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UnderstandingOdd679 t1_j2c0aeo wrote

Reply to comment by MOOzikmktr in Was Bruce Willis in Die Hard the ushering in of the modern everyman action star? by SquatOnAPitbull

I was going say Bronson as well. He was the Liam Neeson “Taken” dad 40 years before Liam.

Eastwood also played a regular cop in his Dirty Harry series after his Westerns.

John Wayne, I suppose, before that.

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JC-Ice t1_j2emqb8 wrote

I wouldn't call them "everyman" types. They don't megamuscles, but they're presented as tough guys radiating an aura of deadly professionalism, unflappable under pressure.

You'd never see Clint Eastwood going, "Please God, don't let me die!" while clinging to the side of a building.

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