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Androgyny | Egypt
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Best Science Fiction Film | 1995
1995
1995 | David
Best Film | 1995 | Roland
Best Dramatic Presentation | 1995 | Dean
Best Sound Editing Sound Effects Foley Domestic Feature Film | 1995 | Mark R. La
Best Visual Effects | 1994
Budget 55,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 196,567,262 USD
The early pre-release screenings of the movie were disastrous. The percentage of the audience who liked the movie fell into the mid-30s, and executive producer Mario Kassar realized the main problem was that the plot made zero sense. His solution: have the Ra character's dialogue subtitled, and made into information that presented a clear storyline. When these changes were made, the subsequent test screenings produced an overwhelming majority of positive reviews, and this carried the movie into becoming one of the surprise hits of fall 1994.
Ra's glowing-eye effect was added in post-production, because test audiences didn't think that he was alien enough. This trait was continued in Stargate SG-1 (1997), as an identifier to people who are taken over by the Goa'uld.
James Spader admitted that he did the film for the money, as he found the script to be awful. He said, "Acting, for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some f****** money."
Jaye Davidson's dislike of the attention that he received after The Crying Game (1992) made him reluctant to take the role of Ra in Stargate (1994). He didn't want to just turn the offer down, so he made what he expected to be an unacceptable demand of $1 million. This was accepted, and he appeared.
According to the DVD commentary, the group of scantily-clad youths surrounding Ra were intentionally included to create unease in the audience.
"Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil: Give my regards to King Tut, asshole."
"Dr. Daniel Jackson: [to Colonel O'Neil] I don't want to die. And your men don't want to die, and these people certainly don't wan to to die. It's a shame you're in such a hurry to."
