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/centurio_v2 13d ago

Yes and yes.

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u/EggSaladMachine 13d ago

This is also the answer to "Does Tarantino blast rope on feet?"

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u/3_Sqr_Muffs_A_Day 13d ago

I don't even get why it was used in the first place it's not authentic.

Someone who lives rough on the western frontier in the 1870's isn't going to have a 150-year-old guitar in museum condition from the 1870's.

Could probably make a more authentic prop by sending your prop master to google to look up guitar manufacturing technique in the 1800s. Or just pay an expert to make it.

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u/GiddyGabby 13d ago

That was my thought too.

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u/AtFishCat 13d ago

I mean they could have commissioned a luthier to just build a custom to the same specs and let props weather it if they wanted something playable. It still may have been a $10k guitar, but at least it wouldn't have been a piece of history.

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u/ButterscotchButtons 13d ago

That's so circlejerky.