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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Sedgewick's Xanatos Gambit ensures he'll benefit regardless of whether he wins or loses the second knowledge competition. But Sedgewick's victory is instantly soured by his son discovering his father's duplicity and losing whatever hero worship and respect he had for him.]]
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* ClassClown: Sedgewick Bell is a rebellious troublemaker who, when asked to name Roman emperors, says he only knows seven and then names the seven dwarves. Another time, he gets the whole class to slam their books shut at the same time to startle their teacher.
* FailedASpotCheck: While Sedgewick ''did'' miss the lecture about Shutruk-Nakhunte, he still walked past the plaque about the emperor every day for years and never cared enough to read it.
* GracefulLoser: The second time Sedgwick loses the competition, he acts ruefully amused and congratulates Deepak.
* PassedOverPromotion: Mr. Hundbert is upset when he is passed over for the headmaster's job in favor of the much younger James Ellerby (an innovative fundraiser and social expert).
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* TokenMinority: Deepak is the only student in 1976 (by the 2000s, the school is co-ed and more diverse) who isn't a white male.
* XanatosGambit: During the second historical knowledge competition, Sedgewick knows that whether he wins or loses, he'll still have an opportunity to grandstand for his wealthy former classmates to support his Senate bid.
* XanatosGambit: During the second historical knowledge competition, Sedgewick knows that whether he wins or loses, he'll still have an opportunity to grandstand for his wealthy former classmates to support his Senate bid.
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* BittersweetEnding: After receiving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Hundert has to accept that he has failed to influence Sedgewick into becoming a moral and principled adult - and one who is on track to becoming a US Senator. However even if Sedgewick's classmates are blind to his flaws and support his political career, they appear to have taken Hundert's lessons on board and clearly hold their teacher in high regard.
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* BittersweetEnding: After receiving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Hundert has to accept that he has failed to influence Sedgewick into becoming a moral and principled adult - and one who is on track to becoming a US Senator. However even if Sedgewick's classmates are blind to his flaws and support his political career, they appear to have taken Hundert's lessons on board and clearly hold their teacher in high regard.regard.
* BookEnds: The movie begins on the first day of class with Hundert making a student, Martin Blythe, recite the inscription (English-translated) on a plaque. Decades later, Hundert has Blythe's son do the same.
* BookEnds: The movie begins on the first day of class with Hundert making a student, Martin Blythe, recite the inscription (English-translated) on a plaque. Decades later, Hundert has Blythe's son do the same.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Hundert removed a promising and good-natured student from his earned spot on trivia team to give it to Segewick in hopes of inspiring him to be a better person. The student, Blythe, is still bothered by it decades later.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Hundert removed a promising and good-natured student from his earned spot on trivia team to give it to Segewick in hopes of inspiring him to be a better person. The Hundert and the student, Blythe, is are still bothered by it decades later. later, and Hundert only comes clean to Blythe after all that time. Blythe does forgive him, however, and at the end [[spoiler:he sends his son to Hundert's class, and Hundert sees him waving outside]].
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Hundert ultimately ensures Sedgewick's defeat in the first Mr. Julius Caesar competition by asking him who Hamilcar Barca was, a question which only Deepak can answer since Hamilcar did not feature in the assigned class reading (see ChekhovsGun below). While it is possible to omit Hamilcar from a cursory Roman history, it is unlikely in a class emphasizing this subject - Hamilcar Barca was a major figure in the First Punic War and the influential father of Hannibal Barca, who nearly destroyed Rome in the Second Punic War.
* BittersweetEnding: After receiving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Hundert has to accept that he has failed to influence Sedgewick into becoming a moral and principled adult - and one who is on track to becoming a US Senator. However even if Sedgewick's classmates are blind to his flaws and support his political career, they appear to have taken Hundert's lessons on board and clearly hold their teacher in high regard.
* BittersweetEnding: After receiving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Hundert has to accept that he has failed to influence Sedgewick into becoming a moral and principled adult - and one who is on track to becoming a US Senator. However even if Sedgewick's classmates are blind to his flaws and support his political career, they appear to have taken Hundert's lessons on board and clearly hold their teacher in high regard.
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** In the original competition, the final question is "Who is Hamilcar Barca?" Mehta had been reading a book about him.
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** In the original competition, the final question is "Who is Hamilcar Barca?" Mehta Deepak had been reading a book learned about him.him through extra-curricular reading.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Hundert removed a promising and good-natured student from his earned spot on trivia team to give it to Segewick in hopes of inspiring him to be a better person. The student, Blythe, is still bothered by it decades latter.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Segewick gives one to Hundert about how he's just a teacher when he's a CEO on the way to becoming a Senator.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Segewick gives one to Hundert about how he's just a teacher when he's a CEO on the way to becoming a Senator.
