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{{Infobox Film
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 | title           = Stargate
 | image           = Stargate - movie poster.jpg
 | caption         = Theatrical release poster
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 | music           = [[Music by::David Arnold]]
 | release date    = [[Release date USA::October 28, 1994]]
 | running time    = [[Runtime::121 minutes]]
 | language        = [[Language::English]]<br/>[[Language::Goa'uld (language)|Goa'uld]]
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 | rnext           = ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': {{ep|Children of the Gods}}
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{{Blurb}}A [[Daniel Jackson|misfit archaeologist]] joins a military team in travelling through an [[Stargate|ancient doorway]] to a [[Abydos|far-away planet]], where they must liberate an [[Abydonians|enslaved people]] from a [[Ra|powerful false god]].{{blurbclose}}
: '''''Stargate''''' is a featured movie that has been released in [[1994]], written by [[Dean Devlin]] and [[Roland Emmerich]], and directed by Emmerich. This film originated the [[Stargate franchise|''Stargate'' franchise]].

== Summary ==

* A [[Giza expedition|team]] discovered a [[Giza coverstone|coverstone]] and the [[Stargate]] in [[Giza]], [[Egypt]], in [[1928]].
* Dr. [[Daniel Jackson]], a misfit [[archeologist]], discovers the [[point of origin|key for interstellar travels]].
* A military team travels in subluminic speed to a [[Abydos|planet]] located at the far end of the known universe.<ref>This assertion will be [[recton]]ed in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' pilot episode {{ep|Children of the gods}}. [[Abydos]] will become the closest planet to [[Earth]].</ref>
* They will discover [[Abydonians|people originated from Earth]].
* They will face an [[Egyptian mythology]]-related [[Ra|false god]].

== Story development ==

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== Story ==

:''The different acts correspond to the Blu-ray disc chapters.''

=== Act 1 ===

* [[Egypt]], [[Giza Plateau]], [[1928]]. A car races full speed towards the [[Great Pyramids]], with [[Professor]] [[Langford]] and his daughter [[Catherine Langford|Catherine]] on board. Inside a tent, an [[Arabic interpreter]] hears the horn blaring and gets out of the tent to welcome the Professor. When they go together in the [[Giza archeological digging]]s, the interpreter declares they found something beautiful, a very big surprise. Langford meets Foreman [[Taylor (Stargate)|Taylor]] who shows him a big circular [[Giza coverstone|coverstone]].
* Meanwhile, Catherine is visiting the tents with all the discoveries they made in the diggings. She discovers a [[Amulet with the Eye of Ra|necklace with the symbol of Ra]]. Then, Langford calls her daughter back. She picks up the necklace and comes back to her father. They go to a place where many workers are erecting a [[Stargate|big and heavy circular artefact]] with ropes. Professor Langford wonders what kind of object it is. Taylor says he wished he knows.

