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The City Of Bones

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There are many challenges when it comes to adapting a novel into a film or TV programme. This includes the construction of a world, temporality, point of view, fidelity and originality and audience expectations. The world of a book is to expand your imagination. I will be looking closely at the novel The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. As the first novel in the Mortal Instruments series, it has a very big following and passionate fans. The thing that stood at when picking this novel was that it only had one film, which didn’t do very at the box-office, and with 6 novels in the series it was said that no more films were going to be made. Like few other films before, television network ABC announced that they were adapting the series into …show more content…

With a series that already has a big following and audience, making the film to all of their expectations is literally impossible. Everyone reads a book, has a different interpretation of the world, the characters and the storyline. People imagine what the character look like, what they sound like. A big part of audience expectations are the cast. There will always be people who don’t see certain people as the characters. No one will be perfect for the role, as they are fictional. No one will have everything the character is, but mostly they do try to cast as closely to the character as they can.

In City of Bones, there are a lot of difference between the actors for the same role. In the film role, the main character clary is played by Lily Collins. The character in the book is said to have red hair. She describes herself as having ‘carroty hair and a face full of freckles’
This is different in both adaptions, the film having more dark red, auburn hair where as the tv adaption it is almost orange. The actresses playing the same role are actually very different
The brother and sister in the novels are described as “dark haired’ and ‘beautiful”, the differences in the casting in each adaption is big. In the TV series, they are

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