Outsiders book vs movie

The outsiders book vs movie


Overall the book and the movie were fairly similar, but like books, there are some differences. For example, in the beginning they start off pretty much the same were he says “when I got out of the theater…” (page 1, p.1). Also ponyboy tells cherry the story of why Johnny was scared of socs. They both talk about and show the rumble between the socs and the greasers and the greasers winning the rumble. Both films say that johnny killed bob and pony goes with him to run away to a church from there (dally tells them to go there). Lastly they show johnny dying and dally getting shot multiple times (then dying).

Since the book and movie have some big similarities, the movie still has a lot of differences from the book. First off unlike the book, the beginning for the movie shows johnny walking with ponyboy instead of it being ponyboy alone and almost getting jumped by socs. Also in the movie, they show what happened to dally before he got shot by cops. Lastly, the entire movie makes most of the events happen way too fast. When ponyboy told johnny that his folks don't want him at his house, in just 2 seconds, he realizes what he said was wrong. Also they skipped the part where they say ponyboy is doing bad in one classes and they skipped the part where he was in court.

The actors in this movie did an okay job (they do better now than they did before). They didn't get too into their characters and show that it really happened. For certain parts they got into it, but missed just a little bit. However, there was some actors that did slightly better than others.