=== Act 2 ===

* [[1995|Present day]], [[Park Plaza Hotel]], [[Los Angeles]]<ref name="hotel">This filming location is located in Los Angeles. See this [http://www.parkplazala.com/spaces/#the-grand-ballroom page] from the [http://parkplazala.com/ official Park Plaza Hotel website]. See also [https://www.flickr.com/photos/parkplazala/albums/72157656789411775 this page] on Flickr.</ref>, an old woman is climbing the stairs. She's carrying the necklace found in Giza&mdash;she is [[Catherine Langford]]. She goes to a [[Alameda Room|room]] where a young [[archeologist]], Doctor [[Daniel Jackson]], is leading a [[symposium on Ancien Egypt]]. Jackson states then that the pharaohs of the [[Fourth Dynasty]] didn't build the Great Pyramids. A [[Professor (Stargate III)|Professor]] mentions the discovery of [[Khufu]]'s inscription by Colonel [[Richard William Howard Vyse|Vyse]]. Jackson declares it's actually a fraud. An [[Professor (Stargate V)|other Professor]] asks to Jackson who build the pyramids. When Jackson replies he has no idea, the audience laughs at him and leave the room. Just only [[Companion (Stargate)|one person]] remains.
* Soon after, Jackson is outside the hotel, under a heavy rain. A [[US Air Force]] [[Charles Kawalsky|officer]] approaches Jackson and invites him to get in a car as someone wants to speak to him. Inside the car, [[Catherine Langford]], with Jackson files, is waiting for him. When Jackson gets in the car, Catherine Langford proposes a translation job to Jackson insisting that this is his chance to prove that his theories are right. She gives him travel plans. At the same moment Kawalsky opens the car's door and invites Jackson to get out. Oustide, just as the Air Force car's leaving, Jackson is checking his travel plans.
* Meanwhile, in a suburban street, an other US Air Force sedan parks near a [[O'Neills' house|house]]. [[Sarah O'Neil]] opens the entrance door and comes back to the kitchen doing the dishes. Two officers come in and ask to Sarah O'Neil if it's possible to speak to her husband. She lights a [[cigarette]] and says to them: "You can try." Upstairs, they open the door of [[Charlie O'Neill's bedroom|Tyler's bedroom]] where they find Colonel [[Jack O'Neil]]. He holds a hand gun he hides quickly under the pillow when the door opens. [[Major]] [[Johnson (Stargate)|Johnson]] announces to O'Neill from General West that he has been reactivated. O'Neil doesn't say a word. When they come back to the car, the [[officer (Stargate)|other officer]] is surprised to see O'Neill like this. Johnson replies that [[Charlie O'Neill|his kid]] shot himself accidentally and died.
* Military installation, [[Creek Mountain]], [[Colorado]]. Jackson arrives here with Lieutenant [[Charles Kawalsky|Kawalski]]. There, Jackson sneezes because of [[allergy|allergies]] when he travels. In [[sub-level 28]], he meets Doctors [[Barbara Shore]] and [[Gary Meyers]]. He learns that this facility is actually a reconverted desaffected missile silo. They go to a room where they find the [[Giza coverstone]]. Catherine then meets him and expresses her joy to see him joining the adventure. Catherine confirms to Jackson that nobody has seen this coverstone. Meyers tells then that it has two cartouches, the first classical, and the inner cartouche with unknown writing. Jackson guess it's a kind of cuneiform writing. He goes to a blackboard, starting to correct the translation as the translator (actually Meyers) seems to have used [[Budge]]. After the correction, he reads this: "''A million years into the sky is [[Ra]], sun god, sealed and buried for all time... his Stargate''." Jackson ask why the military are insterested in 5,000 years old Egyptian tablets. Then Colonel O'Neil, shaved, the hair cut and wearing a Class A uniform, tells that his report says 10,000 years. O'Neil introduces himself and tells he's taking command from this moment. Jackson is surprised to hear this date as the Egyptian culture didn't exist 10,000 years ago. Shore tells Jackson that sonic and radio carbon tests are conclusive and they found something a lot more interesting near the coverstone. At this moment, Colonel O'Neil tells that everything has become classified and no one has to tell civilians unless he permits it. O'Neil leaves the room. Catherine Langford reaches him and asks why they choose him. He replies, "''in case you succeed''."
* Two weeks have passed. Jackson has tried everything he knows about writings but found nothing yet. He takes the empty coffee carafe and gets out of the room to fill it with water. Then he sees a [[Guard (Stargate)|guard]] reading a [[The Denver Post|newspaper]]. Looking at the front page, he grabs it from the newspaper and rushes into the room. The door closes and Jackson asks to the guard if he can borrow it. He grabs a marker an draws a sketch on the [[Orion]] constellation picture of the front page. He then climbs on a ladder and compares it to one of the cartouche's symbols; They match.

