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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 381316" data-attributes="member: 2740">I think it was *country*!  Preposterous!For sure you can be smaller and still imposing, but being big sure helps, and I’m not sure Steve had the presence to pull that off. Maybe it was the writing, but I felt he was better at playing vulnerable than imposing.   He comes across (to me, anyway) like a little kid trying to act tough in the (many, many) scenes when he starts to threaten violence with righteous indignation.  Kind of “scrunch up face, try to deepen voice, ball up fists”, etc.Pacino, DeNiro, Stallone, Swayze, Charles Bronson, etc. could pull it off without the physical stature, but those guys had massive presence and charisma and/or fitness, so they could get away with being like half the size of John Wayne, Eastwood, Jock-era Jim Davis, etc.hell, they even had JR prevail over Ray in a near-literal fight to the death (via fortunately-located telephone receiver - but still, nowhere close to saving face for Ray!)</blockquote>