What's the Difference between On the Road the Book and On the Road the Movie?
On the Road Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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Sal lives in New Jersey. |
He lives in Ozone Park in Queens. |
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Dean badly injures his thumb when attempting to hit Mary-Lou. He keeps it heavily wrapped. |
He never hurts his thumb.
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Sal and Dean share a car ride with a homosexual salesman and a young couple. Dean tries to get money from the "fag" in many ways. He doesn't have sex with him. |
The "fag" comes to Sal and Dean's room and Sal watches through the bathroom door as Dean forcefully sodomizes the man. He doesn't give him any money. |
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Dean has another relationship with Inez who he impregnates. He plans to marry her, but leaves her to go back to Camile. |
She doesn't appear.
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Sal and Stan Shephard plan to go to Mexico. Dean hears about the plan and gets a car and they all drive there together. |
Sal and Dean go to Mexico alone. |