Today On "my Thoughts On Hamilton": Hamilton And Laurens

today on "my thoughts on Hamilton": Hamilton and Laurens

I'm not getting into the historical facts and theories about these two, but imo they were lovers

the first time I watched the musical I was actually kinda disappointed in the lack of subcontext they showed. there isn't even that much gaybaiting.

then I thought "well its hard enough to establish a show with a almost all POC cast, that's also breaking traditional musical rules. give em a break"

it would have also undermined Alex' devotion to Eliza from the very beginning so probably wouldn't been the best idea story telling wise.

but then I watched it again and i noticed some looks, "Lauren's i like you a lot" and so on - BUT most importantly I wanna talk about their costumes.

when burr introduces Hamilton to Laurens, Lafayette and Mulligan they very soon form a friendship quartet. something bugged me while watching for the first time, but it took me a rewatch to realise what it was.

Lafayette is wearing blue (idk if this is nod to him being French, for me the association is there), Mulligan is wearing green so you'd kinda expect Ham and Laurens to wear red and yellow to complete the google/windows -esque primary colours scheme... and they kinda do. depending on light and shadow their coats appear more yellow-ish or red-ish. but that's the thing! they BOTH wear brown-ish/orange-y coats. they're not the same but they're WAY more similar to each other than anyone else coats.

maybe I'm over-analysing and it doesn't have to mean anything... but I really like the idea of their costumes hinting at something more between these two