Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Hoggett is a man of very few words, and these are the biggest words he has: the command he would give a working dog at the end of a job, given to a pig and meant as the highest praise. It lands because the film has spent its running time asking whether a pig can be more than dinner. The line is quoted for approval of a hard job quietly done, and as a gentle way of calling time on a performance.
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In context
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Babe (1995), the final scene. At the sheepdog trials the little pig Babe herds the sheep with the password they gave him, "Baa-ram-ewe", and the crowd goes wild as he is given a perfect score. Amid the celebration, the narrator says, two figures stand silent and still, side by side. Farmer Hoggett, the man who has uttered fewer words than anyone there, turns to the pig and speaks the traditional sheepdog command that the work is done: "That'll do, pig. That'll do." The film adapts Dick King-Smith's 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig.
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- Wikiquote: Babe (film)Final scene, narrator and Farmer HoggettReference checked
- Wikipedia: Babe (film)Lead and Plot, endingReference checked
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