Top 10 Things We Discovered About Bob Marley From Watching One Love

This music biopic takes a deep dive into the mythology of a legend. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at fascinating details about Bob Marley that some viewers might not have known before seeing this 2024 biopic. Our countdown of things we discovered about Bob Marley from watching "One Love" includes Bob Marley’s Introduction to Rastafarianism, Marley’s Exile to England, Marley’s Assassination Attempt, and more! Do you know any interesting facts about “Bob Marley” that the film left out? Share them in the comments.
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[@WatchMojo]

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[@TimLoyalToWifeHaterFreeZoneA]

Love It WatchMojo.

[@user-cq5vj4en4x]

Yes bob stood sideways when they were shooting at him to make himself a smaller target....he was baptised 6 months before he died and wept for over half hour..... on his deathbed said jesus take me now...... and as far as i am aware the shooter did not ask him for forgiveness

[@lyn9291]

I've been listening to Bob Marley's music for 4 decades. I know his history, the songs, the lyrics, the important players. For me, the film was like a poem about his heart and his life's meaning from his perspective. I was mesmerized every second of this film. Every actor brought their very best, and the script was amazing. If I tell you I cried only once, I would be lying.

[@francisbouleau1150]

Exactly the same feelings and emotions for me including some tears !

[@chefsjacket]

He must of been Muslim 😂

[@paradoxr.n.o8688]

Bob is Jamaica's gift to the world

[@itstrishgekko6348]

Exactly

[@Latuyoupalaku]

*God’s gift to the world

[@trinaq]

While I enjoyed the biopic, I wished that they'd covered more of Marley's life.

[@kamsismith]

I watched it last week and the thing that surprised me the most was that Bob Marley was biracial. I had no idea about that fact until I looked up a picture of his father. I agree with you, the story would have worked better as a miniseries without the constant flashbacks.

[@trinaq]

@@kamsismith Seconded, I had no idea that he was biracial, the more you know, right? While I enjoyed it, I wished that parts had been better executed.

[@kamsismith]

Hopefully, the Amy Winehouse movie will be better even though they haven't released the runtime yet since it comes out in May. Kingsley did a good job although I felt like someone else could have done the role justice, for me, I would have either picked Bob’s grandson Skip or an up-and-coming biracial Jamaican actor.

[@marmackk]

That would be a 10hr movie

[@paularob2829]

​@@kamsismithInteresting thought🤔 Mini-series.

[@flibutterfli]

When asked why do a concert 2 days after being shot, he said that the people doing evil weren't taking the day off, so he couldn't either.

[@paularob2829]

Boom 🔥🔥

[@darkwingdave79]

One of the best things about this majestic film... it has a killer soundtrack!!!! Believe that!!!!!!

[@itstrishgekko6348]

Biggest message music is what brings people together 🇯🇲💚❤️💛

[@andreaclarke161]

Bob is an icon. Most don’t know Rastafarian is a sub division of Christianity, Rastas read the Bible. Loved the movie.

[@realmorgan3075]

Specifically the old testament which is also contained in the Torah.

[@Tanzadog1]

It is not a sub division of Christianity - it is more an Abrahamic Religion, but has some significant differences with Christianity.

[@andreaclarke161]

@@Tanzadog1 Maybe , it also closely resembles the Indian God Shiva who wears dreadlocks and believes in cannabis .

[@user-cq5vj4en4x]

Bob was baptised 6 months before he died and wept for a long time, he also said on his deathbed...... jesus take me now

[@trinaq]

Rita Marley must have been an extremely patient woman, since her husband had several children from his extramarital affairs. However, the marriage seems to have been a stable one.

[@mrt445]

I thought they had at least 2 children

[@kamsismith]

Rita is a better person than me because I would have divorced him, plus one of his side chicks was 16 years old when she had one of his side kids. However, Rita isn't innocent either as she had two kids from different men.

[@trinaq]

@@kamsismith Agreed, there's no way that I would have tolerated half of what Rita had to endure, but she took it all in stride.

[@Notoriouscj1]

You sound so insecure bob was just spreading love insecure girl.🤷🏼

[@kamsismith]

How is she insecure? Bob isn't a saint, in fact, no one is a saint. Your favorite musician might be twice as bad as Bob Marley and done far worse.

[@keithnelson8341]

INTERESTING FACT: Before Bob Marley achieved fame, he moved to the United States and lived in Wilmington, Delaware, with his mother. He worked for Dupont and Chrysler.

