It’s Mortal Effect�
�Welcome to the City of Bones��
Many of the readers around has always mixed, or more deadly, reactions about books being adopted to films. For a lot of movie makers, somehow, it is a match they don’t need to win. It is more about pleasing the audience because the truth of it,or us being just glamoured for the purpose of having their money back, the audience judge it by what they’ve seen and � most crucial � for what they paid to watch. Hollywood does the work when it comes to that.
Now, as we seen it,or for those who haven’tseen ityet,there is no doubt that there were some furious reactions about the TMI: City of Bones. It might have been about how the characters looked like and how the chemistry wasn’t a chemistry at all but a physics malfunction (let’s say the whole cast choices were unbalanced for the taste of everyone). It could be about the appearances they chose to decline and chose to add. Or maybe about the change of pace in the film. Well, it always about opinions…and opinions are somehow…irrational sometimes.
But for Shadowhunter fanatics, or whatever they call themselves, it might be an abomination.
Okay, let’s start off about the basic analogy of all…The Instruments.
Book One talks about the beginning of anomallies about the Mortal Instruments. It’s always a good start by not introducing what are the Mortal Instruments yet, but few early chapters of drama and about the two words colliding�
Can’t say that this is a summary of the book or introducing the Mortal Stuff, it’s about reminiscing the power of the books and what this series -and still counting- indorsed itself in the literary world, and even into the creavasses of paranormal.
The Mortal Cup is a powerful thing, this is something that we familiarized with the Deathly Hallows, but the use of this deadly stuffs are somewhat different. You could think that ‘s intention is to fan fictionize the universe, but as a Literature Apprentice knowing a lot of figuring stuff is…cool. Well, the thing about this one are these Instruments made for the sole purpose of creating a new race to divide (correct me) and balance the worlds. It is even exciting to think that they exist for that only purpose: to save mankind from the evil forces.
The Mortal Cup served as an alliance between the immortal and the mortal race, where the blood of the angel Raziel was poured by the use of the well knownMortal Swordthat cut through his porcelaine skin for his chosen mortal men to drink with, thus the start of theNephilim Race.I believe that Clare’s intention is to personify the impact of paranormal narratives where the rules of angels are not just by falling from the heavens, fall in love with a mortal, fight through with it, sacrifices and happy ever after. It’s more of creating a world where all imaginable yet speculative stories about paranormal horrors unite. We see downworlders being thrown into one dangerous platform, while the hollies orthe protectorsare hidden to save and balance the world. More importantly is the imagination of Clare through out the writing of the series. Politely speaking, it could be a mixture of all stories that we read, but she pulled herself up by just making her own narrative from all the stories that she read. It’s more like creating a more sincere yet familiar world, and that’s how it looked like. We can always trust what we are thinking, rather than becoming insecure because people think you’re trying to kid them with the familiarity of the characters and stuff� Okay, back to the topic. Yes, the Cup. It formed an alliance between angels and mortals. But what is the third Instrument? For those who already read the entire � yet 1 book left � series, it’s okay, but for those who haven’t yet then read the book in your own peril.
As you’ve seen in the film,the Mortal Cup was introduced in the film early on, although we expected it to be more likely unnoticeable and plain it took a little bit of “oooooohhhhhhh”�and“a� from the fanatics. Having critical eyes about it, it’s a good point of introducing it as early as it should because it is a film and the climax is where the film should focus on. The representation of the Mortal Cup is beyond expected, I know even if you say you don’t. Thoughts about it that it might look like a plain gold “church� kind of cup, but a sophisticated representation on the screen it must look like appealing and somehow catchy. And it’s rule in the movie is big, being used by Valentine and to be saved from his hand by Clary and company.
Also, we’ve seen the early progress of the film. The meeting of Simon and Jace. It had been a little bad ass-ery in the books but it was sweet in the film, though it was a nice back up before going together to find Luke. In a fangirly way, Luke is this somebody we need our eyes on. Never expected that he would look better. At some point they forged the entire adaption but the vital thing to handle is how they would stick to the whole progression of the plot if they needed to make a sequel, and so it never failed the fans.
The progression, beginning in the middle part, seemed to be somehow amplified, rather than the book where there are few touches of emotion between the characters. What the film is trying to do � as everyone guessed � is that they needed to alter the whole process than wait for the sequel because it was not just for the audience’s pleasure but for the destributors feedbacks.
