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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Gesture name: Wally runs
Start time: 0:11:01
Page #: 27
Measure #: 86
Scene: Reel 1 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Wally runs out of the house
Description: Six-note string gesture in an ascending sequence as Wally runs from the house, culminating in dissonant, loud brass accents as the policeman stops him from running by shooting his gun in the air
Music annotations: [m. 86] etc.; [m. 88] tutti / col / molto cresc
Film annotations: [m. 87] Hey - stop!; [m. 88] Shots
Orchestration annotations: [m. 86] tutti / strgs / piano / W.W. / brass; [m. 88] tutti / brass
Analysis: The passage ends with an expanding chromatic wedge
Tags

action scene | beach | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | dramatic | friend | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | running | shooting | victim

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