The Big Sleep (1946)
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Theme: Marlowe
Theme
Theme name:
Marlowe
Description:
Marlowe's "trickster" theme
Borrowed from:
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
(1938)
Related characters:
Philip Marlowe
Total uses:
59
Total duration:
00:12:56
% of music:
23.28%
Total combinations:
3
Combinations:
Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe
Hostage + Marlowe
Vivian + Marlowe
Total variants:
36
Variants:
[A-Z]
[Film order]
Original
Action
Agitato
Augmented
Beaten
Bold
Danger
Dazed
Decisive
Determined
Dramatic
Ear Business
Ear Music
Echo
Escaping
Gets Hit
Grazioso
Heroic
Hiding
Investigating
Major
Melancholy
Misterioso
Molto Misterioso
Mysterious Organ
Not in Film
Phone Call
Risoluto
Shoots
Sinister
Sly
Sneaking
Sostenuto
Taxi
The End
Thinking
Whole Tone
Tags associated with this theme:
9th chord
|
11th chord
|
64 chord
|
action scene
|
added-note chord
|
advance plot
|
altered dominant
|
arguing
|
arriving
|
ascending
|
assassin
|
augmentation
|
augmented sixth chord
|
blackmailer
|
bold
|
book shop
|
breaking in
|
butler
|
café
|
calling
|
captive
|
car
|
chase scene
|
chasing
|
chromatic parallelism
|
chromatic scale
|
climax
|
clue
|
comical
|
common-chord modulation
|
common-tone diminished 7th
|
common-tone dominant 7th
|
conflict
|
conversing
|
corpse
|
criminal
|
cut from film
|
danger
|
dark
|
daughter
|
dazed
|
death
|
death scene
|
decisive
|
deleted scene
|
departing
|
determined
|
dialing
|
disguise
|
disguising
|
dissonant bass
|
distortion
|
dramatic
|
driver
|
driving
|
end title sequence
|
escaping
|
establish character
|
fear
|
femme fatale
|
flirting
|
following
|
fragmentation
|
gun
|
gunshot
|
half-diminished 7th chord
|
heroic
|
hiding
|
informer
|
inserted scene
|
inversion
|
investigating
|
investigation
|
investigation scene
|
leading lady
|
leading man
|
leaving
|
library
|
lifting
|
love interest
|
love scene
|
lying
|
melancholy
|
mickey-mousing
|
mode mixture
|
murderer
|
mysterious
|
name on screen
|
noble
|
not in score
|
ominous
|
outside
|
pain
|
parallel 63s
|
parallelism
|
pc set
|
pedal tone
|
phone
|
phone call
|
planning
|
plotting
|
private eye
|
punching
|
rain
|
recovering
|
researching
|
resolution
|
resolved
|
reused recording
|
rising
|
room
|
rope
|
running
|
searching
|
secretary
|
secret code
|
sequence
|
sequential modulation
|
shaking
|
shooting
|
shop
|
sinister
|
snapping
|
sneaking
|
somber
|
stairs
|
stinger
|
street
|
suspect
|
taxi
|
tender
|
tense
|
The End
|
thinking
|
tone cluster
|
transition
|
traveling scene
|
tritone
|
triumphant
|
tying up
|
underscoring
|
victim
|
waiting
|
walking
|
weary
|
whole-tone
|
whole-tone chord
|
whole-tone scale
|
writing