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* SpitTake: Stuntman Mike has one during his INeedAFreakingDrink moment when [[spoiler:he sees the girls' Dodge Charger in his rear-view mirror, fully intent on ramming him at full speed!]]
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The final bit of fanservice
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** As Zoe, Kim and Abby stride line abreast towards Stuntman Mike to [[spoiler:give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown]], the camera focuses on their shapely bottoms.
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* TokenMinority: Julia in the first half of the film. As she's played by a half-white actress, this also invokes ButNotTooBlack.
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* TokenMinority: Julia Julia, the biracial girl, is the only minority in the first half of the film. As she's played by a half-white actress, this also invokes ButNotTooBlack.film.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: While she is seen occasionally wearing sandals, Jungle Julia frequently goes barefoot. She takes off her sandals in the bar and props her feet on a chair, and is always barefoot when riding in cars. She's also barefoot in her apartment before Shanna and Arlene arrive.
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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: While she is seen occasionally wearing sandals, Jungle Julia frequently goes barefoot. She takes off her sandals in the bar and props her feet on a chair, and is always barefoot when riding in cars. She's also barefoot in her apartment before Shanna and Arlene arrive.
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** The three final girls in the car chase scene are Kim, Zoe and Abernathy. Kim is the still the Butch as the aggressive driver and ScaryBlackWoman. Abernathy becomes the Femme, because she's a mother and a make-up artist without the stunt credentials of the other two. Zoe is a reckless stuntwoman like Kim, but is more cheerful and wears a pink T-shirt (Neither).
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** The three final girls in the car chase scene are Kim, Zoe and Abernathy. Kim is the still the Butch as the aggressive driver and ScaryBlackWoman. Abernathy becomes the Femme, because she's a mother and a make-up artist without the stunt credentials of the other two. Zoe is a reckless stuntwoman like Kim, but is more cheerful and wears a pink T-shirt (Neither).
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* TownGirls: The first set of protagonists. Arlene is a LadEtte who curses and smokes, and with a thick tomboyish 'noo yawk' accent (Butch). Jungle Julia is a glamorous celebrity with beautiful hair and luscious legs, with a hidden sweet side (Femme). Shanna may be a SouthernBelle, but she's also a HardDrinkingPartyGirl that's a notch in between (Neither).
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* TownGirls: TownGirls:
** The first set of protagonists. Arlene is a LadEtte who curses and smokes, and with a thick tomboyish 'noo yawk' accent (Butch). Jungle Julia is a glamorous celebrity with beautiful hair and luscious legs, with a hidden sweet side (Femme). Shanna may be a SouthernBelle, but she's also a HardDrinkingPartyGirl that's a notch in between (Neither).
** In the second set of protagonists, the first three girls introduced are Kim, Abernathy, and Lee. Kim is TheLadette and a stuntwoman who loves cars (Butch), Lee is a naive Hollywood actress and the only one who wears a skirt (Femme), and Abernathy is a make-up artist but she also wears pants, cowboy boots, and has more of a sassy attitude compared to Lee (neither).
** The three final girls in the car chase scene are Kim, Zoe and Abernathy. Kim is the still the Butch as the aggressive driver and ScaryBlackWoman. Abernathy becomes the Femme, because she's a mother and a make-up artist without the stunt credentials of the other two. Zoe is a reckless stuntwoman like Kim, but is more cheerful and wears a pink T-shirt (Neither).
** The first set of protagonists. Arlene is a LadEtte who curses and smokes, and with a thick tomboyish 'noo yawk' accent (Butch). Jungle Julia is a glamorous celebrity with beautiful hair and luscious legs, with a hidden sweet side (Femme). Shanna may be a SouthernBelle, but she's also a HardDrinkingPartyGirl that's a notch in between (Neither).
** In the second set of protagonists, the first three girls introduced are Kim, Abernathy, and Lee. Kim is TheLadette and a stuntwoman who loves cars (Butch), Lee is a naive Hollywood actress and the only one who wears a skirt (Femme), and Abernathy is a make-up artist but she also wears pants, cowboy boots, and has more of a sassy attitude compared to Lee (neither).
** The three final girls in the car chase scene are Kim, Zoe and Abernathy. Kim is the still the Butch as the aggressive driver and ScaryBlackWoman. Abernathy becomes the Femme, because she's a mother and a make-up artist without the stunt credentials of the other two. Zoe is a reckless stuntwoman like Kim, but is more cheerful and wears a pink T-shirt (Neither).
