Character: Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Played by Raymond Massey

Character Information

Tags associated with this character: leading man, brother, murderer, crazy person

Theme associated with this character: Jonathan

Tags associated with this theme:

calling | conversing | dark | dialing | diminished 7th chord | fragmentation | intimidating | ominous | pc set | quartal chord | room | sinister | stinger | telephone effect | tense | thinking

Theme associated with this character: Jonathan 2

Tags associated with this theme:

arriving | augmented triad | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | dark | dissonant bass | falling | grabbing | hurting | intimidating | mysterious | observing | ominous | pc set | polychord | questioning | room | sinister | staring | stinger | struggling | tense | threatening | walking

Theme associated with this character: Scar

Tags associated with this theme:

augmented triad | calling | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dark | digging | dissonant bass | dramatic | entering | familiar tune | fragmentation | horn flare | hurrying | march | mysterious | observing | ominous | on-screen music | panicking | patriotic tune | pc set | planning | polychord | room | sneaking | source and scoring overlap | tense | threatening | torturing | watching | whistling

Theme associated with this character: Home Sweet Home

Other characters associated with this theme: Dr. Einstein

Tags associated with this theme:

added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented triad | calm | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dark | direct modulation | dissonant bass | distortion | familiar tune | observing | ominous | pedal tone | room | split-fifth chord | tense