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| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | April 1994 - ? |
| Budget: | USD 30,000,000 |
| Gross: |
UK - 18,634,395 GBP (17 March 1996) Worldwide - 174,100,000 USD (except USA) Spain - 3,590,459 EUR (1996) |
| Plot: | Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mom, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget Knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Toreador Song" from "Carmen" Music by Georges Bizet "Pizzicati" from "Sylvia" Music by Léo Delibes "Cantique de Jean Racine" Music by Gabriel Fauré "Spring Dance" from "Lyric Piece, Book IV" Music by Edvard Grieg "Symphony No. 3 Organ', 4th Movement" Music by 'Camille Saint-Saëns "Blue Moon" Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Lorenz Hart "If I Had Words" Adapted from "Symphony No. 3" by Camille Saint-Saëns Lyrics by Jonathan Hodge "Jingle Bells" Music by James Pierpont |
Goofs
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Continuity: The sheep thieves drop their ramp when they leave, but when Hoggett arrives it has gone. Continuity: Babe's feet are muddy when he runs over to the wagon, but clean soon after. Continuity: The fax machine Hoggett receives as a gift is different from the one he uses to send his application for the show. Revealing mistakes: Straps holding sheep in neat formation visible. Continuity: At the beginning of Babe's competition, Farmer Hogget removes the leash which then reappears and disappears in subsequent shots. FAIR: The Boss uses the phone on the fax to call about the competition, yet the power doesn't get restored to his house until he's at the competition. - Telephones do not need the electricity to be functioning in order to work. Phone lines provide independent power to keep communication lines open, even without main power working. While the fax machine would not work without power, the telephone could still be used. Continuity: Farmer Hogget shears sheep yet next time the sheep are seen they have full coats. Fact errors: In the end credits, it lists Terry Knapp as "Cat and Poulty Trainer." Notice Poultry is misspelled. Fact errors: Farmer Hoggett kills a duck for Christmas lunch on Christmas Eve. But duck's meat needs 5-8 days to be softened in order to be edible. Revealing mistakes: Babe is a boar (boy pig), but when Esme Hoggett rubs Babe's belly, it is obvious that the pig playing Babe is a sow (girl pig). Continuity: In the final act, just after Farmer Hoggett latches the pen, there are three long shot views of the field, two from deep in the grandstand and one from the view of Rex and Flye. In only the latter can Farmer Hoggett and Babe be seen, there is no sight of them in the shots looking out from the grandstand. Revealing mistakes: The competition clock at the sheep dog trials has no minute hand. Continuity: On the day that Farmer Hoggett spends with the sheep, and shearing them, the number of sheep keeps changing. Continuity: When Farmer Hoggett is shearing sheep, it is morning and lunchtime. However when he piles the fleeces on the wagon it appears to be sundown. He then continues his shearing with the sheep, and also giving Babe a chance to drive them out of the pen. CHAR: When Farmer Hogget goes outside to inject his dog with a tranquilizer, he injects the serum under the dog's skin. In actual fact, tranquilizers are given to animals in the muscle on their backs above their tail. CHAR: When Babe says it's "nearly dawn", the sun is already up. |
Quotes
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Narrator: This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever. There was a time not so long ago when pigs were afforded no respect, except by other pigs; they lived their whole lives in a cruel and sunless world. In those days pigs believed that the sooner they grew large and fat, the sooner they'd be taken into Pig Paradise, a place so wonderful that no pig had ever thought to come back. Maa the Very Old Ewe: Darn silly carry-on, if you ask me. Horse: The cat says they call it Christmas Ferdinand the duck: Christmas! Christmas dinner, yeah. Dinner means death. Death means carnage! Christmas means carnage! [flies away frantically] Ferdinand the duck: Christmas means carnage! Cat: Oh, do forgive me for scratching you dear. I got a bit carried away. It's a cat thing. Babe: [laughs] Oh, well, but... Cat: Feeling good about tomorrow, are you? Babe: Mm-hmm, it should be alright, I think. Cat: You know, I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm not sure if you realize how much the other animals are laughing at you for this sheep dog business. Babe: Why would they do that? Cat: Well, they say that you've