Bob Marley movie director Kevin MacDonald on the man, the myth, the legend
Good interview.KM : He's great ... he is a great value, and he's so entertaining. Like a lot of Jamaicans, he's got great turns of phrase. They've got a very good way with language. All these wonderful neologisms and making up words the whole time and living language. I feel like Jamaica is a bit like Elizabethan England, when Shakespeare and Johnson were writing. It's kind of like language is so fluid, and they just make up words all the time, and they're playing. Which we've sort of lost, but Jamaica's still like that. It's kind of creative in the way they speak, and that's what Bunny's like. He's just so creative and fun. And he's got this very ambivalent relationship with Bob and Bob's legacy. There's a sort of jealousy and bitterness. There's also huge love and huge respect. And he's like a guardian of Bob's memory. It's very complicated.
AP : It's a very interesting part of the film. I keep singing "Small Axe" [referring to a scene in which Bunny explains the genesis of the song].