Stargate (2/12) Movie CLIP - Activation of the Stargate (1994) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Jackson (James Spader) figures out the seventh symbol and the Stargate is activated, opening a wormhole.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
This lucrative, elephantine-budgeted sci-fi opus paved the way for director Roland Emmerich's mega-hit Independence Day (1996). The story commences in Giza, Egypt, circa 1928, where an archaeological expedition unearths an ancient ring with cryptic hieroglyphs. The film then moves to the present day, where Egyptologist Daniel Jackson (James Spader) is busily trying to convince a group of skeptics that the pyramids were not built by man, but by an extraterrestrial force. After the lecture, a military man approaches him and offers him a job translating the said ring; its inscriptions actually constitute a map to a massive stargate (or interstellar portal). The army sends over resident crackpot colonel Jack O'Neill (Kurt Russell) to travel through the stargate and see what's on the other side; Jackson accompanies him, and the two men turn up in a desert planet on the other side of the universe, with three moons in its sky. The world in question is ruled by Ra (Jaye Davidson), a hermaphroditic Egyptian sun god, who oppresses hordes of slave workers. Jackson and O'Neill then join forces to help the said workers revolt against their oppressor.
CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1994)
Cast: Richard Kind, Leon Rippy, Kurt Russell, James Spader, Rae Allen, Viveca Lindfors
Director: Roland Emmerich
Producers: Dean Devlin, Ute Emmerich, Oliver Eberle, Mario Kassar, Joel B. Michaels, Ramsey Thomas
Screenwriters: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
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[@thetenthplanet_]

The fact that the gate activation itself, from the spinning ring all the way to the geyser explosion and subsequent vortex, were all created using practical effects makes this all the more amazing.

[@excelsior8682]

The fact that stargates are real technology is also amazing

[@beastbee0118]

@@excelsior8682 WHAT? Explain...

[@Pgoodso]

@@beastbee0118 The vertical "water" is still a computer animation, but the geyser and vortex are, instead of completely computer animated effects, real water vortexes created by shooting a jet engine into a well lit tank of water, and shooting the accompanying vortexes created from inside the water. The only real effect is to digitally remove the rest of the water and place it rotated onto the shots of the Stargate prop, but, technically, this could have been done with traditional cutting and optical processing techniques. As well, the effect of Daniel entering the gate for the first time, with the shot of his face coming out the other side of the "water" before being teleported, is again an almost entirely practical effect: simply a shot of James Spader being LOWERED into a pool of water run in reverse and rotated 90 degrees.

[@jhoncastro4652]

La 1era vez,

[@crystalhealing847]

The stargates are all connected and can only be activated by the consciousness of the right dna

[@atoz9743]

Call me crazy, but I consider this one of the classic movie scenes of all time.

[@QuelTipoSulTubo]

At oZ i agree

[@HansCent]

Hell yea!

[@tomwithey711]

Crazy, you're right.

[@Teddy_Bass]

At oZ Its up there with the best

[@Tigerman1138]

You’re right. It is a great scene.

[@Shadowkey392]

I am constantly impressed by how alike Michael Shanks and James Spader look.

[@NoOther1]

On the other side of a quantum mirror somewhere, is a universe where James Spader played Jackson throughout all of Stargate and Michael Shanks was on Boston Legal instead.

[@alterbr33d]

@@NoOther1 They should have had Spader as a cameo in Continuum. Instead of Daniel calling his double on the phone, they could have met, Shanks would be Daniel from the correct timeline and Spader could have played the Daniel that no one believes in the alternated timeline. Spader Daniel would have long messy hair and he'd be very disgruntled and emotional. Shanks Daniel would prove to him he is right, then Spader Daniel goes to the parlor to get cleaned up, they show the result on screen and switch his actor to Shanks and he says he feels much better now (that he's not Spader anymore) and then have Shanks play both Daniels from that point.

[@martinw1327]

Oh wow! How could I of missed this 😲

[@lawrence253]

SG1 had the better cast.

[@kelaarin]

From what I understand, Michael Shanks insisted on using the same haircut when they cast him.

