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Square Enix CEO praises Microsoft's commitment to Rise of the Tomb Raider and discusses controversy in new interview
Rise of the Tomb Raider represents one of the more controversial Xbox One exclusivity deals in recent memory.
Xbox One is no stranger to third-party deals, picking up console exclusivity for Dead Rising 3, RYSE, Titanfall, Sunset Overdrive and others, but none struck a chord like Rise of the Tomb Raider. A quick perusal of the developer's Twitter mentions reveals a stream of vitriol from PS4 users angry at the deal, which hands Xbox One a whole year of console exclusivity.
Square-Enix isn't blind to the criticism. Speaking in an interview with Examiner, Square Enix CEO of the Americas and Europe Phil Rogers defended the deal, which he described as being "not an easy decision".
Many commentators speculated that Rise of the Tomb Raider's Xbox exclusivity was intended to head-off competition from the similar PS4 exclusive Uncharted 4. UC4 has since been delayed into 2016, leaving some of us wondering whether the deal still makes sense.
Tomb Raider's reboot back in 2012 failed to meet Square-Enix's sales expectations, despite selling well over 3 million copies in its first month. Square-Enix stated previously that Microsoft are helping fund Rise of the Tomb Raider's development. Phil Rogers elaborated further in the Examiner interview, noting that Xbox head Phil Spencer himself visits the dev team on a regular basis:
Phil Rogers also noted his delight to see Tomb Raider showcased alongside Xbox heavy-hitters like Halo, Forza and Gears of War. Being featured with the best Xbox has to offer is sure to raise Tomb Raider's profile for younger gamers unfamiliar with its PS1 roots. The deal also allows Microsoft to attach a ubiquitously recognisable brand to the Xbox One moving in to the 2015 holiday season. For Square-Enix though, it's all about taking Tomb Raider to "the next level" according to Phil Rogers:
It seems likely that Square-Enix came away from the Tomb Raider reboot with a great deal of anxiety. The game achieved solid reviews from both fans and critics and sold millions of copies in its first month. However, the fact Square-Enix described the sales as 'disappointing' makes me wonder just how inflated the game's budget was.
By partnering with Microsoft, Square-Enix can offset the costs of developing a triple-A sequel - which, in theory, are always higher budget than the previous title in the series, to grow in-line with fan's expectations. It's hard to gauge what form Rise of the Tomb Raider would've taken without Mircosoft's involvement, or whether or not the project would've existed at all. Maybe Square-Enix and Microsoft are buddy-buddy enough to bring me an Xbox One version of Final Fantasy XIV... maybe, please?
What do you think? Could Microsoft's "muscle" be better spent elsewhere? Is the adverse reaction worth it for Square-Enix? Hit the comments!
Rise of the Tomb Raider releases on November 10th, 2015 for Xbox One, early 2016 for PC and Q4 2016 for PS4.
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I was thinking this new close relationship could mean FFXIV on Xbox One. Xbox gamers deserve to be able to experience that gem of a game.
Would love to play it on my Xbox, it is the only game I play on my PS4.
Buy a Xbox one
I'm sick of the double standards where MS is in the wrong for a timed exclusive but games like Street Fighter V and the timed FFVII remake (and pretty much all JRPGs) are exclusive to the PS4 and it's a-ok.
Don't forget Bloodbourne. Don't forget that. Given sf v and all I wonder if this is the lesser deal? Well as long as it's on pc.
Also destiny exclusive content
Yup, that was 100% my thoughts on this too.
Those games will always do better on the PlayStation. If ya want games like that, only Microsoft's "muscle" can help ya.
I get that but I feel that a customer is a customer. Just because it will sell well on one system doesn't mean there are no customers on the other. This either or mentality about game genres is ridiculous.
Of course, I call them all stupid, rather than just defending Microsoft because I have their console.
XBOX and Playstation double standard is the same as Microsoft and [insert competing company name here]. MS always gets the negative reporting no matter what, it's so stupid.
For SV and FFVII timed exclusive shit, I agree, but most JRPGs have never been multi-plat in the first place, and since the PS has gotten a reputation for adventure and RPG games, players interested in those games are likelier to be on that platform, and thus a cycle is born... it's similar but perhaps not as exclusive with Xbox and FPS-games.
And I'm over that. I like the capabilities of the One over the PS4. I don't appreciate developers trying to shoehorn me onto a console without the features I care about. Guess I've just outgrown the desire to collect every console to play everything. It's too expensive.
