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Speaker 1: Great to flick with ben o'she good. Before we get

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Speaker 1: into talking about the Bob Marley movie, I just want

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Speaker 1: to make sure you know we understand the ground rules here,

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Speaker 1: like are any of us going to do like a

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Speaker 1: West Indian patois. No, we're gonna avoid that. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: avoid that, that lovely up your set of mind. We're not

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Speaker 1: going to do that, Chris Gale, because we're not going

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Speaker 1: to do Ambrose West Indian Test Cricket team impersonation. Because

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Speaker 1: it's amazing in this film, like it's you know, I

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Speaker 1: think one thing that it strives to do is be

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Speaker 1: as authentic as possible. And they had the film had

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Speaker 1: this global search to find the actor to play Bob

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Speaker 1: Marley like It's you know it was. They found Ramy

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Speaker 1: Malick to play Freddie Mercury, Tarran Edgerton to play Elton John.

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Speaker 1: These casting decisions are so critical to the success of

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Speaker 1: these music bio films because it's like the fans of

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Speaker 1: these of these bands and these singers, they have to

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Speaker 1: be able to go. If they don't buy it at

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Speaker 1: they won't buy it's over. It's over. And so after

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Speaker 1: a couple of years of searching high and Low. They

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Speaker 1: settled on Kingsley Benadeer, who was in Peaky Blinders, he

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Speaker 1: was in the TV adoptation of High Fidelity. He was

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Speaker 1: just recently in the Barbie movie as one of the Kens.

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Speaker 1: But you know, he's not really a huge household name.

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Speaker 1: He will be after this. Oh my gosh, is he good.

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Speaker 1: He is just so fantastic at bringing Bob Marley to life.

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Speaker 1: The film is not perfect, so I don't want to

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Speaker 1: make everybody think that this is something that it will

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Speaker 1: just change your life. But Kingsley Benadeer is so good.

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Speaker 1: The film tells a story of a very small chapter

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Speaker 1: of Marley's life from about the mid seventies, probably nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy six to nineteen seventy eight, so you've got about

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Speaker 1: two years of his life and you might think, geez,

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Speaker 1: that's such a small slice of a man who's been

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Speaker 1: so influential on pop culture. But a lot happened in

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Speaker 1: those couple of years. So the film starts off in Jamaica,

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Speaker 1: where there's this huge political civil unrest, almost a civil

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Speaker 1: the whole country was about to descend into war, and

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Speaker 1: Bob took it upon himself to stage a peace concert

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Speaker 1: to bring everybody together. People told him that has a

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Speaker 1: terrible idea. His record label, Iland Record, said, Bob, what

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Speaker 1: around the world, like why would you do this? And

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Speaker 1: it turned out to be extremely personally risky when you know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of days before the concert, some gunman broke

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Speaker 1: into his compound, shot some of his closest confidants, shot

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Speaker 1: his manager, nearly died, shot his wife Rita in the

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Speaker 1: head she survived, which was incredible, and shot Bob Marley himself,

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Speaker 1: and so on this assassination attempt. And then a few

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Speaker 1: days later he is on stage for this concert, which

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Speaker 1: is just incredible in itself and maybe for casual fans

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Speaker 1: might not know that about him, and he pulled it off.

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Speaker 1: It was all great. But then because of all of

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Speaker 1: the political turmoil at the time, he's decided to, you know,

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Speaker 1: to get out of here. I'm going to go to London.

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Speaker 1: And so then the film chronicles the next kind of

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Speaker 1: year or so of his life in London, where he's

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Speaker 1: coming up with the album that will be Exodus, which

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Speaker 1: is of course an all time classic and then his

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Speaker 1: first kind of major tours of Europe where he really

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Speaker 1: that territory, and then his decision to go back to

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Speaker 1: Jamaica to do kind of another big piece protest a

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Speaker 1: concert to kind of like overcome his personal fears and

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Speaker 1: it all started, and kind of give back like the

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Speaker 1: whole one love thing. So that's kind of the arc

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Speaker 1: of the film. There is, of course, some amazing music throughout.

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Speaker 1: A lot of it is kind of just soundtrack music

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Speaker 1: happening in the background, but you also get some really

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Speaker 1: good performances from Kingsley in the role, whether it's just

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Speaker 1: strumming an acoustic guitar, singing some of his classics, or

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Speaker 1: you know those scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman where

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Speaker 1: you kind of get an insight into how these classic

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Speaker 1: songs come about. And by the way, we're rocky, yeah,

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Speaker 1: couple of lyrics, and his wife says oh, you know,

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Speaker 1: like why don't you do it like this? And it's

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Speaker 1: like this light bulb moment, and he goes down into

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Speaker 1: of sitting around drinking tea in London like real fish

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Speaker 1: out of water in London society, and they start banging

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Speaker 1: on various things that they find around this little flat

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Speaker 1: just so cool? It's so cool. So things like that

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Speaker 1: are very special about this movie. His wife, Rita is

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Speaker 1: played by Lashana Lynch who's in some recent Marvel movies,

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Speaker 1: and she is awesome as well. Like, you know, his

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Speaker 1: wife is pretty long suffering character, and if there's a

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Speaker 1: of this movie, it's probably that it is a bit

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Speaker 1: superficial when it comes to some of the reasons why

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Speaker 1: she did suffer so much as his wife. The film

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Speaker 1: is produced by Ziggy Marley and also Rita herself, so

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Speaker 1: her family are extremely close to the project. So whenever

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Speaker 1: that's the case, as it was with Bahamian Rhapsody and Rocketman,

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Speaker 1: you're going to get a fairly sanitized version. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: control of Bob Marley's life. Yeah, and so things like

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Speaker 1: his womanizing, which was, you know, really off the charts

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Speaker 1: like he had must have been merely he was a kid,

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Speaker 1: a dozen kids to other women for a guy who

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Speaker 1: didn't know woman No crist yeah, lovely, a lot of crime,

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Speaker 1: and so that stuff is played down so much that

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Speaker 1: it kind of it takes away from the film because

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a scene where he's talking to Rita

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Speaker 1: and there's just this random woman standing in the background

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Speaker 1: and she's not in any way introduced, but you kind

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Speaker 1: of meant to think, Okay, well he's got some sort

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Speaker 1: I don't know, the way it's handled to me doesn't

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Speaker 1: really do justice to the true story. And then when

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Speaker 1: there's scenes when Rita Marley, Lashana Lynch's character is kind

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Speaker 1: of upset with him, it's kind of like, why we

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Speaker 1: haven't really seen any of this stuff that you're so

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Speaker 1: upset by, So it kind of does kind of undercut

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Speaker 1: performance is really great. It's directed by Ronaldo Marcus Green,

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Speaker 1: who's the guy who brought King Richard to us starring

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Speaker 1: Will Smith, and so he's got a pretty good trailer record.

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Speaker 1: He's got a pretty good track record of these type

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Speaker 1: of biographical films. So yeah, so I think there's some

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Speaker 1: good and some bad. If you're a Bob Marley fan,

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Speaker 1: I think there's so much that you like about it.

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Speaker 1: For everybody else, even the casual fan, casual music fan,

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Speaker 1: it'll have you, you know, like digging up Bob Marley

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Speaker 1: on Spotify or wherever you can track him down. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely worth watching. So some content scenes as well

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Speaker 1: in there, some concert scenes as well. Great. So, how

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Speaker 1: many Whalers are you giving it? Year, Bunny Whaler? I'm

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Speaker 1: going to give this one three. Okay, right, very good,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Ben,