THE OUTSIDERS - movie is trash, book is not
In some ways the movie did stay true to the novel but, there were many things that were just plain out had about the movie compared to the book. The emotion, the acting, it just wasn’t the same. The book made it feel more real. I think the director did a bad job delivering the novel's message because the actors did not show the same emotion that the characters in the book did. I didn’t really feel the same way I did when I read the book. They were almost like robots. Between The Outsiders book and movie there were many similarities. For example, in both Pony and Johnny were in the drive in movie where they met Cherry Valance and Marcia. Also, Johnny had killed Bob the SOC leading him and Ponyboy to run away and hide in the abandoned church. Both the movie and the book had the scene about the Church fire and Johnny had broke his back. In both movie and the book, Johnny tells Ponyboy to stay golden. This is an important scene because when Johnny tells him this he wants Pony to r...