Let's begin by saying that the director never red the book completely, and liked to imagine most of the scenarios.
First thing of all, let's state the few good achieved scenes, Alec's jealousy is one of the few emotions that are actually very well captured, not to mention that Alec's part on this movie is almost nonexistent, but regardless.
Jace's eyes are blue, which is not accurate, as for when Clary describes him, she clearly states that his eyes are a clear golden color. The club scene, well, first impression was, the guy with the blue hair, was nowhere to be seen, then on the inside of the club when Isabelle first appeared, I thought well, they'll get it going right now, but no, Alec and Jace apear, and they kill the demon (which we can only know that he is because we red the book, not as this director ) right in the middle of the dance floor. Clary has no interaction with the three shadowhunters there at the club, as it actually happens, and she leaves being all scared with Simon.
The next scene, they go to the poetry reading, which was pretty much exactly as in the book, when she sees Jace, and of course Simon doesn't, nobody has any clue as to why Simon can't see him and Clary can, because the word glamour was never even mentioned. While she's talking to Jace outside Java Joe's, she sees and takes his sensor, which is nowhere to be seen, neither mentioned at all, which leads to the following scene, the Ravener scene, well, there was never a rot-wailer turning into a Ravener, it was just the Ravener demon and that's it, there was never an explosion, she does fight the Ravener, WITH the sensor, which of course she doesn't have in the movie. Jace does come and kill the Ravener. Their encounter with the police is not that brief, then, she's marked, and taken to the Institute, after talking to Hodge and having Alec wanting to kill her out of jealousy, she and Jace return to her house to look for some clothes for her as she is staying at the Institute, that's when he carefully explains to Clary what a Sensor is, and what it does, then they find and fight a forsaken, which is neither mentioned nor does it appear at any moment.
The moment when Clary finds out that Luke is a werewolf, is pretty accurate. Those were details left behind, I would like to assume it was due to the limited window of time to tell the story.
Now here's where the director and the writer decided to change half the book, First things first, Jocelyn, is seen drinking the potion, which actually is explained in COG, not in COB, When Valentine is presented to Clary, they tell her he experimented on himself and on Jocelyn being pregnant of her and her brother with demon blood, not being entirely true, and which also is explained in COG and partly in COFA. When they meet Magnus Bane, Simon is turned into a rat, which doesn't happen at all in the movie, and he is NOT bitten by a vampire, but the other way around, he is the one that bits Raphael ( whom is not presented in this movie either ) And when they return to Hotel Dumort to save Simon, it's only Jace and Clary, not the four of them.
Also something that is clarified almost at the end of the Saga, that Clary and Jace aren't really brother and sister, is shown when Hodge Summons Valentine to give him the cup, because he says that he will break their hearts if he make Jace and Clary believe they're both his children. Now this was the part I really wanted to complain about, one thing that actually made me want to leave the cinema was the following: Hodge's betrayal to the young Shadowhunters, is almost nonexistent and also he later on the movie redeems himself by closing the dome's portal. Valentine DID in the book show up at the Institute through a portal, but never saw Clary there, she was hidden and in pain because Valentine's crow almost ripped her face of, and he DOES take the cup unlike on the movie where it shows that Clary still has the Mortal Cup on the Tarot Card. Valentine does a pentagram with several weapons around the Library. and through that pentagram and the dome at the top of the Institute they let demons into the Institute, which is not possible, due the Institute is built on holly land, and no demon can break into it no matter who asks them in.
The " New Runes " that Clary comes up with on the movie are not the ones that she realizes she can create. And the fact that she gives Valentine a replica of the Mortal Cup, is not even close to what really happens in the story, not to mention that all this fighting between Valentine Clary and Jace takes place at the Institute, which and mysteriously Jocelyn appears at the dungeon of the Institute and not in the abandoned castle where Valentine actually is. The fight between the various demons and Luke's pack is also much more complicated then what happened in the movie.
In final comments, the movie in my opinion has a bunch of stuff just in case they didn't get a chance to make the sequel, which by the way is being filmed as I write. No actual fan of the books will ever tell you that the film was faithful to the writing and even people who hated the book hated the movie even more, this is a MAJOR fail in the film which could of been an amazing recreation of a great book.
I am probably forgetting something hideous that happened in the movie that wasn't really in the book, but it was very overwhelming so If I remember something else I'll add it later.
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