Tropescilloscope: Dutch Angle

Scene(s) filmed on a slight angle. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Easily Forgiven As Long as It Sounds Foreign A Minor Kidroduction Dying Moment of Awesome Unresolved Sexual Tension Love Triangle The Mafia Hero Antagonist Have a Gay Old Time Country Matters Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Depraved Bisexual Tranquil Fury Made of Explodium Canon Foreigner Air-Vent Passageway Cool Old Lady Made of Iron Frame-Up Gratuitous English The '60s Antagonist Title Advertised Extra Demonic Possession Dirty Old Man Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Television Movie Index Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Only in It for the Money Bilingual Bonus Cain and Abel Cool Car Facial Horror Get Out! Developing Doomed Characters Scare Chord Obfuscating Stupidity Abhorrent Admirer Film Noir Index Maybe Ever After Villain Opening Scene Ambiguous Disorder Retirony Zombie Stories Closed Circle Red Right Hand Body Horror Reasonable Authority Figure Genre Shift Fake Shemp He Who Fights Monsters A Date with Rosie Palms Ungrateful Bastard Major Injury Underreaction Big Fancy House Black Comedy Rape Small Name, Big Ego Obviously Evil She Cleans Up Nicely Truth in Television My God, What Have I Done? Bait-and-Switch Straight Gay Well-Intentioned Extremist Bad Boss Early-Bird Cameo Big Eater '80s Hair Credits Gag "Well Done, Son!" Guy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Smurfette Principle She's Got Legs It Will Never Catch On Too Dumb to Live Deal with the Devil 20 Minutes into the Future Fantasy Films Kubrick Stare Funny Foreigner Improbable Aiming Skills Celebrity Paradox Fingore Slashed Throat Silence Is Golden Implacable Man Unusually Uninteresting Sight Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Tempting Fate Laser-Guided Karma Romantic Comedy Becoming the Mask Mistaken for Gay Artistic License – Military And I Must Scream Brother–Sister Incest Very Loosely Based on a True Story No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Shown Their Work Super Strength Spared by the Adaptation Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Broken Pedestal Alliterative Name Stepford Smiler MacGuffin Blackmail Agony of the Feet Accidental Misnaming Imagine Spot Groin Attack Badass Grandpa You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! BFG Affectionate Parody Match Cut Race Against the Clock Animal Title Index Danny Peary Cult Movies List Naïve Newcomer War Is Hell Cold-Blooded Torture Dark Reprise Heel–Face Turn The Un-Reveal Breaking the Fourth Wall Nice Hat Book-Ends Conspicuous CG Police are Useless May–December Romance Red Herring Setting Update Manic Pixie Dream Girl Flipping the Bird Not So Different Belligerent Sexual Tension Translation Convention Outrun the Fireball Loads and Loads of Characters Darkest Hour An Arm and a Leg Rewatch Bonus Non-Indicative Name Even Evil Has Standards Say My Name Peek-a-Boo Corpse "Shaggy Dog" Story Actor Allusion Fiery Redhead What You Are in the Dark Knife Nut Sexy Discretion Shot Bloody Hilarious Green-Eyed Monster Left the Background Music On What the Hell, Hero? Wham Line Curb-Stomp Battle Really Gets Around Not What It Looks Like Not Using the "Z" Word "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bond Villain Stupidity I Need a Freaking Drink Not Even Bothering with the Accent Documentary Meaningful Background Event No OSHA Compliance Yandere Riddle for the Ages Armor-Piercing Question Bland-Name Product Enemy Mine Evil-Detecting Dog Due to the Dead Madness Mantra Asshole Victim The Voiceless Attempted Rape Irony Villainous Breakdown True Companions Tap on the Head Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Spanner in the Works Room Full of Crazy Disguised in Drag Every Car Is a Pinto Random Events Plot Call-Back Heel Realization Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Mercy Kill Politically Incorrect Villain Not So Stoic Male Frontal Nudity Light Is Not Good Jerkass Has a Point Off-into-the-Distance Ending Jerk Jock Fan Disservice Chekhov's Gunman Coming-of-Age Story It Can Think The Starscream Paper-Thin Disguise The Cameo Soft Glass La Résistance Corpsing Happily Married Dumb Blonde Never My Fault Four-Temperament Ensemble Karmic Death Properly Paranoid Eagleland Hollywood Law Bloodless Carnage Good Is Not Nice Disney Villain Death You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Anti-Hero Our Zombies Are Different Grievous Bottley Harm Epic Fail Crazy Jealous Guy What Happened to the Mouse? Bunny-Ears Lawyer Action Genre Training Montage