[@SpaceMonke99]

The initial Stargate activation has to be one of my all time favourite special effects. Whoever decided to base the gate on water was a genius and I have always loved the thud as the unstable energy vortex settles into the event horizon with the whirlpool trailing behind it. This is one of few scenes that makes my jaw drop, without fail.

[@piotrd.4850]

Old school practical SFX and craftsmanship.

[@4Y4ZR]

He actually got fired for it.

[@commandercritic9036]

They should have kept the whirlpool behind the gate for the tv series

[@Pferdesalami]

@@4Y4ZR why?

[@Pferdesalami]

and considering the time, this cgi is soo good

[@kyrridas1573]

would've been a great throwback if, in SG-1, they showed one of the monitors still had two figures drawn in sharpie on it.

[@steliokontos3935]

Maybe in a world where a little bit of acetone and a paper towel does not exist. Would be ridiculous if they did not clean their monitor almost immediately.

[@kyrridas1573]

@@steliokontos3935 i mean, the base was pretty much immediately abandoned following the events of the movie. And the beginning of sg-1 starts with he military reoccupying the mountain. I doubt sending for a janitor was the first thing on anyones mind when apophis started shooting up the place

[@steliokontos3935]

The base wasn't abandoned immediately following the events of this scene though, was it? Maybe the guy isn't irritated by working on a monitor that some douchebag scribbled all over. You don't need to call a janitor to wipe down a screen.

[@davidkelly4210]

@@kyrridas1573 lol What? The mountain is NORAD HQ! They never abandoned the base, just that level. And not even, they still had people manning the gate room when Ra's bro showed up for revenge after all.

[@kyrridas1573]

@@davidkelly4210 thats true, i didnt mean to say the whole mountain, just the SGC. And yes there were soldiers there, but everything in the room was covered in dust and tarps. Not to mention, thr soldiers were playing cards and had never even seen the stargate before it activated. The area was clearly not being used or maintained. I think the soldiers were only there because they were off duty and went to hang out and play cards in some dusty old room where no one would notice them. Which just so happened to house the stargate. None of which is the point, really. I just think it would have been a fun reference/easter egg for the fans. Who cares if its 'realistic' that the screens wouldnt have been cleaned. Are you saying theres never been an inconsistency in all of stargate? Its really not a big deal

[@Pertev777]

The amount of enigmatic mystery and joy of discovery this movie radiate, is immense and unmatched

[@porpus99]

The legacy of Stargate is amazing. I mean, normally you get direct to tv movie adaptations of a tv series, or a television series that is a reboot of the whole storyline. Stargate broke the norm by doing a TV series based on a movie, and not only that it was actually a great show!

[@matthew8153]

porpus99 I actually like it better than Star Trek (except maybe for DS9, that show was phenomenal)

[@lewisvanatta]

@@matthew8153 If you will pardon the expression, "indeed". Star Trek had humans on top of the food chain in the Federation. In SG-1, humans almost ARE the food chain. Plus, I always liked Richard Dean Anderson's version of O'Neill; he may have made it to full bird colonel, but he *definitely* had an attitude....."Oh, for cryin out loud...."

[@Contevent]

@@matthew8153 As Sci Fi goes, I feel Star Trek is the gourmet restaurant where every meal is delicately succulent and offers you a great experience. But Stargate is the local diner where food is food, everybody laugh, the ambient music is cozy, and occasionally the chef surprises you with a spectacular meal you can enjoy with everyone.

[@adamcarreras-neal4697]

@@matthew8153 DS9 was Paramount shafting JMS for Babylon5

[@varisware]

Too bad the series started going into stupid directions later on and the humans suddenly had shitloads of crazy technology in their hands that they never use for anything special for some reason. For instance in that one episode where Sam rewires a replicator to make the team infinite food and for some reason they just use it one time instead of solving the global food crisis. :Dddd

[@Microman504]

The special effects still look so cool after all this time

[@CipherF171]

I was 8 years old when I saw it for the first time in the cinema and today I consider this film as my favorite of all time.

