In The Bedroom Scene Analysis

Throughout the film, In the Bedroom, and the story, “Killings”, Richard Strout’s personality has a similar effect on the viewer/reader in the end. The actor who played Richard hinted that he was an aggressive individual to the viewer. In the story, that side of Richard wasn’t expected. The scene in which Richard kills Franks varies between the movie, In the Bedroom, and the short story, “Killings” by Andre Dubus.

The movie uses many different shots to put the scene into perspective. By not using music this scene is portrayed to be more dramatic. They never showed Richard shooting Frank, the shot in only heard from Natalie. Natalie comes into the living room to see Frank dead on the floor. The director used deep focus and did a long take when Franks face is exposed to the viewer.

During the movie, the scene was acted out differently than what was described in the story. Some differences include the way the scene was set up. For example, in the story, Frank was shot in the living room in the presents of the children while Mary Ann was in the kitchen. In the story, the scene had already taken place, but was presented in a way that looked back at the event. In the movie, the scene took place approximately 30 minutes in. In the movie, Frank was shot while the children were upstairs and Natalie was coming down the stairs. In the

He dropped out after his first year. People viewed him as the type of individual who was able to succeed, but didn’t have the motivation to. The reader does not detect the violent side to Richard until he punches Frank in the jaw. He is viewed as an aggressive person and this is confirmed when he kills Frank. The depiction between Richard’s personality in the story and the movie are practically identical. He shows both the reader of the story and the viewer of the film that he is an aggressive