The movie ‘The Outsiders’, directed by Francis Coppola, based on the book ‘The Outsiders’ written by S.E Hinton, left out quite a few scenes in the movie. The origin of the movie was distinct from the origin of the book. Of course, the movie is never really a carbon-copy of the book. Francis might have misinterpreted some of the significance and representations from the book. Although Francis did make the movie as comparable to the book as much as he could, some of the scenes are just not in the book. But, the scenes is not the only thing different between the movie and the and the book. The actors that portray the characters from the book, do not look as described in the descriptions of each character. In the following paragraphs I will provide …show more content…
evidence to support these comparisons between the book and movie. The first comparison are the scenes that Francis does not put in the movie, nor does he mention them anywhere in it. The first scene I noticed that was left out was the opening scene: The opening scene in the book was started off with Ponyboy walking out of a movie house, into the bright light. And Ponyboy only has to things in his mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. In the movie it starts with Ponyboy, Johnny, and another greaser in the corner of a store. Later on it shows them walking somewhere and stop to watch a fight, which only lasts a few minutes because the police show up so they run off. The book also does not include the scene with the greasers watching the fight. There is also a part of the book where Pony gets beat up by the socs. In this scene Pony sees a mustang riding up slow behind him and they get off and that's when they beat him up. The fourth comparison is when the actors that portray the characters in the book do not look as described on the descriptions of each character. For example Pony has light brown/reddish hair that is long on the back like they did in the 60s and quite greasy. His eyes are greenish- gray, in the book this how they describe him. In the movie the actor that portrays Pony has dark brown hair that is short and not as greasy as described. His eyes are brown. Also Soda pop’s appearance seemed distinct from that of the book: Soda pop’s hair was supposed to be blond.
A fifth comparison is about Cherry and how things are a bit distinct. At the drive in movie we can see Cherry and Marcia fighting with their boyfriends about them getting drunk and bringing booze. In the book we read that Cherry and Marcia tell Pony and Johnny about the fight between them and their boyfriends, stating that Pony and Johnny did not see them earlier when they walked in the drive in movie. Cherry also never quietly said that she admires Darry, because in the book it says that Pony heard her say that so quietly that only he heard her. Another comparison is how Pony’s parents die, in the book we read that they die in a car wreck only a few months before all of the other things happen. In the movie we learn that Pony’s parents die in a train wreck. In the book the rumble was started by Paul and Darry, Dally ran up yelling wait for me and that is when Paul hit Darry in the jaw and the rumble started. In the movie it was started by someone else hitting Pony and made him fall down to the ground. At the rumble when Dally ran up his arm was not broken or hurt with any bandages, in the book Dally’s arm is hurt so he can’t fight as good because of it. The movie does not show Pony at school while in
the books it says that he was in a class when he pulled a blade to cut open a worm and a girl in the class sitting next to him said that people were right he is a hood. Also the movie does not include Pony telling Cherry the whole story about a guy with a lot of rings on his hand beating up Johnny he only says it and tells a few details. After the rumble in the book Pony loses his mind by thinking that he himself killed Bob and Johnny is alive, it also includes the scenes where they went to court. The movie does not mention any of the things. The characters in the movie don’t talk a lot about Soda Pop like it does in the book. Also on the night that Pony and Johnny run away is when Pony gets into an argument with Darry about Sodapop, Darry hits Pony, in the movie it shows that Darry pushes Pony and does not hit him. In the previous paragraph I have given most of comparisons between the movie and book and evidence. They were not only about the distant features about the characters, but also about the scenes in both the book and the movie. Most of the comparisons are mostly the obvious scenes that were not apart of this the other ones were smaller details about characters, scenes, and the way the said some of the lines in the book and movie. In paragraph I will end any more comparisons between the two. So in conclusion This is comparison between the book ‘The Outsiders’ written by S.E and the movie ‘The Outsiders’ directed by Francis Coppola.
The Outsiders was a great book, and the movie was a great way to wrap everything up. There were some similarities, but a lot more differences. When I watched the movie, I could see how the characters in the movie didn't exactly match how they were portrayed in the book. My imagination was on a different track than what I saw in the movie. In my next paragraph I will explain the character differences in the book and the movie.
