Happy Flashback: Difference between revisions
m
clean up
m (Mass update links) |
m (clean up) |
||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
A '''Happy Flashback''' is pretty much [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], a [[Flash Back]] to a happy time in a character's past. Frequently they have a drastically different color palette from the rest of the film/tv show in keeping with most [[Flash Back|Flashbacks]]. It'll be very bright, warm and colorful (possibly even supersaturated with color) or almost completely white from the brightness, or in simple [[Deliberately Monochrome|sepia tones]] with blurriness added. Then again, it might be drawn in crayon to ''really'' invoke the "good old days" feel.
The Happy Flashback is often used as a mood counterpoint in a scene that is decidedly dark. It especially helps when the entire story is very sad or even [[Tragedy|tragic]] because it provides a "breather" for the audience and helps avoid [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]]. It's similar to [[Comic Relief]], with the benefit of adding [[Backstory]] and helping to breathe some [[Hope Spot|hope]] back into a character or plot. The emotional counterpoint is especially useful for storytellers since it serves to show that the character(s) aren't walking bags of [[Angst]], they ''can'' feel other emotions and the pain they feel now is all the more keen because they once were happy.
| |||