FILM 2277: BABE (1995)

TRIVIA: Because baby pigs grow so fast, 48 pigs were used during filming for the role of Babe.

When James Cromwell was handed the screenplay for Babe, he thumbed through it to see how many lines he had. He saw that he didn't have that many (he had only 171 words of spoken dialogue, and 61 words that were sung), so decided that he would do it as a nice easy film. What he didn't realize was that he would have more screen time in this film than any of his previous films.

Magda Szubanski was only in her early 30s when she won the role of Esme Hoggett, who was supposed to be elderly, so Szubanski was made up to look about 20 years older.

James Cromwell, a longtime vegetarian, decided to become a vegan after starring in the movie.

USA pork sales dropped by 20% after the movie came out.

One of the reasons why it took George Miller ten years to bring the story to the screen was because he was waiting for special effects technology to catch up with his vision for the film.

Features James Cromwell's only Oscar nominated performance.

Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.

I’m making my way through the book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. See my blog post about my copy of the book here…

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I really hope you can come on this journey with me – if you do I’d love to know which films you’ve enjoyed the most!