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What Price Hollywood? (1932) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]


Home > Film: What Price Hollywood? > Theme: The Fall of the Star > Instance: 1:20:53


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Theme name: The Fall of the Star
Start time: 1:20:53
End time: 1:21:13
Total duration: 0:00:20
Page #: no score available
Measure #: no score available
Scene: no score available
Description
Description: here the mood of the music changes to tragic, with brass blasts and serious strings gestures; next we hear mostly descending string gestures over a throbbing funereal pedal tone as we witness the opposite effect of the previous montage, with Mary's image shrinking before our eyes her star slowly dying - the cue sheet calls this "The Fall of the Star"; the music becomes progressively darker; an angry outburst is followed by falling, tragic gestures accompany falling paper in the montage; there is a carefully-placed stinger at the end of the cue where dirt is thrown onto a pile of newspapers (perhaps representing Max's burial as well as Mary's fall from grace, since she is a suspect in Max's death)
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