![]() ![]() ![]() It's totally fair to group Paper Soldiers into the list of hood flicks that collect dust in the bargain bins of a Wal-Mart. Throughout the film, while we see him build a rep as a thief, he never really graduates past the level of "shook guy who's brave enough to break into someone's house." With a string of break-ins being tracked by the police (one of whom is played by Charlie Murphy), as well as violent guys like Stu (Beanie Siegel) making life uncomfortable for Shawn, it's only a matter of time before he gets caught up. After his mother dies, he has to find a way to properly provide for his family, which leads to a life of grand theft. While he lives with the mother of his child, he's not above trying macking on other girls, like Tamika, played by Stacey Dash, who appears to be in the film just to walk in slow-motion. In Paper Soldiers, Shawn is down on his luck, on parole, and working at a beeper store. If you've seen the movie, you know that Paper Soldiers is a lot of things viable drama is not one of them. He was far from becoming one of the six comedians to sell out Madison Square Garden, with a style that's on full display in his upcoming stand-up film What Now?. At that time, he was just a 5'5" hilarious individual who Dash must have known could pull off the role of Shawn in Paper Soldiers, which was surprisingly written as a drama. While Kevin Hart played Luke in a few episodes of Judd Apatow's Fox series Undeclared (which is credited as being Hart's true big break), Hart's stand-up career (which started in the late 1990s) hadn't really taken off. In 2002, Dash did it again, letting then-23-year-old comedian Kevin Hart star in the fourth Roc-A-Fella Films release, the robbery comedy Paper Soldiers. Dash also saw Kanye West's ability as a rapper while many only wanted him for his immaculate batch of beats. This is the man who believed in Jay Z before most-before Roc-A-Fella became an empire. Dame Dash's saving grace has always been his ability to spot talent. ![]()
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