About The Film
The Story
Alex the Pretty Good is a darkly comedic, surreal encounter between obscurity and legend.
Alex, a lowly peasant presumed dead by his own family, stumbles out of a corpse heap and wanders into the woods questioning his worth and place in the world. His path unexpectedly crosses with Alexander the Great, the most powerful man alive, who has momentarily stepped away from his traveling caravan.
Despite their vastly different stations in life, the two form an uneasy, often humorous connection. Through sharp banter and philosophical sparring, Alex voices the bitterness of being forgotten, while Alexander reveals the crushing weight of legacy, conquest, and expectation. Each man envies what the other represents: freedom from responsibility versus a life that actually matters. Their brief meeting becomes a collision of perspectives on greatness, anonymity, and what it means to be remembered. As forces beyond the woods begin to close in, Alex is left facing consequences far larger than anything he ever imagined. Blending absurdist humor with mythic introspection, Alex the Pretty Good examines how identity is shaped not just by who we are, but by the roles the world insists we play.
Why this
Story?
The Purpose
Firstly, as a thesis, this film serves as both a learning process and a statement of intent. The intent here is to examine the “meta-story”. As young filmmakers, success weighs heavily on our minds. As we wrestle with questions such as "am I doing the right thing?”, “how can I make my family proud?”, “do I have it in me to be successful?”, insecurity in identity and ability starts to seep in. Through the development and motion of this project, we will inevitably be asking these questions, so why not be working on a film that invites us to?