It's hardly surprising when Japanese games are exclusive to the PlayStation, since the XBox has almost zero precense in the whole of Asia...
tombraider has always been a huge triple AAA game on every systrem and as sales show the sony side made way more cash then the xbox side for the game so people are mad because you try to compare stuff like this to bloodbourne or streetfighter , there not even close how about they use that money to make new games and ips or the waste of 2 billion for mincraft LOL a game every one already owns and in no way will they ever make a profit after spending that. the xbox one is a joke thats why sony is destroying them in popularty and sales because they have way more games and diversty like starocean , dragonquest , FF mmo , toukiden, undead and undressed and its not sony doing what xbox does and is buying these multy platform games exclusitivty these companies are going to were the demand and user base is and xbox is not attempting to even get games they think we all want the same lame halo and gears and racing games . Its the middle range games that keep systems alive not triple AAA games as there always on all the systems a example at EB games now there are over 22 games that are exclusive on ps4 and not on the x1 even 360 ports are only going to the ps4 . Only a loser fanboy could even attempt to stick up or say they have games when the x1 is a multy platform console with 7 exclusives and the line up for this yaer is nearly all games on sony also but hey thats why the x1 is ashadow of what it was after 3 years of the x1 and we have nothing but the lame racing, shooter and sports games lol like gears sorry its not big like it was anymore they waited to long . tombraider thing is a slap to the gamers who know this game was made on all consoles and has been for ages so you go and buy exclusitvty of one of the biggest names out there and you compare it to a new ip bloodborne or a small nich group of people who play streetfighter because the you can say killerinstinct but its a fighter who cares
Ps1 roots? It debuted on both ps1 and Sega Saturn.
You shouldn't confuse younger players by talking about Sega consoles :P
Not confuse them but inform them that this once great console and it's successor the Dreamcast once existed.
Tomb Raider isn't popular because of Sega Saturn, lets be honest.
Sega, the peripheral company. We have this gadget you put in the gadget in the console.
Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32X. I love how all of the components meshed together.
Thank you - I was thinking the same thing when I read that. The original Tomb Raider was released on Saturn, Playstation and PC -- the first release (in Europe) October 22, was on the Saturn, about a month later, the EU Playstation, US Saturn and US Playstation releases were available; Japan got it in January and February (Saturn and Playstation respectively) in 1997. That sort of error is just a limited perspective on game history. I've seen the same limited view when people have claimed that Rez originated on the PS2 (Actually on Dreamcast > PS2 > XBLA). It's likely the first place the writer experienced it; some basic fact checking would have been beneficial to avoid bringing a glaring spotlight to their limited experience.
I first played it on the PC. I always thought it's roots were on the PC.
Square also announced Dragon Quest for PS4.. Xbox is severely lacking in the JRPG category while PS4 has it all.
This is true, but JRPG's aren't the biggest sellers in the states which is where most of the Xbox audience is
It might not be the biggest audience but it does still have an audience otherwise they wouldn't release the Final Fantasy games here or all the JRPGs on the 3DS (Atlus is still alive and kicking here). I'm sorry, but I feel like they are dictating to me what games I'll play when there is no good reason why they shouldn't release on both consoles.
Games like Final Fantasy still sell well, even new IP's like Bravely Default and Ni No Kuni sold extremely well in the west. The reason most of these will come to PS4 is because it's the only one of the two that sells in Japan.
I've always hated JRPG, I hate JRPG and I'll always hate JRPG, they're boooooriiiiingggggg!!!!! But I agree with plurality with games and consoles.
Fantastic! Finally the XBOX One looking like 24K gold.
Played the first one on Xbox One and have been eargerly waiting for this. Go play it today if you haven't already!
Played on 360 and One, loved both iterations.
PS1 Roots? It was a PC game first and foremost...the Platform Microsoft still owns
Exactly. MSFT should remember that.
Tomb Raider 1 was released for PS1, PC, and Sega Saturn all at the same time: 14 November 1996.
Only in the US - The Saturn version in Europe was released a month earlier.
I've been surprised about how much I've enjoyed the Tomb Raider reboot (just bought the game). I know people LOVE Uncharted, so it has essentially has created a duel on the PlayStation lineup. Sony fans will get the game eventually if they're really fans but the sales numbers have shown that they're going with Uncharted first. Makes sense from a business standpoint and it makes MS Exclusive Lineup stronger. This exclusivity stuff has been going on as long as video game consoles have been around. I'm an Xbox One owner, so I'm obviously not upset.
I love Square Enix and I love Microsoft, this could be a match made in heaven if they decide to release FFVII remake at the same time as PS4 otherwise I have to buy that shit the day it comes out
A compilation disc like the one from Rare would be pretty amazing.
Stop the console wars give. If they can do this, give xbone users street fighter v already. Universal compatibility is the only way out, if they want to make more money...
Unfortunately, universal compatability would most likely *lose* money for console makers. I guarantee there are at least a few XB1 owners who are rabid enough about Street Fighter to pick up a PS4... console sales that never would have happened if SFV was an Xbox title.
Hopefuly they nailed the writing. Looking forward to this moreso than 2013
"Phil Spencer" >> He play games!
I've been seeing articles like this all day. I say f you square. Dragon quest only for ps4, 3Ds and Nintendos new system. Plus plenty other games that are play station exclusive. And PS players are complaining about tomb raider! Really!? Square enix is only getting money for kingdom hearts 3 out of me.
It's a "maybe" for Nintendo NX.
Street Fighter V and Shenmue III are both console exclusive and partially funded by Sony. I don't understand the double standard. Tomb Raider isn't even console exclusive for the lifetime of the game.
