Matrix, The - The Bullets in the Desert Eagle Are Blanks
When Agent Smith is killing Neo in room 303 right at the end (2:02:36 you can see a real bullet casing fall to the ground. Less than a second later, at 2:02:48, you see several BLANKS come out of the gun, one after the other! You can tell because of the "scrunched" tip they have instead of a projectile bullet.
Oh really? I thought they employed several Neo look-a-likes so they could use real bullets, thanks for ruining the film for me. I was really thinking they used real bullets...
As far as I'm concerned, the slip-up is that in the same scene, from the same gun, both real bullets and blanks were used. Sammo: All the comments you make on this site are totally retarded, so just stop it because no one thinks it's funny.
This slip-up has been reported before, what's the point of reporting it again?
And it is not a slip-up that they use blanks (of course they do), but the fact that you can see that they're using blanks is a slip-up (movies are supposed to look real, aren't they?)
Yep, noticed that the first time I watched the movie... it's quite annoying and (unlike e.g. Neo's pants goof) not so funny, at least not for me. In fact, I find weapon-related goofs very annoying. Not as annoying as those various computer-related idiocies made in every second movie by lame computer illiterate writers and directors (how I hate these...), but pretty annoying, nevertheless.
OK...they sure as hell weren't going to use real bullets. This is why blanks were invented. What did you want them to do??? Not show a close-up of the gun? Certain slip-ups are pretty much expected to be found... and understood. There really isn't a WHOLE lot they could do about this, short of pointing a gun with live ammo at a camera or person... and potentially having another Brandon Lee incident. So let's let them have this one, OK?
Not really a slip up is it, of course they use blanks. They KNEW they were using blanks so its not a slip up. The fact that you can tell has nothing to do with it, anyone with half a brain knows they use blanks anyway.
Of freaking course there using blanks it is a movie they don't want to kill anybody. That's like saying "Hey those aren't real people, they're actors. Oh what a rip off!" So you get my drift.
this is a slip up because the scene of the gun firing is a close up from above the gun. you can't see what the gun is pointed at. it should have been done with real bullets.
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