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Trunk Shot
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A specific type of Compartment Shot, which involves a character placing or retrieving something (or someone) in the trunknote boot, if you're using British English of a car. POV will usually be from within the trunk looking up at the character opening it, sometimes from the actual POV of a character who's been stuffed into the trunk. In some cases, the trunk shot can also be a character looking at their supplies or armaments before either closing it or picking something up from the trunk. Popularised by Quentin Tarantino who has a Trunk Shot in all of his films. See Punk in the Trunk for one of the ways this shot can be used. Distant relative of the Huddle Shot. |
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In A Good Day to Die Hard, John and Jack inspect the trunks of three different cars. | |
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In He Walked By Night, credited with being the first film to use this trope, the cops thoroughly inspect the trunk of a car. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia uses this trope in "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar in Philadelphia" Given the context, it may be an additional shout-out to Tarantino's films in general | |
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Meet the Robinsons. Has one as a Shout-Out to Tarantino in a Disney film. With frogs. | |
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A piece of concept art for Grand Theft Auto V depicts the three protagonists in this. It turns out to be a replica of a scene from the game's Golden Ending, where the man in the trunk is one of the Big Bads, the corrupt billionaire Devin Weston. | |
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Used when the gang discover that the Mystery Machine's engine is missing in "The Creeping Creatures". | |
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In Lord of War, the opening sequence depicts the journey of ammunition from factory-to-battlefield via the POV of a bullet, including shots of different people opening and peering into ammunition crates to examine their contents along the way. | |
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In Cold Blood: The cops put a box in the trunk of the car, after putting Dick in the car. | |
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Kill Bill: The Bride is talking to Sophie Fatale, who is in the trunk. Also used when Budd is looking down at the Bride in the cemetery, and when the DiVAS look down at her in the wedding chapel. | |
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In Supernatural, the Winchesters keep their weapons in the trunk, and so it represents their "family business." The last shot of the pilot is a dramatic trunk shot with the trunk slamming shut serving as a cut to black. Also an example of Book Ends, as season 2 ends with the exact same shot, and line/theme ("We've got work to do"). | |
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Django Unchained: the POV is from the ground when Django points his gun at Big John Brittle. | |
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In the short film Cigarettes & Coffee, Bill tells Steve in the trunk of his car "...almost home, Stevie!" | |
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Hot Fuzz. Also an intentional Shout-Out. Ta da. | |
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In Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, one of these happens as Batou and Togusa prepare to raid a Yakuza office. | |
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Ghost in the Shell (1995) | hasFeature |
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Inglourious Basterds: the POV is lying on the ground when Rain and Donowitz use a knife on a Nazi. | |
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Faking It does it in the season 2 premiere when Shane kidnaps Lauren's boyfriend Tommy. | |
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The pilot episode of The Streets of San Francisco (1972) contains one near the end of an episode, when Stone, Keller and Malone find a chest with victim's belongings. | |
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The Gentlemen: When Coach opens the boot of his car to show Ray the Bound and Gagged Phuc, the shot is from Phuc's POV of the two threatening individuals staring down at him. | |
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The Walking Dead: Rick and Shane argue about their prisoner in their car. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the camera looks out of the hole in the ground where Jack, Elizabeth and Norrington found a chest. | |
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Pulp Fiction: Jules and Vince when they take their guns from the trunk. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City gives us this as a Shout-Out to Pulp Fiction, just before Lance and Tommy lay siege to Ricardo Diaz's estate. | |
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Little Einsteins has done this twice: In "The Christmas Wish", this occurs as the team looks in Annie's wish box and finds nothing in it, before Annie reveals she wished to be with her friends on Christmas. Done again in "The Secret Mystery Prize" when the team looks in the chest to see the Japanese instruments inside. |
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My Mad Fat Diary uses this trope in its first episode, when Karim is first introduced. | |
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Kaeloo: The audience is treated to a trunk shot in "Gangster Poker", where Mr. Cat takes Quack-Quack hostage and puts him in the trunk of his car. | |
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Reservoir Dogs: looking out from the trunk where the captured cop is. | |
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Monk: In "Mr. Monk and the Other Detective," Monk and Marty Eels look at the store manager's car and the camera shooting them from inside the trunk. | |
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In House of Sand and Fog, where Jennifer Connely's character takes gun out of her trunk to commit suicide in front of her mistakenly evicted home. | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Mrs. Lovett looking at Pirelli's body in the chest. | |
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Life on Mars: Gene Hunt does this to Sam Tyler at least once. | |
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In "And His Watch is Ended" of Game of Thrones, Varys shows Tyrion a trapped sorcerer that is kept in a large box, bound and gagged, Varys and Tyrion are shown watching him from this angle, with part of the lid and the box visible. | |
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Used in Triangle, after Jess stashes the body in the trunk of her car. | |
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Stranger Things: In "The Bathtub", Hopper gets one when he and his lieutenants find the monster hunting equipment in Jonathan's trunk. | |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: Spielberg vs. Hitchcock has one at the end of Quentin Tarantino's verse. | |
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The Hateful Eight: A wounded Bob's POV before Marquis finishes him off. | |
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Death Proof (Inverted, this one is actually a shot from under the front hood of a car). | |
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Goodfellas opens with the main characters driving into a secluded area to bury the body of the freshly killed Billy Batts, only to find out that he's still alive when they hear him struggling from inside the trunk. The camera cuts to them opening the trunk, seeing him squirming inside the cloth they wrapped him in, and violently attacking him until they're sure that he's dead. Unlike most cases, the camera is placed behind the trunk rather than inside of it. | |
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Jackie Brown: On two different occasions. One where Ordell Jones wants Beaumont Livingston to get in the trunk. And one where Jackie Brown gets stuff from her trunk. | |
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Done in the Sunny Day episode "Band Together" as she looks in a chest for her band's missing drum set. | |
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In Wild Tales, when Simón Fisher loads explosives into the trunk of his car. | |
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In Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, the camera looks at Mad Max and a group of abandoned children, who find a laddered shaft under the trunk of a car wreck. | |
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Breaking Bad: In the Cold Open for the Season 5 Premier, this shot is used as Walt looks at the M60 in his trunk. | |
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In the Burn Notice episode "Friendly Fire", after Michael Westen (playing a shadowy demonic figure) throws the Villain of the Week in a trunk, he gives an evil smile as the scene fades to gray and slams the lid. | |
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In Uncle Buck, Buck and Tia look at Bug who is bound and gagged in the trunk. | |
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In Innerspace, Igoe's BMW ("SNAPON")note This is a reference to Snap-on tools; an automotive mechanic tool that features a snap mechanism for different attachments, similar to his hand. and Scrimshaw's Rolls-Royce ("SUB-ZRO"). | |
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