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| “ | I told you I would make my career with you, Cleric. | „ |
| ~ Brandt simultaneously revealing his involvement in DuPont's plan and his self-serving motive for it to John Preston. |
Andrew Brandt is the secondary antagonist of the 2002 science fiction film Equilibrium.
He is a Grammaton Cleric and John Preston's rival. In truth, he is Vice-Counsel DuPont's second-in-command and aware of DuPont being the true identity of Father. When Preston begins to feel and defects to the Underground resistance, Brandt helps DuPont expose him. A cruel and sinister man, Brandt is willing to do everything to advance his career, including genocide and assisting DuPont in manipulating Preston into becoming a sense offender so the latter would discover the Underground resistance and unwittingly orchestrate their downfall.
He was portrayed by Taye Diggs.
Biography[]
Andrew Brandt is a Grammaton cleric who works with John Preston in a society where showing any form of emotion or feelings is strictly forbidden. Brandt and Preston are employed to keep society under control by banning all forms of artwork, music, books and other subjects that provoke emotions in people. However, one day Preston accidentally smashes his dose of Prozium (a chemical used to suppress emotions) and he himself begins to feel. Over the course of the film, Brandt comes to suspect that Preston is trying to hide his emotions and has him arrested for helping a group of "sense offenders", rebels of the state. Brandt himself is secretly working for the corrupt Vice-Counsel DuPont (who is under the guise of the public figure Father), who successfully uses Brandt in order to expose Preston.
At the end of the film, Preston finds DuPont and Brandt in a room filled with intricate artwork and furniture, proving that despite the laws of society, DuPont himself is actually feeling. To protect his boss, Brandt attacks Preston with a samurai sword, but Preston quickly grabs a samurai sword of his own and slashes Brandt across the face. Stunned, Brandt falls to his knees and his face slides off his head, killing him.
Brandt briefly appears to Preston in the comic as part of a series of hallucinations related to the side effects of Prozium II. He reminds Preston that the Prozium that he had been injected with are of 'pure and dilented' (likely due to the side effects of not having Prozium for long periods of time). He then informed Preston that the Grammaton Clerics are coming after him and that he better hide before Preston's hallucination expires.
Personality[]
Initially, Brandt seems to be just a Cleric doing his job of enforcing Libria's orders, but even then, he smiles several times, hinting that he is not on Prozium. This is eventually confirmed at the end of the film, where he is revealed to have knowingly assisted DuPont in his schemes, including orchestrating events to make Preston a sense offender and use him as a pawn to track down the Underground. Additionally, he knows that DuPont is the current Father the whole time, meaning he is fully aware how immoral his acts are.
Brandt's motivation for what he does is to advance his career, as he is jealous of Preston and seeks to replace him. When he prepares to fight Preston in the climax, he tells DuPont that he always wants to wear Preston's Cleric uniform for a long time. This shows how petty Brandt really is as the only thing he cares about is becoming DuPont's most trusted lieutenant, even if he has to murder countless people and animals to do so.
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- Andrew Brandt on the Pure Evil Wiki