forgotten that you're a pig. Isn't that silly? Babe: What do you mean? Cat: You know, why pigs are here. Babe: Why are any of us here? Cat: Well, the cow's here to be milked, the dogs are here to help the Boss's husband with the sheep, and I'm here to be beautiful and affectionate to the boss. Babe: Yes? Cat: [sighs softly] The fact is that pigs don't have a purpose, just like ducks don't have a purpose. Babe: [confused] Uh, I - I don't, uh... Cat: Alright, for your own sake, I'll be blunt. Why do the Bosses keep ducks? To eat them. So why do the Bosses keep a pig? The fact is that animals don't seem to have a purpose really do have a purpose. The Bosses have to eat. It's probably the most noble purpose of all, when you come to think about it. Babe: They eat pigs? Cat: Pork, they call it - or bacon. They only call them pigs when they're alive. Babe: But, uh, I'm a sheep pig. Cat: [giggles] The Boss's husband's just playing a little game with you. Believe me, sooner or later, every pig gets eaten. That's the way the world works. Oh, I haven't upset you, have I? [chuckles softly] Ferdinand the duck: Look, there's something you should know. Babe the pig: Yes? Ferdinand: Humans eat ducks! Babe: [gasps] I beg your pardon? Ferdinand: Ah, most ducks prefer to forget it, but the fact is that humans like to eat plump, attractive ducks. Babe: Ohhh, I don't think so. Not the Boss, not the Boss's wife. Ferdinand: Oh, come on. Humans don't eat cats - why? Babe: Well, they're... Ferdinand: They're indispensable: they catch mice. Humans don't eat roosters - why? They make eggs with the hens and wake everyone up in the morning. Babe: Right. Ferdinand: I tried it with the hens: it didn't work. So I turned to crowing, and lo! I discover my gift. But no sooner do I become indispensable than they bring in a machine to do the job. Ohhhh-oh-oh, the treachery of it - a mechanical rooster! [Babe's first attempt to herd sheep just got him laughed at] Babe: This is ridiculous, Mom! Fly: Nonsense, it's only your first try. But you're treating them like equals. They're sheep, they're inferior. Babe: Oh, no they're not. Fly: Of course they are. We are their masters, Babe. Let them doubt it for a second and they'll walk all over you. Rex the Male Sheepdog: Fly! Get the pig out of there! Fly: Make them feel inferior - abuse them, insult them. Rex the Male Sheepdog: Fly! Babe: They'll laugh at me. Fly: Then bite them! Be ruthless. Whatever it takes, bend them to your will. Rex the Male Sheepdog: Enough! Fly: Go on, go! Old Ewe: We've got something here that might be of use to our pig. Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Password! Password! Old Ewe: Before we gives you anything, wolf, you'll be making us a solemn, promise. Rex the Male Sheepdog: Yes? Sheep: Treat us civil! Old Ewe: Yes, you gotta treat us nice-like. Rex the Male Sheepdog: I'll try. Sheep: No biting! Old Ewe: That's right, wolf must avoid biting us sheep at all costs. Rex the Male Sheepdog: Alright, I'll try that too. I'll try. Old Ewe: But the most important of all, you must promise never ever to let this password we be about to give to be used against any sheep anywhere. Rex the Male Sheepdog: I promise you that. I'll make make sure that the pig knows it too. Old Ewe: We have the promise! Sheep: 'Tis for Babe! Sheep: It's for his sake! Sheep: Maa would've wanted it. Old Ewe: [with other sheep, in unison] Baa-ram-ewe. Baa-ram-ewe. To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true. Sheep be true. Baa-ram-ewe. Fly: All right, how did you do it? Babe: I asked them and they did it. I just asked them nicely. Fly: We don't ask sheep, dear; we tell them what to do. Babe: But I did, Mom. They were really friendly. Narrator: There are many perfectly nice cats in the world, but every barrel has its bad apples, and it is well to heed the old adage, "Beware the bad cat bearing a grudge." Narrator: And though every single human in the stands or in the commentary boxes was at a complete loss for words, the man who in his life had uttered fewer words than any of them knew exactly what to say. Farmer Hoggett: That'll do, pig. That'll do. Ferdinand: I suppose the life of an anorexic duck doesn't amount to much in the broad scheme of things. Babe}: Move along there, ya... ya... big butthead! Babe: Move along there, ya... big buttheads! Rex the Male Sheepdog: You and I are descended from the great sheepdogs. We carry the bloodline of the ancient Bahou. We stand for something! And today I watched in shame as all that was betrayed. Fly: Rex, he's just a little pig. Rex the Male Sheepdog: All the greater the insult! Babe: I'm sorry I bit you. Are you alright? Sheep: Well, I wouldn't call