Amazon | ベイブ (ユニバーサル・セレクション第3弾) 【初回生産限定】 [DVD]

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【夢はドーンとでっかく”世界一の牧羊豚”!愛くるしい子ブタの愛と勇気あふれる愉快な物語!】

愉快な動物たちが暮らす、ホゲットおじさんの牧場に、かわいい子ブタのベイブがやってきた!まだ世の中のことをなんにも知らないベイブは、お母さんが恋しくなってメソメソ。そんなベイブをなぐさめてくれたのは、牧羊犬のフライだった。ある日ベイブは、お母さん代わりのフライと一緒に、羊さんたちの見張りをすることになる。はじめはベイブをバカにして、勝手に動き回っていた羊さんたちも、心優しいベイブがていねいにお願いすると、言うことを聞いてくれるように。こうして、ホゲットおじさんからも牧羊”豚”として認められるようになったベイブは、”牧羊犬コンテスト”に出場することになるが・・・!?。
心に勇気と愛情を持って懸命に生きる、愛らしい子ブタの活躍を描いて世界中で大ヒットしたファミリー・コメディ。”アニマトロニクス”という視覚効果技術によって、人間のように豊かな表情で口を動かして話す動物たちを描くことに成功している。また、ホゲット役のジェームズ・クロムウェル(「ディープ・インパクト」「グリーン・マイル」)が好々爺を演じ、動物を相手にとぼけた味のある演技を見せる。1995年第68回アカデミー賞®視覚効果賞。

内容（「キネマ旬報社」データベースより）

"子ブタが夢に向かって健気にがんばる姿を描き大ヒットを記録したファミリードラマ。養豚場で生まれたベイブは、食べられる運命とは知らずに農場主の下へ送られてしまう。“ユニバーサル・セレクション￥1,500 第3弾”。"

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アスペクト比 ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語, 日本語
梱包サイズ ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 g
EAN ‏ : ‎ 4582131189022
監督 ‏ : ‎ クリス・ヌーナン
メディア形式 ‏ : ‎ 色, ドルビー, 吹き替え, 字幕付き
時間 ‏ : ‎ 1 時間 32 分
発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2007/9/13
出演 ‏ : ‎ ジェームズ・クロムウェル.マグダ・ズバンスキー.クリスティン・キャバノー.ミリアム・マーゴリーズ.ダニー・マン
字幕: ‏ : ‎ 日本語, 英語
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語 (Dolby Digital 5.1), 日本語 (Dolby Digital 5.1)
販売元 ‏ : ‎ ユニバーサル・ピクチャーズ・ジャパン
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000RX6LF8
ディスク枚数 ‏ : ‎ 1

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絵本の物語を観ているような気分になる映画です
観てよかったなと思える作品

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良い作品だと思います

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生命の尊さ、ベイブの思いやりいっぱいで優しい心に感動しました。最後は涙なしには見れません。最高の作品です。

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使用曲「If I had words (言葉があったら)」にこめられた想い

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コメディのような設定なのに心に染みるなかなかの名作。
テンポが絶妙で、目を話せる場面もなく、年齢問わず満足できる映画になっていると思います。
敢えて言うなら、この作品のテーマについて色々考えることができる知識や
思考能力が整ってくる高校生大学生以降に見るのが良いのかもしれません。

テーマは一貫していいますが、強くメッセージ性を強制されるわけではなく
絵本のような、道徳本のようなじんわりと喚起させるものになっていると思いました。

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「スタンドの観客も、テレビのスタッフも言葉を失っていました」
「だが、いつも物静かで口数の少ないこの男だけは、いうべき言葉を知っていたのです」
「よくやった」

「よくやったぞ」

↑この言い回しがとても好きでした。
観客⇔アーサー、口数が少ない⇔言うべき言葉を知っている
の言葉の対比によって、アーサーがベイブと深い絆で結ばれているという事が強調されていると思います。2度目のよくやったぞ、のセリフの間にある間もそうです。

最後の描写で、競技場全体の様子→ふたりだけの様子にクローズアップしてから終わる感じが、絵本のような終わり方で好きです。とても良い作品でした。

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可愛い子ブタのベイブが一人前の牧羊豚をめざして奮闘物語
撮影には本当の動物以外にコンピュータ内臓した複製人人形を駆使　その精巧さに圧倒されました

