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City for Conquest (1940)


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Instance
Gesture name: Slap
Start time: 1:14:53
Page #: 62
Measure #: 41
Scene: Reel 9 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Googi slaps Cobb
Description: A quick upward gesture as Googi slaps Cobb (Cobb actually gets off easy, since he was the one who caused Danny to lose his eyesight)
Music annotations: [m. 41] sfz; [m. 42] f / f; [m. 43] f
Film annotations: [m. 41] Slap; [m. 43] Dissolve
Orchestration annotations: [m. 43] tutti
Analysis: Features non-aligned chromatic gestures that culminate in a dissonant (0123679) septachord
Tags

car | car | chromatic parallelism | criminal | gangster | manager | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | pc set | slapping | tense

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