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! There's Bob Marley's interview on being rich, called "Are you a rich man?" That's a must-watch 28 second interview. 🤣

[@ReynaReactsandReviews]

Love the background music

[@jdr2k11]

I watched his documentary "Marley" and most of this information I already knew, including about him being biracial. He also didn't have a written will after his death, leaving his fortune wide open.

[@general3121]

bob marley never came to Marley and Plant to beg money for a record delivery truck because at that time they never had records to deliver. Him and peter came for any help but because of his appearance he was turned back. One of the contractors who worked for marley and plant game bob some money but not much. everybody in trench town knew he was related to the Marley and plant owners and he often visited their construction sites for work. At this time bob had no interest in material things.

[@SuxmerTv]

Did you know His grandson YG Marley song cover, the writing is the same as Bob Marleys Exodus album cover. ❤

[@jadenbrown8822]

Locs saving her life is miraculous

[@elizabethwalters9521]

Thanks Zach good movie

[@paularob2829]

Thanks. I spent 39 years in JA but never visited the Hope Road museum. I did, however, visit 9 Mile where he's buried❤ I didn't know Rita introduced him to rastafari.

[@jenifad9959]

Maybe Ms Rita solidified him giving him identity because before that Rastafari introduction, he was not accepted it appears.

[@reynaldohamilton8307]

Did any part of this movie shot in jamaica?????

[@djkly1]

If you want to know everything that can possibly be told about Bob Marley from youth to death check out the documentary ‘MARLEY’, A lot of the commentary & visuals in this YT video was taken from that documentary.

[@queenjetblack2647]

It would have been nice to show who his mom was and how she shaped him for those who didn't know anything about his parents. I did know his father was white but others had no clue about his family history.

[@royboy2084]

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲press that like if you love Jamaica

[@jorgeadairramos7469]

Hello good afternoon

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Good movie

[@StanHalen1936]

Good movie

[@Rezn8d0utlaw]

I hate going to the movie theaters but for this one I can’t wait. #OneLove

[@masonsumi12]

Why do you hate the movie theaters?

[@Rezn8d0utlaw]

@@masonsumi12 I have back issues from jumping out of airplanes in the Army and can’t sit comfortably. Also the prices are outrageous.

[@user-mc5wu5gw4j]

Skip Marley is like the incarnation of Bob Marley,✌🏾

[@jasont4620]

Like most biography movies it’s based on and not all actual facts. Also you can only put so much about a man’s life in 2 hours- so you’ll have a love story, a bad guy, so action but most are about his story of course

[@ksingh7074]

Listen i'm not banging the film it's just that if you want a true story about him look at Marley (2012), because watch mojo takes the clips of Bob's friends and family from that movie.

[@ItsRael108]

Beasts

[@ctbt1832]

Bob Marley lived in Delaware state at one time. US

[@Elfan4]

Nah, the movie is too generic and too safe. If you want to know the real Bob, watch the documentary "Marley". This movie was not good, the family took too many liberties 👎🏻

[@paularob2829]

Not at all. It was tastefully done❤❤🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@shellissanctuary7522]

I tastefully do agree..was not deep delved but share the Vibe😊

[@titonjuguna4886]

True...docus,.. Marley and Babylon by bus.

[@reelspilltv]

@WatchMojo...in the documentary "Who shot the sherrif" , eye witnesses said that jungle justice was served on two of the assassins when local gangsters rounded them up and in the presence of Bob and Taylor, the assassins confessed to taking part in the shooting. They allegedly asked Bob for forgiveness. Bob was said to have forgiven them and, even begged the local gangsters to spare the lives of the two culprits but the fate of the two culprits was already sealed. Bob and Taylor left after being assured that nothing would happen to thr two culprits but after they left, one of the assassins was hanged and the other, shot in the head. Both assassins were said to have confessed that the leader of the assassination squad was big time gangster and druglord Jim Brown paid by Edward Seaga's Jamaican Labour Party (JLP). If this is true then, Bob did meet two of the people hired to assassinate him.

[@dinham3210]

Curlyloxx and Tulox carrying on the mantle now

[@emiliobello2538]

Davies Diggs should have played him

[@kamsismith]

He’s not Jamaican. Yes, he's biracial, but he's not Jamaican.

[@TheNewDawnLeadership]

There is no "ism" on Rastafarian

[@rich8666]

Never knew he was biracial

[@wraithyoshidj6702]

3:42 so you skipped on ZIMBABWE? seriously?

[@Tanzadog1]

they showed the concert banner saying Viva Zimbabwe - are we all kindergarten kids that we need every single detail spelled out?

[@mochamalasses2390]

We were never met to adapt to European beliefs. All the women in the comments saying "I would have divorced him, ect,..) times were different. You don't know what you would have done unless it was you. Bob and Rita had an open marriage. Please stop judging this man.

