In general, the movie struggles a lot with having its characters look like how they’re described in the book. Especially since it seems like something that would be so easy to include as a little Easter egg for the readers. It was a shame they didn’t add it to the movie. It helped add even more depth to Percy’s relationship with his mother, and it turns into a subtle way of showing how much Percy misses her. with Percy eating only blue jelly beans in honour of his mother. It’s may seem like a small detail, that only comes up occasionally, in the book, i.e. We also never hear or see anything about Percy’s and his mother’s insistence on eating blue food, because of an argument Percy’s mother once had with Gabe. Unfortunately, the movie doesn’t include the beach scene from the book, in which Percy tells the reader about his absent father. In both book and movie, he is a drinking, gambling, terrible human being, who downright abuses Percy and his mother. I feel as though Gabe was done well in the movie. He would have no one there to protect him from monster attacks.
After all, that’s why, in the book, Grover gets so nervous about Percy going home without him. I can’t recall if he stated a specific reason, but if I believe it was so Chiron and Grover could protect him 24/7, rather than just during school hours. In the movie, Percy doesn’t go to a boarding school. I can’t judge how accurate it is since I don’t have dyslexia, but I feel as though it at least fits the way Percy describes it in the book.
On a positive note, I like the way that Percy’s dyslexia was depicted. Percy’s warning to the reader at the start of the book would probably be hard to get right in movie form, especially since the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief movie doesn’t ever use a narrating voice for Percy’s inner monologue. That being said, the scene fulfilled the purpose of setting the atmosphere for the rest of the movie, which, had it started from Percy’s point of view, might have been harder to achieve. Although the scene succeeds in introducing the main conflict of the movie, I can’t see a good reason not to have Chiron explain it later on, like in the book. (Poseidon, of course, is not wearing the Hawaiian shirt that the book describes him to be wearing, whenever Percy sees him.) Here, Zeus, the god of the sky, accuses Percy, Poseidon’s son, of having stolen the bolt. We see Poseidon, the god of the sea, coming out of the water, on his way to meet Zeus atop the empire state building. Right off the bat, the movie starts with a scene that isn’t in the book. If you’d rather skip to part 2, you can find it here. In part 2, I focus more on the plot of the book and the movie, after Percy gets his quest. In part 1, the part you’re reading now, I go more into the characters and general notes.
You can find my book review of Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief here.ĭespite already having cut out a lot of points I would have liked to mention, I had to divide this post into two parts. Keep in mind that this post consists of my observations and opinions that are bound to differ from others. It is meant to compare the two (admittedly in a bit of a nitpicky manner at times) for entertainment purposes and nothing more. One prime example of that is Percy Jackson.ĭisclaimer: This post is not meant to judge whether the book or the movie is better. If there is one thing that readers can agree on, it’s that book to movie adaptations are seldom entirely accurate to the book they claim to be based on.
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