6.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Emperor's Club (2002)
The Emperor's Club (2002)
Overview
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Starring Cast
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
6.0
Overview
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film's central conflict addresses the erosion of moral character and integrity, with its championed solution emphasizing traditional virtues, individual responsibility, and the enduring value of classical education, which aligns with right-leaning thematic priorities.
The film features a predominantly white and male cast, consistent with its setting in an elite preparatory school, without intentional race or gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative explores themes of ethics and privilege through individual character development, rather than offering a critique of traditional identities themselves.
Secondary
The Emperor's Club does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a classics teacher and his students at an all-boys prep school, exploring themes of integrity and character without touching upon queer identity or experiences.
The Emperor's Club does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative is entirely focused on the lives and moral development of students and faculty at an all-boys preparatory school, with no elements related to transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is an adaptation of the short story "The Palace Thief." All significant characters in the film retain the same gender as established in the original source material, with no instances of a character's gender being changed.
The film is an adaptation of a short story, and there are no instances where a character canonically or widely established as one race in the source material is portrayed as a different race in the movie.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
7.1
Critic Ratings
5.0
4.9
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