What I appreciate about the film is that, even though they made the book only 80 minutes (which is fair enough), they took some genuine dialogues from the first book. We notice that there was no elevator used in the Institute, we didn’t saw Church. The eligible snab cat, and Max. I know that it feels quitewrong[for a die hard fan] and did make few incomplete sequences. They also left out Raphael (god, he is very much useful in the sequels). But when you look it as a whole when put into , they didn’t took a great play to help. Basically, they concentrated on Clary’s rise to power.
Next Stop: The Characters. I’ll be brief on this.
In the book it all started like this� Well.
Our Clary in the film is a good choice, we were just caught in that surprise that she did draw a rune in the palm of her hand, which she supposed to draw in the City of Angels. But that’s not a big deal, it showed an early birth of her will to create runes.
Our Simon is the sweetest thing to be…Simon. He actually is a picture of a Simon in the book. He ruled himself out and expectedly, he became what we think about as Simon. He is a bestfriend to Clary, but, erm. First books are tend to surprise us sometimes.
We also have the Lightwoods and Mr. Wayland himself. Many fans of the book got so angry, it became so booooring, because of how Jace looked like. Pretty much, they pictured him as a brute ignorant sexy type of guy. Jamie is a good actor, although he is quite a type of guy that is slim yet have muscles that it looked like he didn’t fit as Jace. He is versatile, very good, very humble. Nothing much to talk about since it’s already out and kicking on the cinemas.
Alec and Izzy. They looked stunning. A perfect duo of Lightwoods. They showed great skills in the film which brought tears in my eyes when they acted as they’re supposed to be. When that g*ddamned fight scene inside the creepy looking Hotel Dumort, the judgements about them became a harsh hush from the audience. They loved it, I did too.
It showed the world how they failed to judge these casts, and I’m happy that the City of Bones worked well. Nun-nuh. There are still some guys out there who hated both the books and the movie. Anyway, this image was seen when they visited Magnus Bane’s party. Amazing, wasn’t it? But sadly, we didn’t see the rat-simon in it. Look at those outfits.Better in Black since 1234, eh?
Well, you know him. The ever popular great warlock of Brooklyn. Magnus Bane. Fans were crazy about his casting. He is perfect; however, at times that he needed to be as HAPPYas the Chesire Cat, we didn’t saw that. But we saw his flirtatious epicness in all that fast scenes�
And of course, the main guys of the Circle. Valentines� Circle. It’s amazing how Valentine looked so vicious, a force about to erupt into hundreds of greed and lust for power. Him as Valentine is one of a kind, even though he was in his battle gear, and not with his usual tux, he caught the tone and the character of Valentine. He is addictive to look at, such a great choice. We have here Jocelyn. Even in the books she looked innocently beautiful but keen and guarded as well. She is a nice Jocelyn but we will definitely see her in bed in the sequel. Next Luke, he is just how werewolf should look like. His eyes showed that deep sexiness inside him. He didn’t execute this over protective uncle in the film, but just few scenes where he tried to protect Clary. Though everything was pretty amazing.
I felt sad for Hudge, he became the benifactor of catharsis in the film, he became this someone who realized that he was wrong. An Oedipus kind of turn events.
And before it, the amazing tagline: �Welcome to the City of Bones…�
The City of Bones under New york should be more like a city rather than a tomb. See the picture? The fact is, I imagined it like a Hades kind of domain where it is a place big enough to have a single village in it. Though the effect used to it as just simply as tomb for the dead shadowhunters was good enough. It was shown that the place is cylindrical and big from top to bottom. The silent brothers were terrifying, thank you. The City of Bones and the way Clary’s memory has been shown with the help of the Silent Brothers were amazing, it is definitely a good representation of the Bone City, though I felt a bit raw about it as being just plain grave for the Nephilim.
So…�“Welcome to the City of Bones…�
Now, for those who haven’t read the book yet, or getting there in the middle, just don’t expect that epic fight in the end, expect maybe the wolf pack fighting demons. Just not the stuff where Cassandra Clare helped to add in the film that she wasn’t able to add in the book. It’s an epic ride, I tell you (and for those who would hate for how I praised the book, hell, I know exactly what I am talking about here�). What’s fantastic about the film is thatwhen our Valentine constructed the hell-hole for demons. Well, let’s just hope it’s much more reviting in the sequelCity of Ashes.
See you in the second book!!!
Here are some touches for you�
City of Ashesis the second installment in theseries, a young adult urban fantasy series set in New York written by Cassandra Clare.
C lary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what’s normal when you’re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who’s becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn’t ready to let her go-especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary’s only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil-and also her father.
