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Book Vs Movie

City of Bones

Does contain SPOILERS.

                                                                    

In the book their are some key differences that were taken out of the movie, but probably shouldn't have been. While a movie can't go on forever, describing every single detail from the book (even though I wish it could) and a movie only has so much money for special effects and awesomeness factors, their still were scenes that would have given the movie a lot more depth. 

• In  the book the first scene they mess up in the movie is Clary's  big fighting a demon moment. She walks in the house to find a demon and destroys it herself. In the movie they have Clary fail to destroy the demon and Jace has to rescue her. While it was an interesting and quicker way to insert Jace into the story for the second time, it took away some of Clary's obvious unnatural abilities which is later used to decide that she is definitely not your average human.

• The next scene to be completely deleted is Simon's. In the book Simon is tricked and magically turned into a rat by a group of vampires who then take them to their haunted hotel of a home. In this scene you get to see Clary risk it all to save her friend, stopping at nothing and proving her courage  you get to see exactly what she's made of. They took this scene out. Completely. No rats, no courage, and Clary loses a little more depth. 

• The next scene is more of a background scene that explains what happened between Valentine and Luke. While this may not seem like the biggest, most important scene it still gave the story more layers and mad the characters more tangible so you were able to relate and understand the hatred towards the antagonist of the story. 

• The last scene i'm going to comment on is the ending. To start with, Valentine never gained control of the demons. In the book he fails and uses people instead,while in the movie he posses the demons and uses them. Then you have Clary. Clary who barely knows about her rune gift. Clary who doesn't ever even use the runes the way she does in the movie. The end of the book consists of four people in a constant struggle of who is gong to die first. Luke, Clary, Jace, and Valentine all want the the cup. Clary and Jace, having just found out they are siblings are struggling with the idea of killing their biological father as he hold their blood over their heads. With one person's knife at someones neck every other  second the whole scene is intense and action filled, ending with Valentine having the cup and disappearing  through a portal. That is not at all what happens in the movie.

   My Rating: 3/5

                                

                            -Sarah Elisabeth          

                      

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