You need to use the same content and settings the author used to take the thumbnail, theme authors have no control over the content used in the theme preview on .org so the preview rarely shows what the theme is fully capable of.
If the difference is more extreme and it’s not possible to install and configure the theme to look that way you should take it up at wordpress.org in their themes support forum.
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