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''Death Proof'', the more dialogue-oriented half of ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', is a Creator/QuentinTarantino film in which an aging stuntman uses his souped-up stuntcar to kill women on the open road. Little does he realize that a few of his second bunch of victims are ''stunt''women... and among them is Creator/ZoeBell (''playing herself''), who also doubled for Creator/UmaThurman in ''Film/KillBill'' and Creator/MelanieLaurent in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' in real life. Boy, is Stuntman Mike in for a world of hurt...
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''Death Proof'', the more dialogue-oriented [[SpeechCentricWork dialogue-oriented]] half of ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', is a Creator/QuentinTarantino film in which an aging stuntman uses his souped-up stuntcar to kill women on the open road. Little does he realize that a few of his second bunch of victims are ''stunt''women... and among them is Creator/ZoeBell (''playing herself''), who also doubled for Creator/UmaThurman in ''Film/KillBill'' and Creator/MelanieLaurent in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' in real life. Boy, is Stuntman Mike in for a world of hurt...
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* BareYourMidriff: Zoë car-surfing. And Butterfly during the lap dance.
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doesn't remotely fit definition of a slasher film
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* WholePlotReference: Basically the Cronenberg ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' remade as a SlasherMovie.
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* WholePlotReference: Basically the Cronenberg ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' remade as a SlasherMovie.action thriller.
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* TheSociopath: Stuntman Mike is completely devoid of any kindness or empathy and sees killing people as a fun way to pass the time.
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These two tropes are under new names and a couple of examples of Leg Focus have been cut due to sounding gushy.
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* DeathBySex: Inverted. The first girls, in spite of acting all wild, are actually pretty uptight about sex (especially Arlene/Butterfly), and they die. The second group, on the other hand, are very open about their sex lives, and they not only survive, they [[spoiler:kill the bad guy]]!
* LegFocus: Jungle Julia rides in the car with her feet hanging out the window. Many of her billboards show off her legs too.
* SexSignalsDeath: Inverted. The first girls, in spite of acting all wild, are actually pretty uptight about sex (especially Arlene/Butterfly), and they die. The second group, on the other hand, are very open about their sex lives, and they not only survive, they [[spoiler:kill the bad guy]]!
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* ShesGotLegs:
** Jungle Julia rides in the car with her feet hanging out the window. Many of her billboards show off her legs too.
** Abernathy. Rosario Dawson. Cutoff skirt. Have mercy.
** Arlene also wears short shorts that show off her legs.
** Jungle Julia rides in the car with her feet hanging out the window. Many of her billboards show off her legs too.
** Abernathy. Rosario Dawson. Cutoff skirt. Have mercy.
** Arlene also wears short shorts that show off her legs.
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** Downplayed with Stuntman Mike who claims his car is "death-proof". [[spoiler: In the end of the film, he gets chased by Kim, Zoe and Abernathy, who wreck his car and later drag him out and beat him to death.]]
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* MuggingTheMonster: A good chunk of the second half of the film is the group of friends establishing they are ActionFilm material, and Mike [[HumiliationConga discovers the hard way]] that trying to kill them was a very stupid idea the moment Kim whips out a handgun and shoots him in the shoulder, followed by a [[CurbStompBattle Curb-Stomp]] CarChase ''and'' [[CurbStompBattle Battle]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: A good chunk of the second half of the film is the group of friends establishing they are ActionFilm ActionGirl material, and Mike [[HumiliationConga discovers the hard way]] that trying to kill them was a very stupid idea the moment Kim whips out a handgun and shoots him in the shoulder, followed by a [[CurbStompBattle Curb-Stomp]] CarChase ''and'' [[CurbStompBattle Battle]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: A good chunk of the second half of the film is the group of friends establishing they are ActionFilm material, and Mike [[HumiliationConga discovers the hard way]] that trying to kill them was a very stupid idea the moment Kim whips out a handgun and shoots him in the shoulder, followed by a [[CurbStompBattle Curb-Stomp]] CarChase ''and'' [[CurbStompBattle Battle]].
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The German release ended up being the final wide release movie for the ill-fated HD DVD format (the final ever release was ''Deadlands 2: Trapped'', at a 500 copy run.)
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The German release ended up being the final wide release movie for the ill-fated HD DVD format (the final ever release was ''Deadlands 2: Trapped'', at a 500 copy run.)run).
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The German release ended up being the final wide release movie for the ill-fated HD DVD format ever, (the final ever release was ''Deadlands 2: Trapped'', at a 500 copy run.)