Shenmue 3 hasn't been announced as a console exclusive. But, yes, there is a serious double standard going on where Microsoft is lambasted and Sony is given a free pass. It's asinine.
Yeah I probably wasn't clear. I meant to say as a playstation console exclusive. It will available on PC also.
This is perfect, wish MS did more of this
This is perfect, wish MS did more of this.
Let the Sony fans cry more, they have a chunk of exclusives for the PS4, mostly jrpgs but that's the only reason I'd get a PS4 at this point. For everything else I can play it on my PC or Xbox One.
PS4 fanboys can cry a river, they are the most douchy, double-standard snakes you can encounter, they gloat about PS4 exclusives but they start crying the day Xbox One scores any exclusive.
I have played uncharted 1, 2 and 60% of 3. At 3 I just got bored. Its got awesome graphics but I just got bored of the cling to ledge, shoot cinematic, repeat. And the story is pretty bland with big holes in it. So that didn't help. With that said I thought the tomb raider reboot was much better than uncharted. It had more exploring, Imo a better story in the emotion and lost feel. And the graphics were up there with uncharted last gen. So im really looking forward to rise of the tomb raider. We are promised more puzzling tombs this time around. I'm in. Graphics look amazing to. Up there with uncharted 4, forza 6, quantum break and sea of thieves for me. Roll on Xmas.
It's a very great exclusive and Microsoft could choice a better one. The fact that many PS4 players are complaining the deal is a rather positive signal. Really happy and can't wait!
There should be no exclusives. Let users choose the system that they think fits them best.
Your post contradicts itself. If there were no exclusives all systems would suit you equally. Meaning none suits you best. You cant expect 3 companies to have consoles without giving the buyer a reason to purchase a particular one. That's why exclusives exist. So you choose the console based on what you prefer.
Don't have a Xbox, but I'm going to buy it for PC on day 1.
If Microsoft and Squenix are getting buddy buddy these days can we please get the Kingdom Hearts HD Remixes before 3 comes out? A lot of Xbox only people will have never played 1 and 2 because they were PlayStation exclusives.
No Microsoft showing genuine interest in big and indie developers way more than psn is. I hope sqenix sees this and starts porting to Windows 10 and Windows Phone 10 for their classic library.... FF1 and 3 are nice..... But..... as MS fans we are tired of being second rate to the iOS toys.
I think it's cool. Sony has Uncharted which I'm sure will do better than Tomb Raider on the PS4.
Boring sequel
With all the lazy devs at the start of this gen. Having no exclusives on consoles would be a grand mistake and Phil Spencer knows this. Leave the devs with so much power would mean less for Microsoft. From the start Sony has gotten away with murder, also we can not rely on mainstream reviewers to be unbiased. Spin doctors in the industry have given Sony the upper head. Meanwhile Microsoft has to play at the poker table with the odds stacked against them. Microsoft has proven who has the better value for your money, only time will tell if people will wake up to see it.
I'll get this game. I finished the last.
This deal is saying hey PC and Xbox players you guys get to be the players that beta test our game and dlc so when we release it for ps4 its 100% . Oh and there's will be the definitive edition which will be $40-$60 after you guys were so kind to spend $60 plus the $40 or so for the dlc. Hugs and kisses.
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Donald Trump is not the personification of America.
"To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation," wrote Mitt Romney, the newly elected Republican senator from Utah, in yesterday's Washington Post. "A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect….[P]residential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable. And it is in this province where the incumbent's shortfall has been most glaring."
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On November 8, Taiwan's former Vice President Annette Lu published a strong open letter asking tycoon Elon Musk not to praise the Chinese Communist regime just to gain more wealth and fame.
The letter is a direct response to statements made by the world's richest billionaire and owner of Tesla, the only foreign automaker based in China with ties to the Communist Party (CCP). In his remarks, Musk advocated that Taiwan should give in to China to ease the tensions that the communist regime imposed in the Taiwan Strait last August.
Days earlier, Musk said publicly that the island should become a "special administrative zone" under the control of the Chinese communist regime. The tycoon's statements provoked outrage in the Taiwanese community and the repercussions were not long in coming.
In her open letter, the former president stated, "Taiwan is not for sale but we also do not want war." Lu pointed out that China's relationship with Taiwan must be true to history. Taiwan's prehistory dates back 12,00 to 15,000 years ago.
Back in the 1600 when the Dutch were kicked out of Taiwan did China even begin to loosely govern Taiwan. and then in 1895 China "ceded Taiwan to Japan permanently as a trophy."
Taiwan's status has not yet been determined internationally, and to this day, Taiwan has never been ruled by the Chinese Communist Party.
Lu also mentioned that Taiwan's freedom came at a high price, and the freedom fighters fought for decades to achieve today's democracy and prosperity. She herself was imprisoned for six years for speaking at the 1979 International Human Rights Day demonstration. Finally, through democratic elections, the rebel that she was became vice president in 2000.
The former official stressed that Musk has no right to sacrifice the dignity and welfare of Taiwanese, and bluntly stated "Taiwan is not for sale and does not want to become a battlefield."
