Tribute to Quentin Tarantino's Trunk Shot
It's no secret that Quentin Tarantino loves the trunk POV shot, it's his trademark shot. For anyone that has seen all or most of Tarantino's movies then you may have noticed. The shot is so freakin well known that it actually has its own wikipedia page! And here's a little background describing the shot.
The Trunk shot is a camera angle used in cinema when one or more characters need to retrieve something or someone from the trunk of a car. … This camera angle is often noted to be the trademark of film maker Quentin Tarantino who disputes that he puts the shot in his films as a trademark and simply asks “Where would you put the camera?” Although he did not invent it, Tarantino popularized the trunk shot, which is featured in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill. In Death Proof, Tarantino’s traditional shot looking up at the actors from the trunk of a car is replaced by one looking up from under the hood. In Inglourious Basterds a “trunk shot” is used two times when Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) crouches over a captured Nazi with one of his soldiers, cutting a swastika into their victim’s forehead (the shot is supposed to be the victim’s point of view).
Here is a collection of images that made its way across the internet yesterday. Thanks to GT reading Bambam for the heaps up!