Differences Between Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

Some people say the “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” movie is better than the book because the movie helps your imagination but have they ever not been lazy and just picked up the book? Movies actually ruin your imagination because you don't have to imagine anything, there is an image right smack in your face. The book lets you imagine the story on your own and it is also the original story. There are many reasons why the book is better but three important reasons are that there are no scenes left out, all the characters are all accounted for, and the whole storyline is present. To start with, the movie leaves out what they consider “unimportant,” but the characters compose the story. The movie version of “The Lightning Thief” excludes

The Toilet Scene is very important to the book, but they removes it from the movie. In the Toilet Scene Percy is getting bullied and has his head almost put in a toilet, but he shoots Clarisse with water and humiliates her. This event leads to the Capture the Flag Scene where they also fight. In this scene Percy is left in the outer part of the field and he gets beat up by the Ares cabin. Then he goes to the water and heals himself with water to recharge. Suddenly a green trident appears above his head. Another scene that magically disappearded from the movie is the Water Bed Scene. In the Water Bed Scene they find the Entrance to D.O.A. Studios which is where Percy's Quest leads to and is all about. To conclude the movie leaves out many scenes and replaces them with less important scenes such as Hydra and Persephone who are not in the

For example the bulb in the Aunty Em’s Emporium. In the book it says demigods are not allowed to have phones because monsters can track them, but the movie ignored that and changes it so Percy sees Medusa’s reflection through a phone case. In the book Sally gets left behind and then Hades returns her to her home, but in the movie Grover is left behind, which is inaccurate because he is supposed to be Percy’s protector. Also, Grover doesn’t get a searchers licence in the movie which is one of the reasons he goes on the quest in the first place. Another storyline change is that in the movie the pearls are not from the neriad instead the whole mission is about getting pearls from different places. In the movie it says based of the book “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan As you can see, the book is better because the whole storyline is present which makes it more