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大好きな映画

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笑って泣けて癒される。

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邪悪も変態性も妙な思想もない平和な物語だった。
観ていて漣立つようなことが無い。

この映画の何が良いって、登場する動物たち皆がいじらしくて可愛いことだけでなく
お互いの関係性がまた良いんですよね。
異種族の接触で起こる問題に対して精神的な余裕があるというか･･･
分を弁えていて、その上で風通しの良い関係がある。
だから物事が順調に進むんですよね。（損害を被る方向にも順調に進むけど）
羊は犬を恐れ、犬は羊を追う、野犬は羊を狩る、
人は羊を飼う、羊は人に毛を提供する、
結構色々居る牧場だから書ききれないけれど･･･
･･･大きく関係を掻き乱したり、大きく嘆いたり、大きく恨んだりして
互いの関係の中に禍根を残すことがない。
観ている自分の中にわだかまりが生まれない。

もしかしたらあの牧場にもそういう物の種はあるのかも知れないけれど
それを目立たせないような構成になってはいる。
アヒルのフェルディナンドはいつか食われるために殺される運命を嘆くが
実際殺されたのは全く登場してなかった別のアヒルだったし。
視聴する自分の持った、キャラクターに対して湧いてしまう情を、
キャラクターを非道い目に合わせることでぐちゃぐちゃに潰すような扱いにはしていない。
冒頭に書いた変態性がないっていうのはこれのことです。

（しかしまあそれはそれとしてフェルディナンドの涙声で嘆いている様は可愛かったなあ･･･）

ここが好きってポイントが沢山あるいい映画だった。
まずベイブが可愛い。純粋無垢。フライの慈愛に救われる気持ちになる。あの信頼感。安心感。
レックスのカリスマ性も良い。威厳があるしそれを発揮する様はかっこいい。
悲しい過去を背負っているのも良い。そしてトラブルが起きてすっかり性格が丸くなってしまっても
頼れる男であることに変わりがないのも良い。
羊たちと牧羊犬の関係が改善とまでは行かなくても互いに話が通じるようになったという事実がまたいい。
フェルディナンドが妙な事するキャラクターな割にはハッキリ疎まれていなくて良い。
フェルディナンドの努力やその努力がふいになる悲しい出来事もまたいい。
（さっきも書いたけどそれが理由であんまりだって嘆いているのが本当に可哀想）
フェルディナンドもベイブを使い捨てようとすること無くて、頼んだからにはサポートはするし
実際できる限り事故を食い止めることもしていたし
ベイブの能力不足を判断したら自分で片を付けようとしに行動するし
猫アレルギーもベイブを利用する嘘ってわけじゃなかったってのがまた良い
フェルディナンドが本当にいいキャラしてる。
牧場を出ていったと思いきやまだ残ってるし。
羊たちも言われている通りにトロくはあるけどそういう特性を持っているというだけで
お互いに調子をあわせさえすれば良好なコミュニケーションが取れるし
なにやら神秘的なものを秘匿していたっていうのもまたいいし。
豚や羊やアヒルがボロクソ言われている割には差別的な扱いをされたり虐げられたりしているわけではないし
馬の静かで賢い語り口がまたいいし
ネズミたちもこの作品では姑息ってわけじゃなくてただ歌っているような奴らなだけだし
猫のダッチェスの意地悪さ加減はそれはそれでまあ猫だし
本当に愚かなやつが居ないのがいい。

ホゲット婦人はイラッとするタイプのキャラかと思ってたら物語に参加するわけでなく
目立ったことしていないから本当に良かった。平和は保たれた。
ホゲットさんも無口な割に豚の前で歌ったり踊ったりしてくれちゃう人で親しみを持てる。

いい映画だった･･･
惜しむらくはこれを作った人とかこれを観た人がヴィーガンになったり
いざこざ起こしたりしたらしいこと･･･
良いんだよ肉は食って･･･食うんだよ私達は肉を･･･
その思想の違いで邪悪になるなよ･･･破壊を起こすなよ･･･
矛盾を受け入れようよ･･･
自らの歩む道に生じる過ちも間違いも踏みしめて先へ行くしか無いことを覚悟しろよ･･･
とは思う。
とは思うが、別にこの映画がそういう事考えさせるものかと言うと全然そうではないので
安心して楽しんでください。

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A mi me parece un maravilloso cuento y realmente conseguido para 1995... La calidad de imagen en la versión Dvd es más que correcta.

