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‘We will not accept fake Patois’: Jamaican linguist on dialogue in Bob Marley biopic
Advisers say they were keen to avoid ‘another Cool Runnings’ in portrayal of Jamaicans in One Love
When the Jamaican linguist Dr Joseph Farquharson agreed to consult on the Bob Marley biopic One Love, there was one major motivating factor: wanting to avoid another Cool Runnings. “We stated up front if this was going to be another Cool Runnings, we weren’t going to do it,” said Farquharson, a senior lecturer in linguistics at the Jamaican language unit in the University of the West Indies. “I would say One Love is even more authentic than The Harder They Come,” said Farquharson, who remembers scenes in the Jimmy Cliff film where characters use more English than you might expect from underworld figures.
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