The Instruments of Death: City of Bones. Actors and roles

The Mortal Instrument: City of Bones (actors: Aidan Turner, cutie Lily Collins, spectacular Robert Sheehan, the extraordinary Kevin Zegers, the spectacular Jamie Campbell Bauer, the gorgeous Jemima West) is a screen version of the first novel by writer Cassandra Clare from the mega-popular teenage science fiction cycle.

Variation on the topic

Adult and skeptical viewers definitely should not expect a radical revolution in consciousness from the film. However, for a youthful audience, this variation on the topic “cracked the world in half” as a whole will be able to overshadow the famous Twilight, and even the legendary Harry Potter. Mystical themes have recently become so popular in cinema that just recently, three films tried to “surpass” the aforementioned film projects: “Guest”, “Timeless. Ruby Book ”and“ Beautiful Creatures ”. However, the movie The Hunger Games turned out to be closest to success. After the release of the movie "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones", the actors playing the main roles instantly gained worldwide fame and popularity. And it should be noted that the box office prospects of the film are very encouraging. After all, the literary original also has a decent army of fans, due to the fact that the book was written by the author quite easily and not at all overloaded with moralizing. Designers and animators of the picture created an attractive outlandish world on the screen. The costumes of the characters, effects and decorations are not inferior in scale to such universally recognized masterpieces as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, and other global blockbusters. And the plot structure, distinct and harmonious, harmoniously links both the ups and downs of the action and the action scenes, which distinguishes the movie from a number of countless stories on vampire themes.

The movie version is not heavy

The film was entrusted to the Norwegian director Harold Zwart ("Karate Boy", "Agent Cody Banks" and the claim "Pink Panther 2"). At the same time, the producers were right: Zwart, having studied the source, threw out from it everything that seemed distracting and superfluous to him. After the writers finalized the original plot turned into a beautiful fantasy fantasy story with amazing scenery, which could well surpass the success of Twilight. The film version “The Instruments of Death: City of Bones” (the actors and the roles of which impress with their play no less than the extraordinary scenery) is completely not heavy. The action is developing quite rapidly, not particularly explaining the meaning and root causes of what is happening, and not being distracted by a detailed acquaintance with the characters. The fact is that the “Instruments of Death: City of Bones” are on the beaten track, and they do not need to explain to the ignorant spectator who the demons, werewolves and vampires came from, because all this evil has long been familiar to us. The creators are not particularly bothered in revealing the meaning of the existence of the Hunters, explaining this inattention by the urgent need to solve the problems of the main characters.

Plot

The movie “The Instrument of Death: City of Bones” begins with an introduction to the main character, young Clary, who unwittingly witnesses the murder committed by a mysterious and extremely attractive young man in a nightclub. And besides the heroine, no one else notices the killer. It turns out that the girl is also of a rather mysterious origin, is the heiress of the kind of “twilight hunters” and is endowed with a special gift. Hunters protect the world of people from all evil. And the mysterious young man performed the task of exterminating the intruder. Soon, Clary, no worse than the famous Buffy, begins to exterminate vampires, plunging headlong into exciting adventures and exciting relationships with people belonging to the Clan Hunters. This is a brief retelling of the storyline of The Mortal Instrument: City of Bones.

Fantasy does not happen much

The film desperately stood on the beaten path of already popular fantasy paintings about the eternal struggle of good and evil. There are no halftones, but only white and black. The girl franchise The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, performed in a traditional form, (whose actors are matched to the standard types of youth paintings) is doomed to success. In the event that the predicted target audience does not suddenly like the character of Lily Collins, the handsome hero Jamie Campbell Bauer will certainly withstand all comparisons with Robert Pattinson. The performers of "adult characters" were Lena Headey (the same unsurpassed Cersei from the Game of Thrones got a more positive role here), as well as the charismatic Jonathan Rhys-Myers and Jared Harris - these actors are quite capable of creating a cool demonic world without special effects.

Cast - the lion's share of success

It is difficult to object to the claim that the lion's share of the success of any film lies in the correct casting. In this sense, the movie “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” (actors will be listed below) is no exception. Everything is in order with the casting in this film, which is confirmed by the reaction of the fans. Lily Collins clearly decorates the picture. But Jamie Campbell Bauer could play more convincingly, but Shakespearean passions are not required of him, and the spectators will like him and the silent ones, only throwing piercing glances from under the hood. Robert Skien plays somewhat weaker, but he compensates for this shortcoming with his humor. Jonathan Reese Myers is slightly outplayed, and Lena Headey is just hiding in memories or in a coma. Tortures every phrase and scene by Jared Harris. Actors of two generations play like this: young people are pompous and serious, and the older generation is fabulously mysterious. So the actors of the movie “Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” hold the balance, and the tape looks with great interest. The picture will appeal to a wide audience as well as the intriguing atmosphere of the secrets of antiquity and a nice visual picture.