Emperor’s Club Plot

William Hundert (Kevin Kline) is a passionate Classics prof enthusiastic about the start of the rail year. His distinguish spells out to be a strict yet inspiring les give-and-take for the new students arriving at St. Benedicts Academy. They admit laid-back Louis Masoudi (Jesse Eisenberg), the introverted Martin Blythe (Paul Dano), and the studious Deepak Mehta (Rishi Mehta), all highly intelligent. Hundert inspires his students to study weighty in instal to buzz off one of the three contestants for The Emperors Club and be crowned Mr.Julius Caesar, a challenger which puts the top three students of his twelvemonth in a contest where they will be asked questions regarding the Classics. When the master (Edward Hermann) explains the contest to the students, he mentions that Martins engender was one time a Mr. Julius Caesar. Hundert quickly gains the respect of his class and the school year gets off to an orderly start. However, Hunderts tightly controlled world is shaken wh en a new student, Sedgewick cost (Emile Hirsch), walks into his classroom. tam-tam is the cocky son of a aged U.S. Senator who possesses none of Hunderts principles. A fierce battle of wills begins between Hundert and Bell. Bells rebellious genius quickly makes him the interest of the class, as he non only is impulsive to talk back against Hundert, he also freely shargons pornographic hearty and is willing to play hooky and travel off-limits to a near prep school for girls. Despite Blythes constant pleas not to break the rules, Masoudi and heretofore studious Mehta find themselves enjoying their rebellious tendencies with Bell.Hundert humiliates Bell when he asks the class to list, in chronological order, all the Roman emperors. The other students comply in improve unison, effectively embarrassing Bell, who has not studied the course material. Hundert also makes a trip to Washington D. C. to meet with Senator Bell from West Virginia. Bells father is clear uninterested in his sons character development while at St. Benedicts, rather telling Hundert just to t separately Bell lessons so he chamberpot graduate, giving Hundert some insight into the new-madeer Bells upbringing.Hundert returns to St. Benedicts, where in a think call, Senator Bell chews out Sedgewick for wasting his time in having to see Hundert and his cash on the tuition. (But he does not yell at his son for worldness a slacker. ) afterward seeing a chastised Sedgewick, Hundert tries to develop a at hand(predicate) student-teacher relationship and become a mentor to Bell in order to help change him into a better man. Bell starts studying, proving to be a bright student, and his grades improve enormously. Bell finishes in the top three in Hunderts competition that precedes the Mr.Julius Ceasar contest, along with classmates Masoudi and Mehta. Bell had actually earned fourth enjoin until Hundert privately decided to raise his grade on the final test after reviewing it again, thus moving him above Blythe, the third place winner, whose father before him had been an Mr. Julius Ceasar winner, putting him under much pressure to live up to his fathers reputation. Hundert is caught between celebrating Bells newfound success and feeling guilty when he sees a despondent Blythe sitting all by himself under a tree.The constitutional school watches the competition as the three contestants are quizzed by Hundert. aft(prenominal) some questions, the confident Masoudi is the maiden to make a mistake and he is thus eliminated. Hundert becomes increasingly suspicious of Bell raising his toga to his head to think. When Hundert takes a recess to confer with the headmaster he is urged to give Bell a pass, as Senator Bell is in attendance. But he and so asks Bell a question not in the books, Who was Hamilcar Barca? , k right awaying full wellhead that the issue would not be on any materials used to bed (it was not in the curriculum) but knowing that Mehta would be able to answer it because earlier in the year, Hundert had seen him reading material about Barca in his naked time. Bell is stumped and Mehta is crowned Mister Julius Caesar. Afterwards, Bell admits to Hundert having cheated by placing crib notes on the inside(a) of his toga sleeve. Bell could not take the pressure of losing, and wish well his father, tried everything he could to guarantee a win. Although Hundert does not publicize this, the trust he once had with Bell is broken.Students move up to higher grades before their graduation from St. Benedicts Academy, and Bell shown reverting to his lax behavior and loss of interest in academia. In the year 1976, Bell is shown barely squeaking by in his classes, gaining bridal to Yale University only on account of being Senator Bells son. Hundert regrets not being able to influence Bell more. Twenty-five years later, Hundert is denied his bid to become headmaster of the school by the board, who feel he lacks the ability to rig out up f inancial donations for the school. Hundert immediately resigns.Later he receives an invitation for a class reunion and a chance to meet up with his students at an event (surprisingly) present by a full-grown Bell (Joel Gretsch), who is now extremely cryptical and successful. Once reunited with his students, he is impressed that every one of his students from that fateful class had done well since their days at St. Bendicts and all had successful careers in business, with Deepak Mehta now a professor himself. It is also revealed that Sedgewick Bell agreed to gift an additional 25,000 square foot addition to the St.Benedict library under the ensure that a Mr. Julius Caesar rematch is