"G" enters a world not much seen in the movies, the world of affluent African-Americans whose summer places are in the Hamptons. I wish it had approached this material with a clean slate, and given us a story made from scratch. That it's fitfully based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is only a distraction; noting how it followed the novel and how it didn't, I wondered why the clarity of Fitzgerald's story line was replaced by such a jumble of a plot.
The film is a fictional recycling of details from its immediate inspiration, Sean Combs, a k a Diddy, although still called P Diddy when the movie was filmed in 2002. "G" isn't based on his life, but on his lifestyle: The Hamptons place, the elegant summer parties where everyone wears white, the crowds of stars and would-be stars. The movie is being described as a "hip-hop Gatsby" but there's not much more hip-hop in it than there is Gatsby.
Richard T. Jones stars as Summer G,
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