Good Screen Production? Directors have been turning books into movies for many years. Fans love seeing their favorite books become screen productions. Often the movie is a complete failure that barely resembles the books and causes an upset among fans and book authors. However, once every few disappointments there lies a good film that does the book justice. A film that satisfies the fans and the author. “Percy Jackson the lightning thief” is a story about a young boy who tells a story about being a half blood. A half blood is a child that is half human, and half God. Percy discovered his unique bloodline while simultaneously discovering that his life was in danger because of it. He goes to a camp called camp half-blood where there were others …show more content…
Throughout the book Percy was 12 years old and was in sixth grade. (Riordan) Life altering situations had accrued which caused him to have to mature a lot faster than an average twelve-year-old. However, in the film Percy was a 16-year-old teenager. (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the lightning thief). At the age of 16 boys already going through puberty and figuring out who they are as they inch closer to adult hood. By the directors making this change it makes Percy’s transition into adulthood less dramatic. If he was 12 in the movie the audience would be more sympathetic of how fast he had to transition and be more responsible for his life and the lives of the people he loves. The directors most likely made this change to appeal to the audience so that the teens of the time can relate more to Percy’s character. This was a good strategy for getting a wide range of people to watch the movie and was a good way to target teenagers to view the movie as …show more content…
In the text Percy got water thrown on him by a bully. The water gives him strength because he is the son of Poseidon, the God of sea. He causes water from a nearby fountain to rise and knock the bully down. (Riordan, 9) The directors changed this to a subtler hint that tells the audience that Percy is Poseidon’s son. They show Percy being able to remain under water for long periods of time, longer than the average human. During the movie Percy also says he likes being in and under water. They changed this aspect of the book to slowly reveal who Percy’s father is. This was not a bad change and in a way added more mystery to Percy’s
Therefore, Percy Jacksons conflict would be that he doesn't want to be a half-blood. Also, he always had ADHD and dylexia. Throughout the book he struggles in class because of his ADHD. Besides that Percy always struggled with dyslexia because he gets easily distracted. On top
Percy Jackson is just another typical twelve year old kid, although he may seem like it at first being a troubled kid, and kicked out of several schools. But that’s until Percy’s life takes an extraordinary turn. It all starts when Percy discovers that he has ADHD and Dyslexia, meaning his bloodline is half descending from a Greek god. This secret was kept from him his entire life but was released through a series of events on a field trip. Mr. Brunner, Percy’s Latin teacher, brings him to Camp Half-Blood, where all the mythical beings and other half-bloods reside. During his stay at Camp Half-Blood, Percy finds out about the identity of his true father, who happened to be Poseidon, one of the big three, as some would say. To be the son of Poseidon
For starters, Percy is the son of Poseidon, which I think is pretty awesome. Being the son of Poseidon also means that he can practically breath underwater without requiring those nasty gills people see on fish. Besides being able to breath underwater, Percy is also pretty great at being the comical relief in those tense monster fighting situations. Also, since Percy used to be the only main character in Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, I’m already used to the way he acts and talks to other characters. In all I love that Rick brought my favorite character Percy back into the
Percy Jackson is considered a hero by displaying in the chapter being o risky. One example of Percy being risky is shown on page 138. In this chapter it describes Percy getting his very first quest from Chiron. On chapter 9 page 138, it states “ So, I have to find the stupid lightning bolt”. Another example of Percy being risky is Grover helping Percy from dying. On page 240 it states “ he had grabbed me by the shirt, Annabeth on the arm, and was trying to pull us out of a crash landing”. Displaying the trait considered Percy being risky by being able to accept the quest of retrieving Zeus’ lightning bolt while helping his. Father even though he never claimed Percy. Another reason why Percy is risky because he was close from dying (God of
There are quite a few differences between The Lightning Thief book and the movie but there are three that I found to be extremely different and obvious. First, the most notable one is with the pearls. In the book Percy is given three pearls by Nereid. He is instructed to use them when in great need or danger. However, in the movie the pearls are hidden. The visitors who find a pearl are able to escape from the underworld and return to the sea. The second, is the death of Medusa. Percy cuts off her head in the book and it is then shipped to the Olympians, but in the movie her head travels with them upon their quest to return the lightning bolt to Mount Olympus. The third, is the character Ares, the god of war and the son of Zeus. He
Percy is immensely brave. He is not afraid to do anything if it meant he could save another's life, like he
Percy was born August 4th, 1792 in a small village of Broadbridge Heath, there he learned to fish and hunt in the meadows with his good friend and Cousin Thomas Medwin. He was the oldest of seven children of which belonged to Thomas Shelley and Elizabeth Pilfold. At the age of just ten Percy left Broadbridge Heath to go to Syon House Academy then two years later he attended Eton College. He eventually started having issues with Eton College. He was being severely bullied mentally and physically by his classmates. After a while his escape from the pain was his imagination. After a year he had already published two stories and two books of poetry.
Percy Jackson is the main character in this story, who is a demi god, who mortals are after. His name is short for Perseus and his father is one of the big three gods, Poseidon. He is suffering from dyslexia and ADHD, which could be deliberately added to the character by Riordan, to show he is meant to be a hero, and not to do well in school. This shows that school is not what he is good at, and he is destined to be a hero and save people. The character Grover, who plays Percy’s best friend, parallels a Satyr who is human from the waist up and goat from the waist down and is a companion of wine God, Dionysus, who we later learn, is the camp director for Half-Blood Camp.