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BABE [1995 / 2011] [Blu-ray] [US Release] A Little Pig Goes A Long Way! One To Treasure For All Time! Fresh, Original and Funny! Absolute Delight!

Academy Award® winner and Best Picture nominee, ‘BABE’ is the inspirational story of a shy Yorkshire piglet who doesn’t quite know his place in the world. But when Farmer Hoggett [James Cromwell] wins him at the county fair, Babe discovers that he can be anything he wants to be and even an award-winning sheepdog! With the help of a delightful assortment of barnyard friends, the heroic little pig is headed for the challenge of his life in this endearing and fun-filled tale the whole family will love. Narrated by Roscoe Lee Browne.

FILM FACT No.1: Awards and Nominations: 1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Win: Best First Film for Chris Noonan [Australia]. 1996 Academy Awards®: Win: Best Effects and Visual Effects for Charles Gibson, John Cox, Neal Scanlan and Scott E. Anderson. Nominated: Best Picture for Bill Miller, Doug Mitchell and George Miller. Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for James Cromwell. Nominated: Best Director for Chris Noonan [Australia]. Nominated: Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published for Chris Noonan [Australia] and George Miller. Nominated: Best Art Direction and Set Decoration for Kerrie Brown and Roger Ford. Nominated: Best Film Editing for Jay Friedkin and Marcus D'Arcy. 1996 Golden Globes®: Win: Best Motion Picture for a Comedy or Musical. BAFTA Awards®: Nominated: Best Achievement in Special Effects for Charles Gibson [Australia], Chris Chitty, John Cox, Neal Scanlan and Scott E. Anderson. Nominated: Best Film for Bill Miller, Chris Noonan [Australia], Doug Mitchell and George Miller. Nominated: Best Editing for Jay Friedkin [Australia] and Marcus D'Arcy. Nominated: Best Screenplay [Adapted] for Chris Noonan [Australia] and George Miller. 1996 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: Win: Best Fantasy Film. Nominated: Best Writing for Chris Noonan [Australia] and George Miller. 1996 Australian Cinematographers Society: Win: Cinematographer of the Year for Andrew Lesnie. 1996 British Comedy Awards: Win: Best Comedy Film. 1996 London Critics Circle Film Awards: Win: Film of the Year. Win: Newcomer of the Year for Chris Noonan [Australia].

FILM FACT No.2: The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and animatronic pigs and Border Collies. After seven years of development. ‘BABE’ was filmed on location in Robertson, New South Wales, Australia. The talking-animal visual effects were done by Rhythm & Hues Studios and the Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The musical score for ‘BABE’ was composed by Nigel Westlake and performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Classical orchestral music by 19th-century French composers is used throughout the film, but is disguised in a variety of ways and often integrated by Westlake into his score. The theme song "If I Had Words" (lyrics by Jonathan Hodge), sung by Arthur Hoggett [James Cromwell] near the film's conclusion, is an adaptation of the “Maestoso” final movement of the Organ Symphony by Camille Saint-Saëns, and was originally performed in 1977 by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley. This tune also recurs throughout the film's score. There are also brief quotations within the score from Edvard Grieg's “Peer Gynt Suite.” Other music featured is by Léo Delibes, Richard Rodgers, Gabriel Fauré, and Georges Bizet.

