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* In the original ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'', Jason not only isn't the killer, he doesn't even appear save for a dream sequence. He becomes the killer in the second film but doesn't get his trademark hockey mask until the ''third''. Also, in ''Part II'', he's considerably less physically imposing than subsequent movies.

* Throughout the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films, [[Geographic Flexibility|more and more areas are added to Hogwarts]], making the Hogwarts of the first film almost a kind of bare-bones version with, for example, nothing between the back of the castle and Hagrid's hut but a field of grass.

** In the first two films, Professor Flitwick is an [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100114172044/harrypotter/images/thumb/7/73/Charms_Master_Flitwick.jpg/200px-Charms_Master_Flitwick.jpg elderly-looking midget]. From the third onward, he became a [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100410144823/harrypotter/images/thumb/f/f3/Copia_de_uhpfilius9it%282%29.jpg/180px-Copia_de_uhpfilius9it%282%29.jpg small man with brown hair and moustache]. It was so unexpected that quite a few people joked that he now looked like Hitler. (the story is complicated: as Flitwick wouldn't appear in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', actor Warwick Davis was instead offered a cameo as the chorus conductor - credited only as "Wizard"; through [[Retcon]], that guy became Flitwick in the fourth movie)

** In the first two films, Professor Flitwick is an [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100114172044/harrypotter/images/thumb/7/73/Charms_Master_Flitwick.jpg/200px-Charms_Master_Flitwick.jpg elderly-looking midget]. From the third onward, he became a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131006185646/http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100410144823/harrypotter/images/thumb/f/f3/Copia_de_uhpfilius9it%282%29.jpg/180px-Copia_de_uhpfilius9it%282%29.jpg small man with brown hair and moustache]. It was so unexpected that quite a few people joked that he now looked like Hitler. (the story is complicated: as Flitwick wouldn't appear in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', actor Warwick Davis was instead offered a cameo as the chorus conductor - credited only as "Wizard"; through [[Retcon]], that guy became Flitwick in the fourth movie)

** It's also worth noting that many of the films ongoing additions to the castle were invented for the screen - most notably the clocktower and pendulum, the covered wooden bridge and the small island in the lake - so it's likely a matter of the films wanting to establish themselves as being as faithful as possible to the books (which the first two films are, more so than each of the rest) and then getting more creative once they'd secured their audience. Other later-film additions like the Owlery and the Astronomy Tower were added when it turned out important scenes took place there in books that hadn't been published when the movies started filming. The Astronomy Tower in particular was a bit jarring to suddenly spring up after five films' absence, given that it's faithfully portrayed as being ''the tallest tower of Hogwarts Castle''.

*** There's also a drift away from on-location shooting and towards soundstages. At the start of the series, they couldn't afford to build every room in Hogwarts, so there were only a few purpose-built sets and most of the Hogwarts interiors were filmed at various castles, cathedrals, and universities. As the series went along, they built up more and more sets, which was coupled with improvements in CGI technology. ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone|Philosopher's Stone]]'' was filmed at locations all across Britain, while ''[[Deathly Hallows]], Part 2'' was filmed almost completely at Leavesden Studios. Some places that were originally filmed on location were reproduced as sets later in the series, often accompanied by changes in design -- compare the hospital wing in the first movie to the hospital wing in the second movie onwards.