Six Degrees of Assassination
Oct 5, 2007 9:48:20 GMT -5
Post by Stu on Oct 5, 2007 9:48:20 GMT -5
Just an idea, that might not work as well as the regular version of the game. But the idea is that it's basically the Kevin Bacon game, but instead of just being in a movie with the other person, their character has to have killed the other person's character. The kills have to be more less by direct involvement (ie you can't use the end of Godfather 2 for Al Pacino because Michael only gave an order. He didn't carry it out), though not necessarilly intentionally (ie running someone over by accident counts). If dealing with multiple actors playing the same character in one movie (to account for different ages), then any of the actors counts, as long as it's just the one movie (ie in Halloween, whoever played adult Michael can still get credit for the kills by younger Michael at the start of the movie, but you can't say Mila Kunis killed Christian Bale in American Psycho 2, because Bale didn't play Patrick Bateman in this sub-par sequel). If a killed character comes back to life, it still counts (ie resuscitation from drowning, coming back as zombies, vampires killing someone who comes back as a vampire too, a kill being prevented by time travel), but within the story at the time, it has to have actually happened (if one character dreams or imagines killing someone else, it doesn't count). Since this could be pretty spoilerish for some movies, put in brackets beforehand which movies you mention. Oh, and when you come up with a pair of actors to link, make sure the first one has definitely killed someone in character and the second has been killed in character (so you can't do "Dakota Fanning to um...someone who hasn't played a dead character in a movie").
So for instance. Here's how you'd do Jean Reno to Sean Bean
(Leon, True Romance, Shaft, Equilibrium)
Jean Reno killed Gary Oldman in Leon
Oldman killed Samuel L. Jackson in True Romance
Sam Jackson killed Christian Bale in Shaft
Bale killed Sean Bean in Equilibrium.
So for instance. Here's how you'd do Jean Reno to Sean Bean
(Leon, True Romance, Shaft, Equilibrium)
Jean Reno killed Gary Oldman in Leon
Oldman killed Samuel L. Jackson in True Romance
Sam Jackson killed Christian Bale in Shaft
Bale killed Sean Bean in Equilibrium.