Scene #30

(1) Ramiro Briones as the ruthless Ash Wednesday


(2) Raul De La Cruz as the jail warden

Here's the links to view Scene #30:
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e06oPo6oBFc
High resolution glory: Scene 30 download

Scene #30 is one of the most contreversial moments in ASH WEDNESDAY: CAPITULO UNUS mainly because the main character (Ash Wednesday) murders in cold blood HIS own dog.
Obviously, this is just a part of the whole movie, but the concept is NOT based on shocking people for the mere reason to shock...

The motive of this scene, and of ALL the scenes in the movie is to tell the story in a meaningful way.

So, in this scene we have Ash intimidating this federal jail warden, and he's telling a story, in which his point is to scare this guy, so he can have several of his men/soldiers out of jail in a non-confrontational kind of way...
His goal is to convince the guy and appear majestically evil, and as he's doing this, his dog comes up and takes away a piece of meat he was cooking, AND Ash felt extremely embarrassed by the fact that a Dog, just took away his threatening demeanor... and so he just goes ahead and kills the dog.

This of course has several underlying connotations that are not really observed, and are beneath the layers of what you are seeing.

1. This is the scene where we really see and know Ash for the first time, so it has to be a scene where it sets the tone of the character.
   
2. Another important observation is that Ash kills what people know as "man's best friend". He just does it out of instinct without caring. The important connection here is his background, it tells the viewer that he was brought up in a situation where you don't think twice about your actions, it's kill or be killed.
3. This doesn't really pertain to the scene (or to the movie! jaja) but we wanted to tie-in an EL ESCAPE character somehow... so we thought that the jail warden was perfect for this movie, HOWEVER the same actor who was the jail warden in our first movie was unavailable to shoot, so we went with Raul De La Cruz, as an indirect tribute to our first film. :-D
   

This scene is hard to watch, but we wanted to put it out there because we want people to know what to expect when seeing Ash Wednesday.
People who have experienced the movie either LOVE it or totally HATE it... I haven't seen anyone indifferent.

ALSO we thought it was very important to add a behind the scenes sgment to demonstrate that absolutely NO DOGS, ANIMALS AND HUMANS were harmed in the production.

We are animal lovers, and this particular dog (Zelda) is owned by Roger De Los Santos and he is one of the producers of the film. Zelda and Roger currently live in Laredo, TX.

Many thanks to our cool vet Lalo Chapa who assisted with the anesthesia...