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I agree with that synopsis of Tarantino films, but I think grit is very much part of the fantasy. In fact, through the fantasy the grit is almost exaggerated or caricatured, as in Dusk Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction, or Reservoir Dogs. With Inglorious, Jackie Brown, or Kill Bill the grit is highly stylized and almost fashionable, but its still there. We're talking about movies about drug dealers and assassins, what could possibly be grittier than that? While Taxi Driver is definitely the prototype and origin point of this kind of film-making, I think Tarantino embodies what a kind of almost "mainstream" or "pop" grit might look like. Its fashionable enough for the masses, gritty and noir enough for low-lives like ourselves.