The emperor’s club

It was released in year 2002 and it was based on Ethan Canin’s short story “The Palace Thief”.  It was filmed at Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, although St. Benedict’s Academy is said to be modeled after Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter,New Hampshire.

Source:  Wikipedia  

Characters:

♠William Hundert - a history teacher who is teaching for 34 years at St. Benedict Schoo for boys, an elite school exclusively for boys before, but when Mr. Hundert became the headmaster after headmaster woodbridge, girls are being accepted to promote their good standards.

♠Sedgewick Bell  - an immodest late enrollee student with a risqué humor. Son of a U.S. Senator and he bring the chaos to St. Benedict. He was the one who started the modernized attitude to the old school type school.

♠ Martin Blythe –  a very studious type of student with a naughty group of friends. A top 4 student in the Julius Caesar quiz and he almost got qualify to the Julius Caesar yearly competition.

♠ Louis Masoudi  -  the top 1 student in class of Mr. Hundert. He is not that studious but he excels in their class like our classmate John Recacho. He’s a happy go lucky guy that’s why he became friends with Sedgewick when Sedgewick brought out the men’s magazine.

♠ Deepak Mehta  - the top 2 student in class of Mr. Hundert. He is a arab boy studying very well at St. Benedict’s. He is the Julius Caesar of their class, along with Louis Masoudi and Sedgewick Bell.

♠ James Ellerby – a co teacher of Mr. Hundert and he is good at fundraising activities. He is also the one who is in charged at the rematch of Julius Caesar from Mr. Bell’s batch. He’s  the best friend of Mr. Hundert at St. Benedict so he almost knows everything.

Summary: ♠ ♦ ♥ ♣

 There was a reunion of the one of the memorable batch for Mr. William Hundert, a retired classics teacher, at the Hamptons, a high class resort owned by his former naughty student, Sedgewick Bell. He was invited there to be the master of an fundraising event, a rematch of Julius Caesar contest between the three top students back when they are still at St. Benedict’s School. There was a flashback of their Academic year during the event.

Mr. Hundert was a teacher of classics for 34 years at St. Benedict. He handled freshman and one of the memorable batch for Mr. Hundert was Mr. Bell’s batch. at the beginning of their academic year, things was simple and at peace. Until Sedgewick Bell came in, a late enrollee freshman so he’s at Mr. Hundert’s class. Mr. Bell is a cocky guy with a disrespectful attitude towards Mr. Hundert and he brought the chaos to St. Benedict’s School. He’s hard to handle but Mr. Hundert saw the potential of Mr. Bell to excel in his class. So Mr. Hundert gave his best to teach his class his lessons very well. There was a time when Mr. Hundert offers his book to Mr. Bell for him to study for the upcoming Julius Caesar week. Mr. Bell does his part. He studied very well and he became part of the top 3 students to compete at the final stage of Julius Caesar test. When the final stage of Julius Caesar week is happening, something happened. Mr. Masoudi was the first one to be eliminated. So Mr. Mehta and Mr. Bell left. And when Mr. Hundert asked Mr. Bell a difficult question, he can’t answer because it wasn’t there in his kodigo. Mr. Hunert saw Mr. Bell what he have done so he teach him a lesson. Mr. Mehta won the Julius Caesar of that time. After 25 years, Mr. Bell wants a rematch of their Julius Caesar. That’s why they had their reunion. During the rematch, Mr. Bell and Mr. Mehta was also the last two standing. And then when Mr. Hundert noticed that Mr. Bell using some kind of cheating, he asked him a question that he couldn’t answer. Mr. Bell eliminated and still, Mr. Mehta declared as the Julius Caesar.  

Guide Questions: answers

a.)   The human person has their freedom whether to answer other people rudely or to respect them. They have the freedom to do what they want because it’s their life. They just have to choose to do well or to do badly. 

b.)  How can history remember you? This question was asked by Mr. Hunderts to his class when he asked Mr. Blythe to read a small plaque at the back of the room where the quote on the plaque stated that “I am Shutruk- Nahunte, king of Anshand and Susa, sovereign of the land of Elam. By the command of Inshushinak, I destroyed Sippar, took the stele of Nirah-sin, and brought it back  to Elah, where I erected it as an offering to my god, 

Inshushinak” – Shutruk-Nahunte 1158 BC

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c.)   Cheating is very rampant to our system but it is everywhere now. Cheating is just very common now days. Almost most of us experienced cheating, in any form. In food, in test, in love life, and in life. But with wisdom and virtue, we can resist the temptation of cheating.
d.)  Without our contribution today, we can’t be remembered by the future human persons. We must do something to be remembered, we must do it with our hearts because after the work you’ve done, at future, they will how hard you worked for it.

e.)   Heraclitus- you can’t step on the same river twice – when Mr. Hundert was boating by the river and he realized that he can’t undo what he has done.

Aristophanes- youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid last forever. - When Mr. Hundert told Mr. Bell that stupid is forever because he is one.

f.)    I can relate myself to Mr. Martin Blythe. Because I know the feeling of being chosen over. I know the feeling of it; it’s hard to accept that you are being left behind. Maybe because of favoritism, or other things but still, it’s a hard to accept reality that you are being chosen over.

g.)  That cheating will lead you into a fail life. If you do cheat today, you will carry that until you get old. So stop cheating and start do good things and work hard for the things you really want, study hard so will not be tempted to cheat to your classmates. Don’t cheat on them; it will go back to you. So of you do good to others, the good things will come to you. The things that you really want the most, when you worked really hard on it, it will be super worth it. So don’t cheat.

Rating:  ♥♥♥♥ four hearts