3:10 to Yuma

The 2007 remake of 3:10 to Yuma is a revision of the original in a few different ways. The main character in the 2007 film is definitely a revision of the previous alpha male. Dan Evans in the 2007 film was definitely a weaker alpha male character than in the 1957 movie. In the 2007 movie Dan Evans had lost a leg in war, making him weaker than the prior alpha male, but also giving him a weakness that all the other men in the movie didn’t have. Dan’s children play an important role in both movies, but very different roles. In the 1957 movie they are confident in their father, and make him a stronger character. In the 2007 movie, the older of the two sons has no faith in his father, and is constantly putting him down. He doesn’t think his father will shoot anyone and is always out doing his father. Even at one point Ben Wade is getting away and Dan’s son saves everyone by sneaking up on Ben Wade and holding him at gun point and recapturing him. The personality of the alpha male in each movie was also different. The 1957 Dan Evans seemed to have a stronger personality, much more alike to the alpha males in traditional westerns. He seems to care much more about the savior of his farm and receiving the money from accomplishing the task. He was a lot strong in that he doesn’t allow Ben Wade to push him around in the least bit; he had his shot gun on Ben Wade at all times. The 2007 Dan Evans was very different. He was fighting for the money to help his family and to get the dignity of accomplishing the task. He wanted to prove to his sons that he could do it. This Dan Evans definitely wasn’t as confident as the 1957 Dan.
There were also some smaller differences such as the use of characters of other races. Ben Wade’s group of cowboys included a Mexican in the 2007 movie, which was a revision of the previous movie which didn’t include any characters of other races. The fact that this shooter was Mexican was hugely important because of how many people he killed. He killed many white men, which was very different to see a man of another race killing these men and having the power to end their lives.
Although these two movies followed the same plot, they had a lot of different aspects which categorize one as a traditional western and the other as a revisionist western.