[@garryallloisui6783]

Oh oui moi aussi

[@germanicelt]

That must've been an impacting experience, like the same age when I saw E.T.

[@deffroadceltaiddcelticawak4150]

Same here I saw it in the cinema when I was 10 years old when it came out too. When Holywood still made decent thought provoking entertainment, sadly missed 😢

[@StevoDesign]

One of the best moments in sci-fi history

[@gigibluestockings5168]

Still get chills watching that 1st activation today as then.

[@jonwalton19]

The pencil is one of the best parts. It's ironic how there's tiny little things like that in a good movie that just make the scene

[@SardaukarSentinel]

I've always been impressed by the suspense building and the special effects of this particular scene, especially during this era of moviemaking. This part of the movie is quite impressing and always gets to me when they finally manage to open the Stargate to go through.

[@OmarCaccia]

The Stargate works like those old telephones where you make a call putting your finger in a wheel and making it rotate

[@glacyitefreez4929]

Rotary phone

[@nekogod]

Only this particular one does that, because it had no DHD and thus was powered and driven by human tech. The complete ones on other planets did not rotate. It's essentially a manual override for when no DHD is present.

[@insertcognomen]

@@nekogod how do you manually override the atlantis gates?

[@Tigerman1138]

They weren’t THAT long ago.

[@nickmastervlogs]

@@insertcognomen the Atlantian gates were more digital than the gates shown in SG1. These were rotatable with scanners on each side whereas the Atlantian ones were just, you push a button and it pops up where it belongs

[@JayJay-hi9do]

i saw this in the theater and you it cannot be overstated the ambiance of sitting in a huge dark room with theater quality audio when the gate opened. it gives me chills just remembering

[@sugarpoultry]

Such a great moment of the movie. Always gives me goosebumps. The tv show does it so often I thought it'd ruin the magic, but it didn't! This scene is still epic!!

[@wildmike85]

I remember i was like 10 years old i think when i first watched this. My dad bought this movie and it's been my favorite since. RIP dad. This definitely looked like it would've been cool to watch in theaters back then.

[@germanicelt]

Yeah it was. I was 21 and it seems like just a half dozen years ago.

[@ao2528]

Excellent movie, I watched many times and never get tired of.

[@emisthem6562]

I have never seen the beginning, only the last half hour or so XD

[@Chasmammoth]

@Ashutosh Rai Internet

[@truestopguardatruestop164]

There is also the series Stargate SG-1!!

[@CA1CWilliams]

yup! still gives me goose bumps every time!

[@emisthem6562]

2:09 is me right now

[@rochey1010]

I love the majesty of this movie. I think what works amazingly and memorably is the cinematography combined with how incredible the score is. They really captured the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh culture with a clever very realistic twist (ancient aliens) and i always come back and watch this simply because it's interesting and thrilling.

[@michaelskinner5006]

Bingo...

[@hycron1234]

Yep, still does.

[@YouKevo]

I still get chills down my back when the wormhole forms. Brilliant.

[@maggs131]

I get chills when I shove freezy pops up my fudge launcher 🥶

[@BreezyE.]

@@maggs131 sus

[@germanicelt]

@@maggs131 "fudge launcher" LOL. I never heard it put like that before.

[@jeremybk54]

i know when you watch the show(s) you see the gate open all the time yet seeing it in the movie just makes it feel more iconic

[@Mxyzptlksac]

I remember seeing this is the theatre. We were so taken back by it.

[@southlondon86]

Same. Incredible movie.

[@germanicelt]

I saw it in early '95 with a bunch of friends. It was like going on a great adventure.

[@MarcusHalberstramVP]

@@germanicelt Hey gramps.

[@Tigerman1138]

01:42 When that oscilloscope starts showing an energy buildup as the wormhole is being connected...the final part...a point of origin..almost like logging into system...you send out your login (chevrons 1-6), the system recognizes you, signals back to you to send your password 01:45 (chevron 7), the computer checks if your login/password match 01:50 and WELCOME Dr. Jackson!

