It’s about time we revisit the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon to see if the trio’s findings hold up. We now have a massive database of movies and vastly more powerful computers to look at this problem. It’s been over two decades since the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was invented. Apparently, the same rules apply to actor collaboration networks. Interestingly enough, the trio had stumbled across one of the first examples of the small-world phenomenon: Because everyone is so widely connected in modern times, we’re connected to every other human in the world by no more than 6 links of mutual friends.
#KEVIN BACON SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION MOVIE#
This game is now widely known as the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - named so because the Albright College trio had found that no actor is more than 6 shared movie appearances (“degrees”) away from indirectly collaborating with Kevin Bacon.
#KEVIN BACON SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION SERIES#
Players may ponder: What series of films do you think Emma Watson and Kevin Bacon are linked through? You may be surprised: John Cleese links Watson with Bacon directly, leaving Watson with a “Bacon number” of 2 (the number of shared movie appearances linking Watson and Bacon). What began as an inside joke quickly spread across the nation and became a popular parlor game. It didn’t take long for the trio to turn their interest into a game, trying to link every actor to Kevin Bacon through a series of shared movie appearances. Intrigued by the coincidence, the students started counting how many films Kevin Bacon had acted in and speculating how many actors he had appeared on film with. By pure coincidence, the next movie that came on the television was The Air Up There, another popular film starring Kevin Bacon. In early 1994, three Albright College students were watching Footloose during a heavy snowstorm.
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