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| | The Tech - Movie Review: The Prince of Egypt |
 | | This story, about a young prince who is exiled after a tragic incident, tries to rebuild his life away from home, and then triumphantly returns, reborn as a true leader, is not made by Disney, and should not be called The Zion King. |
 | | Seriously speaking, and ignoring for the moment all the Disney/DreamWorks rivalry (Prince is a brainchild of ex-mousekeeter Jeffrey Katzenberg, who became the head cheese at DreamWorks), this film declares its intentions from the opening screen with the disclaimer about faithfulness to the spirit rather then the letter of the Biblical source. |
 | | Ultimately, however, the differences don't matter, since The Prince of Egypt works best when it's the simplest when it is merely a tale of two brothers (here, foster brothers), pharaoh-to-be Rameses (voiced by Ralph Fiennes) and prophet-to-be Moses (Val Kilmer). |
| www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N65/egypt.65a.html (764 words) |
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