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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".
* In the original ''[[Friday the 13th (
* Throughout the ''[[Harry Potter (
** 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)
** 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 (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.
* How many people [[Sequel Displacement|remember]] that ''[[
* If you watch ''[[
** 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.
*** In fact, the music-video Bond titles didn't appear in their best-known form until ''[[
* ''[[
** It's also strange because when stacked up against later CG toons, the film is remarkably low-key, lacking the bombastic flourishes that people grew to expect of the medium. The opening scene of the film is a child playing with his favourite toys, nothing more.
* ''[[Evil Dead]]'' is more a [[Gorn]] horror film, rather than the horror comedy of the second. Also none of the other cabin members besides Linda is mentioned in the other films. Ash is far from the [[Catch Phrase]] spouting, [[Badass]] and [[Jerkass]] we see in the sequels, instead being a rather bland [[Final Girl]] played by a guy. The Necronomicon doesn't have that name and the look of it is completely different from the other films. And lastly, in a subtler example, the Deadites (which aren't named as such until the second movie) are originally just pissed off that the teenagers awoke them from their eons-long sleep, whereas in the sequels they implicitly want to [[Take Over the World]].
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* ''[[Road To]] Singapore'' is a fairly typical adventure-comedy movie, and doesn't do much in the way of [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]].
* The first ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movie is a more straight-forward story with a relatively short number of robot characters ([[Sequel Escalation]] and [[Serial Escalation]] were ''heavy'' in the two movies that followed). Also, while Bumblebee drops Sam and Mikaela out of his vehicle mode before transforming into his robot mode to fight Barricade, the sequels have the transformations fast enough to safely eject any passengers and quickly convert into robot mode in one quick go.
* If your knowledge of ''[[Twilight (
** To be fair, Taylor Lautner wasn't as impressive physically in the first movie. It's why they were going to recast his character, but he was dedicated to providing the fans continuity and bulked up considerably.
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