25/Nov/09- Today, we were shown a movie named, The Emperor's Club. The movie is based on the life of a passionate “Classics” teacher, Mr. William Hundert, who gets a group of highly intellectual students in a batch where he encourages them to compete in a competition for The Emperor’s Club to become, "Mr. Julius Caesar". The students are enthusiastic about their class with Mr. William Hundert until Sedgewick Bell, the son of a Senator from the state of West Virginia, joins them. His rebellious tendencies provide a match to Hundert’s ways who fears his other students will succumb to the cocky ways of Sedgewick. He therefore, tries and successfully attains Bell’s attraction who eventually ends up 4th in the competition for The Emperor’s Club. The top 3 qualify for the finals and Hundert, in hope to encourage Sedgewick, changes his position to 3rd. Despite all the effort Hundert had put into Sedgewick, he finds him cheating in the finals, but due to the presence of Sedgewick’s father, he decides not to disqualify him. Sedgewick eventually loses and falls straight back into his repulsive, careless path by having bad grades and violating school rules to have relationships with girls on the other side of the school(not permitted to students). He gets his diploma and later turns out to be a successful man. On the 25th reunion, Hundert(who resigned from the school after he was denied to be the headmaster despite his glorious works), was invited by Sedgewick to conduct the competition for The Emperor’s Club again and all the students from that class were invited as well. After the respect and hospitality given to Hundert by Bell and other students, the competition progressed, Deepak (who won the tournament last time out) won it again after Hundert purposely asked a question not present in any history book to Sedgewick Bell, who was again caught cheating(he had a microphone inserted in his ear) by Huntler. After the end of the competition, Huntler confronts Sedgewick, and gets depressed to know that he had failed as a teacher. To his surprise, all his other students threw him a party in respect to what he had taught them. He realizes that he had to continue teaching and he returns to the St. Benedict's Academy.
In my opinion, the movie was a sensational piece of art to express an important message. The message of commitment and respect was continuously repeated throughout the novel. The movie also told that in order to succeed in life, one has to forget some of the failures and look towards the future. The movie also focuses on the fact that, some people might not respect you but you have to gain their respect by trying. Despite all that, the movie’s timeline could have been improved. The story’s end was a bit incomplete as we fail to know what happened to Sedgewick and his relationship with his son, Robert. All in all, the movie was very entertaining indeed.
In my opinion, the movie was a sensational piece of art to express an important message. The message of commitment and respect was continuously repeated throughout the novel. The movie also told that in order to succeed in life, one has to forget some of the failures and look towards the future. The movie also focuses on the fact that, some people might not respect you but you have to gain their respect by trying. Despite all that, the movie’s timeline could have been improved. The story’s end was a bit incomplete as we fail to know what happened to Sedgewick and his relationship with his son, Robert. All in all, the movie was very entertaining indeed.
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