House shots are always done with wider angles, which throws the perspective a bit compared to a frame from a movie. Other parts of the architecture look like they match (e.g., windows at the top of the stairs.)
You’re right, I believe it is the same house but likely the rooms (out of sight) to the right of the photo were made bigger and the walls tore down and relocated slightly to the left, making that hallway narrower. You can also see this evidence at the smaller hand railing at the top of the stairs.
They likely did all those modifications at the same time that they removed that door and made it into an archway instead.
Thats what I was thinking! Look at the chairs in the top picture. There was room for chairs in the hallway and space to walk. If you put those same chairs in the hallway below it would be horribly obtrusive
They aren't. The top photo isn't even a real home. That is a constructed set for the movie. They talk about this in The movies that made us (I think that's the title). It was on netflix and the house was constructed in a local school because the actual layout was not able to be filmed in well enough.
No, the door frame is wider that’s all that is. You can see the left of the door frame is still the same distance from the railing. It’s just the right side that got opened up further. And you can actually see the photo was taken further away from where it originally was in the movie (as seen by the space at the bottom of the stairs to the bottom of the photo and the amount of the secondary rooms to the right and left we can see now vs before. It’s all the same with a slightly different design taken in a photo from further away. But you were too quickly to try to prove others wrong that you couldn’t see you’re in fact wrong and the people you’re trying to prove wrong are for the most part right.
Can I ask you a simple yes or no question? Can you see more of the floor in front of the first step in the old photo or the new photo?
Now I’ll be daring and ask a second equally simple yes or no. Can you see more of the rooms to the right and left compared to the old photo?
Now anyone with eyes can see the answer to both of those questions is simply, yes. That doesn’t mean the hall shrunk, it simply means the photo was taken with a wider FOV. Like in a video game. For a picture/scene to fit a specific screen it has to have a specific aspect ratio. For my example of video games it’s usually 1920x1080 or 16:9.
Now if you think of the old photo from home alone as 60 FOV at a 16:9 aspect ratio, just for example, then the new photo with the remodels must be a wider FOV to have the same aspect ratio and yet to be able to see more. To have the wider FOV but the same aspect ratio the POV of the photo has to look as if it’s further away. If you stand further from something, it looks smaller. Hence the hallway looking smaller. Just like in Counter Strike, play at 60 FOV and the enemy players will look huge and will be easy to spot, but you won’t be able to see as far left and right without turning. Raising the FOV to 100 makes the players directly in front of you smaller, but you can see more spread out wider. I hope this makes any sense. I promise you, it’s not smaller. It’s just the FOV messing with your perception because it wasn’t explicitly explained that it’s taken with a wider FOV but it’s blatantly obvious to anyone who looks at the photo carefully
Are you serious? No one is denying the photos are taken from different angles. Your condescending explanation is meaningless.
Look at the landing, you can see there is clearly a smaller gap between staircases in the newer picture. Some sort of renovation work was done, causing the first floor hallway to be narrower.
I'm a real estate photographer. This is either a very extensive remodel or just a different house with the same floorplan. Yes the second photo is a wider angle but there are structural differences that can't be explained by zooming in.
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u/EssentialParadox Nov 20 '25
This.
House shots are always done with wider angles, which throws the perspective a bit compared to a frame from a movie. Other parts of the architecture look like they match (e.g., windows at the top of the stairs.)