Hateful Eight scene really busts up a vintage Martin guitar

[Sheik Yerbouti]

There's a scene in the movie where JJL's character plays a guitar, an authentic Martin, circa 1870 and Kurt Russell's character grabs it and smashes it.
Instead of getting a prop guitar, he actually destroys a vintage Martin, as a guitarist, this made me wince, hard.

The victim was an authentic Martin from the 1870s, on loan from the Martin Guitar Museum, Ulano said, and everyone was pretty freaked out when they realized what happened. “Tarantino was in a corner of the room with a funny curl on his lips, because he got something out of it with the performance,” Ulano added.

https://reverb.com/blog/the-hateful-eight-hates-on-six-strings

 

[Oyeve]

Meh, it's not like 1870 BCE. I too am a guitarist, but I don't really care much.

 

[mnewsham]

Looks like it's only $10-20k. Sure it's a lot, but for a movie with a budget nearing $50M. That's not gonna set them back too far. Mistakes happen.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

The monetary value is not the issue here, it's a pretty unique guitar, enough to be held in the Martin museum.

 

[MongGrel]

Things like that are really stupid in general though, if it really was.

I didn't even care for that movie much to begin with, does sound like something Tarantino would do for the hell of it these days.

 

[EvilYoda]

LOL...that's pretty damn funny. The company's response wasn't so bad either...probably increased the value of the guitar. 😉

"Oops."

 

[JSt0rm]

mistake for sure. No production would want to destroy this item when there was no need. The issue is actors acting and being in the moment. Nothing wrong with that but somebody failed to make the right communication.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm a guitarist, and it's... but... but... :'(

 

[Markbnj]

Meh, it's not like 1870 BCE. I too am a guitarist, but I don't really care much.

If you own the thing you can do what you will, but it's not like there are so many examples of 19th century Martins around that I like seeing one smashed for the sake of a movie scene.

I own a '74 D-18 so I am a little partial, but I think if Tarantino had borrowed any other work of art from a museum and destroyed it I'd feel the same way.

 

[nakedfrog]

If you own the thing you can do what you will, but it's not like there are so many examples of 19th century Martins around that I like seeing one smashed for the sake of a movie scene.

I own a '74 D-18 so I am a little partial, but I think if Tarantino had borrowed any other work of art from a museum and destroyed it I'd feel the same way.

The first analogy that came to mind for me is slashing up a Picasso on set.

 

[Jaepheth]

Is this what they meant by "Ars Gratia Artis"?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

If you own the thing you can do what you will, but it's not like there are so many examples of 19th century Martins around that I like seeing one smashed for the sake of a movie scene.

I own a '74 D-18 so I am a little partial, but I think if Tarantino had borrowed any other work of art from a museum and destroyed it I'd feel the same way.

Bingo, you said exactly what I could not put into words. Specifically the bolded part

 

[Ns1]

“What was supposed to happen was we were supposed to go up to that point, cut and trade guitars and smash the double,” explains the film’s Academy Award-winning sound mixer Mark Ulano, as quoted in SSNInsider.com. “Well, somehow that didn’t get communicated to Kurt, so when you see that happen on the frame, Jennifer’s reaction is genuine.”

oops

Martin Museum representatives asked only two questions when informed about the destruction of the loaner, according to SSNInsider.com: “Do you need another one?" And "Can we please have all the pieces to display in our museum?”

LOL

I can imagine the name plate:

[Martin Guitar, 1870. Smashed by Kurt Russell in Quentin Tarentino Film "Hateful Eight", 2015]

 

[JSt0rm]

Im sure the line producer was like "da fuck?"

😀

 

[MongGrel]

LOL...that's pretty damn funny. The company's response wasn't so bad either...probably increased the value of the guitar. 😉

"Oops."

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the there are several of them stored, and they put some up for sale afterwards, yeah.

Got me.

I'd imagine there are a lot of things in storage in some places.

NM, at this point.

 

[Sonikku]

That movie was something else. I was wincing when Sam L Jackson was going on about the Confederate General's boy blowing his big black cock.

 

[nakedfrog]

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the there are several of them stored, and they put some up for sale afterwards, yeah.

Got me.

I'd imagine there are a lot of things in storage in some places.

NM, at this point.

They have top men working on it right now :hmm:

 

[Ns1]

That movie was something else. I was wincing when Sam L Jackson was going on about the Confederate General's boy blowing his big black cock.

Classic Tarantino/Jackson. That part was awesome.

 

[Printer Bandit]

I get tired of Sam Jackson in all the Tarantino movies.

 

[Ns1]

I get tired of Sam Jackson in all the Tarantino movies.

May I suggest a nice glass of seppuku with your dinner?

 

[dr150]

Destroying museum pieces is painful to watch.

I'd wince even more if that were 1958 Les Paul being destroyed.

 

[nakedfrog]

I get tired of Sam Jackson in all the Tarantino movies.

You get tired of having orgasms during sex too?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Meh, it's not like it was a Stradivarius.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Destroying museum pieces is painful to watch.

I'd wince even more if that were 1958 Les Paul being destroyed.

Do you mean a '59?

 

[tynopik]

kind of like when Olmos destroyed that model ship on BSG, but different