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* ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''. A ShoutOut to Tarantino in a ''Disney'' film. With frogs.

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* In ''Series/{{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 BookEnds, as season 2 ends with the exact same shot, and line/theme ("We've got work to do.").
* ''Series/MyMadFatDiary'' uses this trope in its first episode, when Karim is first introduced.

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* ''Series/BreakingBad'': In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the Winchesters keep their weapons ColdOpen for the Season 5 Premier, this shot is used as Walt looks at [[spoiler: the M60]] in his trunk.
* ''Series/FakingIt'' does it
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 BookEnds, as season 2 ends premiere when Shane kidnaps Lauren's boyfriend Tommy.
* In "And His Watch is Ended" of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', 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 exact same shot, lid and line/theme ("We've got work to do.").
* ''Series/MyMadFatDiary'' uses this trope in its first episode, when Karim is first introduced.
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* ''Series/MyMadFatDiary'' uses this trope in its first episode, when Karim is first introduced.



* ''Series/BreakingBad'': In the ColdOpen for the Season 5 Premier, this shot is used as Walt looks at [[spoiler: the M60]] in his trunk.

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* ''Series/BreakingBad'': ''Series/StrangerThings'': In "The Bathtub", Hopper gets one when he and his lieutenants find the ColdOpen for the Season 5 Premier, this shot is used as Walt looks at [[spoiler: monster hunting equipment]] in Jonathan's trunk.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'',
the M60]] Winchesters keep their weapons in his trunk.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 BookEnds, as season 2 ends with the exact same shot, and line/theme ("We've got work to do.").



* In "And His Watch is Ended" of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', 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.
* ''Series/FakingIt'' does it in the season 2 premiere when Shane kidnaps Lauren's boyfriend Tommy.

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* In "And His Watch is Ended" of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', 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.
* ''Series/FakingIt'' does it in the season 2 premiere when Shane kidnaps Lauren's boyfriend Tommy.
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** ''Film/TheHatefulEight'': A wounded [[spoiler: Bob's]] POV before Marquis [[BoomHeadshot finishes him off.]]

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* ''Film/HeWalkedByNight'' : Credited with being the first film to use this trope.
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* ''Film/HeWalkedByNight'' : Credited In ''Film/HeWalkedByNight'', credited with being the first film to use this trope.
trope, the cops thoroughly inspect the trunk of a car.
* In ''In Cold Blood'' Blood'': the cops put a box in the trunk of the car, after putting Dick in the car.



* In ''Uncle Buck'', Buck and Tia look at Bug who is bound and gagged in the trunk.
* 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.



** ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': the POV is just lying on the ground.
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** ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': the POV is just lying on the ground.
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** ''Film/DjangoUnchained'': the POV is from the ground.ground when Django points his gun at Big John Brittle.



* In the short film ''Cigarettes & Coffee''

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* In the short film ''Cigarettes & Coffee''Coffee'', Bill tells Steve in the trunk of his car "...almost home, Stevie!"



* In the video for Axelle Red's 1998 music video ''Rester femme''
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* In the video for Axelle Red's 1998 music video ''Rester femme''
femme'', Axelle looks at her husband, who is bound and gagged in the trunk.
* In Shakira's video for ''Objection (Tango)''
(Tango)'', she is smiling sadistically at her ex-boyfriend and his mistress, who are bound and gagged in the trunk.

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* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''

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* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''''In Cold Blood''
* In ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' there is a famous trunk scene, although the camera POV isn't actually looking out from inside the trunk.



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** ''Film/JackieBrown''''Film/JackieBrown'': on two different occassions. One where Ordell Jones wants Beaumont Livingston to get in the trunk. And one where Jackie Brown gets stuff from her trunk.



** ''Film/ReservoirDogs'': looking down on the captured cop in the trunk.

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** ''Film/ReservoirDogs'': looking down on out from the trunk where the captured cop in the trunk.is.



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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.
* In ''A Good Day To Die Hard'' John and Jack inspect the trunks of three different cars.




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* In the video for Axelle Red's 1998 music video ''Rester femme''
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A specific type of ContainerShot, usually deployed in any movie which involves a character placing or retrieving something (or someone) in the trunk (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.

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A specific type of ContainerShot, usually deployed in any movie CompartmentShot, which involves a character placing or retrieving something (or someone) in the trunk (boot, trunk[[note]]boot, if you're using British English) English[[/note]] of a car. POV will usually be from within the trunk looking up at the character opening it.
it, sometimes from the actual POV of a character who's been stuffed into the trunk.
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Usually deployed in any movie which involves a character placing or retrieving something in the trunk (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.

