Compare And Contrast The Emperor's Club And The Palace Thief

Movies based off books always change whether it is for the best, or worst. In “The Emperors Club”, a movie adaption of “The Palace Thief” by Ethan Canin. Though the movie was far happier and less complicated than the book, Canin created a great and tragic story of this teacher’s life. It was a touching book filled with different relationships and plot episodes (than the movie) that created a troubled and tragic sense of how this teacher lived and how he attempted to make his life better only to do the opposite. In the paragraphs below I have outlined the major plot changes- starting with describing what happened in the book compared in contrast to the movie- that occurred due to bringing this book into the studio. Mr. Hundurt, the teacher

Hundurt is perceived as a weak man; his thoughts are subject to a sort of moral code, though he never takes action or stands up for himself. He is pushed around and belittled but has no courage to take charge. “He said I was too old, that I had failed to change with the times...” After Mr. Ellerby becomes the new headmaster he tells Mr. Hundurt he should resign, this being his argument, and he does; he doesn’t try to fight to continue teaching and is just okay with this new course of action. Mr. Hundurt in “The Palace Thief” is a man who lacks character and is all in all a weak man. Furthermore in the movie Mr. Hundurt still possesses his weak state- though lessened, he still has traces of his former weak-willed self from the book. However, he is stronger and in some scenes sticks up for not only himself, but what he believes in. He also takes actions to try and redeem himself on his past mistakes (telling Martin Blythe it what actually he who should have been in the competition all those years ago, unlike the book where Martin comes to Mr. Hundurt.) When Mr. Hundurt resigned on his own will- purely out of pride it was his own way of standing up for

Hundurt saw his former student, Sedgwick Bell doing very well in the real world (25 years after the fiasco in the original Mr. Julius Caesar) he contacts Mr. Bell junior via letter, which he eventually gets back to him. Leading to a phone call where Mr. Bell confesses to wanting a rematch of Mr. Julius Caesar; he also said he would donate a large sum of money to his former academy, “Of course, he also offered a good sum of money to me personally.’...’I needed the money.’...’that evening I began to prepare my test.” Later we learn the rematch was used to benefit Sedgwick personally, the money to Mr. Hundurt was used as a sort of bribe. This was very at odds to the movie, it is actually Mr. Sedgwick Bell who first contacts the new headmaster- Mr. Ellerby then contacts Mr. Hundurt. Mr. Ellerby states that Mr. Bell was wanting to make a donation that equates to 10,000 square foot library, the “largest donation to date” on a few conditions (the rematch). There is no personal money for Mr. Hundurt, and he hardly gets a choice to whether or not to complete Mr. Bell’s condition; it would be selfish not to. In the movie Mr. Hundurt reaps no personal gain whatsoever (aside from realizing his true passion is