[@argonwheatbelly637]

@Cory Bernhardt : Man-in-the-middle sent them to another TV series. ;-)

[@petroskoulouris3225]

One of the most rewatchable movie's from the 90s

[@BojackatronHorsemaniac]

I forgot how different the Gate worked in the movie compared to the series.

[@user-tp5yb4hr4w]

+God i think in the movie the puddle looked much better than in the tv series. and they used very basic techniques to make this look the way it did. i also remember the tv producers talk about this and they said the puddle that they used was simple to except they still had to use computer software to make it look properly.

[@MarcusSLazarus]

+God It's not that different; this was just an early stage when they didn't really know what they were doing, but they were able to refine their program later on to make it more efficient

[@PrimusProductions]

+God In the movie Abydos was "on the other side of the known universe" to Earth In the series Abydos's star system was one of the closest to us which was why they could connect to it without needing to compensate for universal inflation that occurred over the last thousands years the stargate was not used on Earth.

[@OrinokawaMizuki]

It's not really that different than SG-1 and its sequels. Only they later on added an Iris shield. Plus later on used all of the 9 Chevrons in StarGate: Universe. Only this movie is lacking… 'MacGyver'.

[@user-tp5yb4hr4w]

jack o'neill's role was much more serous in this movie.

[@PrimusProductions]

0:00 What is Lucius doing on Earth?

[@tk421tt]

First thing I spotted!!

[@AWriterWandering]

Omg, it never occurred to me that that's the same actor. 😮

[@Sheogg]

Who's lucius ?

[@o.s.2056]

@@Sheogg A character from StarGate Atlantis :) Appeared in 2 episodes if I recall correctly.

[@BeardedDanishViking]

@@Sheogg One of Richard Kinds more annoying characters.

[@geoffshaw8053]

wait a minute, they had 6 symbols already, couldn't they have just tried all the other symbols in sequence? How many are there about 50 symbols to try?

[@atoz9743]

LOL Smart scientists. --- "Continuity!!"

[@SammEater]

They didn't know about a seventh symbol, they basically just tried the 6 symbols they saw on the cover stones and stopped everytime it started shaking everything.

[@acerIII]

we're talking about a device that they don't nothing about, maybe they thought that with the wrong 7th symbol it would explode or something bad could happen. With unknown alien shit u don't "guess"

[@scoggins07]

SammEater the 7th symbol is the point of origin which is earth.

[@haskapaska]

"Let´s push some random 7th symbol and hope that we don´t create a black hole or something"

[@nobleman9393]

0:15 What is Lucius doing here? he should be in The Pegasus Galaxy.

[@nocturne6320]

Still one of the greatest scenes in sci-fi history

[@raymondbrereton3298]

A portal sucking into vortex.

[@roselemy491]

I still binge on the whole season from time to time, let's not forget Stargate Atlantis as well... still my favourite

[@TheFacelessStoryMaker]

For all the people talking about "why didn't they just try every symbol until they got the right seventh one?" Did you see the power surges that happened as they started locking the chevrons especially after the fifth and sixth? They probably did do a few trial and error attempts but didn't want to risk something permanently damaging the bases power generator(s).

[@wb1861]

They actually didn't even know it needed a seventh symbol to work. The original gate address on the cover stones was only six symbols together. Dr Jackson identified they were actually constellation coordinates and the need for a seventh symbol for coordinates in 3D space to work. He identified one outside of the address cartouche that they didn't even know they needed. She says this is as far as we've ever gotten with six programmed in. You even hear them say they are programming the computers to accept the seventh symbol. As far as they knew they only needed 6 because that's what was on the cover stones, why whatever it was wasn't working was a mystery until then.

[@SuStel]

@@wb1861 One wonders then why their computer program had space for seven chevrons. They MUST have suspected, since the Stargate has nine chevrons on it.

[@HighTierWitches]

Jackson in the movie: Looks nerdy ordinary guy Jackson in series: Hot Geek even Vala fell

[@darkerbit]

FitzP Official In the series Sha're probably wasn't the first ;)

[@davidkelly4210]

Oh, he was nerdy as hell. He didn't start being cool for years.

