History Main / TrunkShot

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A specific type of CompartmentShot, which involves a character placing or retrieving something (or someone) in the trunk[[note]]boot, if you're using British English[[/note]] 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 ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShell Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence]]'', one happens as Batou and Togusa prepare to raid a {{Yakuza}} office.

* The music video ,"Kill That B*tch," by "A Sound of Thunder" where the band finds and kills a woman and throws her dismembered body in a trunk.

* 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.]]

* ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''. Has one as a ShoutOut to Tarantino in a ''Disney'' film. With frogs.

* ''Film/TheGentleman'': When Coach opens the boot of his car to show Ray the BoundAndGagged Phuc, the shot is from Phuc's POV of the two threatening individuals staring down at him.

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* The music video for the 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.

* In the video for Axelle Red's 1998 music video ''Rester femme'', Axelle looks at her husband, who is bound and gagged in the trunk.
* In Shakira's video for ''Objection (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/KillBill'': 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.

* In ''Film/HouseOfSandAndFog", where Jennifer Connely's character takes gun out of her trunk to commit suicide in front of her mistakenly evicted home.

** ''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/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Mrs. Lovett looking onto Pirelli's body in the chest.

* Pilot episode of ''Series/TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco'' (1972) contains one near the end of an episode, when Stone, Keller and Malone find a chest with victim's belongings.

* 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/TheWalkingDead'': Rick and Shane argue about [[spoiler: their prisoner]] in their car.

* 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.]]

* ''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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* In ''Film/WildTales'', when Simón Fisher loads explosives into the trunk of his car.

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* In ''Film/LordOfWar'', the opening sequence depicts the journey of ammunition from factory-to-battlefield via [[CompanionCube the POV of a bullet]], including shots of different people peering into ammunition crates to examine their contents along the way.

* In ''Film/LordOfWar'', the opening sequence depicts the journey of ammunition from factory-to-battlefield via [[CompanionCube the POV shot of a bullet]], including shots of different people peering into ammunition crates to examine their contents along the way.

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

* 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.

** ''Film/KillBill'': 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.

** ''Film/KillBill'': The Bride is talking to Sophie Fatale, who is in the trunk.

* In ''In Cold 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.

* 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.