Character: Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946)

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Played by Humphrey Bogart
 Character Information


Tags associated with this character: leading man, private eye


Theme associated with this character: Marlowe




Tags associated with this theme:

added-note chord | arguing | arriving | ascending | bold | book shop | breaking in | cafe | calling | car | chasing | comical | common-tone dominant 7th | conversing | cut from film | dark | dazed | decisive | departing | determined | dialing | disguising | dramatic | driving | escaping | flirting | following | heroic | hiding | investigating | leaving | library | lifting | lying | melancholy | mickey-mousing | mysterious | noble | not in score | octatonic | outside | planning | plotting | punching | recovering | researching | resolved | reused recording | rising | room | running | searching | shaking | shooting | shop | sinister | snapping | sneaking | somber | stinger | street | tender | tense | thinking | tritone | triumphant | tying up | walking | weary | whole-tone | writing

Theme associated with this character: Marlowe 2





Theme associated with this character: Vivian




Tags associated with this theme:

car | conversing | freeing | kissing | romantic | room