Moose#7 - Book versus Movie

In the movie, there were some things that bothered me because they were not included. The first thing would have to be the fact that they did not show the court case. I find this kind of peculiar. I mean that if I go walking down the road now and have a switchblade in my pocket, I can not kill a pedestrian and then someone would say “good work”. It just does not work like that. There are some things in this world that need to be demonstrated, and one of them would be getting the right punishment if you do something wrong, like what Johnny did to Bob Sheldon. I think that if something that seems to be serious in the book, then it should be added in the movie. The movie seemed to be a little bit short and if they added this it could have made the movie more interesting.

For the second thing, I cannot go past the part where Ponyboys teacher, Mr Syme, called him back after class because he wanted to talk to him about his grades falling. This was obviously happening because after the ordeal Pony went through, everything cannot go back to normal in the blink of an eye. But still, this was something major that happened. Without that scene, a fair bit of the story had changed. If we did not read the story, we would not understand anything that happened in the movie. You could say that the movie was kind of muddled up because of some scenes. In the movie, the ending happened just like that. But in the book it was more appropriate because Pony was writing the story for his teacher. It was a really good ending just because of that one scene. The ending of the book was probably the best thing that happened.

The last thing that bothered me was when they did not record the scene when Sodapop just lost it and ended up bursting out of the house. When I read this part, I thought that this was something that would bring them a lot closer. Soda ran out because of the letter which he wrote to Sandy. But maybe because they had that little talk afterwards, it could probably help take Sodas mind off of Sandy. I think that if they done this scene in the movie, it would have turned out very good and now they would never have to fight again which can help them get their minds off the recent events, including their parents’ death. If they added that in the movie it would make more sense to the people who are going to watch the movie.

Some of the main things that they missed out on in the movie were when Two-Bit started bagging Johnny’s mother, when Ponyboy was relaxing in bed, the part where Pony was not afraid to kill the Socs with his pop bottle and one which I think was most important, they did not have an introduction in the movie. It was just straight to the drive-in. Taking into consideration these things, I would give the movie 6/10 and the book, a hearty 10/10.

Moose#7