History Film / ThreeTenToYuma2007

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Dan gets Ben on board the titular train only to be shot down by Charlie Prince moments later. It's then subverted when Ben guns down his entire gang before [[WhatYouAreInTheDark getting on board anyway.]]]]

* AntagonistInMourning: [[spoiler: Ben is so enraged by Charlie's execution of Dan that he kills his entire own gang in revenge, saving the last bullet for Charlie.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: And they do, [[DwindlingParty one by one]]. By the end, the only major characters left are [[spoiler: Ben Wade, William Evans, and Grayson Butterfield.]]

* BigNo: What Ben shouts immediately before [[spoiler: Charlie shoots Dan.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies Dan dies]], but not before getting Ben aboard the train (ensuring that his farm will be saved), earning his son's respect, and possibly even teaching [[HeelFaceTurn Ben a little humanity]] in the process.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Wade's gun is said to be cursed to anyone else who touches it. [[spoiler: Tucker]] takes it from him, and is killed by [[spoiler:Wade]]. The [[spoiler: railroad posse]] take it later, and are in turn killed by [[spoiler: Charlie Prince]]. At the climax scene after [[spoiler:Dan's death]], [[spoiler: Ben's gang pass the gun to him]], but only after ''every single one of them has touched it.'' Remember the curse?

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: {{Averted}}. Butterfield the banker isn't going to win any personality contests, but he was hardly a PointyHairedBoss or [[spoiler: willing to force Dan to fight suicidal odds in the end]].

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dan, shot repeatedly in the back and chest by Charlie Prince.]]

* DeathGlare: Ben Wade gives several in the movie. The most impressive one is probably [[spoiler: the one given to his whole gang after Charlie shoots Dan. The second Charlie sees the look, he starts reaching for his guns. It doesn't do him any good.]]

* DirtyCoward: The man handling the prisoners on the 3:10 to Yuma flees when [[spoiler: Charlie guns down Dan.]]

** Tucker: [[spoiler: Stabbed repeatedly in the throat by Wade.]]
** [=McElroy=]: [[spoiler: Thrown off a cliff by Wade.]]
** Potter: [[spoiler: Shot by the railroad enforcers.]]
** Dan: [[spoiler: Gunned down by Charlie Prince.]]

-->'''Ben Wade:''' Byron's like a song with only one note in it. You ever read a book in your life besides Literature/TheBible, Byron?
-->'''Byron:''' No need.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Watch Ben Wade's chosen revolver ''very'' closely. It's mentioned that the weapon is supposedly "cursed" for anyone else who touches it. [[spoiler: Sure enough, everyone else who touches it dies, no exceptions.]]
* FriendlyEnemy: Towards the end [[spoiler: Wade all but fights at Dan's side, out of respect and admiration. Of course, he had escaped Yuma prison twice already.]]

* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: William Evans insists that Wade isn't all bad and that there's still some good left in him. Wade flatly informs the boy he's dead wrong and he would have [[WouldHurtAChild killed him without a second thought]], had he gotten the chance. [[spoiler: On the other hand, what [[HeelFaceTurn Ben does at the end]] proves that perhaps Will's not as wrong as Ben thought...]]

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: Ben is clearly not planning to serve out his sentence at the end, nor abandon his merciless ways, but he willingly gets on board the titular train, even after William lowers his gun, and Dan's murder angers him so much that he guns down his entire gang for revenge.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: After coming to understand why Dan is willing to die to get him on the train to Yuma, Ben Wade actually ''helps'' him to the train station, leading him through a hail of gunfire from the gunmen trying to rescue the outlaw. All so that the railroad will make good on their promise to save Dan's farm, but more importantly Dan's son can see what his father is made of. At one point Ben pulls Dan to his feet after falling so they can keep going.]]

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Dan gets Ben onto the titular train, and Ben even cheers him by saying "[[TemptingFate Well, you did it, Dan"]], moments before Charlie shoots Dan in the back.]]

