The Outsiders Review

The Outsiders Review

The Outsiders was an interesting and entertaining film, however the production was poor and it lacks the gripping edge that the book quite easily seemed to give to the readers. The book was written by a talented young author named S.E Hinton, she wrote it when she was fifteen years old and it was first published when she was seventeen. The book replicates her surroundings and some of her personal experiences which where reflected in her novel. The Outsiders is an incredibly touching story, set in the 1960s in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story is about the different lives of two different gangs, the Socs and the Greasers, and the conflicts they have between them. The director of the Movie is Frances Ford Coppola, he was at the start of career and he also directed the Godfather trilogy. The movie, in general, was entertaining but the production of it could have been more convincing.

The Outsiders is a mysterious and intriguing tale and the book and the movie are similar. The book and the movie start off relatively the same; it starts off with Ponyboy, who is a greaser, coming out of a movie theatre. In the book Ponyboy is the narrator and in the movie he is writing his essay and then it slowly gets fades away and the story begins, this happens at the end of the book as well has the movie. When reading The Outsiders, the readers are only told that it is set in the southwest, however, the movie takes place in Tulsa Oklahoma.

The characters of The Outsiders book all seemed to fairly calm but in the movie the director made the characters more aggressive and serious. Ponyboy Curtis (Thomas Howell) and Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio) seemed to be the main characters in the movie, and other characters were missed out and not explained enough. Darrel Curtis (Patrick Swayze) and Sodapop Curtis (Rob Lowe) are main characters in the book but are minor characters in the movie, mostly all the Greasers were main characters but the director decided to focus on only two, which had lost some of the viewer's interest. In the book, Johnny's character appears to be much more vulnerable, whereas in the movie he is talks much more and he is not frightened by the Socs, who had jumped him and scared him mentally and physically. Ponyboy and Johnny are the best of friends in the book because they understand each other and in the end Johnny dies, and Pony it traumatized. However, in the movie, Johnny passes away and Pony hardly seemed to be affected, perhaps it was just another sample of the poor acting.

The book was more gripping because it explains more and it is more interesting and it also takes time to develop, whereas the movie was rushed and all the scenes happened too fast. In general the movie was entertaining and yet it still lacked the gripping edge the book had. For example, when the Greasers and the Socs were ready for their rumble, the book explained it much more and built up to