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Lu recounted that 127 years ago, China agreed to permanently cede the Liaodong Peninsula, the entire island of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands to Japan after its victory in the Sino-Japanese War, and Taiwan and Penghu became its colonies.
When the CCP said, "Taiwan is a sacred and inalienable part of China's territory," it surely forgot that in the Treaty of Shimonoseki it agreed to cede Taiwan's territory and its inhabitants to Japan as a war trophy. Then, the CCP "forgot" to take back its inalienable part when Japan was defeated in World War II.
Lu recalls that in the past everyone felt it necessary to raise anti-communist consciousness that was cultivated in the Kuomintang era, and all Taiwanese carried this historical baggage as an extension of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
It should be remembered that democratic Taiwan was founded on values that rejected the CCP's betrayal of its own people, and that is why the Kuomintang withdrew to Taiwan. The CCP sold many inalienable parts of China to the highest bidder and tolerated the Soviet Union's breach of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance by tyrannical arrangements.
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Elon Musk caused outrage in Taiwan after suggesting that the democratically governed island should become a "special administrative zone" under the control of the totalitarian Chinese communist regime.
The tycoon's geopolitical musings provoked widespread criticism after he argued that Taiwan should cede control to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to avoid a wider conflict that would disrupt the global economy.
They also alerted Capitol Hill to the national security implications of trade ties with the Chinese Communist regime. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told the Wall Street Journal, "Any businessman doing business with China should be extremely cautious. And I hope they never engage in any behavior that puts our national security at risk."
Musk speculated that a military conflict between China and Taiwan would likely shrink the global economy by 30%, and that such a decline would severely affect the supply chains that run through the region and supply Tesla and other major companies.
Calculated or unfortunate, the billionaire's expression has a much more significant background than seeking fame and praise from his benefactor, the communist Asian giant.
The words are not casual: They establish associations and lay bare what is otherwise intended to be hidden. The CCP routinely uses the catastrophic prediction "severely affect supply chains" when its untenable argument is exposed to the world.
Elon Musk's ties to the CCP are out in the open, as are his words. Treason, economic domination, and rights violations seem to be shared values. Some believe that money buys everything. Others believe that power can do anything. But Taiwan's freedom and democracy are not for sale, and the free world supports it.


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Voyeurism, scopophilia and other visual pleasures
In the Lacanian account of the origins of our sense of self a critical event occurs during infancy. During this "mirror phase" infants grasp the fact that there is a world, and others, beyond them. This awareness comes to us from outside, an image of ourselves as an individual is built up from the feedback we receive from others.
The very act of seeing ourselves as others see us necessitates a form of splitting, a fragmentation of the unity we have experienced hitherto. Our mourning for this lost unity, that which we seem to lack (although it was never truly there) stays with us for all our lives: although we recognise our lack is irreversible we search for it still.
It may be said that our capacity to look, and to see ourselves through the eyes of others, is at the core of our psychological formation.
Mulvey [1975 p 208] has identified three forms of looking in cinema: the look of the camera as it records events, the audience's look at the image and the looks between characters within the diegesis. The look of the camera is, wherever possible, denied or suppressed in the interests of verisimilitude. But it is always apparent due to the confines of the frame.
The look of the audience at the screen is one which reproduces the lively curiosity of the infant deriving pleasure from what it sees. As Mulvey [1975 pp 200-201] puts it, "looking itself is a source of pleasure, just as ... there is pleasure in being looked at". The look has a darker side however.
The scopophilic drive is a constituent of the polymorphous sexuality of the infant, one which is gradually "trained" and normalised but one which may
become fixated into a perversion, producing obsessive voyeurs and Peeping Toms, whose only sexual satisfaction can come from watching, in an active controlling sense, an objectified other.
The latter words diagnose with some accuracy the murderous impulses displayed by Mark Lewis. Social sanctions against "staring" or being "nosy" reflect deep-rooted cultural taboos which forbid looking too closely. An exception is made when, with a crowd of others and in the safety of a darkened auditorium, our urge to gaze may be indulged and we may escape, temporarily, forget who we are as we become bound up in the scenes replaying before us.
Peeping Tom shows us this pleasure-in-looking enacted in Mark's private cinema in, for example, the scene where Mark shows Helen Stephens (Anna Massey), who occupies the position of the audience-within-the-text, his father's film of him as a child [commencing at 0:20:45]. A recurring piano motif imitates the extradiegetic soundtrack provided by the pianist in the silent movie era. The music also signals the point when Helen's pleasure turns into displeasure, though her curiosity is unabated, when Mark as a child reacts to the lizard dropped onto his bed by his father.
These scenes exemplify the argument advanced by Mulvey and others that the look we cast upon the screen may have a displeasurable aspect. Our experience of looking at what we know is not really there reminds us of that presubjective time, of before we came to know who we are... and of what we imagine we lack. Our knowledge that what we see on the screen is not real and is somehow incomplete can never be suspended completely.