=== Act 3 ===

* The next day, all the joint chiefs rendez-vous to the military facility. Daniel Jackson is introduced to [[Major General]] [[W.O. West]] in the [[Stargate Command briefing room]]. Jackson is invited to share what he has solved in two weeks, something the staff couldn't solve in two years. He reveals that the writings on the [[Giza coverstone]] were actually star [[constellation]]s. Six [[symbol]]s are used to form a map with a destination and a seventh symbol is used to determine the [[point of origin]]. When [[Gary Meyers]] states that there are only six points on the cartouche, Jackson tells that the seventh symbol is below the cartouche, representing a pyramid with worshipers kneeled around. Then Meyers mentions that this symbol is not on the device. As Jackson doesn't know anything about the device, General West eventually orders to show Jackson the device. Behind the whiteboard is revealed "his" [[Stargate]], the device found in [[1928]] along with the coverstone. Catherine Langford asks Jackson to come with her in the [[Stargate command control room|control room]]. There, Meyers orders to turn on the central monitor on the [[glyph]]s. The Stargate inner ring is spinning, showing the different symbols one after another. Then Jackson notices a glyph with a pyramid and a circle above it. He asks to stop, grabs a marker, and draws on the monitor the worshippers around the pyramid and the line on the top. They found the symbol. General West order to begin the [[dialing sequence]]. During the sequence, all material is shaking harder and harder until the seventh symbol is locked. Then, a giant vortex on the Stargate is activated, going front and back, and finally stabilizing like a puddle. Everybody are astonished.
* West orders to send a [[MALP|probe]] through the puddle and record all informations from the Stargate.

== Analysis ==

== Questions ==

=== Answered questions ===

=== Non-answered questions ===

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== Notes ==

* Semantic Stargate Wiki articles are written according to the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''/''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''/''[[Stargate Universe]]'' continuity, based on the movie continuity. However, some movie events/characters' names contradict this continuity. See the [[Help:Canon#Stargate, the movie canon|Canon page]] to see the differences.
* Kawalski is carrying [[Lieutenant Colonel]] insignias on his shoulders. Yet he is called "Lieutenant" in the movie by O'Neil. Usually, we refer to a Lieutenant Colonel as "Colonel", not "Lieutenant". More, to fit the ''Stargate SG-1'' canon, Kawalsky has become [[Major]], one rank below Lieutenant Colonel.
* [[Feretti]] is wearing [[Technical Sergeant]] insignias on his fatigues' sleeves. Yet he is credited as "Lieutenant Feretti". There is the same issue with the other members of O'Neil's team.
* There is an issue to date the "present day" action [[timeline]] for the movie according the the ''Stargate'' [[canon]]. The movie has been released in theaters in [[1994]], and the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' events start at the beginning of the year [[1997]] according to some visible computer screens and more especially the dialogs in the episode-clip {{ep|politics}}. Here, in {{SITENAME}}, it has been decided to date the ''Stargate'' "present day" events in autumn [[1995]] because of the numerous visible dead leafs laying on the street and the red leaf remaining on the trees (autumn period) when the officers from General West's office come to announce Jack O'Neil his reactivation (''Stargate'', the movie), and according to General Hammond statement to a retired [[Jack O'Neill]] who says that's it "has been '''over a year'''" since the [[First Abydos mission]] events ([[SG1]]: {{ep|Children of the gods}}).

== Goofs ==

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| 0:18:26
| Continuity
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* When [[Daniel Jackson]] explains that the [[point of origin]] is outside the [[Giza cartouche]], we can see the plan of it with Sagittarius circled. On the following close-up, Sagittarus loses its circle, and the bottom of the cartouche is circled by Jackson. In the following wide shot, Sagittarus is circled again and the circle at the bottom of the cartouche disappears, yet Jackson has finished his drawing.
* On the wide shots, Jackson's marker pen is grey. On the close-up, the marker pen is blue.
|}

== References ==

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== See also ==

* ''[[Stargate - Director's Cut]]'', the extended version.

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