Editing Trunk shot (section)

==In film==
This camera angle is often noted to be the trademark of filmmaker [[Quentin Tarantino]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Reitman, Matthew|url=https://www.insidehook.com/article/movies/tarantinos-signature-trunk-shots|title=Tarantino's Signature 'Trunk Shots'|website=InsideHook|language=en-US|date=May 17, 2016}}</ref>  Although he did not invent it, Tarantino popularized the trunk shot, which is featured in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'', ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', ''[[Jackie Brown (film)|Jackie Brown]]'', ''[[From Dusk Till Dawn (film)|From Dusk Till Dawn]]'', ''[[Kill Bill: Volume 1]]'' and ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''. 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/quentin-tarantino-8-famous-trunk-784995/5-death-proof|title=8 of Quentin Tarantino's Famous Trunk Shots (Photos)|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=27 March 2015 |language=en|access-date=2019-06-06}}</ref>

The earliest trunk shot can be noted in the 1948 movie by [[Anthony Mann]] (though credited to [[Alfred L. Werker]]), ''[[He Walked by Night]]'', when the police are inspecting the contents of a murder suspect's trunk.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lwlies.com/articles/eight-great-uses-of-pov-perspective-in-movies/|title=Eight great uses of POV perspective in movies|website=Little White Lies|access-date=2019-06-06}}</ref> Another use of the shot is in 1967 film ''[[In Cold Blood (film)|In Cold Blood]]'' (directed by [[Richard Brooks]]) after the two outlaws cross the borders to Mexico in a stolen car. In the [[Thriller film|thriller]] ''[[Spasmo]]'', directed by [[Umberto Lenzi]] in 1974, this shot can be seen when the main character opens the trunk and a dead man appears. A trunk shot appears also in [[George Miller (director)|George Miller]]'s 1985 movie ''[[Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]'' when Max, Master and the savage children are following Jedediah's son while escaping from their chasers guided by Entity. It is also used in the [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] film ''[[Uncle Buck]]'' (1989), wherein Buck ([[John Candy]]) opens his trunk to reveal a tied up teenager who cheated on Buck's niece. ''[[Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead]]'' has a trunk shot where the kids are discussing whether the babysitter's body will fit. The 1992 film ''[[Sneakers (1992 film)|Sneakers]]'' contains a trunk shot when Robert Redford's character is kidnapped. There is also a trunk shot used in ''[[A Good Day to Die Hard]]'', when John McClane and his son Jack find a trunk full of guns and ammo in a car they are about to steal. [[Paul Thomas Anderson]] used the shot in his short film ''[[Cigarettes & Coffee]]'' (1993) and [[Jonathan Mostow]] in ''[[Breakdown (1997 film)|Breakdown]]'' (1997). In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]]'' (2006), there is a scene with a similar perspective, where Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth and Norrington find a buried chest and the camera looks up to them from inside the hole in the ground that the chest is in.
This shot was also featured in a south Indian film named Aavesham (2024) in a song sequence which features the lead character’s birthday celebration.