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This ain't your run-of-the-mill summer camp.
Transcript
- 00:01
We Speak Student!
- 00:03
Percy Jackson lightning thief a la Shmoop
- 00:06
Ah! summer camp a place for songs,
- 00:10
sunburns, and smores. And in Percy Jackson's case to find out that your
- 00:15
half god
Full Transcript
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illegitimate child of Posiedon. We don't think there's a song for that
- 00:21
In the Lightning Thief, references to Greek mythology thrown around faster
- 00:24
then Zeus lightening bolts, uh, one of which,
- 00:31
lightning isn't the only thing being stolen here. Rick Riordan uses his literary
- 00:35
five-finger discount
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on Greek mythology as a whole stealing it from Olympus and putting it into his
- 00:40
book
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Does The Lightning Thief accurately represent the mythology Rick Riordan Steeles. uh er a
- 00:46
borrows? Well in the lightning thief we have kyron as a teacher
- 00:51
no horseplay! And in mythology he is a tutor to the Great Greek heroes
- 00:56
pay attention you guys we have Poseidon ruling over the sea
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just like he did in mythology then there's Hade's in charge of the dead
- 01:03
check there as well and don't forget that babe Medusa
- 01:07
turning people into stone in serious need of a perm
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Though, if you take a closer look you might think these guys are just pale
- 01:15
limitations of their
- 01:16
actual mythical selves. Would Tyron really be hoffng in around kids summer camp?
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Can you really see Medusa selling statues by the side of the road and Percus the
- 01:26
studly Greek hero who
- 01:28
slayed Medusa? you really think he go by the name uh
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Percy? no offense to anyone else out there named percy
- 01:34
the characters in the lightning thief seem more like caricatures then gods and
- 01:38
monsters fresh from ancient Greece
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would you want an exaggerated cartoon representing you
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however Percy Jackson and the lightning thief doesn't claim to be a text book
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for mythology 101
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it's a young adult book about summer camp and camps about having fun
- 01:53
if your idea of fun is singing awful songs and scratching bug bites until
- 01:57
you bleed
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but it certainly isn't about hard-hitting scholarly facts. How does
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lightning thief handle the mythology it
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borrows? does it actually depicted it? Does it make a mockery of it?
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Or does it not really matter what it does with its source material.
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because its just a really good story. Shmoop amongst yourselves.
- 02:18
no horseplay
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