i haven't seen the movie but i believe you recommend people see the movie before they see the book strange coming from an author you know actually authors usually complain about the film that's made from their novels i think that people should see the film 1st that they have a good idea what the plot is and then to go from there and read the book and get in delve deeper into the soul of a leo. tell me about the book why was it why did why was it important for it to be a gay relationship and not a boy meets girl relationship i thought about that initially i was going to make it a boy girl relationship but then i said what's going to be so different about a boy and a girl who meet in the summer in italy and fall in love with each other i mean the only other outcome would be that some disaster might happen and so i decided to go for the not obvious and make it to boy boy and once i decided that automatically i