reenactment

Then scene I choose direct is act 5 scene 3 from lines 117-157. I would have the scene set up as where everyone is in a large royal room (has gold plated chairs, columns, marble floors, purple cloth complementing the gold) filled with Leontes, Paulina, Perdita, Camillo, Polixenes. In the center of the room a statue of Hermione but she is covered in gold and she seems realistic except that she is make of "gold". When she is unveiled everyone sees that she made of gold and even Leontes is surprised to a point he runs towards it and tries to touch her because he thinks its really her when we Paulina jumps in front and stops him and she speaks her line from 117. And the scene would continue with the dialogue and Leontes would end up on his knees below Hermione thanking the Gods that she is alive.
As for casting the actors for this movie I would cast Christian Bale as Leontes because we have seen him act as well as hear him get angry over nothing (when he gets angry on the terminator set), Catherine Zeta-Jones would be Hermione because she can play the role of a strong woman and she could play the part well. Polixenes would be played by Matt Damon because he can act as if he is scared and would leave to avoid being poisoned by a similar aged Leontes. I chose these characters as they are younger but they will have "aged" in 16 years and fit the reenactment scene of Hermione coming to life.

Disappointed

When we were told we were going to watch the movie I was excited because I thought it would be like I imagined it when I was reading. But when the movie started it seemed a bit out of order and did not follow closely to the book. I was actually disappointed when we were introduced to the characters, I thought that Lucy, George, and Miss Bartlett were much older than they were portrayed in the book. I think that the acting was not really believable especially George, he seemed much stranger in video than he did on the film. Also in the book it seemed like it was completely crowded in the square and filled with more "lower class" people. The script and everything else was relatively close to what happened in the book.
If I were to direct this movie I would make the characters to a closer resemblance to what they seem to be like in the book. The film would also follow the path of the book and continue exactly what has happened. I think by doing those things this movie would be much better and actually follow the book exactly.

Looked down upon

So the passage i chose was chapter 6 page 60 starting at "The two elder ladies soon threw off...". Basically this passage was about Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish discuss what Mr. Emerson does for work.
Miss Bartlett has as Mr. Emerson what he does for work and she got the answer "the railway" which is apparently not a very respectable job because she says "She had no idea that i would be such a dreadful answer, or she would not have asked him.". As you can see they feel as those they don't want to associate with the lower social class, because they consider themselves to be much in a much higher social class than the Emersons.The passage gave us a general view of how Miss Lavish and Miss Bartlett feel about George Emerson and how he is lower.
We are getting this information from third person and can see exactly what is going on and what is being said and how they feel about it. The narrator is not trying to hide the fact that they feel this away about the lower class, the narrator wants us to know how everyone feels about each situation.