I remember being very little and staying with my grandparents while the folks were off working. Everytime the farmer would dance at 1:52, my grandfather would dance along with him, even leap into the air toward the end as the farmer did. Even if he was out of the room doing chores, he'd find his way into the room at just the right time. He's getting very old now, and I'm much older than the young boy that watched him in awe. Funny how time flies by.
The joyous farmer's dance is the most wonderful spontaneous moment in any film ever made...absolute genius! Whomever chose the great C Major Symphony in the first place will always have a special place in my heart , and the perfect lyrics just top it all off! Saint-Saen would have loved it!!
When my daughter was in early grade school she would ask me to skip with her when I would walk her home. Cars are going by us on the sidewalk as a man very near his 40's skips with his daughter. How we will let our baby girls publicly mortify us for their pleasure. One day it will be her fond memory from the distant past as it is mine now. 😊 ❤
Babe is hand over heart my #1 favorite movie of all-time. I remember loving this movie as a kid, but then as I would watch it while growing up, it would get better and better. Babe should’ve won Best Picture.
How could you knock Gerard Butler in Braveheart?! I think Gerard Butler is the nicest Actor we have alive today! And, to top it all off, he's Scottish!
Also sad that Maa had died after being attacked by one of the three dogs including the two Alsatians, as the other sheep called them wolves when they are allergenic.
One of the most perfect choices of classical music for a story... it perfectly fits the sense of overwhelming, unexpected, yet so overdue triumph that the story celebrates... that euphoric sense that even the smallest, most unbelievable beings... the underdogs, the fools, the outcasts of this world who are ridiculed or never taken seriously... that they all each are worthy and completely more than capable of greatness as well as anyone. It's a sense of victory that is joyous but never overly pompous and ostentatious - it starts out in the horns section but then moves to the softness, humility and dignified quality characterised by the orchestra's string section. It's a melody and a choice of orchestration which in a way says that yes, you can achieve greatness with all the usual trumpets and fanfare, but you can also more importantly do it with softness, kindness and grace... all of which is exactly everything that Babe the character... and the film... stand for... Love it so much!
Thank you so much for those words. We need to truly cherish each other no matter who or what they are for God is everything and infinite and his vibration is pure white LOVE.
Very insightful and well said. You described the underlying themes of this music and indeed the whole movie itself. This music is so comforting and inspiring and this movie will always be a favorite of mine. Best to you my friend.
That Saint-Saens organ symphony is spectacular. When I heard it the other day on Maryland Public Radio, I thought: I know that piece! It took a bit, but 'Babe' rescued my memory.
otherwordly, as if a place of perfection and no fear of loss really exists! After listening to the symphony, I really believe it does! We come home, look at each other and say, yes, dude, that'll do.
As a 90's adult, this movie really was my childhood and a masterclass in filmmaking for me. It really knew how to make the tears water and touch your heart. Every time I come back to this movie, I feel a lot of hope and inspiration whenever I watch it.
music is so powerful, it either makes you sing of joy, or cry like a baby, like in this soundtrack when the mice sing "if i have words", sound so cute.
Had the mice singing on repeat this morning I cried like a baby but a good cry...I always dedicated this to my daughter's when they were younger...I sent them the clip they probably cried too😂😂
Even as a kid I knew the theme from Babe was special. It speaks for itself as immensely beautiful and triumphant. I was not surprised to learn eventually it was one of the best classical pieces ever written (do yourself a favor and listen to that ORGAN in the original by Camille Saint Saens!). Another familiar experience was definitely Sleeping Beauty with the Tchaikovsky piece :)
I will do that right this second. I saw this when I was 5 and this along with the lion king made me discover my love for movie soundtracks a quarter century later. The fact this piece had an organ excites me greatly 😁
That one little piggy back in 1995 helped to introduce this incredible piece of music from a century earlier to generations of new listeners, is amazing. Music of all sorts does indeed bring people of all sorts together.
As a child, I never understood the story (probably cuz I was 5 when it first came out and was still learning english lol). Now that I'm older, I have finally not only understood the story, but also appreciate that such film exist for everyone. Everytime I remember Babe, I get nostalgic so hard 😂😂. It is among those that I remember and endear most, even though as a child didn't understand it too well.
as a proper classical music fan who usually doesnt like arrangements for films etc, i can say this is one of the best, some of you should listen to the symphony in full to realise the arrangers art, because as youl find out this melody only really comes thru in 2 mins out of the 38 mins it lasts lol :) us arrangers work very hard :)
I swear to God if I ever heard this on the radio while driving I'd have to pull over or I'd run into a tree. The way the orchestra swings into that fantastic organ piece by Saint Saens blows my mind every time.
Every time I hear this song I remembered siting a theatre in Loveland Colorado with my daughter when the farmer says that will do pig, almost all the full theatre jumps up and yells that will do pig and starts yelling and clapping. My daughter thought we were all crazy. Not any more.
Was watching Babe in class today, (I'm a freshman so 9th grade) and even though I have watched this movie many times before, I just realized how amazing this music is. I was humming it the whole day. I mean this song is just so catchy.
I don't do feelings well, but after being reminded of this timeless masterpiece by Alteori just now, I started listening to to the music. And I gotta say, regardless of how it sounds, it feels like my soul is being recharged! I'm sitting on break right now listening to this; and I feel so alive and connected to the world around me, that I can't even bring myself to smash the gnat buzzing around my pie! I don't understand it, but I don't mind this feeling a bit!
If I had words to make a day for you I'd sing you a morning golden and true I would make this day last for all time Give you the night deep in moonshine
The melody was not even an original by Camille Saint-Saëns, but from a madrigal by Franco-Flemish renaissance composer Jacques Arcadelt "Nous voyons que les hommes". Still his Symphony Nº 3 is a bombastic work worth listening to. The melody comes at the beginning of the last movement. Beautiful music in all its forms!
Thanks for posting this. Now watching this again as a vegetarian, this movie takes on a whole new meaning for me. Pigs are indeed very intelligent creatures.
Muy pocas melodías en mi precario conocimiento llegan a la excelencia. Está en una muestra de ello.. PERFECTA..Digna representante de la belleza de los animalitos
Took me a while, but I finally clocked the narrator's voice. Mr Nightlinger. " Apple pie, green apples sliced thin, lard, flour, salt, water to bind, sugar, cinnamon, dab of butter, three slashes on the crust, one for steam and two because your momma did it that way."
Una de mis películas favoritas. ..la historia es hermosa, y de la música que podemos decir... es celestial, absolutamente conmovedora...me transporta...soy etéreo por unos minutos...mi corazón reboza de gozo y mis ojos se llenan de lágrimas.Gracias por este hermoso video, lo andaba buscando hace años, desde que se estrenó la plelícula. Muchas gracias.
Magnifica Sinfonia!! Llena el alma de sensaciones, placenteras. Adaptado a este pelucula q toca el corazon muy profundo hasta las lagrimas. Hecen q uno siebta q los animales tambien merecen mucho amor!!
For some reason I always related this piece to my dog. And for some reason I'm listening to this before going to bed now he's passed away, against my better judgment
I love this movie. It brings good memories. Sometimes I wish I could go back to be a child. Not worry about what is going on in our society. Children's and youth are losing their innocence very soon. So much hate in the world. So sad. I wish they didn't have to see the violence in their school or social media.
I used to play this movie all the time for my kids. They’re in their 20s now, and they informed me that they never cared much for it. I asked why they watched it then. Because YOU loved it so much!! BTW, the theme music is from Saint-Saens’s Organ Symphony.
