City Of Bones Made My Bones Book Review Essay
City of Bones Made My Bones Rot (CONTAINS SPOILERS!) by: Eeshma Narula
No. Just no. The well-known fantasy film, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a total disappointment. Harald Zwart took an incredible book filled with emotion, adventure, and mystery and transformed it into 130 minutes of nothing. Cassandra Clare’s amazing writing and characterization was demolished by the horrible directing and simply not good enough acting. I’m sure Clare went home in tears.
The story revolves around an teenager named Clary Fray (Lily Collins) who discovers that she is part of alternate world. She is a shadow hunter, half-angel and half-human. Her mother disappears and she with the help of other shadow hunters such as her love interest, Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower), searches for her mother and uncovers some dark secrets. Amidst demons, vampires, and warlocks, Clary is in for an adventure.
During the book, all readers fall in love with Jace over and over again. Jace was supposed to be charismatic, funny, and brave, of which none was shown by Jamie Campbell Bower. Jace’s meant to be funny cockiness didn’t make me laugh. Instead it made me dislike him. Jace and Clary’s …show more content…
City of Bones had some good effects. The Mortal Cup card magic, portal magic, runes, witchlight, and such sequences really came to life. Forcing you to believe. On occasion the effects were thick and fast, and they took away from the film, rather then enhancing it. Overall the director did an average job. The setting of the movie was awful. Everything looked the same. All the audience saw was dark and dusty rooms. I went to watch the adaptation of the celebrated novel City of Bones, not a 1940’s silver screen. The library in the Institute, which Clary adored, did not seem at all exciting to me. It was simply boring. Overall the setting was bland and repetitive and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone told me that he filmed the movie in his
No. Just no. The well-known fantasy film, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a total disappointment. Harald Zwart took an incredible book filled with emotion, adventure, and mystery and transformed it into 130 minutes of nothing. Cassandra Clare’s amazing writing and characterization was demolished by the horrible directing and simply not good enough acting. I’m sure Clare went home in tears.
The story revolves around an teenager named Clary Fray (Lily Collins) who discovers that she is part of alternate world. She is a shadow hunter, half-angel and half-human. Her mother disappears and she with the help of other shadow hunters such as her love interest, Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower), searches for her mother and uncovers some dark secrets. Amidst demons, vampires, and warlocks, Clary is in for an adventure.
During the book, all readers fall in love with Jace over and over again. Jace was supposed to be charismatic, funny, and brave, of which none was shown by Jamie Campbell Bower. Jace’s meant to be funny cockiness didn’t make me laugh. Instead it made me dislike him. Jace and Clary’s …show more content…
City of Bones had some good effects. The Mortal Cup card magic, portal magic, runes, witchlight, and such sequences really came to life. Forcing you to believe. On occasion the effects were thick and fast, and they took away from the film, rather then enhancing it. Overall the director did an average job. The setting of the movie was awful. Everything looked the same. All the audience saw was dark and dusty rooms. I went to watch the adaptation of the celebrated novel City of Bones, not a 1940’s silver screen. The library in the Institute, which Clary adored, did not seem at all exciting to me. It was simply boring. Overall the setting was bland and repetitive and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone told me that he filmed the movie in his