Yes, Quentin Tarantino is a master auteur with a penchant for aestheticizing blood, guts, and violence. Yes, Quentin Tarantino is a huge enthusiast of a good rom-com, or, as he puts it, his “guilty pleasure.†Oh hell yes, Quentin Tarantino will talk at length about how Ghosts of Girlfriends Past made him weep on an airplane, and how he valiantly defended You’ve Got Mail to a posse of serious film critics. It all boils down to audience manipulation, something of which, yes, Quentin Tarantino is also a big fan of.