So a feeling may be aroused in the audience, as it casts its look upon the screen, that something is being withheld. As Helen comments: "I like to understand what I'm shown" [0:23:25].
Aroused in the spectator, re-evoking infantile fears, is an awareness of lack. Conventionally cinema overcomes this by, for example, the use of reverse angles which show scenes from another point of view. These complete our look, an important component of the process commonly referred to as "suture"
Another strategy identified by Mulvey is cinema's response to the assumed point of view of the male spectator as he gazes at cinematic images of women. The image of woman "brings with it what the spectator's look would disavow, the fact of sexual difference" and this arouses fears of castration.
Typically films ward off this threat in one of two ways. The first is to couple the voyeuristic aspect with sadism, to show the woman confronted by her lack and punished for it. The alternative is to make the woman into a fetish object, disavowing her lack, representing her as complete and perfect. This is notable in representations of female stars where Marilyn Monroe's legs, for instance "stand in" for her whole. [Lapsley and Westlake 1988 p 78] Both strategies are deployed on numerous occasions in Peeping Tom.
As is apparent from the discussion so far, Mulvey saw dominant cinema as the mirror reflection of the patriarchal society in which it was formed (and which is inscribed in it). Pleasure in looking has been split into an active/male component and a passive/female component and films reflect this.
Women's traditional role in Western culture (and many others) is exhibitionist: women "connote to-be-looked-at-ness " [Mulvey 1975 p 203]. Hollywood cast men as possessors of "the look" and women as spectacle. In-built "patterns of pleasure and identification impose masculinity as `point of view' " [Mulvey 1981 p 69].
Silverman (1988) applies the same logic to women's voice in the cinema. She likens the relative passivity of women's voice in cinema to an "acoustic mirror" of women's subordinate position in a phallocentric society.
Fittingly, the ultimate device within Mark's apparatus of fear is a mirror mounted atop his camera which forces his victims to look at their own faces in the final moments of their lives. This only becomes apparent when Mark reveals the device to Helen in the film's final scene [1:33:10], saying "... I made them watch their own deaths.... and if death has a face they saw that too."
This may be taken as a metaphor for a fourth look, that which cinema casts back upon us, as identified by, for example, Willemen [1976 p 216]. It is not a look "that can be seen, but a look, imagined by men in the field of the other". This is the look of the film back at the spectator which "surprises me in the act of voyeurism and occasions a feeling of shame."
Denzin [1995 p 44] likens this feeling to the embarrassment one might feel upon hearing footsteps while in the act of peeping through a keyhole into a room.
In a variety of ways and on numerous occasions Peeping Tom delivers this frisson - shameful yet thrilling (and potentially comic) and then confronts us with it. Do we identify with what we are seeing? Can we remain detached from what is happening? What part are we playing? These questions are posed most clearly in the film's remarkable opening sequence.
We are confronted, within seconds, with the knowledge that
our experience of watching Peeping Tom is being paralleled, within the work, at what we are meant to regard as another level of reality, by the murderous voyeur at its centre. [Prawer 1980 p 217]
For around ninety seconds (all the time it takes to take a life) we are forced to identify with a killer; seeing through his eyes. We are forced wrote Twitchell [1985 pp 291-292] to
confront the relationship between watching and participating.... We see life just as he does.... We are forced, simply by opening our eyes, to conspire with his designs. The camera makes his reality ours.
But what the camera also does, and Twitchell seems insensitive to this, is to shield us to some extent.
Twitchell [1985 p296] claims that the film offers "nothing to protect us.... Once we start to look, we cannot help but see...". But the visible frame and/or the camera's crosshairs are there throughout to remind us of a mediating Other which prevents us fully "seeing ourselves" carrying out Mark's actions. Mark's camera is at once a device which draws us into the film and a distancing apparatus which reminds us that this is "just a film".
The same is true of all cinema cameras but this is usually disavowed; with Peeping Tom Powell dared to make this explicit.
The positioning within the frame is echoed at frequent intervals in, for example, scenes which frame the action within a window frame or a doorway or as in the scenes which Mark shoots from above the studio set with the lighting rig obscuring part of the view. These effects, but above all that of the visible camera,
function as a powerful metaphor for the barrier Mark tries to erect between himself and his victims so as to disassociate himself from them. [Silverman 1988 p34]
By way of comparison consider the shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Here the shower curtain parallels the cinema curtain, ripped aside to show us the consequences of our looking.
Kaja Silverman [1988 p 32] describes Peeping Tom as giving new emphasis to the concept of reflexivity. The film foregrounds the workings of the cinematic apparatus and
the place given there to voyeurism and sadism... its remarkable structure suggests that dominant cinema is indeed a mirror with a delayed reflection.
