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The Emperor's Club
2002 · Film · 108 min
Directed by Michael Hoffman
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.
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Ironically, after watching "The Emperor's Club", Shutruk-Nahunte is the only Elamite leader I'm aware of, and I had to look up the name of the film to write this comment.
For those who haven't seen it, the main character starts the film making a big point about how Nahunte is largely forgotten despite his efforts to be remembered, because he contributed nothing of value.
First time I watched Emperor's Club, I was like hey isn't this just Ozymandias ? It turned out that's a very common confusion, mined by English highschool teachers
https://www.buffaloschools.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=102282&ViewID=e180f8c2-82f8-444d-a6f1-6f1739eda3f2&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=159733&PageID=64887
Anyway, I just chimed in to say if you really want to understand that poem, Emperor's Club is a must-watch. I still can't believe they made a whole 2 hour commercial Hollywood feature film centered around that poem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Club