I'll grant that it was clever to make Wonka's dad a mad, sugar-hating dentist (and to cast the unmatchably sinister Christopher Lee in the role), but to force a redemptive story of father-son reconciliation onto this story is worse than lazy; it is a betrayal of a book that the filmmakers seem otherwise to have not only understood, but also honored.
But the movie also burdens Wonka with a psychological back story and forces a redemptive father-son reconciliation onto Dahl's tale, a move A. O. Scott, writing in The Times, called "worse than lazy; it is a betrayal of a book that the filmmakers seem otherwise to have not only understood, but also honored".
Rinse has not only understood the continually shapeshifting vagaries of London club culture, but nudged many of its metamorphoses along.
When the infants were allowed to choose to play with either the helper or the hinderer puppet, they overwhelmingly chose the helper, indicating that they had not only understood the social dynamics portrayed in the puppet shows, but preferred the character who had helped another achieve its goal.
You have not only to understand but also to feel why the Puritans who name names Salem-style, accusing one another of witchcraft, behave as they do.
With decades of this retrograde management culture behind it, GM's executives have not only refused to understand change in the auto industry, but have also resisted understanding change in American society writ large.
Through use of detailed stochastic network models we have not only been able to understand the relationship between network structure and spread of sexually-transmitted infections [ 27, 28, 42], but also how to contain possible bioterrorist attacks [ 43].
Automated checks will be conducted to ascertain that participants have not only completed modules, but also understood them correctly, before they can move on to the next.
If the West in general, and the United States specifically, had not only better understood, but also better engaged with the emerging opposition in 2012 -- and decided that backing them was a more favorable alternative to allowing the conflict to gain in complexity -- then yes, absolutely it should have been done. .
"To solve these problems we have to not only understand them ― we have to realize that they are complex issues that are rooted in years and years of oftentimes failing systems," he said.
Year 9 pupils at The John Roan School, in Greenwich, south-east London, say that hearing Mr Shipper speak had not only helped them understand the history of the Holocaust but also had important wider lessons for them.
