Character: Vivian Rutledge in The Big Sleep (1946)

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Played by Lauren Bacall

Character Information

Tags associated with this character: leading lady, suspect, love interest, daughter

Theme associated with this character: Vivian

Other characters associated with this theme: Philip Marlowe

Tags associated with this theme:

9th chord | 13th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | car | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | conversing | foreign key modulation | freeing | kissing | Neapolitan | romantic | room | suspension

Theme associated with this character: Sternwood

Other characters associated with this theme: Philip Marlowe | Carmen Sternwood

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