* InstantDeathBullet: Averted throughout. It takes a ''long'' time for people to die when they're shot in a non-vital area. [[spoiler: Dan Evans gets shot at close range four times, and he lives for several more minutes before finally expiring.]] Ben's first shot doesn't kill [[spoiler: Charlie]] either, and Ben drags him to his feet to make sure he shoots him right in the heart, which ''[[JustifiedTrope does]]'' kill him instantly.
* InTheBack: Where [[spoiler: Dan gets shot, the first few times.]]

** [=McElroy=] also qualifies due to his nastiness towards other characters, his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of a shackled Ben Wade, and his OffstageVillainy, which includes massacring an Apache village (men, women, and children). Though [=McElroy=]'s beating of Ben comes directly after [[spoiler: Ben had just finished stabbing Tucker to death]], and Wade's gang did ''shoot'' him earlier, so he's got plenty of good reasons to hate him.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: What Ben's gang does to the passenger of the decoy wagon (the driver got sniped). They imply that they'll let him out if he gives up the real wagon's destination, but then leave him to die anyway.]]

* MoralityPet: {{Zigzagged}}. William tries to invoke this, telling Wade he isn't all bad. Wade casually tells William that he "wouldn't last five minutes leading an outfit like that if [he] wasn't as rotten as hell." He then [[spoiler:kills every member in his posse when they kill Dan and gets on the train willingly, with the knowledge that he can escape from Yuma, having done so twice before.]] He's a complex guy.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler: Charlie's execution of Dan.]]

* NobleDemon: [[spoiler: What Ben eventually turns out to be, despite his earlier denial.]]

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Ben murdering [[spoiler: his entire gang in return for Dan's death, finishing [[UndyingLoyalty Charlie]] off last]] in an extremely sadistic manner.

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: There are 13 members of Wade's gang, counting Wade.
** Ben Wade
** [[TheDragon Charlie Prince]]
** [[ColdSniper Campos]]
** Sutherland (explosives expert, murders the decoy wagon passenger by burning him to death)
** Jackson (wears a furry waistcoat, doesn't think it's worth trying to free Wade)
** Nez (wears a poncho, referred to as an Apache)
** Kinter (killed by Dan in the town shootout)
** Jorgerson (large man with a poncho)
** Tommy Darden (held hostage by one of the stagecoach guards, gets shot by Wade)
** Tighe (blown up by Byron [=McElroy=] by a shotgun shell to his satchel of dynamite during the stagecoach robbery)
** Three others (killed during the stagecoach robbery)
* TooDumbToLive: For someone as fanatically, er, ''dedicated'' to his boss as Charlie is, disobeying his orders and [[spoiler: shooting Dan anyway]] was [[{{Understatement}} not a smart decision.]]
* TranquilFury: Ben Wade doesn't even ''flinch'' while [[spoiler: killing his own men to avenge Dan's death.]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: William has Ben at gunpoint, but eventually lowers his gun and leaves Ben alone to [[spoiler: attend to his father in his dying moments. There's nothing stopping Ben from escaping and killing William. [[HeelFaceTurn He gets on board the train anyway.]]]]

* YouWouldntShootMe: A silent example, when William has Ben at gunpoint [[spoiler:at the end after his dad's been shot]], but eventually lowers his gun to [[spoiler:be with his father as he dies.]] Ben [[spoiler: [[WhatYouAreInTheDark climbs aboard the 3:10 anyways.]]]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Ben murdering [[spoiler: his entire gang in return for Dan's death, finishing [[UndyingLoyalty Charlie]] off last]] in an extremely sadistic manner.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ben flat-out explains this to William Evans, saying that the only reason he can remain in charge of his gang is because he's "rotten as hell." [[spoiler:When Ben's had enough of his gang, he guns them all down in seconds before any of them get off so much as a single shot.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The entire group trying to get Wade onto the train (except Dan's son and Butterfield), ''and'' the entirety of Ben's posse.]]

