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Equilibrium

Year:
Duration:
107 min
Genres:
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7.6
Director:
Kurt Wimmer
Awards:
2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2003-02-26
Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany
Earnings
Budget: $20,000,000
Opening Weekend: $541,512 (USA) (8 December 2002)
Gross: $1,203,974 (USA) (29 December 2002)
Cast
Actor
Character
Maria Pia Calzone
Maria Pia Calzone
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Dirk Martens
Dirk Martens
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Sean Pertwee
Sean Pertwee
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Christian Bale
John Preston
Dominic Purcell
Seamus
Sean Bean
Partridge
Christian Kahrmann
Officer in Charge
John Keogh
Chemist
William Fichtner
Jurgen
Angus Macfadyen
Dupont
David Barrash
Evidentiary Storage Officer
Taye Diggs
Brandt
Matthew Harbour
Robbie Preston
Emily Siewert
Lisa Preston
Emily Watson
Mary O'Brien
Mike Smith
Enforcer Commander
Florian Fitz
Gate Guard
Danny Lee Clark
Lead Sweeper (as Daniel Lee)
Francesco Cabras
Rebel Leader (as Francesco Calabras)
Kurt Wimmer
Rebel Victim
Anatole Taubman
Crematory Technician (as Anatole Taubmann)
Brian Conley
Reading Room Proprietor (as Brian Connelly)
Alexa Summer
Viviana Preston
Brian W. Cook
Dupont's Secretary (as Brian Cook)
Mehmet Kurtulus
Search Coordinator
David Hemmings
Proctor
Klaus Schindler
Interrogator
Oliver Brandl
Polygraph Technician
Armin Marewski
Security Guard (uncredited)
Wolfgang Stegemann
Cleric (uncredited)
Sy Turner
Tetragrammaton Clerick (uncredited)
Dennenesch Zoudé
(uncredited)
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Trivia
The film's fight choreographer Jim Vickers and Kurt Wimmer had some slight disagreement on how the martial art Gun Kata should be performed on screen. You can see little friendly jabs to the choreographer in the film. When Kurt Wimmer performs the Gun Kata at the beginning, you see it's very fluid and smooth. The way it's actually used in the film is very rigid with a few flowing moves thrown in. Also, in Angus Macfadyen's speech to the Clerics in training, he says "each fluid position", slightly stressing the word "fluid". Wimmer wanted Gun Kata to be smooth and soft-style. Vickers, trained in hard-style karate among other things, modified the original Gun Kata slightly, and because of budgetary restraints, that's the version we see in the final film. Wimmer has said his own vision of Gun Kata can be seen in most of its glory in his next film, Ultraviolet (2006).
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All the orchestral sounds are samples from Media Ventures' private collection, no symphonic orchestra was recorded. "Real" instruments include electric guitars and some percussion.
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John Preston kills 118 characters in this movie, which makes him responsible for exactly half of the total 236 deaths shown. As of 2009, he continues to hold the 3rd place record for most deaths in a movie caused by one character.
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Goofs
Partridge is shot in the face and yet when Preston sees his body in the morgue, there is no bullet wound in his head. Partridge is actually shot in the neck, the bullet wound is visible in the morgue on his neck.
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Obvious stunt double when Preston does flip mid-air to dodge bullets from the first two guards in the hallway in the final guard shootout scene.
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When the two guards step through the double doors into the hallway in the final guard shootout scene, the one on the left of the screen steps past the door handle but when the shot cuts to another angle they are scene catching their arm on the door handle and pulling their arm out of the way.
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Quotes
John Preston: I'm coming.
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Jurgen: Will you do it?
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John Preston: Go. Go, damn you!
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Faq
Q
What is the infamous "gun swap" plot hole? Can it be explained?
A
A simple explanation could be:Preston was driven and watched from the very beginning by Dupont to stop the dose and start feeling so he can gain the trust of the resistance and lead to them as Dupont tells him at the end. With or without the gun swap he would not have been arrested before delivering the resistance.Another theory is:When Brandt takes Preston before Dupont (after Preston is seen crying because he was unable to stop Mary's execution), it is revealed that Brandt's weapons, not Preston's, were the ones used to kill the sweeper team in the Nethers. When Brandt thinks about this, he realizes that Preston must have switched guns with him, and we flashback to the scene in the industrial section of the Nethers, where Brandt offers Preston his gun to kill the sense offenders lined up against the wall. Since this sequence occurs after Preston massacres the sweepers to save the dog, people assume this is a major plot hole. And it is...but it was not intended to be.In the original script, the following is written:"And he flashes back:TO HIS CAR: The house in the zone burning in the background.BRANDT: Who will be left to watch...A beat. Then Preston hands Brandt his gun."It should be noted that excerpt has been taken from an early version of the script (the version in which Mary lives), but the idea is the same: the switch actually took place right before the first time Preston saves the dog from being killed.Further to previous answers, there are scenes and shots missing from the final cut of Equilibrium that would have explained the "gun swap" clearly. Unfortunately, they were left out for any number of reasons such as noticable camera shake, bad lighting/framing, lack of time/money etc. The "gun swap" plot point does actually work but now needs a little clarification. The tracking system used by Dupont's aid does not work by identifying a gun's specific location but by locating the specific gun that any Cleric is carrying at a given time. Within the the context of the film , the gun swap can be explained as follows:1) Preston kills the sweeper team in the nethers with his own gun.2) Later, when Brandt asks Preston to kill the assembled line of sense offenders, Preston hesitates and Brandt offers him his own gun. Taking it, Preston, (sensing an opportunity) swaps it with his own gun, giving Brandt the gun he used to kill the sweeper team.3) Later, when Brandt has brought Preston before Dupont, the gun that killed the sweepers is located on or about Brandt's person. Pulling the gun from his pocket and reading the serial code stamped on the bottom, Brandt realises that Preston has swapped the guns. Admitting this to Dupont, Preston interrupts by saying that the only reason Brandt has his gun is because Brandt took it from him when he arrested him. This alleviates Brandt's possession of Preston's gun by making it sound like it was Brandt who killed the sweeper team with his own gun. Unfortunately, Dupont never uses the tracking system to try and locate Brandt's gun, which is actually in Preston's possession and would therefore descredit Preston's explanation.4) However, Dupont isn't so easily duped as he is shown in his private ante-room at the climax of the film with Brandt next to him, leaning on the desk. This implies that Dupont had allowed Brandt to explain himself and then used the tracking system to locate Brandt's gun on Preston or that it was all part of a master plan and he was just playing along with Preston. It is now up to the viewer to decide which piece of exposition they like the most.5) Finally, all of this is somewhat moot, given that during the murder scene in the Nethers, Preston is using TWO guns to kill the guards. At no time do you see Preston handing more than one gun to Brandt. Preston hands Brandt a gun just before the sweeper team starts killing the dogs, and then he swaps a gun with him during the raid scene after the murders in the Nether have taken place. Assuming that the switch did take place between these two times, only one gun would have exchanged hands. When you factor this in, it becomes more than just a plot hole and branches into the realm of film goof.
Q
What is the significance of Dupont's opulent office?
A
It shows that the regime is rotten to the core and all about power rather than preventing violent emotions, Dupont's office is filled with illicit art, decoration etc and he quotes poetry to Preston in their final confrontation. Dupont (and by implication Brandt and the inner circle) is a hypocrite who breaks the society's own rules by committing 'sense' crime, whilst executing others for doing the same. Preston may suspect this all along as he notes Dupont's anger in a society where it is forbidden and his sliding his hand across the table in much the same way as Preston enjoys the sensation of running his hand along the handrail at the train station.
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