George Miller is my favorite Aussie film maker. He started his career with Mad Max (the road warrior for the Yanks). To do that he quit being a doctor and started Australia's most successful independent production company.
Through lots of twists and turns he finds himself writing the screen play for a children's movie called babe also produced by his production company.
So here we have the story of a little pig who ends up on a small farm where there are no pigs. So she has to find a place for himself. Due to mostly dumb luck and being very friendly Babe becomes a sheep pig (much to the ire of the sheep dog).
Well this is the favourite children's story theme. Give it a go, you never know what you can be. But there is also a dark element here. Life on a farm for a pig means death and being eaten by humans. But of course the gallant pig will endear herself to everyone and not be eaten so a sequel can be made.
To get this movie made in Australia George had to convince the yanks that Aussies can do the sort of technical production this movie needed. He succeeded and probably paved the way for movies such as the Matrix to be made in Australia.
Enough of the trivia, it is a feel good movie which doesn't shy from brutal truth of farm life. You may never eat pork again (Certainly Thai restaurant owners complained bitterly that the sales of suckling pig dropped sharply when this movie was released in Thailand).
Through lots of twists and turns he finds himself writing the screen play for a children's movie called babe also produced by his production company.
So here we have the story of a little pig who ends up on a small farm where there are no pigs. So she has to find a place for himself. Due to mostly dumb luck and being very friendly Babe becomes a sheep pig (much to the ire of the sheep dog).
Well this is the favourite children's story theme. Give it a go, you never know what you can be. But there is also a dark element here. Life on a farm for a pig means death and being eaten by humans. But of course the gallant pig will endear herself to everyone and not be eaten so a sequel can be made.
To get this movie made in Australia George had to convince the yanks that Aussies can do the sort of technical production this movie needed. He succeeded and probably paved the way for movies such as the Matrix to be made in Australia.
Enough of the trivia, it is a feel good movie which doesn't shy from brutal truth of farm life. You may never eat pork again (Certainly Thai restaurant owners complained bitterly that the sales of suckling pig dropped sharply when this movie was released in Thailand).