* NiceHat: Wade is ''very'' fond of his hat.

** Viewers of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' may be reminded by [[spoiler:Tucker's demise of evil mercenary Martin Keamy's death]].
* AdaptationExpansion: A textbook example. The remake reuses a lot of dialogue with many scenes being virtually identical, so much in fact that they gave the writer of the original a co-writer credit even though he died a long time ago. But the remake also adds a lot of content expanding on several characters, adding more and fleshing out the journey. The ending's also changed, though.

* AntiVillain: Ben Wade arguably straddles the line between this and the VillainProtagonist. Sure, he's a vicious thief and murderer willing to kill a man at the slightest provocation...but he makes no pretense of being anything better, he's almost completely honest with everyone he meets, and has an incredibly strong code of honor and loyalty. In the end, he's gained enough respect for [[TheHero Dan]] that when his gang [[spoiler:guns Dan down, Ben furiously murders them all and then gets on board the train anyway.]]

* BadBoss: Subverted. Ben is set up as a textbook example of this, shooting down one of his own men just for being dumb enough to get captured, and out of context, him eventually [[spoiler:killing all his surviving gang members after they've just helped him escape]] sounds [[UngratefulBastard pretty loathsome]]. In this situation, though, the audiences' sympathies are entirely with Ben, and his motives for doing so are perhaps...not so simple.

* BlingBlingBang: Ben's coal-black revolver with the golden cross in the handle is a slightly more subdued example than most. It's also supposedly cursed for anyone who touches it but Ben.
* BloodierAndGorier: Than the original. When people die in this one, they bleed, heavily. This applies to the body count; five people die in the original while almost 50 people are killed in this version.

* ChekhovsGun: Wade's gun is said to be cursed to anyone who touches it except him. [[spoiler: Tucker]] takes it from him, and is killed by [[spoiler:Wade]]. The [[spoiler: railroad posse]] take it later, and are in turn killed by [[spoiler: Charlie Prince]]. At the climax scene after [[spoiler:Dan's death]], [[spoiler: Ben's gang pass the gun to him]], but only after ''every single one of them has touched it.'' Remember the curse?

* DecoyConvoy: The lawmen need to transport outlaw Ben Wade to the prison train without his gang freeing him. They make a big show of putting Ben Wade on a stagecoach, then secretly swap him with one of their own men--leading Wade's gang off one way, while they actually take Wade on horseback the other way. Not that that manages to fool Wade's men for long.

* DeathGlare: Ben Wade gives several in the movie. The most impressive one is probably [[spoiler: the one given to his whole gang after Charlie shoots Dan. The second Charlie sees the look he starts reaching for his guns. It doesn't do him any good.]]

-->'''Wade:''' I've always liked you Byron, but you never know when to shut up. Even bad men love their mommas.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Watch Ben Wade's chosen revolver ''very'' closely. It's mentioned that the weapon is supposedly "cursed" for anyone else who touches it. [[spoiler: Sure enough, everyone who touches it but him dies, no exceptions.]]

* GenreSavvy: Ben Wade offers Dan $1000 to give up and let him go. [[spoiler:Dan refuses, not just because he doesn't trust Ben to keep his word, but because even if Dan ''accepted'' the money, it would be useless to him because everyone would know the only way a poor rancher would be able to acquire that kind of cash would by accepting a bribe from a known (and extremely violent) criminal.]]
** In the climax, [[spoiler:Dan successfully gets Ben Wade on the train to Yuma prison. Wade's gang is still alive, and they don't just turn around and go home when this happens. Instead, Charlie kills Dan and the gang set Ben free. The only chance at survival Dan had would've been to kill the entire gang and ''then'' get Wade on the train.]]
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: William Evans insists that Wade isn't all bad and that there's still some good left in him. Wade flatly informs the boy he's dead wrong and would have [[WouldHurtAChild killed him without a second thought]], had he gotten the chance. [[spoiler: On the other hand, what [[HeelFaceTurn Ben does at the end]] proves that perhaps Will's not as wrong as Ben thought...]]

