The Lightning Thief Book Vs Movie Analysis

Do you think a book and a movie are the same? Well, it depends on what the author does to the book, and what the director does to the movie. Why does a director change the movie from the book? Sometimes the book is so long the director needs to cut some parts out of the book. In the book and movie, “The Lightning Thief”, is a sci-fi book and movie that mainly takes place in New York, and the main character Percy has to learn who he really is, to only find out he is the lightning thief. In the movie and book version of “The Lightning Thief”, there are many differences which the director of the movie created in order to make the movie quicker and not boring. Since Rick Riordan made a spider love scene Mr. Columbus decided not to make that part, and make a 5 headed Hydra scene that made …show more content…
When Percy, Grover, and Annabeth they were given a Lotus Flower, and they ate it which made them stay for a long time. Until Poseidon talked with Percy in his mind and Poseidon told Percy it is keeping them as prisoners. The narrator states, “Then I noticed the date: June twentieth. We had been In the Lotus Casino for five days” (265). On the other hand sometimes the director, Chris Columbus decides to make scenes the same as the book. Having the Lotus scene in the movie was really necessary. Mr. Columbus makes the Lotus Casino scene seemed like only one day; because if he didn’t it would have been really boring and tiring. He obviously knows that movies are fast going, and they are not boring. The Lightning Thief is a quick paced and action packed book, so the movie should be too. People don’t like movies that are repetitive, boring, slow, and have no action. Chris Columbus did do the right decision when he made the Lotus scene by reducing it, so the movie would flow better, it would be faster paced, and not boring for the