Cast: Christine Cavanaugh (voice), Miriam Margolyes (voice), Danny Mann (voice), Hugo Weaving (voice), Miriam Flynn (voice), Russie Taylor (voice), Evelyn Krape (voice), Michael Edward-Stevens (voice), Charles Bartlett (voice), Paul Livingston (voice), Roscoe Lee Browne (Narrator) (voice), James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Zoe Burton, Paul Goddard, Wade Hayward, Brittany Byrnes, Mary Acres, Janet Foye, Pamela Hawken, Karen Gough, David Webb, Marshall Napier, Hec Macmillan, Ken Gregory, Nicholas Lidstone, Trevor Read, Nicholas Blake, Matthew Long, John Doyle, Mike Harris, Ross Bagley (voice), Gemini Barnett (voice), Rachel Davey (voice), Debi Derryberry (voice), Jazzmine Dillingham (voice), Courtland Mead (voice), Kevin Jamal Woods (voice), Jane Alden (voice), Kimberly Bailey (voice), Patrika Darbo (voice), Michelle Davison (voice), Julie Forsyth (voice), Maeve Germaine (voice), Rosanna Huffman (voice), Carlyle King (voice), Tina Lifford (voice), Gennie Nevinson (voice), Mary Linda Phillips (voice), Paige Pollack (voice), Kerry Walker (voice), Barbara Harris (voice), Jacqueline Brennan (voice), Doug Burch (voice), John Erwin (voice), Doris Grau (voice), Tony Hughes (voice), Daamen J. Krall (voice), Charlie MacLean (voice), Justin Monjo (voice), Antonia Murphy (voice), Helen O'Connor (voice), Neil Ross (voice), Scott Vernon (voice) and Karl Lewis Miller (uncredited)

Director: Chris Noonan

Producers: Bill Miller, Catherine Barber, Daphne Paris, Doug Mitchell, George Miller and Philip Hearnshaw

Screenplay: Chris Noonan, George Miller and Dick King-Smith (novel)

Composer: Nigel Westlake

Cinematography: Andrew Lesnie

Video Resolution: 1080p

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Audio: English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, English: 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo, Spanish: 5.1 DTS-HD Digital Surround and French: 5.1 DTS-HD Digital Surround

Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French

Running Time: 92 minutes

Region: All Regions

Number of discs: 1

Studio: Universal Home Video

Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: "This is the story of an understanding heart and how it changed our valley forever;" so begins director Chris Noonan's ‘BABE’ [1995] is among the most heart-warming tales ever told about a master and his four-legged mate. ‘BABE’ is a magnificently realised modern fairy tale, rife with the unlikeliest of friendships between a runt piglet [poignantly voiced by Christine Cavanaugh] and an aged farmer Arthur Hoggett [James Cromwell]. Originally it came out as a novel by Dick King-Smith's book in 1986 was broadcast on the BBC Radio and on hearing the broadcast Chris Noonan had become entranced with the idea of translating it into a film. Chris Noonan's interests languished for years, since in the days before computer generated graphics there seemed to be no technological way to effectively tell the story and do its material justice.

Jim Henson's Creature Shop assumes the monumental technical responsibilities of grafting believable human expressions onto the animal kingdom’s counterparts. For the most part, live animal footage is employed with a minimal amount of manipulation and even then, only around the eyes and mouths of the barn yard sect. John Cox's animatronics sub in briefly for the more ambitious sequences. In actor James Cromwell, Chris Noonan resolves the much anticipated missing link of the project; namely to discover an actor who can create empathy and believability in his intuitive understanding of a “relationship” without conveying any of it through speech.

The screenplay eventually hammered out by George Miller and Chris Noonan is structured in loose vignettes that begin one glorious summer afternoon when Farmer Arthur Hoggett guesses the approximate weight of a lonely piglet at the county fair. The prize is the runt, nicknamed Babe, who has been left to starve after his mother was taken from him and sent to the slaughter house. ‘BABE’ arrives at a picturesque English farm, which was created by the brilliant Roger Ford's Production Design that you feel is straight out of the world of the Brothers Grimm, and the Farm is also managed by Arthur Hoggett’s rather grotesque plump wife, Esme [Magda Szubanski]. Unaware that the Arthur Hoggett’s intend to fatten Babe up for their Christmas dinner, and Babe delights in meeting the rest of the animals on the farm, but not all the return of Babe.

