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Red, White & Royal Blue是我在2020年读过的耽美小说，作者是Casey McQuiston，当时就很喜欢这本书。当得知电影即将播出的消息就开始非常期待，这几天又把小说重温了一遍。看完之后就来和大家分享Red, White & Royal Blue的故事到底有多浪漫，以及小说里有哪些值得期待的情节希望能在电影版看到。

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电影将于8月11日由Prime Video平台播出，小说也推出了新的电影版封面。

Red, White & Royal Blue 《星条红与皇室蓝》电影主演：Taylor Zakhar Perez & Nicholas Galitzine

Red, White & Royal Blue这本超人气小说会深受读者喜爱不是没有理由的，故事以政治题材为背景，讲述了一段王室贵族同性之间的禁忌恋。前天Prime终于正式发出预告片，看了之后真的很兴奋，对照了一下小说，简直是太还原了，该有的情节都有！

这部电影是关于美国总统之子和英国王子之间的爱情故事，不得不说，小说中确实有很多情节很适合拍成电影，一些戏剧性的场面就很有电影效果，包括在看小说时就觉得有点夸张的蛋糕倒塌事件，也成了这部电影里经典的一幕，毕竟这次件事是两男主恋情发生的关键。

美国第一公子Alex和英国王子Henry早就看对方不顺眼了，在一场盛大的英国王室婚礼中，两人起争执，拉扯间不小心推倒了一个价值$75000的蛋糕，事件上了各大媒体的新闻头条，开始有各种报道指出Alex和Henry两人一直以来关系恶劣，英美关系紧张等夸张传闻。为了停止舆论，Alex和Henry王子必须在媒体和大众面前上演一出戏，假装两人关系密切来打破不和传闻。

两人在维持好兄弟形象的过程中互生好感，Henry有一次情不自禁亲吻Alex，但是亲完就逃，留下Alex独自怀疑人生。Alex发现自己也被Henry深深吸引，开始认真考虑自己的性向，就这样这段友情发展成了地下情。异地恋的他们开始互通邮件，内容情话绵绵。两人尽量配合对方协调自己的行程，只为了多见几次面，什么为了建立两国友好的关系，都是幌子。

这种冤家变情人的桥段倒是没什么，两人暧昧不明的关系和见不得光的恋情才是看点。Alex和Henry都不愿承认自己动了真心，坚持两人是非正式交往的关系，只是玩玩而已。后来Alex不想再欺骗自己，要和Henry确定关系，Henry却再次逃跑毫无音讯，Alex联系不上Henry郁闷了一个礼拜，后来他偶然在口袋里发现Henry之前某次在两人幽会后偷偷藏在Alex外套里的一张纸条。

Dear Thisbe,

I wish there weren’t a wall.

Love, Pyramus

Thisbe和Pyramus是巴比伦神话里的一对苦命鸳鸯，最后以悲剧收场。

在这段关系中，Henry是懦弱又悲观的那位，他觉得两人不可能会有结果，所以逃跑了。看到纸条后的Alex不想再坐以待毙，连夜飞往伦敦找王子摊牌。Alex来到Henry的城堡时下着倾盆大雨，他全身湿透，在城堡外闹出很大动静，上演你不出来我就不走的情节。我很喜欢Alex那种不顾一切，勇往直前的性格。两人摊牌的这一段将会是一大看点！

He’s in Henry’s face now. If he’s getting his heart broken tonight, he’s sure as hell going to make Henry have the guts to do it right. “Tell me you’re done with me. I’ll get back on the plane. That’s it. And you can live here in your tower and be miserable forever, write a whole book of sad fucking poems about it. Whatever. Just say it.” — Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston

最后，Henry当然还是放不下Alex，两人和好，确定关系之后Henry半夜三更带着Alex在空无一人的博物馆约会闲逛，跟王子谈恋爱就是浪漫！两人在Henry城堡腻歪了几天，Alex家人联系不上他非常担心，最后，王子才依依不舍的用英国王室私人专机把Alex送回国。

而预告片里还有另一个有趣的情节，当女总统的特助Zahra发现Alex偷藏在酒店衣柜里的秘密情人竟然是Henry王子时的崩溃反应，Zahra不敢相信原来这两人一直在偷情，一开始让他们扮演好兄弟还是自己一手策划的！Henry有意无意暗示她不要太自责，毕竟事情发展至此都是无可避免的。Zahra觉得这两个孩子太胡闹了，但其实Alex和Henry又怎么会不知道事情的严重性呢？他们只是别无选择。

