“And I want my scalps. And all y’all will git me one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazis. Or you will die tryin’.”
Brad Pitt’s opening monologue as Lt. Aldo Raine, explaining the mission to the Basterds, is one of the best Tarantino has ever written. It ends with his demand that all the men bring him the severed scalps of one hundred dead Nazis, which establishes his attack method as an Apache one, as that’s what the Native American warriors used to do. These Aldo Raine quotes do one of two things. First, it shows that Aldo is a pure American Southerner and keeps those values close at hand. Second, it shows that he will do anything to bring down every single Nazi that he comes across without missing a beat.
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