Book to Movie Comparison: The Outsiders

Some of the similarities between The Outsiders book and movie is that they both did stay true to how the characters looks, personality, actions. An example is how the characters were alike to how they were described within the book. Another similarities are how the movie still had many of the minor details that were also in the book. An Example is how when Darry starts picking on Cherry and her friend. They stayed true to how Cherry reacted to Dally then how Johnny and Ponyboy started reacting to the girls and Dally.

Some ways that there are differences is how the characters didn’t exactly reach my expectations as an acting point. They didn’t seem to have much emotion and yes even though they did stay true to their look and most of the time, their reactions, I believe they didn’t put enough detail into the story. I understand that a majority of movies made have a time limit but I also believe that they added unnecessary details to parts that weren’t major. An example is when Darry slapped Ponyboy for coming home late and caused him to run away. In the book there was so much detail about how much it had hurt Soda but in the movie, it wasn’t the same. Another example is how in the beginning of the book, Ponyboy gets jumped by who find out later is Bob.

In my personal opinion, I understand the time that the movie was made there wasn’t perfect camera quality, sound, etc. but the least the directors was make the actors fit their role by adding more facial expressions, and little details like that that would’ve emphasized the major things within the story. Along with my examples with the differences how Darry had hit Ponyboy. I just believe that there wasn’t enough time put on that part of the movie.