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Comparison Of The Movie The Outsiders Directed By Francis Ford Coppola

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The movie “The Outsiders” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and made in 1983 was an excellent adaptation of the book. The outsiders movie is about young teanagers in gangs trying to show who is the better gang and who is the strongest and the beast. The actors in the movie were ponyboy,darry,dally,soda and johnny are the main characters in this movie NARRATIVE----------- So they think that the only way to settle who is the best gang is to have a huge war. They think that the city is way too small to have more than one gang and the greasers wanted to be the one gang. So they arranged a war and called it the rumble .It would only be a fist fight only no weapons just bare hands . They started at the family's house the main character Ponyboys almost 15 years old and is the youngest out of the hole gangs on either side. He has two brothers named Sodapop and Darry. Darry is the oldest of the family because his parents died in a crash. They were driving over a main train track and the train came out of knoware and hit them on their driver side . They died at the crash . After that Darry was never the same . He turned hard ,dropping out of high school and started searching for a job. He found one and he stepped into a father figure at a early age so he lost most of his childhood . He brought home food ,money and the basic needs to provide for his family. After a year or so they started looking like a family . They went to go se a movie one night and ponyboy,dally and johnny sat down and started talking with two girls named Chary and Masha and before they knew it they had two new friends the only problem was they were soces and on the other ganges side but they didn't let that stop there friendship . Right at the start Dally starts to be rued and they don't like it at all . He asked if anyone wanted a soda and right away the girls said no but the boys said yeah so he went to get them . The girls ask Pony and Johnny if they were going to be like Dally and they said right away no. So they all start talking and Dally comes back with the sodas for all them and dally handed Cherry the soda but she poured it all over Dally. He got really mad and leaves. Right when he leaves two boys come back

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