5ft would be a midget, bad example. This forum is also almost entirely CLL rather than LL for necessity/disability.
If he was say 5'6 or 5'7 then definitely the brad lookalike over adrien brody. I'm 5'6" handsome as fk and I take the attention of girls from tall guys all the time especially when tall guy is ugly and sometimes even when they are average looking. I've never chatted up a girl and then lost her to a tall guy that wasn't facially attractive.
I somewhat agree with you. I used to be a little over 5'5"...and I've been told how handsome I am my entire life. I've even done some facial modeling (and have been told I could model if I weren't so short). My facial aesthetics are what saved me and still allowed me to get good looking girls ,but I still felt that I had to work harder. Perhaps it was more of a confidence issue with me, but when I was in a group of guys competing for women, I felt like my height "ruined" me in a lot of cases. I think if I were at least 5'7" I would have cared a lot less, because you're still as tall as most women...but I was very short. My online dating profiles got tons of views (they saw my face/default pic first), but only a few attractive women would actually message me, I can only assume because of my height (because my profiles were kick-ass and well written with great/varied pictures).
I think now with my facial aesthetics and extra height, i won't have any problems.
I think it goes like this:
If you're at least 5'7" --> Facial Aesthetics > Height
If you're under 5'7" --> Height > Facial Aesthetics
If you're 5'10+ with Facial Aesthetics --> God-mode activated