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Alex Frost as Alex, the more intelligent of the two killers, implied to be the one in charge. He is an accomplished but frustrated pianist and sketch artist. He and Eric kiss before the massacre, both citing the fact that they had never been kissed.
Elephant: Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Elias McConnell. Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
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- 2003-11-14
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Alex is the main protagonist of the 2003 drama film Elephant, a fictionalized retelling of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
He was portrayed by Alex Frost, who also portrayed Terry Filkins in Drillbit Taylor.
Alex is a student at Watt High School. He is a typical “quiet boy” who is bullied very often. One day, he orders guns online, and once he receives them, he makes a plan with his friend Eric to bomb the school and shoot and kill all the survivors. He makes out with Eric in the shower, the first and only kiss either has ever had, and they head off to school to carry out their plan. As they enter the school, Alex warns the one classmate he can stand to leave, and then tells Eric to "have fun".
When they fail to detonate their bombs, they go with plan B, which is to simply shoot everyone in sight. They enter a library and gun down as many people as they can before moving on to the rest of the school and continuing their massacre. Alex and Eric meet in the cafeteria, and while Eric is in the middle of listing all the people he killed, Alex shoots him and finds two other students hiding in a freezer. He sadistically chooses which student to kill through a game of "eenie meenie miney mo", and the movie ends before we find out which person he kills.
Alex is a psychopath who takes sadistic pleasure in inflicting pain. While he claims to want to kill his classmates because they bully him, he really just wants to kill for the sake of killing, and to kill as many people as he can. He admires Adolf Hitler, and watches videos of Nazi rallies, and possibly both neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan videos.
Despite being a victim of bullies, Alex is a bully himself, dominating the less intelligent Eric; it is implied that the massacre was Alex's idea, and that he manipulated Eric into going along. It is also left ambiguous whether he makes out with Eric because he has genuine feelings for him, or simply to use sex as another means of controlling and dominating him.
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Oct 24, 2023 · Alex Frost in “Elephant.” Scott Green/HBO Films. By Carlos Aguilar. Oct. 24, 2023. For a long time, after each new mass shooting, the actor Alex Frost would guiltily ponder whether the first...
Actor: Elephant. Alexander Robert Frost is an American actor best known for his roles in Elephant and Drillbit Taylor. Frost was born in Portland, Oregon.
- January 1, 1
- 1.78 m
- Portland, Oregon, USA
Frost had a starring role in Gus Van Sant's 2003 film Elephant, in which he played a high school student who commits a school shooting. [1] The film was set in Frost's hometown of Portland, Oregon, with the director avoiding Hollywood actors in order to find real local teenagers. [2]
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Apr 10, 2019 · Eric Deulen and Alex Frost in Gus Van Sant's 'ELEPHANT' (2003) Fine Line Cinema/HBO. April 20th marks the 20th anniversary of the day that two young men killed 13 people at Columbine High...
