10 Most Paused Moments In Quentin Tarantino Movies
2. A Look Of Genuine Fear After A Priceless Antique Is Smashed - The Hateful Eight
Finishing strong with two often-paused beats of anything but acting being immortalised mid-Tarantino outing, the first of these unplanned occurrences involved a certain Jennifer Jason Leigh understandably losing her mind over her Hateful Eight co-star's unfortunate mistake.
With Leigh's Daisy Domergue strumming out a tune on a guitar from the 1860s during one particular sequence, the scene would ultimately lead to Kurt Russell's John "The Hangman" Ruth bringing an abrupt end to the music and smashing the instrument to pieces.
Yet, with said Martin six-string guitar being a priceless artefact on loan from a museum, Leigh was under the impression that the valuable instrument would be swapped out for a dummy before the inevitable smashing.
Nope.
An oblivious Russell instead was allowed to swing for the fences with the precious strings. And that's what led to the genuinely horrified response from Leigh's Domergue in the scene, with the actor's "woah, woah, woah!" cries coming from a place of legit shock in the moment.
Russell was said to have been mortified by the incident, but that still didn't stop Tarantino from using the stunning take in the finished article. Or fans slapping the pause button on Leigh's entirely authentic visual trauma at seeing the gorgeous antique pulverised before her very eyes, for that matter.