that a bite myself. You got teeth in that floppy mouth of yours or just gums? [Babe bursts out laughing and so does the other sheep] Maa the Very Old Ewe: You see, ladies? A heart of gold. Fly: [solemnly] Rex? I know it was hard for you today, watching all that happening. But surely it's not worth all this misery. Please, dear, not on such a beautiful night. Rex the Male Sheepdog: [furiously] You put these ideas into his head, two-faced traitorous *wretch*! [Rex attacks Fly] Mrs. Esme Hoggett: Are you doing him tonight then? Farmer Hoggett: Mmm. Mrs. Esme Hoggett: Good, the blood'll drain by morning. Farmer Hoggett: Pity. Mrs. Esme Hoggett: What's that? Farmer Hoggett: Nothing. Mrs. Esme Hoggett: What on earth are you babbling on about? Farmer Hoggett: [hesitates] Shame to miss out on the best ham prize at next year's fair, is all. Nice plump haunches he's getting. Beautiful. Still... silly to wait, I suppose. [Esme stares at him] Son-in-Law: Hey, hey, dad says his little porker's a watchpig. Mrs. Esme Hoggett: Dearie me! If it's not a duck that thinks it's a rooster, it's a pig that thinks it's a dog! [everyone laughs as Rex grows jealous] Son-in-Law: 'A pig that thinks it's a dog'! [Babe sees the wild dogs attacking Maa] Narrator: Now the pig understood why the sheep called all dogs wolves, and he was filled with a deep and terrible rage. Babe: [relieved that he's alive] Ferdinand! Cow: If you're out here, who's that in there? Ferdinand: [aghast] Her name's Rosanna. [They watch the Hoggett family carve the roast duck] Ferdinand: Why Rosanna? She - she had such a beautiful nature. Babe: Oh, Ferdinand... Ferdinand: I can't take it anymore. Cow: [disapprovingly] Really. Ferdinand: The fear's too much for a duck. It - it eats away at the soul! There must be kinder dispositions in far-off gentler lands. Cow: The only way you'll find happiness is to accept that the way things are is the way things are. Ferdinand: 'The way things are' stinks! I'm not gonna be a goner, I'm gone! I wish all of you the best of luck. Babe: Was Rex a champion? Fly: He had the makings of the greatest champion there ever was, but it wasn't to be. Babe: What happened? Fly: A while back, when Rex was in his prime, the winter rains brought a great flood to the valley. Rex and the boss got most of the flock onto the high ground, then Rex went back to look for the strays. He found them. They had been stranded by the rising water. He tried to herd them across to safety, but they wouldn't budge - too afraid and too stupid to save their own skins. It was freezing cold and the water kept rising. Rex stayed with them right through the night. By morning, the sheep were drowned, and when they found Rex, he was barely alive. Babe: Oh, mom... Fly: Two weeks rest in front of the fire saw him back on his feet, but his hearing was never the same again. He never want anyone to know, but he's almost totally deaf. Babe: Is that why he's so - you know - angry? Fly: That's not the half of it. All this was barely a month before the grand national challenge. He tried his best, but he couldn't hear the boss's calls, and it slowed him up. The cold truth is that, but for the stupidity of sheep, Rex would've been the champion of champions. Babe: Baa-ram-ewe! Baa-ram-ewe! To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true! Sheep be true! Baa-ram-ewe! Sheep: [finally begins to speak] What - what did you say? Valda: [while comforting Esme crying over Arthur's dog trial with Babe] There, there, Esme, it's not the end of the world, you know. Narrator: [as Fly and Rex's puppies are being sold] The time comes for all creatures when childhood ends and the doorway opens to life as an adult. And so it was with Fly's pups, though that time was all too soon for Fly. Country Woman: [while watching the sheep dog trial on TV] Is that Hoggett? Country Woman: I think it was. Mrs. Esme Hoggett: Huh? Valda: He said Hoggett. It was clear as a bell. Mrs. Esme Hoggett: Well, must be another Hoggett. We only have the two dogs and they certainly... aren't... [the country women stare at Esme who then rolls her eyes in exasperation] [repeated line] Farmer Hoggett: That'll do, pig. Narrator: Fly decided to speak very slowly, for it was a cold fact of nature that sheep were stupid, and there was nothing that could convince her otherwise. Fly: Please, someone tell me... what happened this morning. Narrator: The sheep decided to speak very slowly, for it was a cold fact of nature that wolves were ignorant, and there was nothing that could convince them otherwise. Sheep: It was Babe... he saved us... the wolves killed Maa... But Babe drew the wolves away! |
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