“Well, I hope it was fun, because if anyone ever finds out about this, we’re all fucked,” Zahra says. She points at Henry. “You too. Can I assume I don’t have to make you sign an NDA?” “I’ve already signed one for him,” Alex offers up — Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston

特助Zahra也是故事中我很喜欢的其中一名角色。

后期30%的剧情开始越来越精彩了！两人虽然在一起，但是未来的路要走下去并不容易，身份显著是两人恋情的最大阻碍。

东窗事发，Henry和Alex之间的来往邮件曝光，两人互通的情书内容被公开，还被偷拍到车内接吻的照片，地下情再也藏不住，当然这也是一场政治阴谋。

说到两人的情书，看小说的时候就有种预感有朝一日会外泄，我竟然还有点幸灾乐祸，这么浪漫的情书，一定是要公开给大家看的嘛！以下是几封情书的片段，内容有点露骨，还穿插一些古人的情诗。

“Should I tell you that when we’re apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when I sleep, I see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I’ve just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?” — Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston

“I love you terribly, and I want you back here soon. I need your help picking a new bed for my room; I’ve decided to get rid of that gold monstrosity. Yours, Henry
P.S. From Radclyffe Hall to Evguenia Souline, 1934: Darling—I wonder if you realize how much I am counting on your coming to England, how much it means to me—it means all the world, and indeed my body shall be all, all yours, as yours will be all, all mine, beloved.… And nothing will matter but just we two, we two longing loves at last come together.” — Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston

恋情曝光将影响英国王室的声誉，另一边Alex的母亲在将近的大选中准备竞选连任总统，儿子出柜她必受牵连。事件爆发后，Alex得到家人和好友的力挺，总统母亲Ellen Claremont也非常通情达理，没有责怪儿子给自己添麻烦。消息传出之后民众的反应不一，当中还是有不少支持的声音。两人携手共渡难关这一部分非常暖心。最终，Alex和Henry突破重围，成功捍卫这段恋情，有情人终成眷属。

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“it doesn’t matter where you come from or who your family is—you can always be great if you’re true to yourself.”

“love is more important than status, and doing what’s right beats money and power.”

Alex smiles back, the anxious bubble in his chest shrinking slightly, but there’s one more bomb to drop. “Um. There’s something else. I kind of … met somebody.” She tilts her head. “You did? Well, I’m happy for you, I hope you had them do all the paperwork—” “It’s, uh,” he interrupts her. “It’s Henry.” A beat. She frowns, her brow knitting together. “Henry…?” “Yeah, Henry.” “Henry, as in … the prince?” “Yes.” “Of England?” “Yes.”“So, not another Henry?” “No, Mom. Prince Henry. Of Wales.”

He thinks about Henry, and something twists in his chest, like a stretch he’s been avoiding for too long. He thinks about Henry’s voice low in his ear over the phone at three in the morning, and suddenly he has a name for what ignites in the pit of his stomach.

And Alex’s heart doesn’t spread itself out in his chest, and he doesn’t have to grip the edge of the settee to steady himself. Because that’s what he would do if he were here in this palace to fall in love with Henry, and not just continuing this thing where they fly across the world to touch each other and don’t talk about it. That’s not why he’s here. It’s not.

And he thinks about Henry’s guardedness, the way he carries himself with a careful separation from the world around him, the tension at the corner of his mouth. Then he thinks: If there was a prince, and he was gay, and he kissed someone, and maybe it mattered, that prince might have to run a little bit of interference. And in one great mercurial swing, Alex is not just angry anymore. He’s sad too.

“You think I want your life? You think I want Martha’s? Gilded fucking cage? Barely allowed to speak in public, or have a goddamn opinion—” “Then what are we even doing here? Why are we fighting, then, if the lives we have to lead are so incompatible?” “Because you don’t want that either!” Alex insists. “You don’t want any of this bullshit. You hate it.”

I hate this so much. I know. But we’re gonna do it together. And we’re gonna make it work. You and me and history, remember? We’re just gonna fucking fight. Because you’re it, okay? I’m never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you. So, I promise you, one day we’ll be able to just be, and fuck everyone else.

Here: I can’t decide if your emails make me miss you more or less. Sometimes I feel like a funny-looking rock in the middle of the most beautiful clear ocean when I read the kinds of things you write to me. You love so much bigger than yourself, bigger than everything. I can’t believe how lucky I am to even witness it—to be the one who gets to have it, and so much of it, is beyond luck and feels like fate.

“So,” she says. “Do you feel forever about him?” And there’s no room left to agonize over it, nothing left to do but say the thing he’s known all along. “Yeah,” he says, “I do.”