One of the films-within-the-film, Mark's "documentary", is a re-enactment, or more accurately "an inverted reflection", Silverman suggests, of his own role in the films of his father - the other film-within-film. Mark is placed outside of the fiction and in a position of "apparent discursive control" where, by way of his camera's mirror, he forces his victims to look at their fear "just as his father's films have obliged him to see his own." [Silverman 1988 pp 33-34]
Silverman describes the killings as acts of symbolic castration and sees special significance in the scene where Mark films the disfigured features of Lorraine (Susan Travers):
the `bruise' is the site of libidinal investment, and Mark has eyes for nothing but it and the psychic pain it elicits in its wearer. [Silverman 1988 p 34]
Peeping Tom is by no means the only of Powell's films to exhibit a preoccupation with looking and the camera-eye. Take, for example, the opening sequence of A Matter of Life and Death (1946) where a surgeon gazes into space through a telescope. This image reminds us that the gaze may be analytical and passionless as well as erotic and sexually charged.
It is this look, the scientific gaze to borrow Foucault's usage 1, to which Mark is subjected as a child by a father obsessed with a will to know the face of fear. The same will, the same curiosity, Foucault claims, is at the heart of the advancement of knowledge in Western culture.
And Dr Rosen (Martin Miller) reminds us of this dimension of Mark's looking, commenting that Mark "...has his fathers eyes..." [1:22:00].
It is significant that Rosen makes this comment to one of the policemen investigating the murders. Denzin [1995 p 50] argues that the figure of the detective (the "investigative voyeur") and the narrative form of the investigative drama has made "vision an analogue for knowing".
A rather different take on solving puzzles is provided by John Hill in his study of British social problem films of the later 1950s and it is to Hill's thesis which I now turn.
|Introduction: A puzzle and a half
|Photographing me photographing you
|What the critics saw
|Appendix 1: Cast, credits and technical information
|Appendix 2: Filmography and picture sources


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Watch Braun Strowman And Big Show Break The Ring!
Are you not entertained?!?! What a finish to an amazing main event on Raw that saw two legendary behemoths face off in a rematch that ended up shattering expectations of the typical big man vs big man match and ... oh yeah, the ring itself!
Braun Strowman took on The Big Show in the main event of Monday Night Raw and the two put on a thoroughly entertaining bout that reinforces everything Vince McMahon loves about having his giants at the top of the card.
Not only did we see brute displays of strength from the two giants, but we saw agile exchanges of arm drags, kip ups and baseball slides. But most importantly, we saw Big Show climb to the top rope only to be met by Strowman who, in a freakish display, superplexed the future WWE Hall of Famer down to the mat, which caused the entire ring and most of Ohio to collapse to the ground.
THIS. JUST. HAPPENED! #Raw @BraunStrowman @WWETheBigShow pic.twitter.com/d778FsBeXR— WWE (@WWE) April 18, 2017
Critics will point out that it was similar spot to the one we saw many years ago when Lesnar superplexed Show on an episode of Smackdown. To that I would say bravo, WWE. They have only reinforced that whenever Big Show is superplexed, he breaks the ring. That's consistency. Also, that was in 2003, when Show was 14 years younger. Can you still do anything you could do 14 years ago? I know I can't.
While the show of strength was impressive, I suppose it pales a bit in comparison to Strowman tipping an ambulance like it was a cow on his grandpappy's farm, which was the stunt WWE pulled on last week's Raw.
Still, the Raw crowd went berserk when Strowman and Show hit the superplex spot and the collapse of the ring was timed perfectly.
After the bout, The Monster Among Men came to his feet to shout at the world while Show remained down until Raw went off the air. Strowman will now face off against Roman Reigns in two weeks at Payback, but I can't help but drool at the eventual match up between he and Raw Universal Champion Brock Lesnar (who was never mentioned during tonight's show).
WWE has made it clear Strowman is the future of their show. He's the next great big man on the roster and could eventually prove to be better than most that came before him.
Now, can we finally get the guy some merchandise on WWE.com? I think he's earned it.
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TOWAMENCIN – While having switched between schools for the majority of her life, Alexis Charles has found that her passion for art and creation has remained a solid constant. Although having experienced hardships along the way, she continues to create work that not only inspires herself but also inspires everyone who comes across it.
Growing up, Charles finds little to complain about and she constantly reflects fondly on her childhood.
"I was a really happy kid. Honestly, I was me, still the same, just smaller," joked Charles. "I was bold. I remember one time I told my mom 'Yeah, you get your style from me. I wear nicer clothes than you' like the audacity I had when she was the one dressing me."
Whether in the classroom or climbing on the playground, Charles was anything but a shy kid. She made a point to get to know everyone she saw, even in the unique environment she was placed in growing up.
"It's kind of crazy to me sometimes when I think back to it because I went to a school where I was supposed to learn how to speak French. I spent most of my time in Philadelphia. I wasn't in this area very much even though it was where I lived," said Charles.
She spent 7 years in a school where 75% of the curriculum was in French and she was expected to learn how to speak fluently.
"Every day in the morning, I'd wake up, have to get to school on time, and I would have to go down to Lincoln Drive to go to Bryn Mawr to get to school every morning. After I would get picked up from school, I'd go to my dad's office in Philly and I'd come home around 8:00-9:00 and go to sleep because I would have to do it all over again the next day," said Charles.
Unlike many children growing up in the area, Charles learned how to do the core subjects in school the way that they are taught to children in France.
