COSTUME

DETECTIVE FROST

Detective frost is very blunt and straight foward his tactic is to gather the facts, to simply, solve the case at any cost. We get a insight from his personal relationships as well as his professional mentality. Frost, can occasionally be wrong, he might make a mistake during an investigation but that just makes him more human, so the audience relate to him more. Detective Frost has a very distinctive round edged hat, he seems to wear dark,bland colours such as grey and navy to reflect his age. His moustache also show his age and shows tat he is a experienced police officer, so that  we trust him and so do the characters. Frost is more dependent on his job he sees it as a necessary and it looks as if its the only thing he's got left.  

 HERCULE POIROT

Hercule Poirot on the other hand, is very polite and refers to women as 'madame or 'mademoiselle'. He is more laid back and observes people from a distance to begin with, but later, he directs his questions towards a suspect and reveals all the clues in the end. Poirot is the definition so enigma, we as an audience don't really have an insight to him as a person on a private scale, its as if he is 'superhuman'; this opens doors for curiosity and interest, we don't question their capabilities. Poirot, usually wears small spectacles on the edge of his nose to represent his intelligence, he mostly wears these when he is about to study a piece of evidence, he does this repeatedly so the audience are aware when he is analysing. He is knows to wear a cravat or a bow tie, this reveals he is upper class and displays a historical feature, during the early 20th century bow ties and cravats were a popular, fashionable accessory. His most distinctive feature is of course his moustache. The shape is very unusual, when he is curious the audience know because he instantly twiddles with his moustache lightly. His facial hair is well groomed unlike, Mr  Frost, it shows that he takes pride in his appearance, he is a well liked individual and is of the upper class, he seems to be constantly invite to social events and his detective work is a pleasurable experience a a pose to a paid job. 

CAGNEY AND LACEY

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1980s television program Cagney & Lacey empowers its female viewers and encourages the revision of traditional gender representations. The characters of Cagney & Lacey challenge the stereotypical highly-sexualized female roles in earlier police dramas by presenting “a new or ‘better’ image of women.” The program starred Sharon Gless as Christine Cagney and Tyne Daly as Mary Beth Lacey, two female police officers working out of the 14th Precinct in New York City. These two are different in many ways from the other detectives, apart from the gender domination being practiced here; there is also a sense of group work. These two girls use both of their expertise to figure out the crimes, as they say, 'two heads are better then one’; they demonstrate a shared value, and represent good communication and coordination. Their appearance is important because they are not visualized sexually, these two females are covered up, however, they take pride in their appearance, similar to Puaro, but do not expose their skin; gaining only respect from others because of their intellectual development and not their famine features. They are active crime solvers, they use weapons to figure out the investigations and always have these on them, and this can be argued because they are not physically strong enough to defend themselves at confrontation point, or it can be a case of self-defense and safety. We can visually see an intellectual blonde female, stereo-typically these individuals are viewed as 'dumb' or 'bimboes' like, but yet again Cagney and Lacy challenges typical prejudice and expresses free nature, winning over a populated female audience. 



SHERLOCK HOLMES
Sherlock Holmes refers to himself as a ’consulting detective’ meaning ‘when the police are out of their depth, they consult me’. I am aware that his character has changed over the years, but the more contemporary role attracts a younger audience and tackles issues within the twenty-first centaury, maybe issues such as Internet fraud or religious conflicts. 

Sherlock Holmes takes an individualistic approach to solving crimes; he visualizes what happened, and its s specific trade about his character that makes him an intriguing character. He does this through the clues and scenarios he finds at the crime scene. In the film, before he fights he plans in his head and imagines how the fight will go and then it proceeds in that exact way. There’s no reason for his supernatural powers, but it can be done to take a unique aspect to a human being and one a fan would crave for; keeping them hooked. He solves various crimes, but the ones that’s are depicted throughout the series are murder cases, simply because they are more interesting.