| Description |
| On-screen: |
Rocks opens the safe |
| Description: |
Tense and dramatic underscoring; there is a stinger when Rocks stands up from the safe he is cracking; a recurring four-note motive is used to generate excitement and tension |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 91] mf / f; [m. 92] cresc / ff / pp subito; [m. 93] mysterioso; [m. 94] grazioso / pizz; [m. 95] p; [m. 96] pizz; [m. 98] tr / pp; [m. 99] sfz |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 91] All right, try it; [m. 92] He opens door; [m. 93] You coulda cut that open; [m. 95] Why not?; [m. 96] Men enter safe; [m. 97] Refrigeration; [m. 99] Light in eyes / Hey, get that light off; |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 91] 2 fl, vibra / 2 bassoon / tutti (no brass); [m. 92] add violin, etc. / trpts / horns / trbs etc. / gong; [m. 94] violins; [m. 95] 1 oboe / 1 bassoon; [m. 96] add violins + violas; [m. 97] celeste + strings / celli; [m. 98] timp roll / basses, b trb |
| Analysis: |
Parallel diminished sevenths are used for the stinger; a viio7 in the key of bb (spelled as f#o7 but interpreted as ao7) is enharmonically reinterpreted as a viio7 in db minor when the Ab pedal is added in m. 98 (forming a Vb9 sonority); the four-note motive in this cue moves up and down the shared diminished seventh chord |
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| Tags |
breaking in | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | enharmonic modulation | gangster | leading man | lock | opening | robbery | safe | safe-cracking | stinger | store | tense | thief | underscoring | unlocking | vault | wedge
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