Kurt Russell breaks an 1870 guitar in The Hateful Eight
The period instrument, loaned by the Martin Guitar Museum, was sacrificed for a tension-filled scene.
The video this brief is aboutIn The Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell shatters an acoustic guitar dating from 1870, loaned by the Martin Guitar Museum. The scene takes place in Minnie's haberdashery, where Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) strums "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" before the bounty hunter yanks the instrument and smashes it against a post. On screen, Daisy's scream of terror masks the reality: the actress is witnessing the destruction of a historic treasure. To ensure authentic sound, the production had approached the museum, which agreed to lend a genuine late-19th-century six-string Martin. No shot had planned to sacrifice such a piece. According to AlloCiné, the blunder has become cult among cinema fans.