[@PerfectAlibi1]

He spend years on an alien world, that would change anyone... XD

[@GrandHighGamer]

Don't discount the incredible Spader impression Shanks did for the first season or so before adapting the character to more of his own. The casting swap there was seamless, unlike Oneil's complete 180 from suicidal hardass to joker with a tragic past.

[@adamcarreras-neal4697]

@@GrandHighGamer the O'Neil in the film had lost his son, same story as used in the series.

[@ManuelPabloArnao]

I love that they made television series out of these. I wish they would have done the same for Contact, 1997.

[@ryank5424]

When I first saw this it was one of the most original & interesting ideas I had seen in sci-fi.

[@germanicelt]

Then came The Matrix......

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Terrific movie. The soundtrack made it even greater!

[@ger5565]

It's hard to remember with all that has come since, but the excitement of seeing this for the first time at the theaters was insane. Goosebumps.

[@germanicelt]

I got goosebumps in the cinema when Daniel went through the stargate.

[@timh3576]

"This is as far as we've ever been able to get....". So..... they couldn't just use the process of elimination?

[@seroeth]

I'm sure I saw a documentary about a deleted scene where they tell Daniel they tried the wrong final symbol before and it badly damaged the previous base of operations.

[@timh3576]

@@seroeth That would explain it! Thanks :)

[@remnant24]

Watch the previous scene. Up until that moment they had thought there were only 6 symbols... so they wouldn't have thought to try a 7th one.

[@ThePathStrider]

@@seroeth That makes sense, considering they don't have a proper Dial Home Device, and the one they made doesn't have all the protocols and failsafes of the originals.

[@canyonerokay2932]

@@blawson3603 true and they did get a connection by chance before this when the lover of Catherine Langford went through the gate in the 40s, in the SG1 episode they find the tapes and go back to rescue him

[@mr.adventure0142]

Forget all the tv-series of them - THIS is the truly STARGATE was ever filmed.

[@winterrain1947]

Movies from the days when they were well made.

[@petermueller7407]

Stargate was big B-Movie that time

[@southlondon86]

@@petermueller7407 And it’s better than most A movies today. The irony.

[@leonkernan]

1:41 The gate actually stops half way between chevrons. and earlier Jackson calls stop before the symbol appears on screen!

[@bigbot1867]

Still the best gate activation animation out of all the series.

[@carlosrvra]

"It's like, a sideways flush." :D This is by far one of the best scenes in the movie, second only to Dr. Jackson walking into the room where all the scientists have been working on the translations forever and immediately correcting them. I wish more of the movie was at Stargate Command. Like... something goes wrong at the base so they're trying to fix it on the Earth end, while the SG-Prime team is trying to figure out how to get back on their end.

[@juanpaez6349]

The seventh symbol, the seventh seal. The best moment of the movie.

[@legendsoldier1366]

Old but gold.

[@robertgearhartii4710]

I remember when I got my first DVD player which was a RCA and a big boat anchor compared to today's systems. You sent in and this movie was free along with 4 other dvds you got sent to you.

[@heffalumptarkin1384]

It must have been nerve-racking for the scientists. They knew nothing about it, only that this is a gate to another place in space. But they didn't know anything more. What if the gate is only meant to be opened in space and the gravitation will disturb the process and it will explode? What if there comes out a giant wave of antimatter, spanning a kilometre and you have to stay apart from the gate when activating? Or a maelstrom that will suck everything in its proximity in? It's such a complex alien device, it could have happened anything. It could have had an automatic securitysystem that detects other aliens than the builders... And so on, and so on... Its like if the people from the 16th century discovered the Large Hadron Collider. They wouldn't know anything, only maybe that this accelerates something fast.

[@jeffjames4064]

All these years later and it is still cool

[@eduardonassaro5066]

Esse filme ainda hoje continua ótimo!!

[@paulvenkman]

Over 25 years later and those CGI FX look great!

