The Big Sleep (1946)
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Theme: Underscoring (Tense)
Theme
Theme name:
Underscoring (Tense)
Description:
Tense underscoring
Total uses:
15
Total duration:
00:03:29
% of music:
6.27%
Instances:
0:01:01 - Sign for the Sternwood mansion
0:02:45 - Marlowe goes to meet Sternwood
0:18:57 - Geiger enters car
NIF - Marlowe investigates
0:28:58 - Marlowe tries to crack the code
0:51:31 - Joe reacts to the doorbell ringing
1:16:43 - Marlowe and Vivian argue
NIF - Marlowe and Carmen talk
1:30:01 - Marlowe investigates the crime scene
1:30:24 - Marlowe makes a phone call
1:31:48 - Marlowe talks to Agnes on the phone
1:33:20 - Marlowe backs the car up
1:35:26 - Marlowe talks to two thugs
1:41:55 - Thug looks for Marlowe
1:43:35 - Marlowe gets the keys to the handcuffs
There are multiple instances of this type of underscoring
(select one of the instances on the left)
Tags associated with this theme:
9th chord
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accusing
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action scene
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advance plot
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altered dominant
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antagonist
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arriving
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blackmailer
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butler
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car
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chromatic parallelism
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chromatic scale
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conflict
|
conversing
|
criminal
|
cut from film
|
dark
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death
|
death scene
|
deleted scene
|
departing
|
diminished 7th chord
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doorbell
|
driving
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dying
|
escaping
|
establish character
|
femme fatale
|
gun
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half-diminished 7th chord
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hostage
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informer
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investigating
|
investigation
|
leading lady
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leading man
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love interest
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love scene
|
lying
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mansion
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murder
|
murderer
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mysterious
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oscillation
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outside
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pc set
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pedal tone
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phone call
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private eye
|
rain
|
researching
|
room
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searching
|
shop
|
sneaking
|
street
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suspect
|
tense
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threat
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tone cluster
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transition
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traveling scene
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tritone
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underscoring
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victim
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walking
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whole-tone
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whole-tone chord
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writing