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** Carrie Fisher's infamous British accent ("slip through your fingers") as Princess Leia, which she seems to drop halfway through the first film.

** There is also a [[Leitmotif]] for the Death Star, which is not used in "Return Of The Jedi".

* 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<!-- 28229.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) -->

*** 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 (Franchise)/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.

** In the first movie, the students wore pointed hats with their uniforms during formal scenes in the Great Hall (you'll recall these hats being tossed in the air when Gryffindor won the House Cup). The hats disappeared in the second film and were never seen again. Probably because they looked rather silly.

* If you watch ''[[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]]'' after other ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]'' films, it'll be a shock: it's basically a hard-boiled detective story instead of a spy action thriller - mostly because the budget was low. The fight scenes and car chases are rare and short; the only gadget per se is a mook's [[Cyanide Pill]] (Q - here, Major Boothroyd, and not played by Desmond Llewellyn - only appears to change Bond's gun).

** Even the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q9QyChJeNU opening sequence]'' is all wrong. It starts with a series of weird electronic beeps, and the familiar theme doesn't play until Bond shoots the gun barrel, and even then it starts on the wrong cue (the big dramatic part of the song, instead of the actual intro). Then the barrel wiggles down to the bottom of the screen and the opening scene wipes in from-- oh? No, it moves on directly to the opening credits while still playing the Bond tune, over some colorful dots appearing all over the screen. Then it jarringly switches to some upbeat salsa music (note - not a theme song including the movie's title) over some colorful silhouettes of people dancing for a minute or two, when it again suddenly switches to a salsa rendition of "Three Blind Mice" over the silhouettes of the title mice, which then fade into the actual opening of the movie. To call that opening schizophrenic is being a little too kind to it.

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