[@KurtRichterCISSP]

It's so... so beautiful 😍😭 the beginning of one of the best sci-fi franchises of all time!

[@BroadHobbyProjects]

This looks so good, should make a TV series from it.

[@rollochairbreaker230]

Definitely, such a missed opportunity. Could have even brought a couple of the movie characters back.

[@Daedalus-BC308]

@@rollochairbreaker230 And imagine what the sequel series would be like!

[@ainako1010]

Agreed. I just hope they don't do something stupid like make a ray gun that disintegrates a person on the third shot. But other than that I can see a show like this going for 10 seasons.

[@RLDragonStrider]

Dude, there is like 3 series that came out.

[@nyakssj1370]

@@RLDragonStrider wooosshhh

[@nicolen.9642]

Beautiful... Rerun it anytime... Spader was so 😍😍😍😍

[@danclark1348]

I think Hollywood has a lot of Star gates. Each of their homes are gated. 😁

[@elizabethczepiel5220]

If only Catherine had known the Gate had been opened earlier as seen in SG1's Torment of Tantalus.

[@Greg-lo1tl]

Great episode if you like naked, skinny, deluded old guys, lol. But a good treatise on how isolation for many decades could affect the psyche.

[@Greg-lo1tl]

@@lampshade3123 I think you need sarcasm lessons.

[@TomalakGeretkal]

It's remarkable how authentic the show was to the design of the gate room, control room, computer systems....

[@wayfaringshaman]

Just started watching The Blacklist, and then I got nostalgic for this. Alright, it's time for my biyearly SG marathon now.

[@Elthenar]

No one knew it at the time but this scene would spawn nearly 20 years of TV and several movies.

[@kikesan1541]

Awesome moment from a great movie.

[@UrielX1212]

Great movie. I remember watching this for the first time as a kid. Wow what a experiance.

[@DanBen07]

At the the beginning the guy on the who right also played Lucius in Stargate Atlantis

[@nickwindu9476]

I think it actually is Lucius secretly working at SGC lol

[@TheOnceandFutureJake]

I'm glad they streamlined this process for SG-1. It would have been a nightmare to sit through this every time the gate needed activated. Lol

[@Greg-lo1tl]

In the series they could have, during each activation, interrupted with a title card over black which said "refer to film for longer, more elaborate start-up sequence".

[@Tigerman1138]

Sonic The Hedgehog says advanced species travel the universe using rings. 💫

[@StevoDesign]

I really wish they'd kept the whirlpool effect coming out the back, in the TV show. It really is a well conceived visualization of the wormholes. And pretty, to boot.

[@SilatSkiller]

thats LEGENDARY quotes,chevron one is locked in place :)

[@Elitesolider1023]

This is just as impactful from halo 3 portal to the ark screen just freaking amazing.

[@insomnia20422]

this is such an epic scene...

[@javierpulido9988]

For me this film is very entertaining because for a Saturday night is very good.

[@theSpartan187]

I love how they explain the shaking later on in the show

[@esterbalbi4558]

a masterpiece!!

[@AWriterWandering]

I just noticed that the technician called it “the gate”, which is interesting since it was Jackson who provided that part of the translation. Up until that point there were calling it a “door to heaven”.

[@marktahu2932]

don't forget Jackson did that 2 weeks earlier.

[@inakiaraluze4528]

I have to rewatch this film.

[@skarmex3439]

1:53 is the moment that changed the course of my entire life forever.

[@Penfold101]

0:54 I want to know what she wrote on that pad. "Chevron 2 is holding!" Just let me tick that off my list...

[@GogaPartizan]

That was a to do list. 1 - Try to take Daniel's number - X 2 - Say out loud what's going on for people to know you're working hard - V 3 - Begin announcing that the shevrons are holding and locking succesfully - V 4 - Do not drink today - ...

[@mariusbrabus]

2:05 And in his head, he's going "I had strings, but now i'm free... there are... no strings on meeeee"........

