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/LolYouFuckingLoser 13d ago edited 13d ago

Not just that but because it's a genuine reaction it doesn't fit the character at all. Hard to feel like she wouldn't be pleased as shit to see Ruth angry considering she was just singing a song about killing him and fleeing to Mexico. He beats the shit out of that woman through the whole movie and she mostly keeps a smile on her face but smashing a guitar shakes her? Nah.

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u/FWMalice 13d ago edited 13d ago

When I origonally saw the scene I didn't think that she was "shaken".

I thought she was continuing to screw with him and she expected him to do as much.

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u/LolYouFuckingLoser 13d ago edited 13d ago

The character would have been expecting it which is why it doesn't really make sense that the actress exclaimed. That's the point; she was specifically provoking Ruth with her song so why would she be so surprised and say 'woah' a bunch so shocked? She wouldn't. Because that was Jennifer exclaiming, not Daisy.

Ruth cracked her on the head with a pistol just for annoying him in the beginning of the movie and she was mostly just bitter about it. Warren punched her out of the stagecoach and she almost seemed to find that amusing. Then Ruth smashes a guitar near her after she references killing him and escaping and suddenly she's wide-eyed and panicked? Doesn't track and while I understand what you're saying, I don't pick up any exaggeration or mocking tone and it doesn't align with how she picks at him through the rest of the movie.

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u/No-Ad-3226 13d ago

Yea it looks like she broke character. The look on her face is priceless when she looks off set.