Differences Between Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

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The Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief movie only brings shame to the book. The movie was awful, the two are so different that it’s hard to believe the writers even read the book before writing the movie. For instance, the plot was watered down and changed, the way they showed the characters was inaccurate. Additionally, the movie is missing many details and events that were included in the book. For instance, some the actors age or physical description didn't match the ones in the book. The main villain throughout the book series wasn't even included in the movie. The producers didn't even include one of the major Greek Gods. The movie writers changed the movie plot too much. For instance: In the book, Percy was told to go find the lightning …show more content…

On Percy's adventure to find the bolt, Ares gives him a way to get into the Tartarus. Ares also gives Percy a bag that has Zeus weapon. Although percy didn't know it at the time, the bolt was inside the bag he was given. Now, once Percy uses the pearls given to him from ares to get inside Tartarus, Percy pushes through monsters and hell to get to Hades. Once Percy has a little chat with Hades, he discovers that that Hades had no involvement in the stealing of the bolt, Percy realizes that the the bolt was in the bag Ares had given him and that he is being framed for the for the heist. Knowing this, Percy knows he has to get to Olympus to return the bolt to Zeus and to explain what happened. Now jump ahead a few chapters, it's revealed that Luke had been the one who had taken the Bolt. Also,Kronos powers allowed him to manipulate Ares into framing Percy. If Percy somehow managed to escape from from Hades and Tartarus, Ares was tasked to kill Percy in order to prevent the truth from being told to Zeus. Now, in the movie, Luke was made the main villain and the writers completely blew Kronos out the water by not …show more content…

For starters, Grover was wrecked in the movie. In the book, he was a thoughtful satyr that had one goal in life, he wanted to find his god, Pan. Who by the way has been missing for thousands of years, presumed dead. Grover has a bad history and rep due to failing in a mission to bring a demi-god back to camp alive. Him wanting to prove himself, determined him to ride along with Percy on the quest.Further in the book, Grover matures physically and emotionally. In the film, Grover was turned into that one ‘black guy’ who always had some stupid thing to say. The sad thing is, Grover legit represented a lot of kids in elementary and middle school. Shy, scared and being afraid to speak up for oneself. But in the movie Gover was just trying to get laid. Fast forward the end end of the book when the crew return from the quest. Grover was awarded senior protector. Now, In the book series it took 3 whole books in for Grover to get this title along with his searchers license. Why rush through so much? As for Annabeth, in the book she had NZT like powers from the movie Limitless. Genius level intellect, due to her mother being Athena. In the movie, Annabeth was basically Wonder Woman. Thats a huge change from the

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