#and then gone back to read the source material is natsuyuu

[coquelicoq]

re: you reading name of the rose: did you watch the movie as well? do you tend to seek out adaptations of novels at all and do you have a preference in which order you watch/read them?

i haven't and i didn't know there was one!

if i read a novel and like it and then sometime after that a film version is released, i will often watch it. however, i don't usually seek out adaptations that were released before i read the novel. (exceptions where i read a book and then looked for film adaptations that already existed: i did seek out film adaptations of the count of monte-cristo (though sadly i still haven't found the french miniseries that sounded so interesting). and i've watched several adaptations of jane austen's novels.) so i probably won't watch the name of the rose movie unless i hear something specific about it that intrigues me.

in general, i'd rather read the book before watching the movie, but i don't take this to the level of refusing to watch a movie if i haven't read the book yet. i'm trying to think if there are any cases where i watched a movie and liked it and then sought out the book, and the only one that's coming to mind is reading volumes of the natsuyuu manga after having watched the anime. which just tells you how much i love natsuyuu!

#what an interesting question! i never really realized how strong this pattern is for me #like i knew that i prefer books and that i have watched a lot of film adaptations of books that i like but i didn't realize #a) that i almost never go back in time to see if any adaptations were released from BEFORE i had read the book #and b) the only time in the last six years (according to my spreadsheet) that i've watched something first #and then gone back to read the source material is natsuyuu #(i guess i also read the first volume of ranma 1/2 after watching the anime but that was only bc it was a french translation) #asks #not anon #books #film #thank you for the ask <3 very thought-provoking!! #have you watched the name of the rose movie? would you recommend it?