Deus ex Machina Shout-Out No Name Given Bring My Brown Pants Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Totally Radical The Reveal Pimped-Out Dress Insistent Terminology The Dragon Aside Glance Taking You with Me After the End Works Set in World War II Stalker with a Crush Drill Sergeant Nasty The Ditz Narrator I Have Your Wife Japanese Films As the Good Book Says... Fourth Date Marriage One-Man Army Central Theme Awesome, but Impractical The Hero Dies Animated Credits Opening Ascended Extra Costume Porn Storming the Castle Aluminum Christmas Trees Defrosting Ice Queen Bittersweet Ending Darker and Edgier Your Cheating Heart Bar Brawl Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Jitter Cam Bound and Gagged Death by Adaptation Dramatic Gun Cock Cassandra Truth Pragmatic Adaptation Roaring Rampage of Revenge Grey and Gray Morality Trailers Always Spoil As Himself Deadpan Snarker Woman Scorned Humans Are Bastards Unwitting Instigator of Doom Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Took a Level in Jerkass Sinister Minister Catch-Phrase Destination Defenestration Rule of Funny Scary Black Man Retired Badass Men Are the Expendable Gender Australian Movies Establishing Character Moment Sequel Escalation Pyrrhic Victory Nice Guy Take a Third Option Rape as Drama Our Vampires Are Different Crucified Hero Shot Fatal Family Photo Whole Plot Reference Broken Bird Gender Flip Arch-Enemy Exact Words Throwing Your Sword Always Works Butt-Monkey Worthy Opponent Kick the Son of a Bitch Call-Forward Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Mugging the Monster Unreliable Narrator Silent Movie Broken Aesop Dropped a Bridge on Him Mind Screw Beware the Nice Ones Revenge The Stoic Wrong Genre Savvy Adult Fear Early Installment Weirdness Leave the Camera Running Serious Business The Quiet One Handicapped Badass Break the Haughty Chekhov's Gun Stylistic Suck Cool Guns Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Jerkass Visual Pun Cool Old Guy Amusing Injuries Almost Kiss Pre-Mortem One-Liner Extreme Doormat Only One Name No-Sell Rule of Symbolism Mr. Fanservice Domestic Abuse Tagline Friend to All Children One-Word Title Dressing as the Enemy Karma Houdini Bald of Evil Adaptation Expansion Male Gaze All There in the Script Off with His Head! Man on Fire Historical Villain Upgrade Pet the Dog Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? No Antagonist Film Noir Manchild Obstructive Bureaucrat More Dakka Rasputinian Death Red Shirt Lighter and Softer Scenery Gorn Decoy Protagonist Five-Man Band Sports Stories Monumental Damage Slasher Smile Lampshade Hanging Christmas Movies Index Author Appeal Naked People Are Funny Evil Counterpart Show Within a Show Wounded Gazelle Gambit Poor Communication Kills The Film of the Book Author Avatar Dramatic Irony Soundtrack Dissonance Anachronism Stew Offscreen Teleportation Catapult Nightmare Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Honor Before Reason Dies Wide Open Mighty Whitey Recycled IN SPACE! Evil Sounds Deep I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Funny Background Event Rated M for Manly Public Domain Feature Films From Bad to Worse Auto Erotica Stealth Hi/Bye Fire-Forged Friends The Mole The Sociopath Skewed Priorities The Alcoholic Missing Mom All Men Are Perverts Faking the Dead Death by Sex A.I. Is a Crapshoot Damsel in Distress Dogged Nice Guy As You Know Spell My Name with an "S" Leaning on the Fourth Wall Bavarian Fire Drill Smug Snake Not Quite Dead Put on a Bus Names to Run Away from Really Fast Spiritual Successor Demoted to Extra Stealth Pun Red Oni, Blue Oni Anyone Can Die Dirty Cop Shell-Shocked Veteran The Atoner Instant Death Bullet All for Nothing Killed Mid-Sentence Informed Ability Face Death with Dignity Hair-Trigger Temper Cluster F-Bomb Sassy Black Woman Parental Abandonment Take That! N-Word Privileges Cool Shades Reality Is Unrealistic Shoot the Shaggy Dog Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Real Life Hero of Another Story Freeze-Frame Bonus Death of a Child Would Hit a Girl Big Bad Duumvirate Crazy-Prepared Brutal Honesty Parental Incest Distracted by the Sexy Artistic License – Biology Suspiciously Specific Denial Evil Laugh The Chessmaster Sci-Fi Horror Russian Films Curse Cut Short Eiffel Tower Effect Deliberately Monochrome Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Retcon Death Seeker The Ace Villain Ball Needs Wiki Magic Love Manly Tears Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Kill 'em All Self-Deprecation Dull Surprise Hell Is That Noise Intrepid Reporter Stock Footage