Looking it up, the Percy Jackson series was first published in 2005, while Harry Potter was first published in 1997. Judging from the setting of the story, the reference of the Percy Jackson series to Harry Potter is obvious. Not only Harry Potter, but even Neil Gaiman's American Gods, there are a lot of references.
They are all a little-known unique group, and they are all magical worlds full of mythology. The protagonists are all three groups of two men and one woman, fighting against a huge conspiracy that can destroy the mythical world, and the solution of this conspiracy revolves around a Paradoxical prophecy. . .
Anyway, it's a magical story, and writing it out of the circle is just such a little thing. But it is not as smooth as Harry Potter, which is completely overhead, and it is also different from the profound meaning of the conflict between the old and the new like the American gods. Percy Jackson's story is relatively deliberate. This kind of deliberateness is actually a flaw in the entire work, which cannot be solved by film art.
The film gave me the feeling that it was mediocre. Although the director also led the shooting of the first two Harry Potter films (the quality of the first two Harry Potter films is very high), but in the mediocre and a bit twisted works, the director's operation space is very small. He neither has the ability to completely get rid of the original book like Kushen, and create a completely different world through the setting, nor has the ability to make the various bridges in the original work more harmoniously integrated, making the film more convincing .
Therefore, the final work presented is very mediocre, similar to a movie of an RPG game that upgrades and fights monsters. Just compare Harry Potter and you can see the difference in quality between the two.
Harry Potter's plot and worldview are slowly unfolded, but each of his episodes maintains a considerable degree of integrity, and the amount of information is also very large. The Harry Potter Philosopher's Stone actually has two lines. One is Harry Potter's cognition of the magical world. This clue actually acts as a guide for the world view. For magical movies, this clue is very important and sufficient. Attracting attention, he can achieve many very outstanding roles, such as Hagrid, and the second one is Harry Potter's pursuit of the unsolved case of the Philosopher's Stone, which is actually the film and the main line of the entire series. And Professor Snape and Dumbledore shined brightly on this clue.
The two clues are actually inside and outside of each other. Throughout the Harry Potter novels, there are interactions and overlaps between the two clues (such as the Azkaban incident). A really good director will properly handle these two lines so that he can exert the greatest effect.
But Percy Jackson didn't give the director that space. In the film, the exchange between the inside and outside world is instant, without any link. In the front, Percy was still listening to the class, but the teacher in the back immediately became the goddess of nemesis. After the appearance of the Sheep Man, the whole film has completely gone the way of the mythical world. As for the imprint of the protagonist in the real world, the logic of the mythical world, and the synergy between the real world and the mythical world, there is absolutely no - it's not that the director does not want to explain, There is really no way to round up the settings.
The really awesome work is to build a virtual world that is trustworthy enough. The wizard world in the Harry Potter world exists in parallel with the human world, and there is also a deep exploration of the origin of the conflict between wizards and humans. Layered works. In the Percy series, there is no in-depth thinking about the cognition of the relationship between the real world and the mythical world, and the description of the real world only stays with a certain god and what kind of identity he uses to live in the world of mortals. . .
Let's see the show again. Personally, I think it is actually more difficult for 15- or 16-year-old teenage actors to train than teenage actors in their early 10s. Therefore, all the protagonists in this film have very ordinary performances. The worst is actually the male protagonist. After reading the work, I realized that Posey is the kind of boy who is very jumpy in thinking, a little shy, and restrained, but very lively, intelligent and very brave. But such a character is interpreted by the protagonist as a completely introverted and shy child. This is actually quite a failure. Every time the male protagonist wins against the villain, it is due to the outbreak of the small universe. . . This treatment is also too simplistic and rude.
The biggest flaw is actually the heroine. In all fairness, this role in this film does not have much room for the heroine to play. He only needs to pretend to be serious next to him with a straight face, and basically he can meet the requirements of the film. That's what the character in the book is like. But after watching the later films of the female lead actor, you will find that it is not because there is not much room for him to develop, but because he has only this ability. This girl has been in the film for more than ten years, but now when I talk about her masterpiece, what comes to my mind is the round, original white ass in True Detective. . .
Finally, I want to simply complain about the work's interpretation of Greek mythology. Shit, okay, is Poseidon so kind? He is obviously the second scumbag in Greek mythology, okay?
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