Oh, come on. I hope you're just kidding. Surely you don't relish living in ignorance as you get older? The fun part about life for me is that the curtain keeps getting pulled back. Nothing is what it initially seems to be.
Yeah, I like knowing how some things really work, but not movies.
When I was younger, I would always watch these "behind the scenes" type shows and was interested how it was all made. Eventually I realized that it was just ruining movies for me. The director and crew work very hard to create a vision, create "magic". Why would you want to destroy that by learning how its all done?
Its like a magic trick, most would agree that the interest, the mystique, is in not knowing.
Some of the best magic tricks are the ones where you learn how it's done, and you discover it's actually done the hard way.
I can't find the quote right now, but I believe there's a quote from Penn or Teller where they talk about how some of their tricks could be done more easily, but they intentionally do them the hard way because it strengthens the illusion when a cynical audience member imagines the hard way, discounts it as "too hard; there must be some trick," and discovers that, no, it's just done the hard way.
Even when a trick is done the easy way, for me it is still fascinating that this person has managed to pull it off with a straight face and it fooled me!
Knowing how the trick is done often strengthens the illusion.
In the interview I saw, they don't talk about how they actually do it, but they've talked about the ways they could do it, or have done it in the past, but don't anymore -- and why.
Good luck finding that interview. I found it extremely interesting, but can't dig it up at the moment.
