Stargate (film)

Stargate French Stargate, la porte des toiles is a 1994 FrenchAmerican adventure science fiction film released through MetroGoldwynMayer MGM and Carolco Pictures. Created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the film is the first release in the Stargate franchise. Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, and Viveca Lindfors. The plot centers on the premise of a Stargate, an ancient ringshaped device that creates a wormhole enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe. The films central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization.

Egyptologist and linguist Daniel Jackson, Ph.D. James Spader is invited by Catherine Langford Viveca Lindfors to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs on cover stones that her father had unearthed in Giza, Egypt in 1928. Jackson is taken to a U.S. Air Force installation, and told the project is classified information by its commander Special Operations Colonel Jack ONeil Kurt Russell. Jackson determines that the hieroglyphs refer to a stargate which uses constellations as spatial coordinates. On this revelation, Jackson is shown that the base has this Stargate, also discovered by Langfords father. They use Jacksons coordinates to align the Stargates metal ring with markings along its outside, and once all seven are locked in, a wormhole opens, connecting the Stargate with a distant planet. Jackson joins ONeil and other soldiers as they pass through the wormhole, though expresses concern at a nuclear bomb they brought as a last resort.On the arid desert planet, they find themselves in a pyramidlike structure. Jackson locates the Stargate and its controls, but lacks the coordinates to return home. ONeil orders some men to stay behind to guard the Stargate. Nearby, they discover a tribe of humans working to mine a strange mineral from the planet. Jackson is able to communicate with them as they speak a variation of Ancient Egyptian, and finds the tribe sees them as emissaries of their god Ra Jaye Davidson. The tribes chieftain Kasuf Eric Avari presents Jackson with his daughter Shauri Mili Avital as a gift, and though Jackson initially refuses her, he becomes romantically attached to her. ONeil befriends the teenaged boy Skaara Alexis Cruz and his friends, in part because Skaara reminds him of his longdeceased son. Through hidden markings and discussions with the tribe, Jackson learns that Ra is an alien being who had come to Earth during the Ancient Egyptian period, looking to possess human bodies to extend his own life. Ra enslaved these humans and brought some to this pla

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