Character: Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep (1946)

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Played by Martha Vickers

Character Information

Tags associated with this character: femme fatale, suspect, daughter

Theme associated with this character: Carmen

Tags associated with this theme:

added-note chord | arriving | burning | calling | chromatic mediant | conversing | cut from film | dissonant bass | flirting | foreboding | half-diminished 7th chord | helping | investigating | leaving | lying | musical clue | music reveals thoughts | mysterious | ominous | oscillation | ostinato | pedal tone | planning | room | searching | street | tense | tritone oscillation | uneasy | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord

Theme associated with this character: Sternwood

Other characters associated with this theme: Philip Marlowe | Vivian Rutledge

Tags associated with this theme:

9th chord | accusing | added-note chord | altered dominant | blue note | bluesy | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | cut from film | dark | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | flirting | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | Neapolitan | pc set | retardation | room | seductive | sinister | stinger | tense | threatening | walking | whole-tone chord