* HolyHitman: Ben Wade seems to either not believe in God or dislike Him, but he can exchange Bible quotes with the best of them. [[spoiler:This is due to his ParentalAbandonment: Wade's mother gave a young Wade a Bible, sat him down, and told him she was going off to get train tickets to take them out of town and to keep reading until she got back. Three days later, he had finished from cover to back, and she never came back.]] He also calls his pistol "The Hand of God", which has a Biblical inscription.

* InjunCountry: The party passes through here briefly only to get attacked by stereotypical braves at night. Wade notes that the Army's ongoing campaign against the Apache has made the whole area no place for women and children, therefore the ones in this part are the ones that stayed to fight and they [[AxCrazy enjoy killing.]]

* IronicEcho: Tucker mockingly sings "They're Gonna Hang Me in the Morning" to Wade while the latter is trying to get some sleep. Ben sings it later [[spoiler:while [=McElroy=] is beating the shit out of Wade for Tucker's death.]]

** [=McElroy=] also qualifies due to his nastiness towards other characters, his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of a shackled Ben Wade, and his OffstageVillainy, which includes massacring an Apache village (men, women and children). Though [=McElroy=]'s beating of Ben comes directly after [[spoiler: Ben had just finished stabbing Tucker to death]] and Wade's gang did ''shoot'' him earlier so he's got plenty of good reasons to hate him.

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: What Ben's gang does to the passenger of the decoy wagon (the driver got sniped).]]

* PlayAlongPrisoner: Despite the fact that his gang has arrived to free him from custody, Ben willingly boards the titular train because he has grown to respect Dan and wants his family to get the reward money for successfully escorting him.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Very much averted. It's mentioned that [=McElroy=] and the other Pinkertons once killed entire camps full of Apache - men, women, and children - and the railroad workers treat their Chinese employees terribly, with Zeke whining that he wishes they'd hired "negros" because they make better laborers than the Chinese do.

* SonOfAWhore: [=McElroy=] states Ben Wade is the offspring of a hooker and makes the idiotic mistake of insulting dear old mom in front of him. Wade kills him and notes that [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas he loves her anyway]].
* StuffBlowingUp: Byron kills one of Wade's men this way when he shoots a stick of dynamite in the bandit's satchel, blowing him and the horse he's riding up.

* TranquilFury: Ben Wade's doesn't even ''flinch'' when [[spoiler: killing his own men to avenge Dan's death.]]

* WeaponStomp: The stagecoach driver crawls for his shotgun but just as he gets to it, Charlie Prince steps on it.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: William has Ben at gunpoint, but eventually lowers his gun and leaves Ben alone to [[spoiler: attend to his father in his dying moments. There's nothing stopping Ben from escaping, and killing William. [[HeelFaceTurn He gets on board the train anyway.]]]]
* WickedCultured: Wade has read the entirety of the Bible, and is a skilled drawer of both wildlife and humans.
* WorthyOpponent: Ben's opinion of Dan Wade. Eventually, [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn he stops being Dan's opponent at all.]]]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: A villainish version is done, as Wade tells Dan that William Evans (Dan's older son) reminds him of Wade in order to provoke Dan. Wade also makes inferences about Dan's wife, comparing her to a girl he knew in San Francisco.

Wade goes to the nearby town to rest before regrouping and setting off again, but the local marshal sets an ambush and they capture him. This was the easy part however. Since the marshal needs volunteers to escort Wade to the railroad stop in the town of Contention, where he will be put on a train headed to Yuma for a trial, Dan volunteers in order to get the money to pay for his mortgage. The way to Yuma will be filled with dangers, orchestrated by Wade's [[TheCavalry gang]], and perhaps most dangerously, MagnificentBastard Wade himself.

