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Weirdly enough, when Pen posed this topic, it never occurred to me to think about a male character. Instead, I thought about which movie I'd spent the most time watching and re-watching. It might be a tough call - there might a few hard on its heels, like Bridget Jones's Diary and Singin' in the Rain - but Anne of Green Gables and its sequel Anne of Avonlea probably top the list of minutes-per-capita. I even remember at one point, my friend Sarah and I tried to go a whole year without watching it and just couldn't bear it.

And though Anne was a literary character before she graced the screen, Megan Follows brought her to life. When I was little, I thought she was the absolute embodiment of Anne. And since I thought I was the embodiment of Anne myself, I fell in love with the movie. We were both writers, prone to getting lost in our imagination, slightly bookish and never the pretty one. We both harbored secret insecurities and covered them up with wit and cleverness. She's one of the first people I remember wanting to be. So even though it's a bit 10-year-old-girl of me, I have to say Anne Shirley tops my list of favorite movie characters - and is possibly the reason that I know most of "The Highwayman" by heart.