Compare & Contrast: The Lightning Thief
The movie, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is supposed to be an adaptation of the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The Lightning Thief is an award winning novel and the first book in the famed series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The series has sold over forty-five million books worldwide, and gained a very loyal legion of fans. Its popularity led to it being adapted into a huge Hollywood movie. However, with so many changes to the movie, it becomes almost an entirely different story altogether. There are a great number of changes between the book and the movie adaptation. In the book, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are just twelve years old. In the movies, they are sixteen. As well as their age, their appearances are also changed. While this may not seem too important, their specific physical traits actually play a big part in the books. In the book, Percy has his mother's green eyes, in the movie his eyes are blue. Annabeth is supposed to have curly golden blonde hair and gray eyes. The gray eyes are important …show more content…
His daughter Clarisse, who is the main camp bully, is also left out of the movie. Ares is not the only important villain who was left out, only one of the three Furies appear and Cerberus, Chimera, Echidna or Procrustes are never mentioned, despite Percy having to fight and defeat all of them in the book to complete his quest. Another major detail of the book, which is completely overlooked in the movie, is that Percy isn't supposed to have any kind of electronic devices. These types of devices are said to attract monsters, so no demigod ever carries them. In the movie, Percy has an iPod touch, which he carries with him everywhere he goes and purposely uses it in the lair of
The movie, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is supposed to be an adaptation of the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The Lightning Thief is an award winning novel and the first book in the famed series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The series has sold over forty-five million books worldwide, and gained a very loyal legion of fans. Its popularity led to it being adapted into a huge Hollywood movie. However, with so many changes to the movie, it becomes almost an entirely different story altogether. There are a great number of changes between the book and the movie adaptation. In the book, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are just twelve years old. In the movies, they are sixteen. As well as their age, their appearances are also changed. While this may not seem too important, their specific physical traits actually play a big part in the books. In the book, Percy has his mother's green eyes, in the movie his eyes are blue. Annabeth is supposed to have curly golden blonde hair and gray eyes. The gray eyes are important …show more content…
His daughter Clarisse, who is the main camp bully, is also left out of the movie. Ares is not the only important villain who was left out, only one of the three Furies appear and Cerberus, Chimera, Echidna or Procrustes are never mentioned, despite Percy having to fight and defeat all of them in the book to complete his quest. Another major detail of the book, which is completely overlooked in the movie, is that Percy isn't supposed to have any kind of electronic devices. These types of devices are said to attract monsters, so no demigod ever carries them. In the movie, Percy has an iPod touch, which he carries with him everywhere he goes and purposely uses it in the lair of