[@raab5040]

Not so different. Jamaica is known for giving "jackets" so most women incl grannies used to cheat back when the men unfaithful. And like Bob thry take and raise child because they knee why it came about. 😂. Most look past all that connection in our histroytil now. Some women leave, some stay and if thry do, just know what will come.

[@raymarkmcfarlane9331]

This is so true about Bob Marley he was getting grief when he was school and bye the neighbour because my father was a white Jamaican and he father was black and his white to also am only child out of my brothers/sisters am light skin i was bron blue eyes to and at the same time my father knew Bob Marley they was best friends because i have a picture of my father/boy

[@jtjt4736]

oopen relationship isnt adultery

[@natakijean-baptiste1746]

It was not open read Rita book

[@jtjt4736]

@@natakijean-baptiste1746if both agree on "cheating",its open

[@mr.eggsbert]

First

[@Reaperguy67]

No you weren't and you still don't understand how to put your comments on newest first 🤡

[@StanHalen1936]

Zero friends

[@cakes3958]

I think you were third hun

[@Reaperguy67]

@@cakes3958 doesn't matter if he was . He will never get anything for it

[@cakes3958]

@@Reaperguy67 and you won’t get anything for your comments so what’s your point?

[@siddaye]

Everyone knows bob Marley Is biracial

[@ImaginationStationAI]

Not everyone. I found out yesterday, I've always considered him black. The thought of him being mixed never crossed my mind.

[@siddaye]

@@ImaginationStationAI oh really what gave you that idea ? Or were you just being willfully ignorant

[@ImaginationStationAI]

@@siddaye In my part of the world we don't have mixed or biracial. You're either black, white or coloured.

[@maximusahrens2356]

This movie is probably going to teach us everything but the truth of bob marley. They literally tried to shoot him during his time.

[@christianschur7103]

Bla bla bla ,I know it all what you re talkin bout media 😂😂😂

[@general3121]

Dem lie bout bob came to Marley and Plant to ask for money for a truck to deliver records and was refused. At the time he came to M&P he never had a music career. They will say anything for a good story.

[@tonci2725]

It's a shame, this kind of movie about Marley is a complete failure, the legend of reggae music, as well as his fans, deserved a much better movie. A great opportunity to screen one of the most charismatic people was missed...

[@UnknoownsWrld]

Funny thing all the raggae lover I know love the movie

[@yakkattack]

Wasn’t the greatest maybe I had to be high to enjoy it

[@user-my2yb3yj7w]

Marley was more than half white😅

[@nicholashqar1654]

I hope to be better than the all eyez on me the tupac biography movie that movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth 🤮🤢

[@agentflush388]

The movie was far too sober for what he is to another community

[@wendellrosario5941]

How he beat the crap out of women

[@user-nf6mi3ip1f]

Stop spreading lies

[@Heathcliff_hensel]

Allegedly

[@Hewhoremains87]

The movie sucked

[@OfficialMallyRaw]

Have some respect for our culture and if you can’t respect our culture then stay away 💯🇯🇲☮️

[@crumble_tes]

​​​@@OfficialMallyRawI think the reason that person said the movie sucked was because they hid all the actual truth about bob marley and we wanted to see the beginning to the end the key points and the actual stuff that made him that person and now a reggae legend

[@crumble_tes]

​@@OfficialMallyRawin the movie they hid the worst parts about marley that he cheated on Rita alot multiple times and had different children from affairs during there marrage. They hid that to conceal his image to make a better prophet from the movie if they had those scenes in the movie people would have been enraged and and not wanting to watch the movie at all but I hated the fact they hid the real truth

[@supoa9489]

​@@crumble_tes They didn't conceal anything, it's more celebration of his music and growth. If wanna know more about Marley go watch a documentary.

[@gowiththeflowbee8053]

Honestly one of the worst films ive ever seen. Absolute garbage.

[@clausmartini1074]

Are we just gonna forget how he cheated on multiple women and how he did nothing for the lgbtq+ movement, yet he's all about love, right? He used "love" to sell records. In real life, he was an anti feminist man.

[@jelanicampbell6417]

Why would he do anything for the LGBT community?...

[@stockwatsonnu8518]

How many brain cells do you have left?

[@davidenelson]

Rasta dont suppory battyman, move this man

[@leonashmead6381]

Yeah like who cares regarding the lgbtq+ community? That’s not his story He cheated on his wife who knew and looked after the kids. GTFOH with your rubbish!

[@kavanwitter5734]

Rasta nuh support fish ! Fire 🔥 pan dat