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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Gesture name: Running and jumping
Start time: 1:42:10
End time: 1:42:20
Total duration: 0:00:10
Page #: 127
Measure #: 23
Scene: Reel 11 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 152
Instrumentation: strings
Solo Instrument: xylophone
Description
On-screen: Man runs away
Description: We hear a running gesture as the thug runs away after Marlowe's gunshot; as he runs, he jumps over a railing and over a bush; each of these jumping gestures features a quick glissando up and down on the xylophone; after hopping over the bush, the running music continues with a decrescendo as the man gets farther away
Music annotations: [m. 25] gliss e simile; [m. 26] diminun / one; [m. 27] dim / pp; [m. 28] molto misterioso / pp / mf; [m. 29] mp
Film annotations: [m. 23] Mug runs - vaults; [m. 24] Down and runs; [m. 25] Leaps; [m. 26] Hits ground; [m. 28] Marlowe turns; [m. 29] Hugs the car; [m. 30] Canino raises window
Orchestration annotations: [m. 23] ff 2 harps gliss / xylophone; [m. 25] timp; [m. 28] b. clart / piano / cel; [m. 29] timp
Analysis: Consists primarily of descending chromatic scales
Tags

action scene | chromatic scale | criminal | fear | jumping | mickey-mousing | outside | running | tense

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