Comparing Landlady And Tales Of The Unexpected
When creating a movie based on a story, some things may change and others may be kept the same. When comparing “The Landlady” and “Tales of the Unexpected”, one can notice several similarities and differences between both. “The Landlady”, by Roald Dahl, is a fictional story. “Tales of the Unexpected” is a series of fictional stories that involves mystery, horror, and suspense. When comparing both the story and the episode, one can notice many similarities and differences. The story and the episode both share many similarities. When arriving to Bath, Billy had the option of staying at Bed and Breakfast or The Bell and Dragon. He was vacillatingly indecisive of what hotel to choose. Once Billy made his choice of staying at Bed and Breakfast,
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One difference noted was the ending. In the ending of the story, Billy asks the landlady if there had been any other guests beside Gregory Temple and Christopher Mulholland in the last two or three years. The story then ends when she then tells him, “No, my dear… only you.” (pg. 12). By saying this, she is telling Billy that he has been her only guest after Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple. In the series, the story ends when the landlady traps Billy in his room and is about to cut him open. The screenwriter alters the plot from the author’s short story to add more closure to the ending of “Tales of the Unexpected”. Another difference found between the story and the episode is when the landlady locks the door and the window in Billy’s room so he would suffocate. This only happened in “Tales of the Unexpected”. Once Billy drank the tea offered to him by the landlady, he began to feel ill and bizarre. Little did he know he had trusted a fallacious person who seemed to be nice but was actually fake. Billy believed that the landlady was a caring, loving nice lady, who turned out to be a person with a joy of killing people. The landlady then took him to his room and locked the door along with making sure the window was closed. She did this because Billy needed air and was gasping for some, so she locked the door and window, making him unable to escape or let air enter the
One difference noted was the ending. In the ending of the story, Billy asks the landlady if there had been any other guests beside Gregory Temple and Christopher Mulholland in the last two or three years. The story then ends when she then tells him, “No, my dear… only you.” (pg. 12). By saying this, she is telling Billy that he has been her only guest after Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple. In the series, the story ends when the landlady traps Billy in his room and is about to cut him open. The screenwriter alters the plot from the author’s short story to add more closure to the ending of “Tales of the Unexpected”. Another difference found between the story and the episode is when the landlady locks the door and the window in Billy’s room so he would suffocate. This only happened in “Tales of the Unexpected”. Once Billy drank the tea offered to him by the landlady, he began to feel ill and bizarre. Little did he know he had trusted a fallacious person who seemed to be nice but was actually fake. Billy believed that the landlady was a caring, loving nice lady, who turned out to be a person with a joy of killing people. The landlady then took him to his room and locked the door along with making sure the window was closed. She did this because Billy needed air and was gasping for some, so she locked the door and window, making him unable to escape or let air enter the