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MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Clary Fray (played by Lily Collins) is a teenage girl living in New York. After witnessing a murder, she meets Jace Wayland (played by Jamie Campbell Bower), a mysterious half-angel, half-human warrior called a shadowhunter. Soon afterward, Fray's mother is kidnapped by a man named Valentine, who is searching for a powerful object known as the Mortal Cup. Fray then
discovers that she, like her mother, is also a shadowhunter. Now she must learn to master her powers in order to save her mother and recover the Mortal Cup.
Creating fantasy worlds
For Cassandra Clare, seeing her novel made into a movie was a magical experience
With tens of millions of copies in print worldwide of her two fantasy series, "The Mortal Instruments" and "The Infernal Devices," author Cassandra Clare can be considered an expert on fiction that appeals to teens.
Clare, 40, said "there's no magic formula." But what she's doing — imagining a society of young demon hunters, known as shadowhunters, in a world of vampires and werewolves — is working like magic both in bookstores and Hollywood. The film adaptation of the first book in Clare's first series, "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," will hit theaters in Taiwan on Aug. 30.
Clare said there's no simple explanation for the popularity of her books, but she suggested that it has to do with her characters, "whom my readers can relate to." She said that "readers may suspend their disbelief when it comes to magic, but they need to believe in the characters — teenagers who have some of the same concerns they do."
Clare cited several factors that explain why fantasy fiction aimed at teens has become so popular. In this technological age, "readers yearn for some magic," she noted. And as a genre, young-adult fiction is "genre-busting." Adult fiction, she said, tends to be labeled "either romance or sci-fi or historical fiction. They're in different sections of bookstores. But young-adult novels combine all or most of those elements."
For Clare, seeing her book made into a big Hollywood movie was both incredible and nerve-racking. There are things that an author cannot control when their book is turned into a movie, but Clare explained that she was lucky because she was invited to take part in the process.
Being involved in bringing her novel to the big screen was a surreal experience for Clare. "Most books are never made into movies. It's a dream you have when you write a book, but you don't think it'll ever actually happen," she explained. "When I met the people who were making the movie for the first time, and they were talking about potential actors and locations, it was really incredible. And actually, a little bit of me still can't believe the film is real." Soon, however, the whole world will be experiencing the magic of Clare's vision on the big screen.
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