The Faceless Black Dude Dies First All Just a Dream Ominous Latin Chanting Important Haircut Corrupt Corporate Executive Same Language Dub Science Fiction Films Let's Get Dangerous! Villain with Good Publicity Animal Motifs Department of Redundancy Department Intergenerational Friendship The '80s Noodle Incident Eyepatch of Power Smoking Is Cool All Girls Want Bad Boys Mexican Standoff Gorn Bury Your Gays Laughing Mad Precision F-Strike Interrupted Suicide Authority Equals Asskicking Downer Ending Composite Character Ironic Echo Ms. Fanservice Faux Affably Evil Hypocrite The Hero Reckless Gun Usage Badass Bookworm Sequel Hook The Place Camera Abuse Apocalypse How Berserk Button Abusive Parents Fatal Flaw There Is No Kill Like Overkill Death by Irony Does Not Like Shoes Posthumous Character Adaptation Dye-Job Hoist by His Own Petard Evil Brit Dwindling Party Oh, Crap! The Chick Despair Event Horizon Foregone Conclusion Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Vomit Discretion Shot The '90s Drives Like Crazy Famous Last Words Pretty Little Headshots Bad "Bad Acting" Historical-Domain Character Crapsack World Hong Kong Films Death Glare Brainless Beauty Immune to Bullets Unspoken Plan Guarantee Evil Is Hammy Running Gag Anguished Declaration of Love Kick the Dog Suspiciously Similar Substitute Time Skip Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Film Series folderlabel Betty and Veronica Slasher Movie Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Italian Films Bowdlerise "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sealed Evil in a Can Suddenly SHOUTING! Action Survivor The X of Y Card-Carrying Villain Token Minority The Casanova Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" B-Movie Beard of Evil The Ghost Ambiguously Gay Guile Hero Badass in a Nice Suit Biopic Expy Redemption Equals Death The Brute Deliberate Values Dissonance Babies Ever After The Dreaded timeperiod Only Known by Their Nickname Dirty Coward Big-Bad Ensemble Badass Longcoat The Smart Guy Creepy Child Dramedy Psycho for Hire Neck Snap The Musical Bare Your Midriff Plot Hole Overly Long Gag Arranged Marriage Cowboy Cop Fish out of Water Wretched Hive Adaptation Name Change Disney Death Heroic Sacrifice I Did What I Had to Do Ambiguous Ending Punny Name Foreshadowing Police Brutality Dark and Troubled Past Back from the Dead Shirtless Scene Break the Cutie Unusual Euphemism Idiot Ball Alas, Poor Villain Rule of Cool Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Pretty in Mink The Power of Love Make It Look Like an Accident The End... Or Is It? O.O.C. Is Serious Business Anachronic Order Only a Flesh Wound Those Two Bad Guys Exactly What It Says on the Tin How We Got Here Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Creator Cameo Meet Cute Kill It with Fire Pay Evil unto Evil Badass Normal Line-of-Sight Name Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Meaningful Echo Deconstruction Parental Neglect Ax-Crazy Gainax Ending Mood Whiplash Those Wacky Nazis Mundane Made Awesome Defiant to the End The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Camp Gay Black Best Friend Martial Arts Movie Freudian Excuse Market-Based Title NO INDOOR VOICE The Big Guy In Medias Res He Knows Too Much Plucky Comic Relief My Greatest Failure French Films Neck Lift Psychopathic Manchild It's All About Me Heroic BSoD Blood from the Mouth From Nobody to Nightmare Even Evil Has Loved Ones Music Stories Double Entendre Reality Has No Subtitles The Vamp Lock and Load Montage Malevolent Masked Men Fantastic Racism Chiaroscuro Evil Plan Big Bad The Bully Artistic License – Law Anti-Villain The Remake Captain Obvious Didn't Think This Through Romantic False Lead Manipulative Bastard I'm a Humanitarian Meaningful Name Dutch Angle Stuff Blowing Up Big Applesauce You Have Failed Me Cruel and Unusual Death Only Sane Man Novelization World of Ham The Alleged Car Dark Action Girl One Steve Limit Toplessness from the Back The Bad Guy Wins Spiteful Spit Guns Akimbo Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Scenery Porn Bottomless Magazines Your Head A-Splode Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil For the Evulz Vampire Fiction Shut Up, Hannibal! Taking the Bullet Eye Scream Victoria's Secret Compartment Artistic License – History Fanservice Extra Hypocritical Humor An Axe to Grind Half the Man He Used to Be Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Insult Backfire Genre Savvy Historical Hero Upgrade Rousing Speech Together in Death Flashback Serial Killer Refuge in Audacity Badass Boast Bond One-Liner Hate Sink