Even if you don’t want to admit it, at one point or another you wanted to be in a movie. Whether you are an extra who sits in the crowd at a football game or the lead role, it would be cool to see your name in the end credits. While I personally have never had the chance to experience this, one of my roommates was chosen to be an extra in the movie Freedom Park.
Cast as “Basketball Player #4”, she got her name into the credits of this very low budget movie shot in her hometown. The International Movie Database (IMDB) has created a page for every person ever to appear in the credits of a film, so my friend naturally has one for herself. Seeing as though this film only made $275,000, I assumed that it would take more than six degrees to get from my friend to Kevin Bacon. Using oracleofbacon.org I was surprised to find out that there are only three degrees (Bacon number of 3) separating my friend from Mr. Bacon.
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Even though an exercise analyzing the relationships between “actors” may seem like it has no application to our lives, it shows just how wide our influence actually reaches. It has been found that you affect people up to three degrees away from you and even if you only have a small group of friends, that group is extremely magnified once you look at the people they are tied to and their friends beyond that. Celebrities seem to be very separated from the rest of the world, but since my roommate is only three steps away from Kevin Bacon, maybe someday she will do something that impacts him.
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