The comic relief consists to incluide humorist characters (most of the time are funny sidekicks), scenes or dialogues.
Why is it often used in horror films?
The comic relief is often used in horror films to relieve tension from the frightening scenes.
Do you remember laughing in horror films? Can you think on an example?
Yes, I do. The horror film were I laughed a lot was called "Las brujas de Zugarramundi". This film made me laugh because there was a funny character, Tony, which was interpreted by Mario Casas. During the film, Tony was saying funny things and jokes in a scary or bad situacion.
A couple of weeks, I saw a video in twitter from an asian youtuber. This youtuber, Josh Paler Lin, is very famous and known in the United States for his pranks videos, such as the one I saw. In the video, Josh wanted to do a prank to people to prove that homeless people are not treated like rich people, or even like normal people. He also wanted to do this video because homeless people told him that when they go to different restaurants they are chased out.
Josh decided to dress up like a homeless guy and to go to luxurious restaurants. He started to ask for the menu to every waiter he found in each eating place. The waiters did not want to show him the menu because they did not want that a poor guy ate in one of the most popular restaurants. They felt ashamed to have a homeless man as a client because they were worried about what the rich people must think or even to lose rich clients.
After that, Josh went home. When he came back, he was dressed up diferently. He changed his clothes and he was driving a ferrari. Everyone in every restaurant were surprised. The waiters went to him very quickly to open his car's door, to offer him the menu,...
Josh was kind and he treated good the waiters. He started to ask them if they recognised him. Some waiters did, but, there were some that took a lot to finally remember him. The waiters began to treat him good, like a rich man. But, he did not pay them attencion. He did not want to stay there, so, he went away from there with his car.
This is Josh's video:
I think that this is a good video to see the diferences between how we treat people by the way they look. Sometimes we do not treat them good or we do not talk to them because we are afraid of what people may think. Sometimes we have to realise if the way we treat people is suitable.
