3:10 to yuma (2007) Western movie

3:10 to yuma

How does 3:10 to yuma suggest a western genre?

This movie is about a story between two men. A good small-time rancher father- Dan Evans and a captured outlaw Ben Wade who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma.

The hero:

Dan Evans is the hero of this movie. He is an impoverished rancher and Civil War veteran. He loves his family. Ben Wade is captured by the law in Bisbee and Evans finds himself one of the escorts who will take Wade to the 3:10 to Yuma train in Contention for the reward of $200. Evans's effort to take Wade to the station is in part an effort to save his land but also part of an inner battle to determine whether he can be more than just a naive rancher in the eyes of his impetuous and gunslinging son William Evans. He is not as the characteristic of the stereotyped cowboy. He is independent and brave, however he is not saving the society but his own family. He isn't a free cowboy, he owns a family.

The villain?

In this story, there isn't Indians villain. But it does have a man who to stop at nothing in doing evil and even escaping from the jail for many times. 

However, during the time of spending with Dan, he found out Dan it the person who know him a lot, he tried to convince Dan to give up getting him to yuma but Dan refuse, He would like to stand a role model to his son.

Dan is shot and killed by the bad guy who comes and willing to help Ben escape.

Ben is will to change and he had promised Dan to follow him to yuma, he feels angry and killed everyone who are trying to help him escape.

He is a villain? It seems like, he did many things wrong and even escape from the jail but he seems not a villain either, he tries to change and follow Dan to the jail.

This movie has a typical western movies' setting. There is a male hero helps to restore law and order-Dan Evans, and there is also bloody struggle between native American and setting for control of the land. Besides,There are lots of Mise en scene which proving this is a western movies, like the props: gun, horse, and the costume: cowboy.