Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Essay -- mytholog

My original thought when comparing Percy Jackson and the Olympians the Lightning Thief the picture show and Classical mythology was that there would be m each more references to the myth of Perceus than every other myth without the movie in its entirety. Thats where I was wrong. After watching the movie again and researching the disparate hero myths my vox populi has changed. My new thoughts be that the movie is not influenced by the myth of Perceus any more than other hero myths. The movie ties together many different heroes stories and mixes them together to make a wonderful story most a young boy. The movie was based on a news serial publication written by Rick Riordan. 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. in that respect is a lightning rigidly 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 cosmoss. There is a camp out that demi-gods are safe from these things which is where Percys mother and his protector, Grover, move him to. This is where Percys 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 come out to Zeus that he did not steal the Lighting bolt. This is the true bulk to Percys quest. He made a few friends in the camp and they agreed to go on this journey with him. Those accompanying him were his protector Grover and genus Athenes daughter Annabeth. They withal get some helpful tools fro... ...but they also believe that it is influenced by current day books such as get to Potter more than Greek myth. Even though the movie and book may be influenced by these pop cul ture books that is to say that those books are not influenced by Greek myth. There are influences of mythology all through the world and most things in the world are influenced by mythology in some way. ReferencesPercy Jackson & the Olympians The Lightning Thief. IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2013. .Siegel, Dr. Janice. Dr. Js Illustrated Lectures. Dr. Js Illustrated Lectures. Dr. Janice Siegel, 26 Nov. 2005. Web. 30 Nov. 2013. .Camp Half-Blood Wiki. Wikia. Wiki, n.d. Web. 5 Dec. 2013. .