![]() Grover: Unbeknownst to Percy but his best friend Grover is his protector and also a satyr. While in the movie it appears that everyone is aware of who Percy’s dad is and so we are robbed of the dramatic reveal. In the book no one knows he is the son of Poseidon (well one assumes Poseidon does), we get clues along the way a wave from a fountain attacks a bully, when he is about to get a swirly in the camps washroom the toilets all explode drenching his attackers, but it is when he is healed and power amped by standing in the river that he is revealed to be the son of the sea god. After working on Harry Potter with a young cast I can understand Chris Columbus not wanting to go through that again. ![]() Having young actors in a movie limits you greatly at what you can do and they can only work so many hours a day. I’m assuming the change in age is more about fiscal responsibility than an artistic choice. In the movie he is seventeen, doesn’t seem to have any troubles at school (bullies in the book give him a hard time) but we are told he has dyslexia and ADHD. Percy Jackson: In the book he is a twelve year old troubled kid who bounces from school to school and suffers from dyslexia and ADHD. So much is missing from the book I’m hard pressed to decide where to start. The Lightning Thief is Chris Columbus’s second time adapting a popular children’s fantasy book to the silver screen and what is most interesting is that in the case of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone he was oft criticized for being too slavish to the source material so when he took the director’s chair for this film it appears he decided to go in the other direction. So here as a book reader I’ll discuss why the film left me kind of cold. I know many people who really enjoyed this film and almost all of those people have not read the book, while those who have read it found the movie greatly lacking. In the case of “ The Lightning Thief” your enjoyment factor may well hinge on whether you have read the book or not. It’s not easy adapting a novel to the screen, they are two very different mediums (yeah, news flash) and many elements of a book just can’t be translated well into movie form, but filmmakers will keep fighting to get it right and us the viewers are often caught in the crossfire.
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