Here's Team Torpor's entry for this year's Boston 48 Hour Film Project. We decided to do something a little different this year. Instead of sensibly telling our cast and crew about the required genre (thriller/suspense), character (Marty Quinzani), prop (a magent) and line of dialogue ("Yes -- I mean, I hope so."), we decided to make up new, much crazier rules and see if we could still make the required film in 48 hours (without telling anyone about it). So, we told our cast that we were making a romance film in which the male lead Kevin would speak the required line of dialogue, "I've never kissed a man before," and in which the female lead Karen would have a dinner scene with the required prop, a live lobster. All well and good, except that the actor Kevin was supposed to kiss (who was introduced to the cast as Marty Quinzani) was in on the grift, and spent the entire day of filming offending the other actors, complaining with increasing urgency about having to do the male kissing scene, and generally making a jerk of himself. Hilarity ensues. Or does it?

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Misdirection