- After Goodnight rides off before the Final Battle, Chisholm gives each of the remaining Seven a chance to quit, with no disgrace. They all choose to stay. Horne sums up the men's feelings thusly:Horne: To be in the service of others, with men that I respect—like you all...well, I couldn't ask for more'n that.
- When Faraday is shot, Vasquez jumps out of cover to quick-gun down several men to give Faraday space to run. He makes a point of vengefully putting several bullets into the guy who shot Faraday while snarling "Fuck you, motherfucker!" in Spanish. And this is after they've been trading verbal snipes throughout the movie!
- By this point, their mutual shit-talking has developed into more of a Bash Brothers dynamic.
- With Red Harvest out scouting the enemy's location, the six remaining warriors defending Rose Creek help to rebuild the church that Bogue callously set ablaze in the film's opening. A heroic gesture of kindness in and of itself, the fact it is a multiracial, multicultural band of warriors (Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, Asian, AND White, with two of said whites being at-the-time marginalized peoplegroups in America: Irish and Cajun) gathering as one to rebuild a symbol of home and community torn apart by greed and violence also makes this scene a symbolic representation of the hope for tolerance, forgiveness and friendship across the brotherhood of humanity.
- The miners working for Bogue at the beginning of the film almost immediately go to help the townsfolk put out the fire, before being threatened by Bogue's Regulators. Come the middle of the film, the Seven raid the camp, killing the enforcers, and the audience discover that most of the miners across the river (as opposed to those camped outside of the town) are conscripts (as implied by an elder miner held in lockup, possibly for dereliction, or knowing Bogue's general lack of ethics, more likely because he was too tired or ill & refused to work). Chisolm informs the conscripts that they are free to leave, which most men in their situation likely would. The miners not only gratefully show the Seven where the work camp's stash of munitions is (an offence that could see them reimprisoned, even if Chisolm is a warrant & peace officer who just gave them their freedom, as they would be accessory to larceny), but as the audience sees when the Seven return to Rose Creek, most of the miners decide to fight & die beside the townsfolk outside of a few clearly too injured to even walk (let alone fight), and even then there are at least two missing limbs that still chose to fight. These men may be conscripts, but they demonstrate more moral fiber & righteousness than the very sheriff's office of the town, let alone the crackskull Pinkerton-expies from Blackstone that helped Bogue put them through labor that arguably counts as slavery.
- In the last night before the battle, the Preacher tells Sam how grateful he is to the Seven for giving the town enough hope that they could enjoy their night.
- When Goodnight returns in the Eleventh Hour, Billy is elated, saying he knew he would. Goodnight asks him how; Billy procures Goody's flask from his vest.
- Billy claiming Goodnight's gun jammed during the first battle with Bogue's men, when in actuality PTSD had caused him to freak out too badly to shoot. Although the lie is implausible, it reveals that Billy knows Goodnight well enough to realize what happened, and that for all Billy's own stoicism, he's nonjudgmental and even protective of Goodnight's mental state.
- Whether it's faithful to the original(s) or not, it's nice to see The Magnificent Seven Samurai for once get recognition and gratitude they deserve at the end. Three men ride off into the sunset with their reward. Four were buried with honors for defending that which wasn't theirs to their last breath.
Outside the Story
- During the cast commentary, Vincent D'Onofrio recounts an incident on set where a crew member lost a family member during the shoot. Near the end of the day, Chris Pratt asked that the whole crew on site take a moment of silence for him. And they did. Vincent called it one of the most beautiful things he ever experienced.
- James Horner writing the score early intending to surprise Antoine Fuqua with it, which allowed us to get one more score from him after his untimely death.
- Byung-Hun Lee has commented that of all the American movies he's been in, this is the only one where he had a great time and made friends with his cast mates.
