Editing Stargate (film) (section)

==Music==
{{Main|Stargate (soundtrack)}}
The [[Film score|film's score]] was composed by [[David Arnold]], played by the [[Sinfonia of London]] and conducted by Nicholas Dodd.<ref name="sol">{{cite web |url=http://www.sinfonia-of-london.com/ |title=Stargate soundtrack |website=SynfoniaOfLondon.com |access-date=April 3, 2009 |archive-date=June 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608094305/http://www.sinfonia-of-london.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was the second motion picture score that Arnold had composed and his first major one. At the time of production, Arnold had recently started to work in a local video store in London. Once hired, he spent several months in a hotel room working on the soundtrack, spending more time rewriting the music and improving it, during delays due to film companies trying to get the rights to distribution.<ref name="da">{{cite web |first=David |last=Arnold |url=http://www.davidarnold.com |title=History - 1994 |website=DavidArnold.com |access-date=September 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116020402/http://www.davidarnold.com/ |archive-date=November 16, 2006 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> According to Arnold, "when I first read the script for Stargate, I knew what approach to take, which was to be as big and bold as possible," saying: "Every time there was an amazing sight, the characters would stand back and say, 'Oh my God!' But James would just smile and walk towards it. That was the basis for the Stargate score, moving forward with a sense of majesty instead of being frightened by what's around the corner."<ref name="starscore">{{cite magazine|first=Kerry J.|last=Byrnes|url=http://filmscoremonthly.com/features/timetravel1.asp|title=Stargate - David Arnold|magazine=Film Score Monthly|access-date=April 3, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106045733/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/features/timetravel1.asp|archive-date=January 6, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref>