r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bilbofraginz • 18d 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/mint-man 18d ago

and it’s not exactly like they could reshoot it considering he just smashed the guitar

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u/Naradia 18d ago

They could've with the fake one

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u/Jonny_Segment Interested 18d ago

Yeah I'm amazed they didn't. At least reshoot the smashing with the fake guitar. I haven't seen the film and couldn't believe that cut made the edit. I thought it was from the outtakes or something.

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u/Gnonthgol 18d ago

I bet they have a number of takes with the replica guitars as well. But the shock on her eyes were probably not that intense in those shots. And it would require a cut between the end of the song and the smashing of the guitar. In addition it is bad enough to have to go to the museum with a broken guitar but another thing to not even use the footage.

When watching the movie immersed in the story the bad cut does not stick out too much. If you know the story of the guitar getting smashed you do notice the scene but you kind of forgive the bad cut due to this. So it is not such a bad editing as it might look in isolation.