Babe's early encounters with Rex, the sheep dog [Hugo Weaving] lead to a disquieting animosity that is quelled by Fly [Miriam Margolyes]; the female sheep dog who relates to Babe's loneliness as she might to that of her own pups, especially after they are taken from her and sold to a local farmer. Babe is next befriended by Ferdinand the duck [Danny Mann], a plucky and mischievous fowl who aspires to be a rooster and provides much of the comic relief on the farm. Eventually, Babe learns the truth about the relationship between man and beast through manipulative revelations provided by the Arthur Hoggett's jealous house cat, Duchess [Russie Taylor], that the former raise the latter for their own food supply.

However, Farmer Arthur Hoggett has begun to suspect that Babe may not be worthy of the axe, but duties ascribed Fly and Rex; namely, herding sheep and keeping rustlers at bay. On nothing more than blind faith, for there is no way that animals and humans can communicate with one another, Arthur Hoggett enters Babe in the prestigious sheep herding competitions. Nearly disqualified, the judges reluctantly agree to allow Arthur Hoggett his moment in the pen, believing that he and Babe will be the laughing stock of the event. Instead, and with a little help from Rex and Fly, Babe learns the coveted chant of all sheep, one that commands brethren of the woolly sect to instantly obey him.

Enough cannot be said about the strange poignancy that arises from the relationship between Farmer Arthur Hoggett and Babe. On screen they are the epitome of master and mate and two sides of an invisible and strangely magical alliance linking the human and animal worlds. The Chris Noonan and George Miller screenplay moves the action effortlessly through each vignette, drawing subtle, often critical parallels between humans and beasts. These are as humorous as they prove telling. The script underscores the concept of “which is more animalistic” by nature; the pig or the human, while slowly revealing a more quiet and mutual understanding.

Composer Nigel Westlake's evocative underscoring and Andrew Lesnie's lush cinematography elevate to an entirely new level of sophistication. We feel this story in our hearts primarily because the look and sound of the farmyard is idyllic and beckoning. Therein is the magic in the storytelling. In the final analysis, Babe translates its understanding heart into tangible charm whatever the age of the viewer. It is, indeed, the ‘Citizen Kane’ of all taking pig pictures and should be seen by everyone.

‘BABE’ is filled from beginning to end with marvellous images. There are the animals who can talk to each other, but not to the humans, in subtle mouth movements and well-cast voices; in the never-never land of Arthur Hoggett's farm, which is a realistic setting with just a touch of magic; and endless surprising details, like the trio of lovely cute singing mice who introduce scenes in the film, but are otherwise relinquished to the small corners of the screen, and will delight the more sharp-eyed viewers on the lookout for them throughout the film.

The wonderful heart-warming film ‘BABE,’ and directed by Chris Noonan, who also wrote the screenplay with George Miller, and takes a simple childlike eye view of the world that is photographed to look like a storybook come to life. Without bearing down too heavily, the film suggests a sort of Darwinian order of things, and Babe's experiences, roughly parallel of a child's awakenings to the realities of the world. With his snowy coat, wiggling pink snout and floppy ears, ‘BABE’ the film is a real charmer.

Blu-ray Video Quality – Universal Home Video presents this lovely film in a glorious 1080p encoded images that is rife with robust colours and fine details that leap from the screen. Blacks are velvety deep and solid. Film grain translates realistically. Greens are especially resplendent in this transfer. Fine detail is often extremely good. Some of the opening shots of the piglets reveal a whole new level of fine hair on their smooth little bodies, and the initial close-up of Arthur Hoggett meeting Babe also brims with abundant detail, especially the fine is natural looking and intact, All in all this is a very nice looking Blu-ray and a considerable upgrade from the inferior DVD release.

Blu-ray Audio Quality – Universal Home Video presents this glorious Blu-ray disc with a brilliant 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio experience, and even more impressive is the Nigel Westlake's sumptuous underscoring taking centre stage. The audio soundtrack gives a nice summer feel to its ambience, on its own relatively quieter terms. From the first haunting squeals of the "modern farming" pigs to the more sylvan ambient environmental noises of the Arthur Hoggett Farm. The ‘BABE’ soundtrack is alive with various noises which are nicely posited around the sound field of your speakers. Voice work is really excellent throughout the film and is delivered with sterling fidelity. The sweet underscore, including James Cromwell's now iconic singing is also presented with excellent fidelity and enjoyable sonic experience.