[@scarabe087]

This is one of my favorite movie, thanks to this movie now one of my all time favorite series TV is stargate sg1

[@Arcilios]

GOOSEBUMPS EVERY TIME BRO

[@ducknorris233]

Would have been funny if they cut to the guy with the pencil and he was furiously cleaning his screen oblivious to the star gat being activated.

[@Tantalus010]

I love this movie, but the way they made the stargate work is so wrong on so many levels. Just using constellations to designate addresses alone is an unworkable idea from an engineering standpoint. Even if you ignore all the other problems with it, it means that no single stargate ever has just one address: it would have a different address depending on where you were dialing from because different solar systems would have different constellations than Earth. That makes dialing places needlessly complicated when you could instead just assign each stargate a unique address using letters and numbers, and then simply always dial that address no matter where you are.

[@Duragizer8775]

_SG-1_ made it even more nonsensical, having every stargate in a galaxy sharing the exact same coordinate glyphs. If _Stargate_ ever receives a reboot, I hope they finally fix this.

[@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496]

i never realized how much better the movie effect looked as opposed to the series version. thats great film trickery !

[@miccrhaafetl5101]

0:14 Call me a 5-year-old. But every time I see this, I laugh.

[@zhou_sei]

lol same

[@BYERE]

Something still confuses me... Cathrine says, once the 6th Chevron locked, that it was the furthest they’d ever gotten. They had the cartouche showing the Abydos address, thus the first 6 symbols. They spent 2 years trying to figure it out... on a dialling sequence that takes a few minutes. Had none of them thought of using Trial & Error? There are 38 symbols on the Earth/Milky Way stargates. Remove the choice of 6 of them (the first 6 symbols/Abydos address), and you’re left with 32 choices to run through. Say, at that point, it took them 10 minutes to run the dial program. That’s 320 minutes, or just over 5 hours, to try all possible combinations. Sure, if you want to say that they didn’t want to shake the whole base apart by doing it consecutively, you could do it one attempt a day, with general and structural repairs being made in-between each attempt. That’s still just over a month to do it (assuming they don’t activate it much sooner by randomly selecting the correct symbol) Why the hell did it take them 2 years, and the help of an archaeologist, to figure that out?

[@j.calvert3361]

Because it's a movie....

[@BYERE]

@@j.calvert3361 Yea, I know... but it's still stupid to have taken so long...

[@Tantalus010]

They didn't know they needed a seventh symbol. The cartouche only showed six symbols and the stargate itself has nine chevrons (the seven we can see plus two under the ramp which can be seen on the computer screen as each chevron is locked). Plus, when messing with alien technology that you don't understand, trial and error is not a good idea. For all they know, inputting an incorrect symbol could trigger a self-destruct security measure.

[@ainako1010]

It's for suspense. But correct. Daniel should've uncovered all 7 symbols for the Abydos address rather than they already had 6 symbols. Then Catherine's line would be correct. Because up until Daniel they should've input 7 random symbols. Of course in the TV show the did manage to open the gate for Ernest? I think he name was.

[@BYERE]

@@ainako1010 The computer screen when they're inputting symbols has 7 slots on it, so they must have known it would require 7 symbols before Jackson was brought onboard (because they'd been testing it out for 2 years)... so I don't see why they wouldn't have used trial-and-error to work it out. As for opening the gate for Ernest, that one is understandable, as aside the gate not having power (they needed to attach a lightning rod to it to power it with the storm that was going on), Ernest had no understanding what the symbols meant... and even if he could have dialled it, he'd have no idea what the address for Earth was, especially the 7th chevron.

[@blah979]

Where to put our control room? I know, right infront of the giant wormhole making machine.

[@byzantios2533]

When i activate those cairn stones portal in act 1 in Diablo 2, it always reminds me of stargate's portal activation :D

[@kevinwaag9976]

that movie is and will remain of the greatest masterpiece in cinema!

[@malikovajana]

aaaaaarg....I LOVE Stargate so much.

[@mrloverman2.0]

0:15 isn't that the guy that drug the entire village and the entire Atlantis Expedition?

