3:10 to Yuma - HMB

3:10 to Yuma was released in 1957 and remade again in 2007. Although the plot lines are the same within both films there are distinct cultural differences. The largest difference between the films was the level of violence, the 2007 remake showed a lot more violence and added more scenes that involved both guns and death. In the 1957 film the idea is more focused on Dan Evans providing for his family and his livelihood by getting Ben Wade onto the train. This film is focused on the act of being honorable something upheld during the times of the Cold War, not backing down and crumbling to talk of the enemy. In the remake Evans is actually killed at the train station, and the focus is less on providing for his family than it is on making sure he looks good in the eyes of his son. In 2007 the family structure had been remade, and it was a lot more common for families to be split and abandoned by their male providers. Although the family still ends up losing the physical presence of their father, the son is able to hold a deep respect towards his male figure than seen previously in the movie.