The book version of “The Outsiders” describes all of the characters in beautifully done, clear, vivid detail. This allows the reader to easily visualize these characters in their “minds eye”. For example, Ponyboy was said to have light brown, almost red hair. Sodapop was believed to have dark blond hair. Dallas was described to have elfish features accompanied with blond, almost white hair. This flawlessly gives us a very comprehensible description of these characters. Now, taking a glimpse at the movie version, the viewer would be easily confused as to who is who! In the film, the actors that were chosen held no resemblance to the clear descriptions given of their characters. Ponyboy had dark hair, but not much tinting of red, as described in the book. Sodapop, portrayed by Rob Lowe in the film, was not the dark blonde-haired image that was expected. The most erroneous description fell on Dallas Winston, played by Matt Dillon. This specific character held no similarity to the description in the book. Where the book claimed elfish features and white/blonde hair, we all know Matt Dillon is neither of those. While he is a handsome man, he is neither elfish in appearance nor does he have light
Whenever a great book is released, a movie is sure to follow. Some movies don’t capture the full image of the book, and the Outsiders movie, while close, is very different than the book. The book the Outsiders was released in 1967 by S.E. Hinton who was only seventeen. The book gained multiple rewards later on. The movie was made almost twenty years later in 1983. The movie shows fans a visual representation of the book, The Outsiders. The Outsiders book is different from the movie because the book shows Ponyboy’s thoughts, the movie doesn’t show much of what happens to Ponyboy after Dally’s death, and doesn’t show movie-watchers much of Johnny’s backstory.
In both the novel and movie focus on the war. The war influences the characters to enroll.Also, the main setting is at the Devon School. However, in the novel Gene visits Leper at his house but in the movie Leper lives in the woods.In the novel Gene is coming back to the Devon School 15 years later.However, in the book he is coming to Devon as a new student.Therefore, similarities and differences exist in time and setting in the novel and the movie.In the novel and the movie there are similarities and differences in events, character, and time and setting.
Poney does not want to be in a boys home, due to his parents death all three boys should be in a boys home. He mentions both in the book and the movie he has to be careful with getting into huge trouble because if the cops found him they would put him in a boys home since he has no parent. Cherry is very kind hearted in both the movies she tells Ponyboy about how you can’t assume if one person from this group is like that, then that must mean everyone else there is the same. She finds a way to figure someone out, if they are a certain way it's because of their past because they've gone through tough stuff she says “Things are rough all over”(S.E. Hinton). In both Cherry spills soda on Dally for trying to hit on her and tells him “get lost hood” (S.E. Hinton), but then tells Pony that if she sees Dally she's afraid she will fall for him, because she sees the good in him. Poney boy also talks to Johnny about the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay in both while watching the sunset about losing your innocence and views in life. When Johnny passes away he tells Ponyboy Stay
West Side Story is a book about two gangs living in a large city. The Outsiders is a book with the same concept, two gangs that are archrivals. Even though two different authors wrote these books during two different time periods, they have the same story line. These books are realistic, because gang rivalry is still going on today. They are different, since they were written separately. Also, both these books have different problems between the main characters. Still, West Side Story and The Outsiders have many similarities.
