Ben Wade's last words

Ebert says that about the 2007 remake of this film....this board is for the 1957 original,which is the film referred to by the previous poster.

You are right Irish. A better title would have been something like "Question on the ending - SPOILER WARNING."

I find that a bit ridiculous, since *SPOILER* Ben Wade DOESN'T die at the end of the movie. This thread is simply investigating the final words he spoke before the movie ended. But yes, this confusion could be eliminated by use of a better title.

Heh, that's funny, no key people die. His final/last words refer to the last words in the movie, not his final words before he dies.

But seriously, I never read the message board until after I see the movie, no problems then.

Your last words were "Thanks! Sheila," but you're obviously not dead.

It was quite clear to me from the very beginning that main character was going to die.

SPOILER ALERT. Errrr, not to be clever or anything, but Ben Wade DOES NOT DIE in either the original or the remake. You could have saved yourself (and us) four paragraphs of righteous (well, "wrongeous" as it turns out) indignation. Perhaps you should remove your own posting and apologise to the original poster.

Oh, I'm so tired of hearing people whine about spoilers. There is a simple solution...don't read the posts until you have seen the movie. Doesn't that make sense? If you read the posts before you have seen the movie, you are setting yourself up for spoilers. You are the one to blame, not the posters!!!

Not me, I don't care what happens!

So, I am now confused. Sheila saw 3:10 to Yuma, but when she did Ben Wade died at the end? Also, yes "last words" can and often do refer to the last thing said before dying, but they can also refer to the last words spoken before any event such as "The last words my Mom said to me before I left were 'be careful'." By Sheila's logic the last words spoken by any character in a film means that they died. Thus Guy Pearce's last words in Memento "Now...where was I?" must mean that when the film went to black and the credits started rolling that Leonard Shelby was dead. Basically Sheila made a jump in her own mind that wasn't actually corroborated by the actual title of the post. Which, is fine, people can make assumptions all they want. Of course assumptions are not always right, and to attack someone based on that assumption, to presume to tell them posting etiquette based on that assumption can sometimes make the assumer look foolish like in this case. Now, in the last words (but not necessarily before he dies you'll have to see the film to see if that is the case) of Daniel Plainview in "There Will Be Blood"....I'm finished.

The movie is 50 years old...its pretty impossible to "spoil" it. Don't read messageboards for 50 year old movies kk thx

"So many people, myself included, read the postings before they see the movie"

Why do that? Why take the chance of someone not stating "Spoilers" or letting out some key information? I wouldn't blame anyone but yourself for reading posts about a movie you haven't even seen yet.


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