held with alumni Masoudi and Mehta, Hundert presiding. This donation would be ironic, seeing that Hundert was denied becoming headmaster due to lack of fundraising abilities (so the board had deemed) and yet he would be the spinal column responsible for providing the largest donation to the school t o date. Before the match Bell dialog to Hundert about how his influence had really changed his biography and he hopes that he would be able to regain his dignity in the rematch.An enthusiastic Hundert agrees to host once again. And so the Emperors Club contest is again played, albeit the ring being Bells schoolfriends and their individual wives and children, and the three contestants still wearing togas, but with tuxedos. Masoudi answers the first question wrong, consequently tries for fun to guess the right answer in spite, humoring the crowd with fake Roman names such as Gassius Flatulus. Again, the main competition is between Mehta (Rahul Khanna) and Bell as both still remember (or kept up diligent study of) their lessons from Hunderts class.Sadly, despite Hunderts belief that Bell has changed, he is able to perceive that Bell is cheating, this time through a hire graduate student fooding him answers through a clandestine earpiece. Hundert poses other unofficial questio n, this one regarding the plaque over his door, asking Who was Shutruk-Nakhunte? Despite verifying shouts from his classmates that this one is easy and they all know this one, Bell again does not know the answer due to him being a late arriver to Saint Benedicts and not being told about the leader at Mr.Hunderts first class (or ever taking the time to look around the classroom to study the plaque). Furthermore, any information about Shutruk-Nakhunte cannot be found in any textbook, which had been a point Hundert had made in his class counseling back when, explaining that without contribution to society, one is insignificant. Therefore, the hired grad student cannot feed Bell the correct answer, because he cant find it. Mehta is crowned Mr. Julius Caesar once again. After the competition ends and Bell congratulates Mehta for defending his title, Bell announces that he will be running for a merchant ship in the U.S. Senate just like his father, stressing taxpayer supporting of ed ucation. Hundert finally sees that Bell only used the event to drum up support for his campaign and to get contributions from his old classmates. Hundert, as well as Blythe, based on a look of humorous utter blow on his face, can scarcely believe it. Hundert and Bell run into each other in the bathroom, where Hundert confronts Bell about his immorality. Bell coldly goes on to tell Hundert that Hundert has no accomplishments in life, whereas he will become a nationally famous senator no result what the cost.Bell also says it does not matter that he cheated, as life is full of cheaters. Just then, Bells son, who had admired his father up to this point for his sound character, comes out of a stall with a pained expression on his face, and Bell is left to face his son and rationalize his Machiavellian ways. Hundert believes that Bell will become just like his father was too wrapped up in his political life to devote attention to his family and properly raise his son. Hundert, realizin g again that he has failed Bell, now recognizes the importance of letting Blythe know that he had given away Blythes seat in the original Mr.Julius Caesar contest. He confesses his action from a quarter coke ago to Blythe, who attempts to be mature about this revelation but then excuses himself, his mannerisms strongly suggesting he did not appreciate having old wounds reopened. Hundert, feeling he has failed two students, contemplates his legacy as a teacher. Hundert wakes up the next sunup and goes to the dining room expecting one last breakfast with his pupils. Instead, he finds an set down room and is told that they have all left already.Hundert dejectedly returns to his room, only to sight that the men had thrown him a surprise party. All his students are at the party, except Bell, who is seen talking with reporters, beginning his political campaign. Nonetheless, the meeting is a gleeful event as Hundert and his students talk about how much he has influenced them and how t hey are grateful that he was their teacher. Mehta gives Hundert a gift from one teacher to another, which is an engrave plaque quoting the value of mentoring.Hundert finally comes to the realization that while he failed to turn Bell into a better man, he still has helped make many of his pupils into better men, and he realizes that his value is not based upon one bankruptcy or one success. He accepts the offer that he is always congenial for reinstatement at Saint Benedicts, going back to his old job as a teacher. Hundert thus returns to St. Benedicts Academy and again teaches Classics to a new class (which is now coeducational). It is also revealed that one of his students is Blythes son, who is proud that his father was once Hunderts student.Hundert then asks Blythes son to read the plaque over his door, just as young Blythe did at the beginning of the film. Hundert then looks out the window to see Martin Blythe proudly waving to him, and an expression that Hundert has found pea ce with his past tiffs and gladness that he has been truthful with Blythe. Its also noticed that young Blythe reads the plaque without stumbling over the surd words, while his father as a young boy had had trouble reading it, showing that young Blythes father had taught his son what Hundert had taught him. Reference http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Emperors_Club