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This article, which consists of three sections, aims to explore the correlation of violence with humor in Quentin Tarantino movies. In the first section, violence in cinema and the attitude of the audience towards violence are handled. The following section focuses on humor and its correlation with the violence in cinema. The last section examines the features that are peculiar to Tarantino films through the characters, narrative styles and dialogues used and preferred by the director and the relationship between humor and violence is presented. The incongruity theory and the concepts of absurd and black humor are benefitted to reach the conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]