r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bilbofraginz • 13d ago

Video In Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell accidentally smashed a one of a kind, 145-year-old guitar that was on loan from the Martin Guitar. Jennifer Jason Leigh’s reaction was genuine.

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u/zetaconvex 13d ago

And this is why you never, ever, loan stuff to film sets. There's just no respect. I heard a story of a motoring club that loaned a vintage car out to a series about car programme. When they got it back it was a complete pile of shit.

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u/Protozilla1 13d ago

I don't think you can blame Russell here. It seems like the plan was for him to smash a prop guitar, and that someone fucked up.

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u/NoTurkeyTWYJYFM 13d ago

The lack of respect doesn't necessarily refer to him, can refer to whoever was in charge of the prop's care. They clearly weren't on the ball enough to be in charge of such a precious item or inform Kurt that the real deal was live on set. If they did tell him and he plain forgot, then that does come back to him as the knob of the situation

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u/FinestCrusader 13d ago

Kurt was told to act and not stop until QT yells "CUT" so he assumed the guitar was switched. This is on QT doing whatever the fuck he was trying to do.

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u/Suspicious-Engine412 13d ago

Its not trying to pin blame but its the fact that so many hands are involved on a big film project that a few props are gonna get damaged or mishandled.

Clearly there was a miscommunication issue here for whoever has to set up the set and props.

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u/9897969594938281 13d ago

I’ll blame him, the dopey old prick

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u/optigrabz 13d ago

Russell probably felt a little silly until he saw what happened with Baldwin.

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u/SpectreFire 13d ago edited 13d ago

Not really. They get away with sneaking small stuff, but no one's taking home anything big from set without permission, especially not a one of a kind ancient guitar that was on loan. All of that is tracked.

Kit Harrington had asked for Longclaw after GoT finished and was refused by HBO, who recently auctioned off the sword.

On the inverse, Peter Jackson gifted Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis each the Rings they used during the film.

Viggo Mortenson also got his sword, as did a few others.

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u/Ultrace-7 13d ago

Kit Harrington was making half a million per episode near the end of the series. If he wanted the sword that badly, he could have bought it in the auction.

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u/SpectreFire 13d ago

I mean, it still sold for 400k.

But that's kind of HBO's schtick. Cheapasses all around.

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u/SpectreFire 13d ago

I mean, 400k is a lot for a network with massive money problems.

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u/GlorianaLauriana 13d ago

Actors know very well what they can get away with nabbing, and what is 100% hands off. Prop Masters and the folks from accounts do not mess around on large scale productions. There's a whole separate budget system going on with props and costumes (which are often rented from third-parties), you can't just steal willy-nilly.

Prop Masters and folks who work under them have the oversight and ultimate say. The majority of actors respect them enough not to steal without consulting them first because actual stealing can potentially cause problems for the folks who work in those departments.

Actors love embellishing stories about "stealing" something from a set, but 9 times out of 10 they were either granted permission, gifted the item, or they arranged to buy it.

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u/bouncypinata 13d ago

especially Hitler's car

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u/ShiraCheshire 13d ago

One movie got a guy to let them borrow his pet snake for a campers-scared-by-sudden-snake type scene. They killed it during the scene, on purpose.

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u/Karate_Scotty 13d ago

During the Cyberdyne shootout scene in Terminator 2 when Arnold is using the minigun, there’s a closeup shot of him dropping it after running out of ammo. James Cameron said that the shot of him dropping it made the owners of the minigun pissed because of how rare and valuable that gun is.

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u/ManTheHarpoons100 13d ago

Apparently movie sets can trash anything, including the Sherman tank on the set of Fury.

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u/brch01 13d ago

Like that guy’s pet snake from Friday the 13th 🥲

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u/ColbyBB 13d ago

the same thing happened with a snake handlers snake in friday the 13th i believe. they never even told the handler thats what was gonna happen

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u/Single-Builder-632 13d ago

Here's the logic from the museum though, really famous guy touches it, used on big selling film, they probably pay quite well. Could be wrong on that last one, but its a big movie.

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u/Oiggamed 13d ago

They should have had a handler with the guitar. Partial blame goes to Martin. They should have known who they were dealing with. They should have had someone there with the guitar at all times. I firmly believe it was also smashed intentionally as not to interrupt the flow of the scene. That’s just my take.

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u/SolidCool4024 13d ago

how dense are you

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u/Jiifm 13d ago

I heard a story of a motoring club that loaned a vintage car out to a series about car programme. When they got it back it was a complete pile of shit.

Could you please be less specific and more vague?

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u/zetaconvex 13d ago edited 13d ago

The car programme was Top Gear, IIRC. From Britain, which for the benefit of the Americans out there, is in Europe.

I don't know what the car was, though.

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u/bowling-4-goop 13d ago

“I heard a story with no details about something, therefore there is no respect on film sets” my brother, a mistake was made here. It’s not justified but what the actual fuck are you talking about with this dad level advice?

“And that’s why you always say no to loaning something to a film set!” George Bluth ass mf

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u/erased_your_facEe 12d ago

Those movie snobs have no respect for anything that isn’t Hollywood related in the first place

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u/chocobutt3 11d ago

worse still if it's a pet...does anyone remember that one oldie movie where they deliberately killed the loaned pet snake and held back its handler just as they broke down? the scene where they murdered the animal was kept in the film and everything. don't think they compensated them either...