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Usually A specific type of ContainerShot, usually deployed in any movie which involves a character placing or retrieving something (or someone) in the trunk (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.
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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' uses this trope in "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar in Philadelphia" Given the [[AccidentalKidnapping context]], it may be an additional shout-out to Tartatino's films in general

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* ''WebOriginal/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wYtG7aQTHA Spielberg vs. Hitchcock]] has one [[spoiler:at the end of Quentin Tarantino's verse]].
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* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Mrs. Lovett looking onto Pirelli's body in the chest.
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* ''Series/FakingIt'' does it in the season 2 premiere when Shane kidnaps Lauren's boyfriend Tommy.
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* A piece of concept art for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' depicts the three protagonists in this. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a replica of a scene from the game's GoldenEnding, where the man in the trunk is one of the {{Big Bad}}s.]]
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* In ''Film/WildTales'', when Simón Fisher loads explosives into the trunk of his car.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead''''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Rick and Shane argue about [[spoiler: their prisoner]] in their car.
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* [[Music/{{NWA}} Straight Outta Compton]]'s album cover.

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** ''Film/KillBill'': When the Bride is talking to Sophie Fatale, she watches her from up.

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** ''Film/KillBill'': When the The Bride is talking to Sophie Fatale, she watches her from up.who is in the trunk.
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* Used in ''Film/{{Triangle}}'', after Jess stashes the body in the trunk of her car.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' gives us this as a ShoutOut to ''Film/PulpFiction'', just before Lance and Tommy lay siege to Ricardo Diaz's estate.



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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' gives us this as a ShoutOut to ''Film/PulpFiction'', just before Lance and Tommy lay siege to Ricardo Diaz's estate.
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* ''MyMadFatDiary'' uses this trope in its first episode, when Karim is first introduced.

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* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In the episode "Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank," Monk and Natalie discover a body while the camera is positioned with this trope.

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* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In the episode "Mr. Monk Goes to and the Bank," Other Detective," Monk and Natalie discover a body while Marty Eels look at the store manager's car and the camera is positioned with this trope.shooting them from inside the trunk.

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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' gives us this as a ShoutOut to ''Film/PulpFiction'', just before Lance and Tommy lay siege to Ricardo Diaz's estate.


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* [[Music/{{NWA}} Straight Outta Compton]]'s album cover.

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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' gives us this as a ShoutOut to ''Film/PulpFiction'', just before Lance and Tommy lay siege to Ricardo Diaz's estate.



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* ''HeWalkedByNight'' ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''. A ShoutOut to Tarantino in a ''Disney'' film. With frogs.
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* VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity gives us this as a ShoutOut to ''Film/PulpFiction'', just before Lance and Tommy lay siege to Ricardo Diaz's estate.



* ''MeetTheRobinsons''. A ShoutOut to Tarantino in a ''Disney'' film. With frogs.




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* ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' uses this trope in "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar in Philadelphia" Given the [[AccidentalKidnapping context]], it may be an additional shout-out to Tartatino's films in general
* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': Gene Hunt does this to Sam Tyler at least once.

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* ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' uses this trope in "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar in Philadelphia" Given the [[AccidentalKidnapping context]], it may be an additional shout-out to Tartatino's films in general
* ''Series/{{Life On on Mars|2006}}'': Gene Hunt does this to Sam Tyler at least once.




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* The music video for the [[Music/DixieChicks Dixie Chicks']] "Goodbye Earl" uses the trunk shot when the girls take Earl for dumping. It uses a similar shot (not in a trunk) earlier when Earl's on the floor dying of poison.

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* The music video for the [[Music/DixieChicks Dixie Chicks']] Music/DixieChicks' "Goodbye Earl" uses the trunk shot when the girls take Earl for dumping. It uses a similar shot (not in a trunk) earlier when Earl's on the floor dying of poison.poison.
* The page picture for the {{Grindcore}} group Music/PigDestroyer.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' gives us this as a ShoutOut to ''Film/PulpFiction'', just before Lance and Tommy lay siege to Ricardo Diaz's estate.
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[[caption-width-right:358: QuentinTarantino loves this trope.]]

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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' -- the Winchesters keep their weapons in the trunk, and so 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 BookEnds, as season 2 ends with the exact same shot, and line ("Let's get to work.").

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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' -- In ''Series/{{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 BookEnds, as season 2 ends with the exact same shot, and line ("Let's get line/theme ("We've got work to work.do.").



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Popularised by QuentinTarantino who has a Trunk Shot in all of his films.

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!!'''Notable films that feature this trope:'''

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** ''Film/KillBill''
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''Film/KillBill'': When the Bride is talking to Sophie Fatale, she watches her from up.
** ''Film/PulpFiction''''Film/PulpFiction'': Jules and Vince when they take their guns from the trunk.



** ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' (Actually, the POV is just lying on the ground.)
** ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' (Also from the ground)

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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': the episode 18 Miles Out uses this.

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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': ''Series/TheWalkingDead'
* In "And His Watch is Ended" of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', 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
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** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''

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** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' (which Tarantino scripted and acts in, but did not direct)

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