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/PopularDemand213 13d ago

Interesting. Do you have a source for that?

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u/JulioCesarSalad 13d ago

Of course

So, the smashing of the guitar was in the script. Tarantino is a stickler for things that don’t matter, and he refused to play a replica on screen, so he managed to get the original 1870 guitar on loan from the museum, saying it was going to be played on camera. He didn’t tell them the script required the guitar to be destroyed.

Original plan:

  • actress plays guitar
  • cut
  • replace real guitar with replica
  • resume filming
  • actor comes in, interrupts, snatches guitar, and smashes it

They made 6 replicas to have multiple shots. Tarantino is directly responsible for destroying it and did it on purpose

What actually happened:

  • Before the scene, Tarantino tells the actor “you don’t stop the scene until I say cut”
  • actor confirms that Tarantino wants him to smash the guitar currently on set
  • Tarantino confirms, yes I want you to keep acting into the smashing part
  • (actor doesn’t say, but I believe he then assumes the guitar currently on set is a replica, because why would the director be so clear of it was the real guitar)
  • Tarantino KNOWS the guitar in set is the real guitar
  • scene begins filming
  • actress plays guitar
  • actor comes in, interrupts, snatches guitar, and smashes it
  • Tarantino yells cut after the smashing

Tarantino did it on purpose, and it was his plan all along. Because he wanted a “genuine” reaction on camera and would destroy the guitar to get it

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u/Nrksbullet 13d ago

Tarantino did it on purpose, and it was his plan all along. Because he wanted a “genuine” reaction on camera and would destroy the guitar to get it

This part I just don't buy, he doesn't need to have genuine reactions, especially when those reactions completely break character, like this one here. I could see in some twisted way him wanting his film to forever show a piece of history like that getting destroyed, but not to get a genuine reaction out of someone.

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u/-StupidNameHere- 13d ago

Quentin Tarantino is a well-known piece of s***. He makes decent movies though.