Outsiders Book To Movie Differance

Outsiders

Lily Horn

Grade 8

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       The book and movie Outsiders are both similar and different in a few different ways. The director can change up the story a bit, and you can still tell it's the same story. Like how twinkle twinkle little star and the abc’s are the same notes but different lyrics. I believe that the actors and director of the movie Outsiders did a great job bringing the book to life. I think the movie did capture the message the book was giving. The movie stayed true to the book; maybe not 100% accurate but it is common for directors to change it up a bit. They don’t want it to just repeat the book Exactly.

       There are moments in both the movie and the book that are especially important, and these are a few that both the movie and the book had. When Cherry’s boyfriend and the soc’s see her and Marcia walking with some greasers and Cherry talks about they should go with the soc’s back home, she brings up ‘Don’t take it personal if I ignore you in the halls at school’. That was both in the movie and the book. When Marcia says “No sweat” when the greasers were talking about rumbles, it’s an iconic line from that scene in both the book and the movie. When Johnny was killing the soc scene, they were drowning ponyboy just like in the book. Another memorable moment was when johnny and pony were in the church and Johnny left, pony WOKE UP and was worried where he was and Johnny had written in the rubble that he went out for supplies and food for them. Probably the most iconic, most important, most memorable moment in the book, and in the movie, was when ponyboy recited the poem ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ while Johnny and Hume were looking at the sunset.

       There were moments that weren’t quite the same in the movie as in the book. One was that, in the movie, around the outdoor movie theater scene Dally, Pony and Johnny were walking and they see some kids playing cards. Dally demands to see the cards and he showers the little kids with them and then chased them down the alley. I don’t remember that happening in the book. One tiny detail was in the movie theater scene, in the book the guys sit behind the girls, in the movie the girls sit in front of the guys. A characterization I saw was that in the book, Dally is just rude and creepy, in the movie, he was more dirty and inappropriate. In the book we knew ponyboy’s parents were dead from an accident, but in the movie, in ponyboy’s dream it shows them getting hit by a train. A big scene difference everyone probably wrote down was that Darry in the book, slaps ponyboy which makes him run away, but in the movie he heavily pushed him backwards sending him to the floor. Near the ending I remembered them on the bus in the movie, I don’t remember that in the book.

  In conclusion the book and movie Outsiders are both similar and different in a few different ways, also the director and and actors did a swell job bringing the book to life.