The first scene many might notice, is that the book starts out as Ponyboy walking home by himself unlike the movie, along with the part of being attacked by the Socs in the first part of the book. This scene is one of the only scenes that happens in the book and not the movie. In the movie, it starts out with the greasers at the gas station Another part that is uniquely in the book, is the part where Johnny and Ponyboy pretend to be playing soldier in Windrixville so they do not get caught. In addition to those parts, there is one substantial subplot that does not take place in the movie, and that is Sodapop’s girlfriend. In the book, Sodapop has a girlfriend who had moved to florida because she was pregnant and not allowed to marry Soda, however, Sandy did not like Sodapop they way he thought she did."When Sandy went to Florida… it wasn't Soda, Ponyboy. He told me he loved her, but I guess she didn't love him the way he thought she did, because it wasn't him." (Hinton 165). Unfortunately, another story of him did not prevail, the story of his favored pet horse, Mickey Mouse. In the book, Soda was was mentioned far more than any other characters in the story, be that as it may, the movie failed to mention him as the book did, leaving him in the dust with the other characters. One other major difference from the book, is the fact that the reader is able to know what Ponyboy is feeling and
While Ponyboy was coming home from the movies the Socs were following him but the color of the mustang the Socs were driving was red, in the book it was blue. Further on the Socs jumped Ponyboy and they tackled him to the ground and cut his neck, but really he got cut on the head. Later on, after Ponyboy and Johnny went to the drive in they met to Soc girls, Cherry and Marcia and Two-bit was there later on and asked how was the South side of town, but really he said in the book “ How do you like the west side of town” (Hinton p. . Coming home after the movie Ponyboy fell asleep in the vacant lot and came home late so Darry yelled at him and smacked him in the face but in the movie, Darry pushed him to the ground. Running away, Ponyboy and Johnny were being attacked by the Socs and one of them, Bob, was drowning Pony but he was really be drowned by five Socs instead of
The Outsiders and The Wednesday Wars deal with misunderstandings among young people in the 1960’s and show how people can form friendships despite their differences. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about two rival gangs, the Greasers and Socs. Ponyboy Curtis and some Greasers befriend Cherry Valance, a Soc. She spies on the Socs and helps out the Greasers. Ponyboy and his friend, Johnny Cade, become involved with the killing of a Soc, so they run away to an abandoned church. When the church catches on fire, Ponyboy, Johnny, and their friend Dallas Winston, save a few children who were trapped in the burning building. Johnny gets injured during the process and later dies. The boys are mentioned in the newspaper as heroes. The
The Outsiders is a book that changed the style of young adult writers because it went off from the genre that young adult writer were using during that time period. The reader sees the everyday problems that teenagers were going through, “I can’t take much more Johnny spoke my own feelings I’ll kill myself or something” (Hinton 47). Johnny felt unloved because his parents treat him bad and say hurtful things to him, but when Johnny is with the gang he feels loved because they embrace him, and let him stay at their house if he cannot bear to go home to his parents. So many writers were use to telling fairy tells and fables, the realism of the outsiders made it the first of its kind during the time period it was written. Todd Howard points this out in his book Understanding The Outsiders, “ Thus the overwhelming commercial success that The Outsiders enjoyed among teens shortly after its first publication, it sent astonished publishers scurrying to find writers who could duplicate the novel’s formula and gave a pause to literary critics” (Howard 8). Authors in the early sixty’s never thought about writing a book showing the gang and social class differences, and this is why The Outsiders was a successful book because it opened people’s eyes to the problems some...
The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton is a book about two different groups that don’t get along, the Socs and the Greasers. The two unions may act like they are tough and have no emotion on the outside, but on the inside, they are full with feelings and are very caring people. After Johnny was hurt, Ponyboy says to himself “A pain was growing in my throat and I wanted to cry, but greasers don’t cry in front of strangers”(Hinton 102). The 2 social classes may put on a front in public, but deep inside they care about others and have
A huge difference throughout the movie and novel was it showing Ponyboy hanging out with Two-Bit more than Sodapop. Throughout the novel it is stated that Sodapop and Ponyboy are best friends. Sodapop and Ponyboy are described as best friends, Pony even states him as his favorite of the gang. Throughout the movie Ponyboy can be seen hanging around with Two-Bit, rather than Sodapop. They are seen at the DX, the drive in, etc. If you thought that was the end of the differences, then were you wrong, there are many more. The first ten minutes you see of a movie determine if you stay or not in some cases, would this difference change the viewer's mind? In the novel Ponyboy’s first line states that he was walking home, and he only had two things on his
“The Outsiders” is about two groups the Socs(richer ones) and the Greasers(hoods) a few greasers get into some trouble with some Socs when Johnny accidentally kills somebody they get into some trouble. When they flee town to the mountains they change how they look so they don't fit the descriptions in the paper they eat baloney sandwiches and smoke, while playing cards. When Johnny ends up in the hospital the gang gets angry at the Socs.
In many places, for many decades, poverty has been in many people's lives. Both the poem “Poverty and Wealth” and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton include wealth and poverty. Since there is poverty spread widely throughout The Outsiders the poem “Poverty and Wealth” ultimately relates to the book.
In The Outsiders, I think that some of the characters can compare to others from different books, movies, and TV shows. I think Two-Bit is like Patrick from Spongebob because he makes a lot of dumb decisions and doesn’t get punished for them. I think the socs named Bob is like Plankton from Spongebob because he has a bad and a good side and gets jealous easily. I think the socs in a whole are like Mr. Krabs because they always need more, they can just be okay with what they get.