"I learned how to do math in French and how to divide the French way. I learned European geography and I still have French copybooks in my room," said Charles. "Every single show that we had to put on was both in French and English, so I know all of the Christmas songs and nursery rhymes in French and in English," said Charles.
Since having transferred from the school she grew up speaking French in, Charles still does her best to keep herself fluent in the language, most notably by watching French animes in her free time.
"Most of the time when I feel like I'm losing it, I'll go ahead and I'll just watch Miraculous Ladybug with the French audio on Netflix to make sure I still have it," said Charles.
Once she hit the 5th grade, Charles was transferred to Gwynedd Mercy Academy Elementary, a private Catholic school. She found the transition was not as easy as she had hoped it to be.
"Well, I can undeniably say it definitely left a mark on me. It was a trying experience because I came from a school that was multicultural with so many different people. There were French people, Indian people, black people, and I had the freedom to wear whatever I wanted. I was at that school for 7 years and I grew up with those people since preschool. I had to transition to that other environment, which I wasn't very used to, and it was very 'do this, do that', very goal-oriented as well, I just wasn't ready for that," said Charles.
I felt like a failure and I was comparing myself to everyone at every single moment, not even physically, but academically. I felt really insecure."
— Alexis Charles
The competitive environment at Gwynedd showed itself to be a hard adjustment for Charles, who felt she was constantly comparing herself to other students.
"I felt like a failure and I was comparing myself to everyone at every single moment, not even physically, but academically. I felt really insecure," said Charles.
She found herself having to adapt alone without the support of the administrators or even her teachers.
"After a while, I think I just started to get it, I'm not quite sure what happened. I think I just adapted, which took me a while just because I had to do it on my own," said Charles.
In the environment that she had been placed to find them in, discovering her artistic capabilities at this time also presented itself as a challenge for Charles.
"It was just a different environment at Gwynedd and as a creative person that doesn't really mesh well, especially when you don't even know your creative person yet," said Charles. "I transferred in 5th grade, so I didn't really know much about myself and I wasn't even able to make friends at the time."
Honestly, I wouldn't trade it for anything. When I think about it, I wouldn't have grown this backbone, I wouldn't have the personality that I have, and I wouldn't have made the friends that I did if I didn't go through that."
— Alexis Charles
Although the 4 years she spent at Gwynedd were not her happiest, Charles reflected that she would not change her experience if given the chance.
"Honestly, I wouldn't trade it for anything. When I think about it, I wouldn't have grown this backbone, I wouldn't have the personality that I have, and I wouldn't have made the friends that I did if I didn't go through that," said Charles.
Instead of continuing her education at a private Catholic high school, Charles decided to take a leap and transfer into Pennbrook Middle School for her freshman year.
"One thing that Gwynedd taught me was ambition and just to wish for bigger, better things in your life than what you have now," said Charles.
Transferring to public school gave Charles the opportunity to get out of her previous confinement and finally explore all of the possibilities.
"At Gwynedd, I couldn't wear what I wanted to wear, I couldn't do what I wanted to do, I couldn't wear makeup, I couldn't do anything, so when I first got into public school it was crazy. It was like I had an outfit planned for every single day, I was going to wear my makeup, I was going to wear whatever I thought looked pretty, I really didn't care. I was going to wear a blazer to school if that's what I wanted to do and who's going to stop me? No one is going to stop me," said Charles.
Public school became a way for Charles to express herself and the creativity she fostered, which had been filtered in the past. Alongside her newfound fashion sense and her love for makeup, Charles continued to grow as an artist. Whether it was just with pencil and paper or colored paints and brushes, she expanded her horizons and pushed herself to create something meaningful. She finds her inspiration through music, specifically through singer-songwriter, Frank Ocean.
"I love Frank Ocean and not only because I want to marry him," joked Charles. "I just really enjoy his music and to me, his music is pure artform. When I hear Frank Ocean, I see beautiful pictures in my head."
Charles tends to listen to Frank Ocean when creating her own art and draws inspiration from the thought he puts into his work.
"When I listen to Frank, it's just beautiful and it inspires me to make something beautiful," said Charles.
Additionally, she finds self-expression in taking and editing pictures for her Instagram account. Going out and taking photos of disposed items on the street might seem like trash to others but become visions for Charles.
"It's a low maintenance creative outlet for me. I'm really into editing and just making things look nice. I am a person who is just obsessed with pretty things," said Charles.
Don't compare yourself to other artists. You're you. You're at your own learning curve. You can look at them for inspiration, but don't look at them to demean yourself. You are going to get there eventually."
— Alexis Charles
Charles believes that once people looking to explore art, makeup, and fashion for the first time find their own sense of individuality and confidence, they can improve and grow quickly.
"Don't be too hard on yourself if you're a beginner. Don't compare yourself to other artists. You're you. You're at your own learning curve. You can look at them for inspiration, but don't look at them to demean yourself. You are going to get there eventually," said Charles.


