# Admit it. What stuff are you ignorant about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-what-stuff-are-you-ignorant-about/577087 "2011-04-03T22:45:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 65
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-what-stuff-are-you-ignorant-about/577087/65 "2011-04-04T20:57:56Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Symbolism in movies/books. If you get me started I can usually run with it. If you tell me that bird seed nourishes the birds the same way money nourishes the family I can _logically_ interpret that the bear that shows up in the backyard rummaging through the bird feeders represents the bad guys that are after your dirty money (Season 1, Sopranos). I can follow that symbolism for as long as the writers keep it somewhat in tact. My problem is that I think logically not symbolically. If it wasn’t pointed out to me to begin with, the bear in the backyard would have just been another event that I would have taken at face value and never given another thought to. The thing you have to remember is that a movie or TV show is a completed invented work. Nothing in it just happened. A bear didn’t walk on to the set and start eating birdseed while the camera just happened to be recording. Somebody picked the location. Somebody put a bird feeder in that spot and filled it with seed. Somebody went out and rented a bear and hired its trainer. Somebody set up the camera and lights and microphones. There’s nothing spontaneous in a movie or television series. Everything is there for a reason and is part of the story. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-what-stuff-are-you-ignorant-about/577087)._