3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008You’re conscience is sensitive, Dan. I don’t think it’s my favorite part of you.
Unlike the South, the western does seem to rise again. And again and again and again. The genre has been pronounced dead more often than Generalissimo Francisco Franco on Saturday Night Live, but they keep making them. And despite the tendency of the Horse Opera to endlessly recycle plots, this is one of the few explicit remakes I can recall, save for the odd TV movie of the week.
3:10 to Yuma is a movie with its feet in two eras. It obviously exists in the postmodern, post-Unforgiven world where it’s impossible to return entirely to the innocent days of white hats versus black hats and “injuns,” but in terms of story and structure, this is very much a traditional western, tweaked only modestly for modern sensibilities.
