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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Gesture name: Bites hand
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 89
Measure #: 102
Scene: Reel 9 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 12/8
Description
On-screen: Carmen bites Marlowe's hand
Description: There is a dissonant ending to Marlowe's theme as Carmen bites his hand; the music was cut from the film but would have occurred around 1:18:18
Music annotations: [m. 102] sff
Film annotations: [m. 102] Bites his hand
Orchestration annotations: [m. 102] muted brass / horns / W.W. / pianos / xyloph / Novachord sfz-p (subito) (left hand)
Analysis: Features chromatic parallelism with (013478) sonorities
Tags

advance plot | biting | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | femme fatale | leading man | mickey-mousing | pc set | private eye | room | stinger

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