Index of Film Westerns Hope Spot Artistic License – Physics Papa Wolf Daylight Horror Wham Shot Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dark Is Not Evil Superhero Age Lift Gold Digger Determinator Bi the Way Award-Bait Song Sanity Slippage Mystery and Detective Films Amoral Attorney Everyone Has Standards In the Back Mama Bear Heterosexual Life-Partners Woman in White Fanservice Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Ghost Fiction An Aesop Fainting Older Than They Look Gory Discretion Shot Rule of Three Children Are Innocent Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Humiliation Conga Shower Scene Redshirt Army Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Once More, with Clarity! Dual Wielding Mad Scientist Covers Always Lie Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Big Damn Heroes Failed a Spot Check Continuity Nod Be Careful What You Wish For Drugs Are Bad Better to Die than Be Killed Batman Gambit Villain Protagonist Getting Crap Past the Radar Morality Pet Sacrificial Lion Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mr. Exposition British Films Alpha Bitch Re-Cut Jump Scare Adaptational Heroism Face–Heel Turn Cat Fight The Oner Sole Survivor A God Am I Daddy's Girl Those Two Guys Improvised Weapon Protagonist Title Historical In-Joke Offscreen Moment of Awesome Gone Horribly Right Eldritch Abomination Actually Pretty Funny Punch-Clock Villain Fat Bastard Based on a True Story Bolivian Army Ending Bloodier and Gorier Expository Hairstyle Change The Lancer Adults Are Useless No Ending Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Motor Mouth German Films Race Lift Vacation Films All There in the Manual Leitmotif For Want of a Nail Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Up to Eleven Drowning My Sorrows Horror Films Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Captain Ersatz Fun with Acronyms It's Personal Hooker with a Heart of Gold Genre Throwback Big "NO!" Hidden Depths Diabolus ex Machina Moment Killer Logo Joke Extremely Short Timespan Overprotective Dad In Name Only Title Drop And Starring Did Not Get the Girl Action Girl Adaptation Distillation Here We Go Again! Evil Is Petty Shipper on Deck I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Disappeared Dad Epic Movie Red Eyes, Take Warning Would Hurt a Child Arc Words Heroes Want Redheads Psychological Thriller Adorkable Star-Crossed Lovers Action Prologue Foil Large Ham Eureka Moment Canadian Movies Cat Scare Slap-Slap-Kiss Horror Comedy Real Life Writes the Plot Product Placement Does This Remind You of Anything? Undying Loyalty Artistic License – Geography Cloudcuckoolander Gilligan Cut Ripped from the Headlines Not So Above It All The Cavalry Love at First Sight Framing Device Knight Templar Chekhov's Skill Driven to Suicide Brick Joke Thriller Calling the Old Man Out This Is Gonna Suck The Lost Lenore Ass Shove Black and Gray Morality Chewing the Scenery Henpecked Husband Took a Level in Badass Never Trust a Trailer Sir Swears-a-Lot Hollywood Darkness Femme Fatale Nothing Is Scarier Contrived Coincidence Fate Worse than Death Word of God Double-Meaning Title Accidental Murder The Stoner Blatant Lies Loophole Abuse Greater-Scope Villain Reality Ensues Evil vs. Evil Sadistic Choice You Killed My Father Vomit Indiscretion Shot "Awesome McCool" Name Boom, Headshot! Beauty Is Never Tarnished Black Comedy Annoying Younger Sibling The '70s Empathic Environment Rich Bitch No Celebrities Were Harmed Military and Warfare Films Parental Substitute Villain Song Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Casting Gag Vitriolic Best Buds Comically Missing the Point Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Never Found the Body Car Fu Insane Troll Logic Combat Pragmatist Character Development No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Mythology Gag Pragmatic Villainy Mooks My Beloved Smother Married to the Job Homage Kids Are Cruel Disproportionate Retribution Video Credits The Stinger Affably Evil Dissonant Serenity Big Brother Instinct Improbable Weapon User Adaptational Villainy Playing Gertrude Twist Ending Beta Couple Creative Closing Credits Ship Tease A Father to His Men Adapted Out Earn Your Happy Ending Adaptational Badass The Great Depression Final Girl Determinator aka: The Determinator The Load And the Adventure Continues Last-Name Basis The Dog Bites Back Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Chase Scene The '50s Wicked Cultured Adaptational Attractiveness Blood Knight Bullying a Dragon Jerk with a Heart of Gold Artistic License – Gun Safety