Red, White and Blue Blood: Director didn’t just want sex – 08/22/2023 – Ilustrada

A hit on Amazon Prime Video, where it became the platform’s most watched original film in its opening weekend, “Red, White and Blue Blood” has generated buzz on social media for its racy scenes.

But for those who read the book on which the feature is based, written by Casey McQuiston, the film version can be somewhat disappointing in this regard, since director Matthew López left scenes that are quite graphic on the pages to the viewer’s imagination.

For him, sex was never the real purpose of the romance between a prince of the United Kingdom and the son of an imaginary president of the United States — on screen or on the page. He set up the hot moments in such a way that they contribute to the understanding of the relationship that takes place in the plot.

“The line between necessary and unnecessary is how much it helps to understand the characters, as individuals and as a couple. People have access to sex on the internet, in much more explicit ways than I could ever film. That wasn’t the case. purpose of the film, and I believe that of the book neither. The purpose is to make the viewer or reader understand the connection between the protagonists”, says López.

Don’t expect to see the infamous spit lubrication passage come to life on screen, or even the oddly sexy power play between English and American, colonizer and colonized, as Prince Henry and first son Alex clash over who will play what role in the relationship. sexual.

They are lived, respectively, by the handsome Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez, who helped move the internet with sensual photos on and off the scene.

But there is, on the other hand, a sequence where Alex slowly climbs Henry’s naked body onto the bed. Without their penetrating gazes straying from one another, the American fits his hip between the prince’s high legs, who moans in a mixture of discomfort and pleasure until he gives in to the spasms that make his blue blood boil.

For the director, it was important for the spectator to be glued to the protagonists’ faces to naturalize the avalanche of feelings and sensations that take over them. Yes, he could open the camera and show their bodies during the penetration scene, but he felt that the looks were more important than the sexual act itself.

Even so, the moment went viral on the networks, with several Internet users sharing frames of the scene.