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* RightBehindMe: Sedgewick tells Hundert how he thinks lying and cheating are acceptable methods of getting ahead, and that Hundert's principles (which Sedgewick publicly endorses) mean nothing "in the real world". Cue toilet flush [[spoiler: and out steps Sedgewick's son, looking at his hypocritical father with disgust.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:Segewick Sedgewick gives one to Hundert in the men's room about how he's just a teacher when he's a CEO on the way to becoming a Senator.Senator.
* RightBehindMe: Sedgewick tells Hundert how he thinks lying and cheating are acceptable methods of getting ahead, and that Hundert's principles (which Sedgewick publicly endorses) mean nothing "in the real world". Cue toilet flush [[spoiler: and out steps Sedgewick's son, looking at his hypocritical father with disgust.]]
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* {{Aesop}}: It is better to build something than to take something is basically repeated throughout the movie.
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* {{Aesop}}: AnAesop: It is better to build something than to take something is basically repeated throughout the movie.
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** When Mr. Hundert [[poiler: [[spoiler: quits]] he is told by a board member that he will always be welcome back. [[spoiler: The movie ends with Mr. Hundert going back to being a teacher at St. Benedict's]].
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** When Mr. Hundert [[poiler: quits]] he is told by a board member that he will always be welcome back. [[spoiler: The movie ends with Mr. Hundert going back to being a teacher at St. Benedict's]].
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** The movie ends with Mr. Hundert meeting Martin Blythe's son, also named Martin Blythe.
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* ChekhovsGun: Hundert relies on these to trip up Sedgewick in both Mr. Julius Caesar competitions.
** In the original competition, the final question is "Who is Hamilcar Barca?" Mehta had been reading a book about him.
** The second competition ends with the question, "Who is Shutruk-Nakhunte?" referring to the plaque Hundert had a student read on the first day of class... which Sedgewick had not been present for.
** In the original competition, the final question is "Who is Hamilcar Barca?" Mehta had been reading a book about him.
** The second competition ends with the question, "Who is Shutruk-Nakhunte?" referring to the plaque Hundert had a student read on the first day of class... which Sedgewick had not been present for.
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''The Emperor's Club'' is a 2002 film starring Creator/KevinKline and Emile Hirsch while directed by Michael Hoffman. Based on Ethan Canin's short story "The Palace Thief," the film follows a prep school teacher and his students at a fictional boys' prep school, St. Benedict's Academy, near Washington, D.C. It follows the relationship between a prep school teach and a rebellious student which turns into a power struggle that spans literal decades over a classics trivia competition.
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''The Emperor's Club'' is a 2002 drama film directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Creator/KevinKline and Emile Hirsch while directed by Michael Hoffman. Hirsch.
Based on Ethan Canin's short story "The PalaceThief," Thief", the film follows a prep school centers around teacher William Hundert (Kline) and his students at a fictional boys' prep school, St. Benedict's Academy, near Washington, D.C. It follows the relationship between a prep school teach Hundert and a rebellious student named Sedgewick Bell (Hirsch), which turns into a power struggle that spans literal decades over a classics trivia competition.
Based on Ethan Canin's short story "The Palace
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* {{Aesop}}: It is better to build something than to take something is basically repeated throughout the movie.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Shutruk-Nakhunte is used an example of a conqueror who built nothing and is now virtually forgotten. The fact he lived almost three thousand years ago is all but ignored.
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* GenerationXerox: Sedgewick becomes more or less a carbon copy of his father.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Hundert removed a promising and good-natured student from his earned spot on trivia team to give it to Segewick in hopes of inspiring him to be a better person. The student, Blythe, is still bothered by it decades latter.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Segewick gives one to Hundert about how he's just a teacher when he's a CEO on the way to becoming a Senator.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Hundert removed a promising and good-natured student from his earned spot on trivia team to give it to Segewick in hopes of inspiring him to be a better person. The student, Blythe, is still bothered by it decades latter.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Segewick gives one to Hundert about how he's just a teacher when he's a CEO on the way to becoming a Senator.
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* SeriousBusiness: The "Mister Julius Caesar" competition is this to the students and former students, even to adulthood.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Happens to Sedgewick's son when he hears his dad boast about being a cheater to Hundert in the bathroom.]]
* CoolTeacher / SternTeacher: William Hundert.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: [[spoiler: A variation: Sedgewick claims to have turned over a new leaf when he grows up, but Hundert discovers that he's just as much of a dishonest cheater as ever.]]
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Happens to Sedgewick's son when he hears his dad boast about being a cheater to Hundert in the bathroom.]]
* CoolTeacher / SternTeacher: William Hundert.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: [[spoiler: A variation: Sedgewick claims to have turned over a new leaf when he grows up, but Hundert discovers that he's just as much of a dishonest cheater as ever.]]
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