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Alright you probably know how the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game works, but here's a quick explanation anyways. You take two actors/actresses and have to connect them via movies and other actors in less than six moves, for example: Angelina Jolie to Clint Eastwood in three moves.

Angelina Jolie in the Bone Collector with Denzel Washington.
Denzel Washington in Crimson Tide with Gene Hackman.
Gene Hackman in either Unforgiven or Absolute Power with Clint Eastwood.

Now for the first one I'll start off easy the person who answers gives the next two actors.

Geoffrey Rush to Vincent Price without saying they played in the same role.
 

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Re: six degrees game

Easy.
Rush to Depp through Pirates
Depp was edward scissorhands and vincent price was the guy who made him.

How bout Robert Downey Jr. to Jay Mohr.
 
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Told ya it was an easy one.

Robert Downey JR. to Eddie Murphy in Bowfinger.
Eddie Murphy to Jay Mohr in The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

George Zucco to Shia LaBoeuf
 

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haha nice, especially since he had such a small part in bowfinger.

George Zucco to Ida Lupino - Sherlock Holmes- though I enjoyed Cushing more than Rathbone
Ida Lupino to Peter Falk through Columbo: Short Fuse
Peter Falk to Vince Vaughn in Made, which I practically consider Swingers 2
Vince to Billy Bob Thornton from South of Heaven, West of Hell
And Billy to Shia in Eagle Eye.


I kept forgetting which end I was coming from as I was counting through my mind and I kept working through characters in my mind from Peter Falk films, and remember a bunch of the same guys but never connected it to shia. Like, I liked great white hype, which I knew peter berg was in, who was in corky romano with peter, also vaughn was in Jurassic Park 2: Lost world as one of the guys helping out goldblum, who was also in great white hype. Shit like that had my mind in circles for hours.

I think the trick isn't movie gaps, it's finding people who were in practically nothing
For instance, Peter Hinwood and Bradley James Allan.
In case you're wondering, peter was Rocky from Rocky Horror Picture Show who practically didn't do any other films and BJ Allan is a member of the Jackie Chan stunt team who never planned in being movies farther than stunts and still wants nothing more than being in stunts but still got parts by surprise.
 

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I didn't know whether or not it was actually possible when I posted it, but I found it can be done in 3, technically 4.
 
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Okay that was actually not that hard. Though I have to admit I started making it harder than it should have been, over-analyzing I guess.

Peter Hinwood-Rocky Horror Picture Show-Tim Curry
Tim Curry-Charlie's Angels-Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu-Shanghai Noon-Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan-Mr. Nice Guy-Bradley James Allen

I honestly don't usually know how hard one will be, I usually pick at random to be honest. The best way to stump people is to take the route of the little seen actor, like you said.


Adriane Lenox to Kevin McDonald
 

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Lennox to Jason Lee through Alvin and the Chipmunks
Jason Lee to Stan Lee through Mall Rats
Lee to Bruce Campbell Spiderman
Campbell to Mcdonald in Sky High which are the two greatest characters in that movie. Me and my brothers watch that movie just for them paired together. That and Kurt's few moments. All in all, I loved Dave Foley but the fall from KitH seems poor for him.

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I decided to change it cuz I'm not sure if the last was possible, and I'm too tired to check
David Della Rocco to Ricco Ross
 
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Re: six degrees game

We've got a game like this on the other forum I'm on, though I don't think we have a six film limit. My problem is I don't recognize names half the time, and thus need IMDb, which is pretty much, well, cheating *laughs* (though I will use it for confirmation ocassionally.)
 

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Usually, I just need a image of one of the people. I am a complete movie whore spanning across generations cuz my dads a movie buff himself. Like I didn't know who that lennox girl was by name, but luckily, I was unfortunate enough to see alvin and the chipmunks and then the rest was easy.

If you feel like imdb is cheating, look up an image on google or something. I purposely chose characters who weren't in many movies for this, so if you need a clue, pretty much the only movie david rocco is in is Boondock Saints cuz that character is pretty much based on himself in real life. Also it's a fucking excellent movie. I pre-did the degrees in this one so I know how it's possible.
 
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Yes it's definately an excellent movie, but it's always easier when you have that one big actor in this case Willem DaFoe. So wait Copper you play this game only you can use more than six moves. Wouldn't that make it too easy. I'll occasionally use IMDB or look for a picture for some little known actors, but for some reason I've got a great memory when it comes to these things.

David Della Rocco played in The Boondock Saints with Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe played in Wild at Heart with Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton played in Escape from New York with Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine played in The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission with Ricco Ross

Angus Scrimm to Octavia Spencer
 
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Damn, I was hoping you'd get to Ross through Aliens, heh.
I'll have to do this tomorrow, the name sounds familiar but I can't get a sense of what Octavius looks like so I'm to bed for now.
 
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That should be Octavia Spencer, I wouldn't have caught that if you hadn't said something. Only been in one movie as far as I know and that was Pulse.
 

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Oh! Ok, gotcha now. Octavius sounds male so that completely screwed me over. I kept mentally imaging Alfred Molina, hehe.

Still going to sleep.
 

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Well, we might be limited to six steps, but then, we get some freaking obscure connections sometimes, too, and it's necessary to go over six. I haven't played in a while, either. There's another one we have that's similar and it's more connecting the dots in movies ('Uno' I think they're calling it now) You pick a person, name a movie they were in, then name another person in the movie. Then the next person picks someone else from that movie, a movie that person was in, and then another actor. (Ex: Angelina Jolie - Bone collector - Denzel Washington - Fallen - John Goodman, etc etc)

As for the current puzzle, I got nothing.
 
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So did you guy's give up, because I haven't actually tried it yet. If you are I'll give it a try.
 

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Wow, completely went over my head. Busy weekend. I'll think about it tomorrow
 

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Scrimm to Robert Englund through Wishmaster
Englund to Joshua Jackson through Urban Legend
Joshua Jackson to Kristen Bell through Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Bell to Spencer in Pulse
 
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Good, but you forgot a little something.
 

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Yeah, sorry I was in a rush. I had people over.

Paul Giamatti and Patton Oswald
 
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Paul Giamatti played in Safe Men with Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn played in Sahara with Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey played in Failure to Launch with Patton Oswalt.

David Bowie to Steven Parrish
 
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