The movie The Outsiders has departed from the book by changing my perspective of the plot, characters, main idea, and feelings for the ending. The first major departure from the book was when the first scene appeared showing Ponyboy writing, "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie theatre..." A person who had not ever read the book before may be confused by this scene. But if you had read the book, you would know exactly what was happening now. The scene created mystery, interest, and questions in what he was writing. It made the viewer want to know what and why he was writing that sentence. This first scene added mystery into the movie, and was able to make me, a reader of the book, feel like I knew something
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In the book The Outsiders, it gave more insight into Darry, Sodapop, and the rest of the gang except Dallas Winston, Dally. The movie gave me more information about Dally, but took away from what I knew about Darry, Sodapop, and Cherry …show more content…
In the court scene of the movie, Ponyboy was called to the stand to talk. But from what I saw, Ponyboy was asked whether Johnny had fought in self defense. This part made me feel that Ponyboy was a more important part in Johnny trial than I thought and that he was taken more seriously. Ponyboy always acted like he was treated as a kid, but he really wasn't. He was treated as an adult by the judge and all of his gang treated him like one. Besides all the differences, the movie was extremely faithful to the book. I noticed that through a majority of the movie, there was word for word dialogue that was straight from the book. Most of Dally's, Ponyboy's, and Johnny's dialogue was straight from the book. Another faithful factor of the movie was that all the actors looked very much like what I expected them to look like in the book. The casting directors made fantastic choices in choosing their actors. Almost all of the scenes in the book were included in the movie and only a few were taken out. The Outsiders adaptation from book to movie was extremely faithful to the
In the book The Outsiders, it gave more insight into Darry, Sodapop, and the rest of the gang except Dallas Winston, Dally. The movie gave me more information about Dally, but took away from what I knew about Darry, Sodapop, and Cherry …show more content…
In the court scene of the movie, Ponyboy was called to the stand to talk. But from what I saw, Ponyboy was asked whether Johnny had fought in self defense. This part made me feel that Ponyboy was a more important part in Johnny trial than I thought and that he was taken more seriously. Ponyboy always acted like he was treated as a kid, but he really wasn't. He was treated as an adult by the judge and all of his gang treated him like one. Besides all the differences, the movie was extremely faithful to the book. I noticed that through a majority of the movie, there was word for word dialogue that was straight from the book. Most of Dally's, Ponyboy's, and Johnny's dialogue was straight from the book. Another faithful factor of the movie was that all the actors looked very much like what I expected them to look like in the book. The casting directors made fantastic choices in choosing their actors. Almost all of the scenes in the book were included in the movie and only a few were taken out. The Outsiders adaptation from book to movie was extremely faithful to the