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The German release ended up being the final wide release movie for the ill-fated HD DVD format ever, (the final ever release was ''Deadlands 2: Trapped'', at a 500 copy run.)
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* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:As mentioned above, this is what Abernathy, Kim, and Zoe do to Mike at the end.]]
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* MatingDance: The lapdance Butterfly gives Stuntman Mike while lip-syncing to "Down in Mexico" by The Coasters. Afterwards, Butterfly and Jungle Julia joke that thanks to the dance, Pam (who's taking a ride home with Mike) will end up getting laid.
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* MatingDance: The lapdance Butterfly gives Stuntman Mike while lip-syncing to "Down in Mexico" by The Coasters. Afterwards, Afterward, Butterfly and Jungle Julia joke that thanks to the dance, Pam (who's taking a ride home with Mike) will end up getting laid.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Double subverted. Sheriff Earl Macgraw quickly figures out that Stuntman Mike's first murder was premeditated and he was probably getting off on it. But he can't prosecute him for the following reasons: he wasn't drink driving, Pam was stood up by her date and asked him for a lift, the other girls were all drunk or high, and Mike turned his headlights on right before the car crashed.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Double subverted. Sheriff Earl Macgraw quickly figures out that Stuntman Mike's first murder was premeditated and he was probably getting off on it. But he can't prosecute him for the following reasons: he wasn't drink drunk driving, Pam was stood up by her date and asked him for a lift, the other girls were all drunk or high, and Mike turned his headlights on right before the car crashed.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: As is frequently the case with Tarantino films. The entire soundtrack is made up of non-original music. One notable piece in particular is the brassy 1970's music that plays during the vehicle chase at the end of the film, which is from an obscure 1970's Italian film, "A Special Cop in Action."
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* ShockingMoment: [[spoiler: Jungle Julia, Shanna, and Arlene, who we've been following as the protagonists from the start of the film, are suddenly all viciously killed off at the film's halfway mark, introducing us to four completely new protagonists.]]
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* ShockingMoment: ShockingMoments: [[spoiler: Jungle Julia, Shanna, and Arlene, who we've been following as the protagonists from the start of the film, are suddenly all viciously killed off at the film's halfway mark, introducing us to four completely new protagonists.]]
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** Also [[spoiler: Mike's 1969 Dodge Charger in the second half of the film, and of course the white 1970 Dodge Challenger, especially for fans of the film Film/VanishingPoint. Lampshaded by the fact that the girls want to drive it solely because it resembles the car from that film.]]
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: While she is seen occasionally wearing sandals, Jungle Julia frequently goes barefoot. She takes off her sandals in the bar and props her feet on a chair, and is always barefoot when riding in cars. She's also barefoot in her apartment before Shanna and Arlene arrive.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Mike gets beaten up by the three girls at the end of the movie. Serves him right.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Mike [[spoiler: gets beaten up by the three girls at the end of the movie. Serves him right.]]
* NoSeatbelts: On the drive [[spoiler: to the cabin, Lanna, Shanna, and Jungle Julia aren't wearing their seat belts when Mike crashes his car into them, and Shanna ends up going through the windshield and onto the pavement in the crash because she's not buckled in. Julie and Lanna's injuries are also guaranteed fatal due to this fact. Subverted with Arlene, who is the only one buckled in. Not only does it not save her life, but she arguably gets one of the cruelest deaths with the spinning rear wheel of Mike's Nova ripping her face off as his car flies over theirs...]]
** Also demonstrated [[spoiler: in the second half. The Challenger the three girls are in didn't have them as standard equipment, and Mike has a custom belt installed in his Charger but he's unable to buckle back up due to his arm injury and the girls repeatedly rear-ending him.]]
* NoSeatbelts: On the drive [[spoiler: to the cabin, Lanna, Shanna, and Jungle Julia aren't wearing their seat belts when Mike crashes his car into them, and Shanna ends up going through the windshield and onto the pavement in the crash because she's not buckled in. Julie and Lanna's injuries are also guaranteed fatal due to this fact. Subverted with Arlene, who is the only one buckled in. Not only does it not save her life, but she arguably gets one of the cruelest deaths with the spinning rear wheel of Mike's Nova ripping her face off as his car flies over theirs...]]
** Also demonstrated [[spoiler: in the second half. The Challenger the three girls are in didn't have them as standard equipment, and Mike has a custom belt installed in his Charger but he's unable to buckle back up due to his arm injury and the girls repeatedly rear-ending him.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Completely subverted. [[spoiler: The first half of the film features the characters talking about their trip to an isolated cabin with no boys allowed, setting up a seeming slasher-plot with the girls trapped at the cabin and having to fight for their lives. They don't ever get there, and are brutally killed off by Mike at the film's halfway point.]]
