<P> years million in sky this Ra as Aten (= sun disk) sealed buried forever eternity door his to stars </P> <P> million years into the sky is Ra Sun God sealed and buried for all time his Stargate </P> <P> The film in its original cut plays out in chronological order, but when Devlin and Emmerich edited the film in the director's cut to tighten the narrative, they decided to change the first scene of the film into a flashback to show who the human host of Ra was before the aliens took him . Only Davidson's upper torso was filmed because Davidson had refused to take out his nipple rings . The first scene was a combination of model shots and a set in Yuma, Arizona where Rambo III had been filmed . The scene of the excavation of the Stargate was also filmed in three days in Arizona . A golden look was achieved by filming near the time of sunset . To keep within the limit of the budget, the producers put stick figures with cloth in the distant desert to appear as humans . The original Stargate was painted black, but it looked like a giant tire so it was repainted silver at the last moment . </P> <P> Daniel Jackson's lecture on his theories was filmed in a hotel in Los Angeles . The scene was originally much longer and delved more into the theories that aliens had built the Egyptian pyramids, but the scene was trimmed for time concerns for the release . The scenes with O'Neil at his house were the first scenes filmed with Kurt Russell; his hair was cut short afterwards . Russell requested his hair color to be brightened a little for the film . The fictional facility housing the Stargate was the largest set for the film, located in Long Beach, California . Egyptologist Stuart Tyson Smith joined production to make all Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and spoken language as accurate as possible . </P>

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