While I listened to this conversation with great interest and agree with most of your points, I can't agree that the decision to change Alex's family situation for the movie was a good one. I feel that it took away much depth from his character. Hellen and Oscar's messy divorce, the calamitous years prior to, and the several years after (which book Alex describes in the terms of the cold war) were pivotal to his development into the person we see. That was when he became the manic workaholic overachiever insomniac we know and love. That's also where the chip on his shoulder came from, his feeling of never doing and being quite enough, because he certainly wasn't enough for his parents to stay together. In the book, this feeling of inadequacy was the main reason he felt so much animosity towards Henry who seemed to have it all figured out; this was also one of the key points of connection between them, because Henry always felt inadequate too, not to mention his own messy family. The first time Alex let himself really be vulnerable with Henry was that phone call after the disastrous Thanksgiving dinner. Movie Alex is much more stable, but also feels much younger to me, and those changes make perfect sense considering this key difference in his family history; but I wish they hadn't made it in the first place, because he just doesn't have the same level of complexity that made me love book Alex.
I agree with you, but there is no way they had the time to delve into that within the constraints of the running time of this movie. At best they would have mentioned it in passing and not done it justice. This movie should have been a mini-series.
Henry is 3rd in line after his mother and his brother. Or possibly 4th in lineafter his mother, brother and sister as Bea is older than him. Depends on what the book was using the old line of succession nor the current one. The book made some serious misrepresentation of English royalty. Henry is nit the prince of Wales. Actually his mother was the Princess of Wales as next in line for the throne. Don't even get me started on the inaccuracies in how the US govenment worrks.
Ending with "I love Red White Royal Blue... Taylor Zakhar Perez" You are so real for that. I am right there with you.
Really great podcast. Love the book and movie so much. It was fun and interesting to see different points of view.
The ending 😂😂😂😂 same babe saaame!
While I listened to this conversation with great interest and agree with most of your points, I can't agree that the decision to change Alex's family situation for the movie was a good one. I feel that it took away much depth from his character. Hellen and Oscar's messy divorce, the calamitous years prior to, and the several years after (which book Alex describes in the terms of the cold war) were pivotal to his development into the person we see. That was when he became the manic workaholic overachiever insomniac we know and love. That's also where the chip on his shoulder came from, his feeling of never doing and being quite enough, because he certainly wasn't enough for his parents to stay together. In the book, this feeling of inadequacy was the main reason he felt so much animosity towards Henry who seemed to have it all figured out; this was also one of the key points of connection between them, because Henry always felt inadequate too, not to mention his own messy family. The first time Alex let himself really be vulnerable with Henry was that phone call after the disastrous Thanksgiving dinner.
Movie Alex is much more stable, but also feels much younger to me, and those changes make perfect sense considering this key difference in his family history; but I wish they hadn't made it in the first place, because he just doesn't have the same level of complexity that made me love book Alex.
I agree with you, but there is no way they had the time to delve into that within the constraints of the running time of this movie. At best they would have mentioned it in passing and not done it justice. This movie should have been a mini-series.
Henry is 3rd in line after his mother and his brother. Or possibly 4th in lineafter his mother, brother and sister as Bea is older than him. Depends on what the book was using the old line of succession nor the current one.
The book made some serious misrepresentation of English royalty. Henry is nit the prince of Wales. Actually his mother was the Princess of Wales as next in line for the throne.
Don't even get me started on the inaccuracies in how the US govenment worrks.
It's a movie, not a documentary. Literally no one cares. 😂😂