MUSIC TRACK LISTING:

Symphony No.3, Opus 78
Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns

Pizzicati from "Sylvia"
Composed by Léo Delibes

Lyric Piece No.28 Spring Dance [Norwegian Dance]
Composed by Edvard Grieg

Blue Moon
Composed by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

Toreador Aria Song from "Carmen"
Composed by Georges Bizet

If I Had Words
Adapted from "Symphony No. 3" by Camille Saint-Saëns
Composed by Jonathan Hodge

Cantique De Jean Racine
Composed by Gabriel Fauré
Performed by Celeste Lazarenko and Mariel Pazin
With Louise Johnson (Harp) and Simon Kenway (Conductor)

Jingle Bells
Composed by James Pierpont

Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:

Special Feature: The Making of ‘BABE’ [1995] [480i] [1.37:1] [3:56] Despite this very short brief feature, here we have a very interesting look at the Early Tests of making the pig talk with the computer modelling necessary to achieve the mouth movements and facial expressions for the animals. Rhythm and Hues Studios was an American visual effects and animation company that received the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1995 for ‘BABE,’ and in 2008 for ‘The Golden Compass,’ and in 2013 for ‘Life of Pi.’ It has also received four Scientific and Technical Academy Awards and is the CGI animation company that augmented real and animatronic animals to make them speak. Several shots of Babe, the sheep dogs and the sheep speaking are shown in their original state, and then we see all the farm animals turned into a computer generated image. Sadly in 2013 they went out of business.

Special Feature: George Miller on ‘BABE’ [2003] [480i] [1.37:1] [6:12] Here we are introduced to George Miller, who was the Producer of the film ‘BABE,’ plus Bill Miller and Doug Mitchell, as well as George Miller and also writing partner Chris Noonan. This feature has George Miller talking about his pet project and makes for a nice companion piece to the audio commentary and throughout this feature we get headings explaining his thought about the film in general and we get a nice lot of clips from the film, with the equally wonderful film composed music. George Miller actually covers a lot more ground than you might think. We get a heading “Where Does Babe Come From?” George Miller starts by recounting on how he first encountered Dick King-Smith’s novel, from the description he heard while flying over to London in 1986. I believe this would be during the time he was finishing the film ‘The Witches of Eastwick,’ and George Miller says that he heard a female BBC announcer who could not stop giggling while trying to describe the novel “Babe” as the best family reading of that prior year. After George Miller reading the book in his hotel room, he immediately determined to make the film and decided to delay the process until after ‘Jurassic Park’ proved that CGI had advanced far enough to make the talking animals possible in a manner that wouldn’t look like Muppets even though Jim Henson’s group did create the animatronic characters for their film. George Miller also relates some other very funny tales, including an argument he had with Tom Pollock, then the Vice-Chair of Universal Pictures about how his unprejudiced film was making a villain out of the only cat in the story. So, George Miller had them add a note into the narration that there are bad apples everywhere, and this specific cat just happens to be a bad apple. George Miller talks about the actors in the film, and especially James Cromwell having to work with the little pig and not having to say a lot of dialogue. George talks about the “Babes Voice” and whether to use a child or an adult’s voice and happen to come across Christine Cavanaugh (pigs voice), who he felt was ideal. With the heading “All Cats Are Not Bad” and talks about he used to be when he was a child would split people up into two groups who were either dog lovers or cat lovers, whereas George was definitely a dog lover. With the heading “Pigs Are definitely Smart” and since directing ‘BABE’ is totally abhorrent at the thought of eating any part of the pig, as he thinks they are totally adorable, and are just as intelligent as dogs. With the heading “A Good Heart” George talks about the outline of the story and the ability of courage, especially with Babe the pig itself, who he felt had such a good heart. So all in all this was a very nice little feature. One element notably missing from this interview is any discussion of the work with Chris Noonan.

