Percy Jackson and the Lightening thief was a pretty good movie by itself but a lot of the story was different from what happens in the book ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief’.
For example:
• Percy is told he is the son of Poseidon whereas in the book Chiron figures that out in a capture-the-flag game.
• Also, Percy’s sword Riptide is a click-open pen in the movie, but in the book its a pen meant to be uncapped.
• In the movie, Percy escapes from camp for his quest, but in the book he approaches the oracle, and then takes permission from Chiron to leave camp on his quest.
• Another difference is the entrance to the underworld is different.
• The biggest difference from the movie and book is that some of the characters like Ares, Dionysus, Clarisse, Nancy Bobofit and Charon were all missing in the movie with some of the monsters who were replaced with other monsters.
One fact that appealed to me in the movie was that the movie had a happy ending; none of the books (except the fifth) had a happy ending. If they were going to make more movies, then they shouldn’t have made a happy ending here.
I feel that the movie would have been better if there was no book or if you hadn’t read the book yet.
Nihaal George,
Grade 6-A
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I need to add-on something or rather improve a point.
• In the "capture the flag" thing, Chiron AND Annabeth notice that Percy is Posidion's son Because once he gets out of the water, healed, Posidion claims him by flashing a TRIDENT on Percy's forehead.
• In the book, Luke poisons Percy using that scorpion and in the movie that was not counted. Instead they showed a battle scene (Luke v.s. Percy) at the Empire State Building (Entrance to Mt. Olympus).
Sorry if I messed up the spellings.
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