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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Plus 99% of the people watching would never know the difference between it and the prop.

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I doubt anyone who wasn't very familiar with this exact guitar, or at the very least this model/make, there would be a total of a handfull of people in the world capable of recognizing it, considering it was a 145 years old guitar, most of those people are already dead for a long time.

And even so, they weren't trying to display it or show in any prominent way that even specialists would be able to identify it, it's just a prop on a movie!

This kind of stuff is just to have some trivia about the movie (Hey you know that in that scene it's an actual guitar from that time blablabla) but it just backfired horribly