Feature Audio Commentary with Screenwriter/Producer George Miller: Here George Miller introduces himself and mentions that when you see the credits, he informs us that he was one of the producers and screenwriter with this film, and when you see “A Kennedy Miller Film,” George mentions that it was a company he founded with another partner years ago. George felt with the film ‘BABE’ that he wanted it to feel like “story book” scenario and when you see all the artefacts on the wall you see as the camera pans past them, George felt it gave a real feel to what the film was all about, as well as making the film like a fable. George talks extensively about the composer Nigel Westlake, who he found to be a very talented person and felt he was so totally ideal for his film, as a previous composer let George down. When you see inside the horrible pig rearing farm that is permanently in the dark and where you see the mother sows cruelly carted off to be slaughtered and Babe crying for his mother, George says that the problem of the shooting over a thirteen week period, young pigs grow up very fast and that caused lots of problems with continuity, so of course they had a rotation of young pigs on hand, so you think they are the same original young pigs. When Farmer Hoggett [James Cromwell] first meets Babe at the Fayre, George felt that from then on a bond was made between farmer and pig, with an eventual common destiny together, where they change the world, and of course it is a classic hero story, especially towards Babe. When you see all the different headings that appear at certain points in the film, well this came about after the film was shot and Margaret Sixel, the South African-born film editor, who of course had to view the film while editing it, felt it was too episodic in style, and so “Chapter Headings” were suggested to be inserted into the final print and George felt this helped to make the film more appealing and to help with each storyline chapters in the film, it also helped when they did a film preview with young children, because when it was shown the age group could not read at the time and so the parents had to inform their children what the words said, and so that is how the three small mice were introduced so they could speak the words of the “Chapter Headings.” When you get to seeing the sheep dog puppies being sold, you actually get to see the animal trainer Karl Lewis Miller (1941 – 2008) who was the animal trainer for the film ‘BABE,’ who was a very successful and renowned animal trainer, and had trained thousands of animals were trained by him for their roles in feature films or TV shows, and especially with the famous Doberman scenes in 'REMO WILLIAMS’ [1985] who were brilliantly choreographed and to make it really something special, as he got 3 Doberman Pinchers to work in close consultation together and this was because he did outstanding professional work as an action animal trainer at its best, who is now very sadly missed. George points out as we get to the scene where Babe has to do the sheep dog trials, all the strands of the fable story are coming together and especially when it comes to grumpy sheep dog Rex who now really wants to help Babe, and most importantly the sheep dog trials is now having the rules turned upside down. When we get to near the very end of the film, George talks about where James Cornwall is supposedly talking to Babe, but instead is talking at the lens of the camera, and George tells us that instead he is talking like as though he was actually talking to his Father, and George felt that was a very moving experience and when you hear the narrator Roscoe Lee Browne speaks the final words, these are the actual passage at the end of the novel “Babe” by Dick King-Smith. So all in all this is really fascinating and interesting audio commentary by George Miller, and especially going into the nuts and bolts of blending the animatronics, robots and CGI elements with the live animals, as well as the occasional human wrangling. So a definite audio commentary to listen to, as you learn so much on the process of how the film ‘BABE’ came about and especially all the trials and tribulations, which again is a totally fascinating listen, as you really get the feel that George Miller really loved and enjoyed the process of making this heart-warming film and bringing it to the screen for everyone to see and enjoy.

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Finally, ‘BABE’ [1995] is not merely a treat for the eyes. The film's blending of real animals and computer-animated puppetry is seamless to the point that one hardly notices it is computer generated. And the actor’s voices with the farm animals and domestic pets give then distinctive personalities are well chosen and imaginative. Particularly evocative are Hugo Weaving as Rex, a proud, short-tempered sheepdog with a hearing disability; Evelyn Krape as Old Ewe, the fussy but good-hearted Grande dame of the farm's flock of sheep, and Danny Mann as Ferdinand, a cheeky duck who dreams of being a rooster. ‘BABE’ is one fantastic Blu-ray that collectors will definitely want to own especially for its impressive image quality. ‘BABE’ on this Blu-ray disc is not just for the young but the young at heart. All in all, this is a really wonderful and fantastic film, that really gladdens the heart, but will also bring an emotional of joy to you, but be prepared to get the Kleenex tissues out, as you will definitely will shed a few tears of joyous happiness. This is a definite one to add to your Blu-ray Collection. Highly Recommended!

Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom

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