The struggle for power relates to the lightning thief because in chapter 20 Percy battles Ares . Percy Jackson stated, “My body thought for me . The water seemed to push me into the air and i capluted over him,slashing as i came down “.I chose this quote because it was the moment that Percy uses his power . “ All that meant was my mom really had been squeezed into nothingness, dissovled into yellow light”.” I was alone. An orphan . I would have to live with … Smelly Gabe?”.
His road of trials primarily consists of his run-ins with Medusa at Aunty Em’s Gnome Emporium, Echidna at the St. Louis Gateway Arch, and Procrustes the stretcher in Los Angeles. All of these situations were challenging ordeals, which Percy had to walk into without minimal knowledge of, even with Annabeth’s help. Furthermore, after jumping into the river at the Gateway Arch, Percy had his meeting with the goddess. In this case, the goddess was a sea nymph who reminded Percy that Poseidon was on his side and provided help for later ordeals. In the Underworld, Percy could have saved his mother and left one of his friends, or even himself, behind, yet he chose to finish his quest and find Zeus’s lightning bolt instead. This was his temptation from the true path, proving that he is worthy of being a hero. While trying to solve this case, he reached the apotheosis of this arc; he defeated Ares in battle. In defeating a god in battle, Percy proved himself to be godlike, more so than merely being the son of Poseidon. After learning that Ares had the bolt the whole time, Percy returns it to Zeus, meeting with Poseidon and finishing the book on good terms with his father. The ultimate boon for Percy in this book was understanding that his mother and his friends were capable. Overall, Percy’s arc in The Lightning Thief conforms to the initiation of the hero’s
The book that I read and the movie that I watched is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The book was written by the British author, J.K Rowling, and the movie was directed by the English director and producer, Mike Newell. The main characters are Harry Potter (portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe), Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson). The book was first released in the United States of America and the United Kingdom on July 8, 2000 . The movie had its premiere in London on November 6, 2005. It is classified as a mystery/fantasy genre for both the movie and the book. The story starts with Harry returning to Hogwarts for his fourth year, where the Triwizard tournament between the three well-known schools of magic, Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang, is about to begin, wherein 1 champion aged 17 and above,
In the story Percy Jackson, the Lightning Thief, a boy named Percy Jackson has to face a conflict that decides if he and his father, Poseidon, survive Zeus' wrath. At the beginning, Percy finds that odd things are happening after he vaporizes his math teacher, Mrs. Dodd, at a museum right before summer. After this grueling experience, he went home to find his mom not at home and smelly Gabe, his step-father, sitting there playing poker. Minutes later, Sally, Percy's mother, walks in and declares that she and Percy would be taking a vacation that same day. Then, she and Percy drove to Long Island and settled down in their cabins to sleep. At that time it had started raining and at midnight Grover, Percy's friend, started banging on the door.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief the movie is about a young boy who has just discovered that he is a demi-god Percy Jackson. His father is Poseidon and his mother has been keeping it from him for many years. There is a lightning bolt that is stolen from Zeus on Mt. Olympus and Zeus believes that Percy has stolen it and demands its return by the summer solstice. In the mean time Percy gets attacked by multiple magical and mythological beings. There is a camp that demi-gods are safe from these things which is where Percy’s mother and his protector, Grover, take him to. This is where Percy’s journey begins. After a few days of being at the camp he realizes what he has to do. His mother was taken by Hades to the underworld and Percy has to save her all while trying to prove to Zeus that he did not steal the Lighting bolt.
At the center of this photograph is the protagonist, Percy, who is emphasized by the focus of light upon him, rather than on the other two characters in this scene. As he is standing in front of the characters who are at his side, it can be determined of that he is leading them through the area in this scene, before the hydra appears to attack all three characters. To his left is the deuteragonist, Annabeth, and to the right of Percy is Grover, his sidekick. As Grover is supposed to be Percy’s “protector” in both narratives, he is meant to be watching over and protecting Percy. I feel that this is accomplished by his decision to accompany Percy on his journey. In the film, a rivalry between Percy and Annabeth is formed shortly after Percy arrived at Camp Half-Blood, which is eventually resolved before the quest is given. During this journey, Percy and Annabeth begin to bond over their similar circumstances as being demi-gods, talking about the rivalry between their parents, and expressing their wishes of being able to meet their Olympian parents, who were forbidden by Zeus from contacting their demigod children. As they begin to bond Percy and Annabeth grow close and soon develop a relationship. When Percy goes to return the Lightning Bolt to Zeus at Olympus, he decides to bring Annabeth with him, so that they both can meet their godly parents, while in the
Over the course of this novel, Percy must embark on a quest to clear his name, much like Hercules had to endure his Twelve Labors. These Twelve Labors would prove to be a recurring theme for Percy throughout the entirety of his five-part series. While Hercules abandoned his quest with Jason for the Golden Fleece, Percy did not, and succeeded where the ancient hero had failed. Hercules was also directly referenced in Titan’s Curse in a flashback by Percy’s new friend and Hesperide Zoe, a goddess entrusted with protecting Hera’s apples which Hercules had stolen. Over the long chain of events throughout the entire series, Percy and his friends encountered and battled numerous monsters that Hercules had originally slain in his Twelve Labors, such as Cerberus, a hydra, the Nemean Lion, the Erymanthian Boar, and cleaning the Aegean stables, home to flesh-eating horses.