Varför har Aldo Raine det ärr?

Det förklaras inte heller i filmen eller utanför. Det finns inga intervjuer tillgängliga från cast eller besättning, det finns bara antaganden och användarteorier. En kan hittas på IMDb :

It is never explained in the movie, as it was Tarantino's intention to leave it unknown. Several theories have come up about it, one such being that it resulted from his punishment for being a bootlegger in the Southern United States. There is a rumor that Tarantino said in an interview that Raine was lynched by the KKK for defending African Americans in the South. It is also been suggested that someone slit or tried to slit his throat but didn't go as deeply as intended or that Aldo fought them off quickly enough, although the scar does not look like that caused by a knife, and the screenplay refers to it as a 'rope burn'.

Han överlevde en lynching

Det är inte bara spekulation, det finns i manuset :

CHAPTER TWO

"INGLORIOUS BASTERDS"

FADE UP

EXT - SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND - DAY
A bunch of SOLDIERS are lined up at attention.
LIEUTENANT ALDO.RAINE, a hillbilly from the mountains of
Tennessee, walks down the line. He recruits the men, the
Germans will later call; "The Basterds". Lt.Aldo has one
defining physical characteristic, a ROPE BURN around his
neck. As if once upon a time,. he survived a LYNCHING.
The scar will never once be mentioned.

LT.ALDO
My name is Lt.Aldo Raine, and I'm
puttin together a special team.

Det kan bero på att han är del amerikansk indianer

Vid 1:20 säger han

And I am the direct descendent of the mountain man, Jim Bridger.
That means I got a little Injun‡ in me.

En konsekvens av detta kan vara att ett försök att lynchera honom gjordes av rasistiska motivationer, men det är spekulationer .

Injun: indian eller indianer.

På IMDb sägs det att

The reason for the scar on Aldo Raine's neck is not mentioned in the film. The script hints that Raine survived a lynching, a common punishment in the 1920s and 1930s.

Och vidare , att det är en hänvisning till karaktären Judge Roy Bean från filmen Livet och tiderna av domare Roy Bean .