* TooDumbToLive: Being a JerkAss to a MagnificentBastard is a very bad idea.
** For someone as fanatically, er, ''dedicated'' to his boss as Charlie is, disobeying his orders and [[spoiler: shooting Dan anyway]] was [[{{Understatement}} not a smart decision.]]

* YouRemindMeOfX: A villainish version is done, as Wade tells Dan that William Evans (Dan's older son) reminds him of Wade in order to provoke Dan.
** Wade also makes inferences about Dan's wife, comparing her to a girl he knew in San Francisco.

* RealityEnsues: Ben Wade offers Dan $1000 to give up and let him go. [[spoiler:Dan refuses, not just because he doesn't trust Ben to keep his word, but because even if Dan ''accepted'' the money, it would be useless to him because everyone would know the only way a poor rancher would be able to acquire that kind of cash would by accepting a bribe from a known (and extremely violent) criminal.]]
** In the climax, [[spoiler:Dan successfully gets Ben Wade on the train to Yuma prison. Wade's gang is still alive, and they don't just turn around and go home when this happens. Instead, Charlie kills Dan and the gang set Ben free. The only chance at survival Dan had would've been to kill the entire gang and ''then'' get Wade on the train.]]

** Anyone who's seen ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' is going to find [[spoiler:the death of Creator/AlanTudyk's character awfully reminiscent of Wash's]].

* HolyHitman: Ben Wade seems to either not believe in God or dislike Him, but he can exchange Bible quotes with the best of them. [[spoiler:This is due to his ParentalAbandonment: Wade's mother gave a young Wade a Bible, sat him down, and told him she was going off to get train tickets to take them out of town and to keep reading until she got back. Three days later, he had finished from cover to back, and she never came back.]]

* AccidentalHero: Near the end of the movie, Dan reveals [[spoiler: he was no hero during the war. When he lost his leg, not only was it his only battle, but his outfit was forced to retreat and he was the victim of friendly fire. Everything he does to get Ben Wade on the train to Yuma [[TheAtoner is to give his kids a dad they can be proud of.]] Ben is impressed enough to [[FriendlyEnemy help him for the rest of the movie.]]]]

* AssholeVictim: Not many viewers will weep for the violent and ruthless deaths of [[spoiler:Tucker, [=McElroy=], and eventually his own last remaining gang members]] at Ben Wade's hands.

* BlingBlingBang: Ben's coal-black revolver with the golden cross in the handle is a slightly more subdued example than most. It's also supposedly cursed for anyone who touches it but Ben.

* BloodierAndGorier: Than the original. When people die in this one, they bleed, heavily.

* ChekhovsGun: Wade's gun is said to be cursed to anyone who touches it except him. [[spoiler: Tucker]] takes it from him, and is killed by [[spoiler:Wade]]. The [[spoiler: rail road posse]] take it later, and are in turn killed by [[spoiler: Charlie Prince]]. At the climax scene after [[spoiler:Dan's death]], [[spoiler: Ben's gang pass the gun to him]], but only after ''every single one of them has touched it.'' Remember the curse?

** Kitner (killed by Dan in the town shootout)

* InjunCountry: The party passes through here briefly only to get attacked by stereotypical braves at night. Wade notes that the ones in this part are the ones that stayed to fight and they [[AxCrazy enjoy killing.]]

-->'''Charlie:''' For a [[spoiler:one-legged rancher,]] he was [[MadeOfIron one tough son of a bitch.]]

-->'''Charlie:''' That [[spoiler:one-legged rancher,]] he's [[MadeOfIron one tough son of a bitch.]]

* WorthyOpponent: Ben's opinion of Dan Wade. Eventually, [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn he stops being Dan's opponent.]]]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: William has Ben at gunpoint, but eventually lowers his gun and leaves Ben alone to [[spoiler: attend to his father in his dying moments. There's nothing stopping Ben from escaping, and killing William. He gets on board the train anyway.]]