Writing Characters Who Are Smarter Than We Are

There's a great moment in the movie Tootsie, when Dustin Hoffman—in costume as "Dorothy Michaels" but speaking as himself, "Michael Dorsey"—says, out of respect for Dorothy, "I wish I was prettier." In other words, the character he was portraying was better than he was. That's an amazing thing if you think about it.
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