The band Lemonade Mouth, from the book Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes, definitely likes to stand up for what they believe in. The book is about 5 freshman in high school that meet in detention and then form a band that becomes a legend. However, the Disney movie made out of Lemonade Mouth and the original book seem to have different ideas about freedom of speech.
The movie is way more spontaneous than the book, because it's a Hollywood production. The principal in the book is way more of a caricature in the movie than in the book. He rides around the school hallways in a motor scooter, and is always yelling. In the book, the principal doesn't play a big role, and he is shown as against the arts, but definitely not as loud or as outspoken about it as the movie. The school in the movie is also huge, incredibly clean, and very elaborate for a small town high school. The band also makes it really big in the movie, and only gets kind of famous in the book. In the movie, the band even ends up playing at Madison Square Garden. On the blurb of the book, it says that Lemonade Mouth has become "the most influential band in Rhode Island". Also, the characters in the movie are much more attractive than how they are described in the book. In the book, Olivia, one of the band members, is described as having flat, lifeless hair, and not very stylish clothes, but in the movie, she wears nice dresses and has pretty blonde hair. The kids in the movie also express their beliefs in more extreme ways than the kids in the book.
Everything is more glamorous and bigger in Hollywood, including fictional high school bands. However, the people in the movie still did a pretty good job portraying the book.
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