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** Arlene also wears short shorts that show off her legs.
* ShockingMoment: [[spoiler: Jungle Julia, Shanna, and Arlene, who we've been following as the protagonists from the start of the film, are suddenly all viciously killed off at the film's halfway mark, introducing us to four completely new protagonists.]]
* ShockingMoment: [[spoiler: Jungle Julia, Shanna, and Arlene, who we've been following as the protagonists from the start of the film, are suddenly all viciously killed off at the film's halfway mark, introducing us to four completely new protagonists.]]
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* PlotTwist: [[spoiler: Basically, the entire first half of the film. While the audience certainly knows Stuntman Mike is creepy, Jungle Julia, Shanna, and Arlene repeatedly talk about their planned trip to an isolated cabin with "no boys allowed," and the fact that Lanna is their designated driver to get them all there, leading the audience to expect that they're going to be stalked at the cabin, likely by Mike, in a familiar slasher film plot. This is only advanced further then the girls get in Lanna's car to leave. This entire set-up is almost gleefully subverted by Creator/QuentinTarantino when the film reveals that all the discussion was for nothing, and all four of the first half female protagonists are intentionally, and horrifically slaughtered by Mike long before they reach that isolated cabin.]]
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* BerserkButton: After Mike [[spoiler: attempts to run them off the road to kill Zoe, even though she wounds him, Kim is very quick to decide their only course of action is to chase Mike down and kill him. Abby and Zoe need little to no convincing before they agree. And up until they finally crash Mike's car, Kim gets further and further bloodthirsty in her attempts to get Mike.]]
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* BerserkButton: After Mike [[spoiler: attempts to run them off the road to kill Zoe, even though she wounds Kim wounded him, Kim is the three girls are very quick to decide their only course of action is to chase Mike down and personally kill him. Abby Mike. Kim in particular becomes more and Zoe need little to no convincing before they agree. And up until they finally crash Mike's car, Kim gets further and further more bloodthirsty in her attempts to get Mike.for Mike's death the longer the chase goes on.]]
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* BerserkButton: After Mike [[spoiler: attempts to run them off the road to kill Zoë, even though she wounds him, Kim is very quick to decide their only course of action is to chase Mike down and kill him. Abby and Zoë need little to no convincing before they agree. And up until they finally crash Mike's car, Kim gets further and further bloodthirsty in her attempts to get Mike.]]
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* BerserkButton: After Mike [[spoiler: attempts to run them off the road to kill Zoë, Zoe, even though she wounds him, Kim is very quick to decide their only course of action is to chase Mike down and kill him. Abby and Zoë Zoe need little to no convincing before they agree. And up until they finally crash Mike's car, Kim gets further and further bloodthirsty in her attempts to get Mike.]]
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* BerserkButton: After Mike [[spoiler: attempts to run them off the road to kill Zoë, even though she wounds him, Kim is very quick to decide their only course of action is to chase Mike down and kill him. Abby and Zoë need little to no convincing before they agree. And up until they finally crash Mike's car, Kim gets further and further bloodthirsty in her attempts to get Mike.]]
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* RapunzelHair: Jungle Julia has magnificent hair that goes well past her waist. Pam remarks that it's thanks to "lots of leave-in conditioner". Pam and Shanna have some pretty lengthy hair themselves too.
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* WhoWearsShortShorts: Jungle Julia, Shanna, and Arlene.
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''Death Proof'' is the more dialogue-oriented half of ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''. A Creator/QuentinTarantino film in which an aging stuntman uses his souped-up stuntcar to kill women on the open road. Little does he realize that a few of his second bunch of victims are ''stunt''women... and among them is Creator/ZoeBell (''playing herself''), who also doubled for Creator/UmaThurman in ''Film/KillBill'' and Creator/MelanieLaurent in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' in real life. Boy, is Stuntman Mike in for a world of hurt...
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''Death Proof'' is Proof'', the more dialogue-oriented half of ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''. A ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', is a Creator/QuentinTarantino film in which an aging stuntman uses his souped-up stuntcar to kill women on the open road. Little does he realize that a few of his second bunch of victims are ''stunt''women... and among them is Creator/ZoeBell (''playing herself''), who also doubled for Creator/UmaThurman in ''Film/KillBill'' and Creator/MelanieLaurent in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' in real life. Boy, is Stuntman Mike in for a world of hurt...
