Sure, but what's the Basis Set movie? If you only had one actor in a movie, and you wanted to have the most connectedness in it, you'd choose Sam Jackson right now. (The one from Pulp Fiction, not the one from Ted.)
But what if you could have TWO actors in a movie? Would Sam Jackson (again, the one from Jurassic Park, not the lawyer) still be one of them? Or is it possible that in aggregate, there are two actors who would achieve a better connectedness than Sam Jackson (the one from The Long Kiss Goodnight, not the one who was in Veronica Mars) plus one of those actors?
What if you could have THREE actors in a movie?
Or what about, who is the perfect sidekick for Sam Jackson (stop asking, yes, of course I mean the one with the purple lightsaber, not the one from In Time)? Who, if you add them to a Sam Jackson (the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., not the Mean Girl) movie, gives them the most aggregate connectedness?
Enquiring minds want to know!
Also, who's the Kevin Bacon of Bollywood?
Margin Call is a pretty good candidate, considering how tight its cast is.
Edit: come to think of it, if you want a big cast of the most highly-connected actors, you'd probably pick Cradle Will Rock from back in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_Will_Rock
A ridiculously great film you should see, about everything that matters, all in one modestly history-distorting bonkers movie, with some songs and some cracking dialogue:
I'm putting my money on either Scott Pilgrim or The Big Short.
If you count the random cut-ins, maybe.
I feel like A Few Good Men would do really well.
> Also, who's the Kevin Bacon of Bollywood?
Almost certainly Shah Rukh Khan.
The thing about Kevin Bacon is he's b list yet still highly connected.
Shah Ruh Khan is more like George Clooney or something.
Kevin Bacon is objectively an A-list actor.
Most he ever made for a film was $6M and vast majority of films were $1M or less.
> B-List: Highly successful, dependable actors who frequently star in popular television series or play vital supporting/co-leading roles in major films, but rarely headline a massive blockbuster entirely on their own. Examples: Cult favorites, popular TV leads, or emerging block-buster stars.
I mean. Footloose. But his list of stinkers is so epic it overshadows his peak movies. His career is an iceberg, with only the tiniest but showing above the popularity line.
I would say that the logical drop-in replacement is Aamir Khan.
It was probably Amitabh Bachchan at one point, right?
I seem to recall that Mystic River was ridiculously highly connected in the Oracle of Bacon database at about the time that that film came out in 2003.