The world of video games shares many things with movies and series: curious and unrepeatable stories. At iGamesNews we love them and share them every day, especially when it comes to games. However, there are many related to movies that are worth noting.
The main story of this publication belongs to a film by Quentin Jerome Tarantino: The Hateful 8 (2016), one of the director’s last installments with Éonce upon a time in hollywood (2019) y Django: Unchained (2012). His filmings are usually full of curiosities and stories worth telling, but in this case she was crowned like never before… and she knew it at all times.
A communication failure and a 145-year-old guitar
The Hateful 8 It is a film that remains burned in the mind of anyone who has seen it. The reason is that it takes place almost entirely in a one-room inn and is set in the Wild/Far West, specifically after the end of the American Civil War (1861 and 1865). More or less during the time in which Red Dead Redemption 2 is set.
The cast is sublime: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern and Channing Tatum. Plus, Tarantino himself has a role. And one actor in this cast is responsible for breaking a 145-year-old irreplaceable guitar… although it’s fair to say he didn’t do it intentionally.
The story behind this event is interesting, fun and could well be a game of the board game. Clue. Let’s put context: the Martin Guitar Museum (antiquities museum) lent to the filming of The Hateful 8 a Martin guitar from 1870. The film featured a relic that was 145 years old and worth $40,000. And what happened for one of the actors to destroy this irreplaceable piece?
The scene that interests us takes place after John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) arrive at Minnie’s Haberdashery. There the events unfold. At one point in the film, Daisy asks permission to pick up the guitar and sing the Australian folk ballad called “Jim Jones At Botany Bay” (1907).
At the end of the song, John Ruth takes the guitar from him, announces that the music is over, and smashes the instrument against one of the wooden pillars. A single blow is enough to completely shatter it. We all saw, without knowing it, how the actor destroyed a very precious antique and the only one who seemed to notice was Jennifer Jason Leigh herself.
The sound manager, Mark Ulano, revealed to SSINsider that it should never have happened like this. The scene was intended for Jennifer to play the song with the original guitar and pause/cut to exchange it for a normal one before Kurt completely destroyed it.
Well, somehow communication failed with Kurt, so when you see Jennifer’s surprised reaction on stage, you know it’s genuine. […] Tarantino was in the corner of the room with an amused grimace on his lips, because he thought he had achieved something great with the performance of that scene.
I encourage you to watch the end of the video again and notice the terrified face Jennifer makes when Kurt smashes her against the column. Now we know she wasn’t acting: she was pure terror. And it seems that somehow Tarantino had something to do with this masterstroke. The scene has become history.
But it does not end here! The museum’s director, Dick Boat, told the media Reverb (via Frames) that they did not find out how the destruction of the guitar happened until after the report:
We were told it was an accident on set. We assumed that a scaffolding or something similar had fallen on him. […] In the script of the film it was stated that the guitar was to be smashed furiously, and somehow someone did not tell the actor that it was a very precious asset, a completely irreplaceable artifact for the Martin Museum. […] We have been compensated for the value of the insurance, but it is not about the money. It’s about maintaining American musical history and heritage.
As a result of this scene, the museum declared that it would no longer lend guitars under any circumstances. However, the crime had already been committed and the scene of The Hateful 8 is genuine: the guitar that breaks is truly valuable, Kurt does it with complete calm, and Jennifer’s reaction couldn’t be more authentic.
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