Don't Read This Post if You Haven't Seen 3:10 to Yuma
* spoiler alert ahead! *
In an earlier version of a film about the sinking of the Titanic, the ending came with the hope and consolation of God, in the form of the band playing "Nearer, My God" and a priest leading the doomed passengers in prayers. In James Cameron's incarnation, the hope of human love has eclipsed God, in the form of imagining the two main charactes reuniting some day (though that is in line with the hope of resurrection). Similarly, in the movie "The Perfect Storm", God is not invoked by the doomed fishermen but human love is, and predictably not between a husband and wife but between a boyfriend and girlfriend.
The latest incarnation of the trend is 3:10 to Yuma, which I'll put in "invisible ink" for web viewers (just scroll your cursor over it to read). For those who read via a feed, please skip this: In the original 3:10 to Yuma, the protagonist lives. In the latest 3:10 to Yuma, the protagonist dies. It's as if filmmakers these days see happy endings as "cheesey", as something only Christians would believe. And indeed one agnostic we know refuses to believe the Christian faith simply because of the ending. Heaven is seen as simply wishful thinking.
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