave me some insight into how you see the Royal Family and palace intrigue. Of course this is fantasy. I could not imagine any children of a President throwing a party like that at the White House, let alone be able to travel without the Secret Service. I would expect that at Henry’s age he would be in the military. Yes I know yours is all volunteer like ours. However I thought all Royal’s basically had to join. They might actually be the head of several countries military if they became the monarch. You want troupes to believe in you. Also falling in love with Americans has not been good for members of the Royal family. It would be an interesting third movie if Henry became King. Again thank you for making the video.
It never occurred to me but you're right. Henry should be in the military.
@@yaynayormehin the book Henry's grandmother Queen Mary and his brother Phillip are trying to push him into the military but Henry resists.
Excellent, well-informed review, backed by thoughtful, objective comments.
I wish you would do The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a very sensitive, non-cheesy movie I think you’d enjoy (a ‘high Meh’ rating). Subscribed.
I've actually seen Perks of Being a Wallflower. I thought it was fantastic.
Another kind of interesting a mistake in the book about British royalty, probably because it was written by an American, is that other people have told me that the title, Prince of Wales, is specifically used for the ppl who are going to ascend to the throne.... But in the book Henry has the Prince of Wales title but he IS still the spare in the book ...so I don't think that he would actually have that title in reality. His brother Phillip would. They took that detail out for the movie so maybe it was left out purposefully because it was too egregiously incorrect... I'm not sure.
You seemed to really enjoy the politics within this movie... A lot of people I've seen react to this are pretty bored by the politics and were more so focussed on the romance aspect.... I think that you might enjoy reading the book. Because the book is significantly MORE political than the movie was. It goes into a much deeper dive regarding the politics. They deliberately did not include that in the movie because of time reasons... they really really just wanted to focus on Henry and Alex's relationship and leave out all of the additional political stuff that was happening around them. It's obviously still very much a fantasy America and fantasy England politically... But yeah the book does go into a LOT more detail... Also specifically how they got outed is a LITTLE bit different in the book. So if you do decide to read it you'll have that to be bit of a surprise at the end, I guess.
Also if you do decide to get a version of the book I would highly highly highly recommend getting the Collector's Edition of the book because there is an epilogue chapter that was added to the collector's edition that is in Henry's perspective(the entire book is in Alex's perspective EXCLUSIVELY so it was kind of interesting to see some events play out in Henry's perspective in the movie because we did not get it in the book). It's a really truly wonderful chapter and I'm very glad that Casey decided to write it. But some people have shown pictures of the chapter on Tumblr and Twitter so there are ways for people to read the chapter if they can't get another version of the book other than the standard one. But I mean you've kind of have to search for it which is a pain...so yeah, I would highly recommend trying to get the collector's edition from the start. Henry's chapter talks a little bit about his mental health struggles in the years after the book storyline ends and I can relate to that quite a bit so I definitely have a soft spot in my heart for it.
If they called Henry the Prince of Wales in the book, that is CATASTROPHICALLY wrong. I wish I had time to read...
Indeed, but since the book has been reedited at least twice with no change to that specific detail, I think it was intentional. After all, it’s a fiction story and needn’t be an exact reflection of British royal family customs.@@yaynayormeh
@andre_p On the other hand, Prince of Wales is a VERY specific title, and if you are setting your story in a world that has any connection at all to reality, that's a huge error.
In the book Henry's mother is Princess Catherine of Wales (eldest of 3 daughters of Queen Mary, a homophobic b***h). Henry, Philip and Beatrice are 'Prince(ss) X___ of Wales, just like George, Charlotte and Louis. The title of prince or princess is only passed on to the grandchildren of a reigning king or queen, hence why Archie and Lilibet now have those titles.
One thing that the film version gets so mixed-up. When Henry says that his mother is the Duchess of Edinburgh, HIS title should be Prince Henry of Edinburgh!
(I live in Ireland but was brought up in the UK, and yes I'm a nerd).
@@helenryder8999 Calling Henry a Prince is fine. Calling him Prince OF WALES is wrong. His elder brother is the only one entitled to that moniker.
Why didn't you put the beautiful love scene in the reaction. A lot of other reactors have included that scene in their reactions.
To avoid the TH-cam copyright protections, it's best to keep clips of the actual movie to under 30 seconds. That bit was just me silently smiling, so I edited it out.
Halfway through you paused a split second before (one of) the best line of the movie to prattle about their names....then cut out your reaction to "he is" ....I totally would have liked to see your reaction, much more than your take on fictitious names. I enjoyed your reaction though.
Wow. I am from the US. I was honestly shocked by your black MP. I had no idea that the UK cared about CRT, BLM, or defund the police. I thought those were American issues. I guess it’s more international than I thought. We do live in a bubble of here. Could she be bringing up US issues to deflect from the UK problems she doesn’t want to talk about? I am sure that is universal political BS.
Like I said in the video, she's trying to make a name for herself being 'anti-woke'. It terrifies me there was a (slim) chance she would be our Prime Minister.
Activists here took a lot of lessons from the American BLM movement. Look up what happened to the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, which is about 16 miles from where I live.
Usually don’t make comments like this. I love watching different peoples take on this movie but before I even got to you doing the reaction I could not get over the assumption that since this is an American author they were going to get things wrong. Actually stopped watching. Probably a good reactor but really wasn’t in the mood to watch someone that started out like that. Just my two cents. No hate at all. Just hit me the wrong way.
More of a commentary on American politics, which this guy is grossly ignorant about. Just review the movie. It's a cute coming out story. I enjoyed the movie. It's not as political as people try to make it. It's a love story. Period.