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Flamingo Road (1949) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]


Home > Film: Flamingo Road > Gesture: Struggling > Instance: 1:31:47


Instance
Gesture name: Struggling
Start time: 1:31:47
End time: 1:31:50
Total duration: 0:00:03
Page #: 121
Measure #: 21
Scene: Reel 10 Part 5
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 160
Marking: Furioso
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: A struggling gesture with alternating chords (similar to "Lane staggers" in a previous cue) is heard as Lane and Titus struggle over the gun; there is a close-up on the gun itself; this cue ends with another gunshot
On-screen: Close-up on the gun
Music annotations: [m. 21] ff / ff; [m. 22] flutter / ff; [m. 23] Murray: dissonances of course intentional (bar 21 brass A [natural])
Film annotations: [m. 22] Shot
Orchestration annotations: [m. 21] gong f / 3 trpts / 1st trb / horns also
Analysis: The alternating chords are all major seventh chords
Tags

climax | close up | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | oscillation | sheriff | struggling | tense

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