This project was super-fun: Flavorwire editor Jason Bailey reached out to me to participate in the Flavorwire Best Movie Characters List, as a kind of “retort” to a ridiculous recent list run by Empire. Other writers participated: Jason, the great Nathan Rabin, and two Flavorwire writers, Alison Nastasi, and Judy Berman. Each of us had to submit a list of 20 characters. Jason then whittled each of our lists down to 10. We wrote a little paragraph for each of our final choices, and then Jason somehow, with much blood\/sweat\/tears, put them in order. It was so fun, and equally fun to see what everyone else picked. Naturally, there was some overlap – with many of us choosing the same characters. <\/p>\n
I’m not a huge fan of lists, but they are fun to participate in. Our collective list is rather insane. I love it for its eclectic all-over-the-place-ness. And any time an editor is okay with me bloviating about Elvis Presley … I’m happy. <\/p>\n
Without further ado: Best Film Characters of All Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This project was super-fun: Flavorwire editor Jason Bailey reached out to me to participate in the Flavorwire Best Movie Characters List, as a kind of “retort” to a ridiculous recent list run by Empire. Other writers participated: Jason, the great … Continue reading