The Landlady Compare And Contrast

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“The Landlady”, by Roald Dahl tells the story of Billy Weaver who stays in a bed and breakfast in Bath, England and comes face to face with a dangerous homicidal landlady. For “The Landlady”, there is a book and a movie. There are several differences, but one that stands out the most to me is, in the book Billy was having a hard time deciding if he was going to go to the Bed and Breakfast or the Dell and Dragons. After he is having trouble deciding he decides that he will check out the Bell and Dragons, but as he is walking away his eyes catch the “Bed and Breakfast” sign. Billy starts moving forward to the Bed and Breakfast without knowing why. In the movie Billy walks up to the Bed and Breakfast and rings the doorbell. The landlady opens the door while he still has his finger on the bell. Bill tells her that he …show more content…

The reason that the book has the “supernatural force” in it is because in a book you can interrupt the scene and put what Billy was thinking in that exact moment. The reason the movie did not do this is because you would need a narrator to describe what was going on in Billy’s mind and that would be strange if that happened. Also, the story is written and shown in 3rd person limited. If there was a narrator the movie would have to turn into 3rd person omniscient. In the movie they had Billy go up and ring the doorbell. After he does that the landlady says that the Bell and Dragons was full so he should stay at the Bed and Breakfast. The reason the movie does this is, Billy told the landlady that he was supposed to be heading to the Bell and Dragons. The reason the book does not do this is, the way that the author had written the very beginning of the book he did not know how the Bell and Dragons was going to be like but he had been at a Bed and Breakfast before and he liked it. So he was trying to decide. Also the book made it seem eerie and the movie made it seem

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