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In January, this AZ Snake Pit article looked at the Diamondback's platoon advantage in 2019 and 2020. That referenced article provided a brief review of platoon advantage. This article will address 2021 data and broaden the focus beyond the Diamondbacks.
Platoon advantage for Diamondbacks appears significant.
Due to many variables impacting OPS, the yearly averages for don't show a positive correlation between percentage plate appearances (PAs) with platoon advantage and OPS.
- Percentage of PAs with platoon advantage increased from 61.3% in 2019, to 65.3% in 2020, to 67.7% in 2021.
- Yearly OPS fell from .757 in 2019, to .704 in 2020, to .692 in 2021.
Next, let's separate PAs with platoon advantage and PAs without platoon advantage. The following table shows OPS and wRC+ for the two types of PAs in 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Before we look at the two types of PAs, please note a difference between the three seasons:
- In 2019, most PAs were by right handed batters.
- In 2020, right handed and left handed PAs were about equal.
- In 2021, most PAs were by left handed batters.
The platoon advantage resulted in higher OPS and wRC+ for all three seasons and for both left handed batters and right handed batters with one exception which was talked about in the previously referenced article. The exception was right handed batters in 2020. It was likely caused by unfamiliarity with specific left-handed pitchers, and by a small sample size of less than a thousand PAs.
Looking at 2021, when Diamondback batters had platoon advantage, their average OPS and homers per PA were better. The impact was larger for right handed batters:
- RHB. Average OPS was 38% better (.778 vs 563) and HR/PA was 97% better (.032 vs .016).
- LHB. Average OPS was 5% better (.716 vs .684) and HR/PA was 45% better (.025 vs .017).
But was it coincidence or was the impact real? For all teams, let's compare % PA with platoon advantage and their batting results.
Platoon advantage for the Majors does not appear significant.
First a bit of good news. The Diamondbacks 67.7% of PAs with platoon advantage was the highest in the Majors. They were significantly above the 53.2% average.
Next a bit of reality. Teams with a great OPS rarely had a high percentage of PAs with platoon advantage.
Looking at teams with OPS ranked in the top ten: 3 had above average percentage PAs with platoon advantage and 7 had below average percentage PAs with platoon advantage. That surprised me. Most shocking were the Blue Jays because they ranked number one in OPS and last in platoon advantage. Did the Blue Jays find a hitting strategy more powerful than platoon advantage? I intend to examine that closely in a future article.
Looking at teams with HR/PA in the top ten: 4 had above average percentage PAs with platoon advantage and 6 had below average percentage PAs with platoon advantage. Again the Blue Jays stood out by ranking first in HR/PA and last in platoon advantage.
Let's compare the Diamondbacks to the Rays.
Three reasons to compare them to the Rays:
- The Diamondbacks aspire to be a top-10 team. The Rays ranked 9th in HR/PA and 10th in OPS.
- The Rays' 62.1% PAs with Platoon advantage ranked third, which was in the same ballpark as the Diamondbacks' 67.7%.
- Like the Diamondbacks, the Rays have mastered the platoon advantage per this SB Nation article.
Let's group batters in tiers:
- Top tier batters have OPSs of at least .900.
- Second tier batters have OPSs between .750 and .900.
- Third tier batters have OPSs between .600 and .750.
- Fourth tier batters have OPSs less than .600.
For the Diamondbacks and Rays, when their batters had platoon advantage their average OPS was second tier except for Diamondback left-handed batters who averaged one tier lower.
For the Diamondbacks and Rays, when their batters did not have platoon advantage the results were mixed. For left-handed batters the Diamondbacks' batters were second tier and Rays batters were third tier. For right handed batters it was reversed.
With the caveat that in 2021, right handed PAs were only 39.5% of total PAs, it looks like an area with potential for improvement. Every right-handed Diamondback batter without platoon advantage had an OPS less than the .674 Rays' team average for that type of PA with the exception of Christian Walker's .771 OPS (excluded pitchers).
The comparison of the Diamondbacks with the Rays, who were a top ten team in OPS and Homers per PA, was far from one-sided. For the next couple seasons, aspiring to bat at their levels is a challenge that is not too far out-of-reach.
How can the Diamondbacks improve?
Acquire a RHB whose OPS and HR/PA are above average, especially when they bat without platoon advantage.
Acquire a switch hitter to replace a right-handed batter thereby reducing at-bats without platoon advantage.
Study the Blue Jays to discover whether they have a hitting strategy more powerful than platoon advantage. Implement any discoveries that are worthwhile to the Diamondbacks.
Diamondbacks' OPS and HR/PA were better when they batted with platoon advantage, with a very large impact for right handed batters.
Diamondbacks led the league in percentage of PAs with platoon advantage, but ranked low in OPS and homers per PA. Most of the top ten teams in OPS and homers per PA ranked in the bottom half of the league in percentage of PAs with platoon advantage. Most pointedly, the Blue Jays ranked first in OPS and homers per PA while ranking last in percentage of PAs with platoon advantage.
As the Diamondbacks aspire to be a top ten team, it was encouraging that a comparison of the Diamondbacks' batting and the Rays' batting was far from one-sided.