The Outsiders Movie Vs Book

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Francis Ford Coppola and S.E Hinton. I watched The Outsiders, the producer of the movie was Francis Ford Coppola. It was based off of S.E Hinton’s book The Outsiders. The movie is about is about two social groups: Socs and greasers. One of the main themes of the movie is “we’re not so different after all”. The meaning of theme and why it’s important, is that people need to realise that even though not everyone had nice cars, clean clothes, and big houses. We all came from the same place and all have the same basic and inalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The movie doesn’t support the book, because some

Why you need to pay attention to the characters is because some of the main characters are different in the movie as to the book. Ponyboy doesn’t get beat up as bad in the big rumble in the book, but in the movie it almost looks like he couldn’t stand on his own. Darry isn’t as strict on Ponyboy as in the book, but is harder on Sodapop than in the book. Johnny isn’t as small and weak as in the book, he sticks up for himself, and doesn’t have to rely on the others in their group as much as in the book. Why you need to pay attention to the plot is because some of the things in the movie don’t have in the book and change the way that some of the characters should act, like in the book we only know that Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry’s parents die in a car wreck but we don’t know how the wreck happened. In the book they don’t tell that Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry’s parents die because of a train, we just know that they die in a car wreck. Why you need to pay attention to the symbols in the movie is because not all of them are the same as in the book, like in the book Bob wore three rings and in the movie Bob only wore two rings it makes a difference on how many rings were on his hands because that is the one thing that identifies Bob as the one who beat up Johnny. Another symbol that is different is Dally’s jacket, it's not as big and bulky on Ponyboy as in the book and it makes

Like how Ponyboy and Johnny aren’t as small and weak in the book, which changes the fact that the other members of the gang don’t have to take as much care of them as in the book. Another thing is that one of the Socs, Bob has three rings in the book and only two in the movie which changes thing because that is how the greasers identify him as the one who jumped Johnny and left a scar on his face. There are a few things that don’t add up for me, like how Sodapop and Ponyboy’s hair isn’t more than average in the movie, but in the book they portray as if it’s the best in the world. Now that I’ve finished the movie I have two things on my mind: the movie and the book. I had these two things on my mind because of some of the changes to the characters, plot, and symbols. Some of the changes that I didn’t think should have happened to the plot were, Ponyboy starting out in a school desk writing his paper. I like how in the book we don’t find out that it was his paper until the end. One change that I didn’t like about the characters was, Ponyboy and Johnny weren’t as small and weak as in the book which changed the way the other characters acted around him, which I think is big because without the actors acting right it makes the movie seem kind of awkward. One change I didn’t like about the symbols was, in the book a Soc named Bob