»Mistake: Bullet trails in Reloaded«

There's a mistake in Reloaded.

Neo has a dream about Trinity fighting an Agent and then jumping from a window and falling to death. When the Agent shoots at her, before he jumps you can see his gun's bullet trails in the air. You can also see some bullets coming from Trinity's guns.

When the Architect scene is over and the above dream is coming true although the Agent and Trinity do exactly the same moves in exactly the same pace [ slow motion (or bullet time if you prefer, that's how the Ws describe all the slomo scenes in Reloaded and Revolutions) ] there are no bullet trails or bullets in the air.

The bullet trails in Neo's dream represent the paths to the future set in front of him. They are the dream manifestation of his future trail towards his destiny.

Once the events are coming true, those paths no longer exist because Neo is arriving at his destination.

What? Can you explain it more?

for me bullets are just.. bullets!

how about production error?

That's what I think Dee.

Although the Fx and CG teams were very accurate..

My answer was overly elaborate (and half joking), but I do think this would be an odd mistake for the W's if unintentional. Because wouldn't you just use the same piece of film for both segments (so they would be completely consistent)? So don't minor differences suggest that the W's wanted to highlight that one sequence was the dream, and the other the reality?

Hm.. I saw the scene again.

Actually the speed of the second time is faster than the first time(dream). My bad for saying in the OP that it was the same.

It's still in bullet time but not as slow as in the dream. That would explain why we don't see the bullet trails.

CaptPostMod wrote:

My answer was overly elaborate (and half joking), but I do think this would be an odd mistake for the W's if unintentional. Because wouldn't you just use the same piece of film for both segments (so they would be completely consistent)? So don't minor differences suggest that the W's wanted to highlight that one sequence was the dream, and the other the reality?

I see what you are saying and it makes perfect sense