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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 2274912" data-attributes="member: 6533"><p>I suppose then that that depends on how you envision gritty. I've <u>always</u> encountered it in reference to heroic fantasy or action, which is itself also cinematic. That is that even where it is in a literary form there is a high level of attention paid to the specifics of action.</p><p></p><p>It would be in direct contrast to, say, many of the qualities of romantic or epic literature where you have a very spare idea of what a give character is actually doing or looks like and a much more elaborate conception of who the character is, who/what he relates to in the cosmology, and what he is thinking or feeling.</p><p></p><p>Cinematic has another level where people describing it mean fast or over the top and narrative styles of action. In terms of my understanding of GnG fast nearly always fits the style, unless you are talking about Napoleanic wargamers appreciating an appropriately high body count, and the over the top and narrative qualities of cinematic fit GnG at varying levels and not at all in some instances.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Strangemonkey, post: 2274912, member: 6533"] I suppose then that that depends on how you envision gritty. I've [U]always[/U] encountered it in reference to heroic fantasy or action, which is itself also cinematic. That is that even where it is in a literary form there is a high level of attention paid to the specifics of action. It would be in direct contrast to, say, many of the qualities of romantic or epic literature where you have a very spare idea of what a give character is actually doing or looks like and a much more elaborate conception of who the character is, who/what he relates to in the cosmology, and what he is thinking or feeling. Cinematic has another level where people describing it mean fast or over the top and narrative styles of action. In terms of my understanding of GnG fast nearly always fits the style, unless you are talking about Napoleanic wargamers appreciating an appropriately high body count, and the over the top and narrative qualities of cinematic fit GnG at varying levels and not at all in some instances. [/QUOTE]
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