pittsburghmuggle
Pittsburghmuggle
Since: Jan, 2010
Feb 8th 2011 at 5:09:53 PM
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I'm working on distilling this movie page to clear out a lot of references to the TV series that first-time viewers would be confused by - for example, the planet in this movie is unnnamed, and is only named "Abydos" in the TV series.
"Freedom is not a license for chaos" -Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
169.231.39.161
Since: Dec, 1969
Aug 19th 2010 at 3:57:16 PM
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You know, the archaeologist who helped the movie people put in accurate ancient egyptian dialogue for the movie is a professor at this troper's college (UC Santa Barbara). He gave a presentation about it, and then tricked us into saying dirty phrases in ancient egyptian... twice.
He also helped with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, apparently.
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berr
Since: Jan, 2001
The list of tropes on this page names "eye of Horus means ancient Egypt" as a trope depicted in the film, but there are a few reasons this may not actually qualify. For one, as the description admits, it isn't recognised on-screen as being the eye of Horus, but rather the eye of Ra. The description suggests that this is a misattribution or mistake, but I'm not so sure - the two symbols are nearly identical (the only difference being the orientation and coloufilling of the pupil), and so the on-screen example may well be the eye of Ra. On another matter, it in no way informs the characters of an ancient Egyptian connection - they are already very aware of said connection given the discovery of the titular stargate in an Egyptian tomb, Egyptian hieroglyphics on the artifact, and the pyramid on Abydos - rather, the inscription notified the characters of a connection to Ra in particular. I think it ought to be removed from the list. Is there a recognised channel through which this ought to be accomplished?