Movie and book comparisons

The Outsiders book and movie have a lot of differences and similarities. Some differences between the book and the movie are when pony,Johnny,and Dally meet Cherry and Marcia that happens a little later in the book but in the movie it happened in the beginning. Another difference is in the book it told us that Johnny was older then Ponyboy and in the movie Ponyboy looked older for some reason.
      In the book-movie there was also some similarities like when Johnny died it said that a beam holding up the church hit him on the back and the whole thing fell and the exact same thing happened in the movie it showed that a beam hit him and the church fell. Another similarity is when Johnny killed the Soc in the book it said that it happened in the park by the fountain and that was the scene in the movie.  I think that the actors really played their parts and they played the emotions from the book and the movie was surprisingly really close to the book.