Why Change It

Authors Note: I wrote about this because it is one of my favorite book series.

Books and movies can vary dramatically because nobody wants to see a four hour movie. So they must condense the information from the book. That is exactly what they did between the book The Lightning Thief and the movie. That is why some people prefer the books because they can more emotion over a longer period of time.  In this case they left out some major things from the book.

First enormous thing I noticed that Ares wasn’t in the movie. In the book he was a major character and part of the climax in the book. The fight with Ares was my favorite part in the book and I was hoping it would. It showed how much power Percy truly has. Only a handful of people would stand up to Ares let alone fight him and win. It added a lot of meaning because braveness is a necessity to have even when it comes to spiders.

Likewise in the book you find out that Annabeth is extremely scared of spiders. In the tunnel of love spiders  petrified her and it almost got her and Percy humiliated to everyone on Olympus. It shows you that not everyone is fearless even though they may look it. If I were to have seen the movie without reading the book Annabeth looks like a hardcore warrior that is not scared of anything. With reading the book you feel like you know the character better than movie explains. It helps the overall feeling toward the movie because you know more than the movie shows even with the lighting and music they add.

When Percy, Annabeth, and Grover travel to the underworld its dark scary and just makes you feel like something bad is going to happen. The ferryman’s voice is omniscient as if he knows something bad is going to happen but his facial expression gives nothing away. On the other hand, Percy and his friend’s faces look scared and unsure if they have made the right choice to come here. They don’t know what is going to happen but most likely it won’t be good.

All in all, it may be an extreme task to complete but they should try to put more of the book into the movie. Music and lighting is the way to add emotion in a movie to make it interesting and fun to watch. The suspense it can create makes you want to keep watching. Authors do the same they want to drag you in so you keep reading.