[@Daniel-tr6qo]

Yes, but he didn't reprise his role from the movie

[@KGB95140]

@@Daniel-tr6qo Funnier with his energy shield than his role in the movie :))))

[@ericjames2417]

I really really like this movie. I have seen this so many times and never got tired watching.

[@matthew8153]

Eric James Same for the show

[@Glycenide]

Blown away by this when I saw it in the theater.

[@matthew4031]

Love this freaking movie!

[@sawauchiken]

I prefer this kawoosh to the series one

[@AWriterWandering]

If I recall correctly, the original movie effect was done practically. They took a pool of water and blew it up with high pressure air. In contrast, in series effect is CGI.

[@VirgilCore]

@@AWriterWandering isnt it the other way around?

[@generalilbis]

@@VirgilCore No...CGI existed but it was fairly rare in 1994, so practical effects were the norm. By the time of the series in 1997, the tech had come down in price and they could afford CGI 'flushes' for the odd big episode. And the tech evolved enough from there that it could happen more and with greater detail in later seasons and other series.

[@JRexRegis]

@@VirgilCore The series kawoosh was definitely not CGI (CGI in the late 90's/early 2000's was garbage). Most of the effects in the series were practical. The only true CGI were hyperdrive windows, _some_ spaceship shots, muzzle flashes on their guns and bullets hitting Jaffa armor. I know for a fact that the kawoosh was a practical effect, though - edited into the gateroom of course, but not CGI by itself.

[@Loosehead]

Had shivers when I saw this scene in the cinema for the first time. Just the thought that it might be true...

[@calipdis2]

Those state of the art graphic charts for 1994... impressive :3

[@emisthem6562]

I cannot believe this is a thing in Minecraft now... THANK YOU MOD CREATORS!

[@MerlynCooper]

Wait a minute, That's Richard Kind, he's Lucius in Stargate: Atlantis!

[@AgentExeider]

As someone who saw this in the theaters, yes it does sound as amazing as you think it would be. I just wish the IMAX audio was around when I saw this, and made me FEEL the gate's power.

[@cyberstar251]

god i remember seeing this movie long ago, but by 94 i was only 2 so i saw it much later, i think it was on vhs.

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

I much prefer this dialling sequence and having the symbols engraved rather than them being raised.

[@jamestoyn9755]

From the stargate movie when we saw for the first time the Activation of the Stargate as you see in this clip from the stargate movie i wonder why the Chevron's didn't light up when the gate found the symbols like it does on stargate sg1.

[@user-px7kx2gp1b]

I wonder the same. All SG series have the chevrons lit up when it is "engaged"

[@The2ndQuest]

Different creative team behind the series- they changed several details from the movie to better facilitate a TV series. The film version was likely meant to evoke being made of stone / ancient egypt (and having glowing lights on it would make it feel more contemporary (or advanced) technology) whereas the TV series needed a visual way of conveying to the viewer how many chevrons had been dialed into a gate without requiring a computer display or countdown dialogue in offworld situations every time. Other changes included (but are not limited to) having the dialed symbol locked into each chevron directly (whereas the series has all symbols locked into the top chevron before being assigned to a chevron's light)- likely to make the prop easier to build, film and operate (it was also made partially unnecessary by the addition of the lights) as well as reuse stock footage of. The symbols themselves were also carved into the gate in the film (likely to further the "made of stone" idea) compared to the raised symbols in the series (likely to make it easier for them to swap out new symbols when required). The removal of the swirl at the rear of the gate was also probably both an FX (one less thing to composite into a shot) and set construction (don't have to build every set with a big space behind the gate to accommodate the presence of the swirl) consideration.

[@AWriterWandering]

I imagine there were two reasons for changing it: to simplify the mechanism a bit (the original chevrons used pneumatic pumps to move them), and to make it more visible on-screen.

[@ZulianSilva19]

Parabéns pelo Vídeo! sou Fã destes Filmes e Seriados ( STAR GATE ) Show!!!!!!!.......

[@juangordillo7743]

even today.. this movie ecene was AMAZING!!! for me.

[@anthonytobias620]

Only the wise and worthy will open the Gate