Babe

Another movie with talking animals, most likely means another big flop in the theatres. However, audiences soon changed their minds after viewing the live action tale of Babe™, the marvelous movie based on Dick King-Simth’s children’s novel, “The Sheep-Pig.” The cinematography, editing, symbolism, and sound all came into play when putting this movie together. When speaking about Babe’s character, the director said, “I am more concerned with having a sincere, unjaded character.” (Noonan) First time director Chris Noonan, took tens of farm animals, human voices, and a darling plot, and put it all together to make a movie not only for kids, but one for everyone to enjoy.

Babe is a tiny pig who by luck, arrives at Farmer Hoggett’s (James Cromwell) sheep farm, a picturesque spot in the country (filmed in Australia) with an ideal farm cottage and rolling green hills. Farmer Hoggett’s plan for Babe, as with all pigs, was to fatten him up for a Christmas dinner ham. However, Babe instead wins over the hearts of farmer Hoggett, and virtually all of the other animals. Although, Babe learns and later rebels against the farm’s pecking order. Canine’s rule, dogs and sheep regard each other with contempt and any critter who fails to be indisp

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Eleven actors made up the voices of the farm animals on farmer Hoggett’s farm. Not only were the mice at the chapter breaks, but they also popped up in different scenes during the movie. The movie had one song in particular that was heard numerous times throughout the movie called “If I only had words.

This was honestly one of the top films ever made, a film about a close-minded society and finding a place where you belong, is a theme hundreds can relate to. When Babe would speak to Fly or Rex (the sheepdogs) for example, the camera would get at an extremely low angle to help show the difference in age, rank on the farm and power over Babe. For example, the screen would display the name of the chapter in an old English, fairy tale like script, and then usually an iris in or out would focus on the mice while they repeated the title.

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1. The human characteristics support the animals, who are characterized through a remarkable combination of live footage and exacting puppetry. In most cases they appeared to aid with the background music, and whose rendition of “Blue Moon”. During that scene Babe is telling Fly how much he misses his mother when an actual tear rolls down Babe’s snout. The animals are appealing characters that walk, talk and do things one doesn’t usually expect.

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