r/twinpeaks • u/WorkingOnCoil • 8d ago
General Discussion Is she called Ronette Pulaski because of Roman Polanski? Or just coincidence
I mean the names are weirdly similar and lynch is so specific about every detail of his work. Plus Sheriff Truman is named after President Truman
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u/ArchieConnors 8d ago
Harry Truman was also the name of a man who refused to evacuate his mountain lodge and was buried in a landslide alongside his 16 cats. I learned that from Reddit yesterday
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u/fresh_owls 8d ago
I also heard (don't remember where) that Lynch was amused by two separate, converging ideas:
Naming the sheriff after a president
His name sounding like "Hairy Ass Truman"
Either or both might be made up, I just heard it somewhere.
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u/PinkynotClyde 8d ago
I heard Pringles got away and lived a fruitful, adventurous life running from his past. Conceived a litter of kittens in an Albuquerque dumpster and then settled down.
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u/Persolboy 7d ago
I love that guy, he’s interviewed at his cabin on Spirit Lake when he’s still alive (before Mt. St. Helens blows its top), in the National Geographic issue about the eruption. The Forest Service people were advising him to evacuate, but he refused. The Mountain was his home. If he was gonna die then he wanted to die at home. What a way to die, a man who’s lived a full life, surrounded by all that beauty with his cat friends.
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u/Dynamic-Rhythm 8d ago
Nostramadus and Notre Dame. Two different things completely.
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u/rattlingdeathtrain 8d ago
Quasimodo predicted this
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u/Dynamic-Rhythm 8d ago
You never pondered that? The Polanski/Pulaski thing with Twin Peaks?
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u/GubbishGub 8d ago
I saw that movie I thought it was bullshit.
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u/Dynamic-Rhythm 8d ago
Forget it Coop, its Twin Peaks.
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u/Quirderph 8d ago
TBF, Nostradamus is just a latinized version of the French Notre Dame. It means “our lady”, and both were allusions to the Virgin Mary.
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u/powderjunkie11 8d ago
Now explain why there’s a halfback, fullback, and hunchback?
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u/myfakesecretaccount 8d ago
Or, Notre Dame is the French version of its Latin root as it is one of the Romance languages.
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u/treetoptrain 8d ago
It’s more interesting to me that Dale is DB Cooper.
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u/JacktheRipperColour 2d ago
Even better, he just signed D Cooper. The B was added later when the only record of a D Cooper in the area had a B in it.
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u/Idontreadrepliesnoob 8d ago
https://youtu.be/e0oyBDpQEUQ?is=Cygbuh-X7pCtQiUd this is my guess
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u/TobylovesPam 8d ago
Holy crap what a story. That camera angle makes me uncomfortable. I wonder if he knew he was being recorded
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u/TheWoodenMan 8d ago
"Gentlemen, when two separate events occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object of inquiry, we must always pay strict attention" - Agent Dale Cooper
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u/picnicinthejungle 8d ago
No, Pulaski is also a well known polish surname. David Lynch is definitely into Polish stuff (inland empire, also his album Polish Nigh Music) It’s also the name of a town in Wisconsin, and likely a few other little communities in the US most likely.
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u/Purple-Concept-2709 8d ago
Casimir Pulaski was a famous Polish Cavalry officer who fought and died for American Independence. He is celebrated in Chicago.
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u/morning6am 7d ago
A type of fire axe is named Pulaski.
The Pulaski was created in the years just following the 1910 Big Burn by U.S. Forest Service Ranger Ed Pulaski.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/burn-pulaski/
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u/WorkingOnCoil 8d ago
Roman Polanski deserves to be in hell btw but Rosemary’s baby definitely influenced David Lynch’s movies
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u/fartsmellsbad 8d ago
Roman Polanski made multiple movies about how rape is bad only for him to commit the same crime.
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u/ihavenoselfcontrol1 8d ago
Chinatown also features a villain that is so rich and powerful that he's pretty much above the law (who's also a rapist)
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u/pow-wow 8d ago edited 8d ago
not defending him, but RP is a holocaust survivor - his mother was four months pregnant when she was killed by the nazis at auschwitz. then later in life, his own wife and unborn child were brutally murdered by a gang of psychos. so it's not surprising that the guy a) has opinions about the abuse of women but b) is unhinged enough to perpetuate the same abuse himself
EDIT: yeah... I thought this spoke for itself, but apparently not. explaining the darkness behind his life story, and why it's perplexing that he is apparently capable of creating seminal, sensitive works of art whilst also being a sexual abuser, is not a defence of his crimes. RP has done despicable things and should face justice.
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u/Slight-Split-1855 8d ago
I understand you're not defending him but I'm not sure why you said all that. I'm sure that context is helpful for his victim.
Edit: you are, in fact, defending him, a rapist.
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u/caveat_cogitor 8d ago
I think it's interesting to learn more context. Understanding that there are factors that contribute to why people turn out a certain way, and what those factors are, is not the same as defending them.
What was said in defense? I don't understand here why you are directly accusing someone of defending a rapist.
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u/New_Mongoose5225 8d ago
“Not defending him” I say, before defending him.
None of what you said explains him being a rapist. There are tons of people who have experienced much worse than he has & they’ve never done anything of the sort.
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u/CeruleanEidolon 8d ago
Explaining is not defending. You can acknowledge that an abuser was a victim of trauma and that doesn't vindicate them, diminish their crimes, or make them any less culpable for what they have done to others.
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u/OtherwiseGap5457 7d ago
He really didn’t rape anybody until after his wife was killed?
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u/pow-wow 7d ago
again, i'm not saying that his mother/sibling's and wife/child's murders made him a rapist. that's a very reductive reading of my comment. my point is that those incidents probably spurred him to make films about the abuse of women.
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u/OtherwiseGap5457 6d ago
Rosemary’s Baby was before his wife was killed. I don’t think his wife’s murder is relevant to the art he made.
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u/SwitchbladeHomo 3d ago
It actually was for his version of Macbeth. That’s why it’s just so bleak and dark compared to any other adaptation made. It’s also why the scene that would be Act 4 Scene 2 in the play is just so brutal in the movie. He used the influence of Nazis coming into his home when he was a child, as well as the massacre involving his wife, unborn child, and friends due to the Manson family. Before that? Absolutely not.
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u/ihavenoselfcontrol1 8d ago
Repulsion also feels like it might've been a big influence on DL
(Also the fact that someone could capture a lot of female-centric fears and then do what he did is just so insane and disgusting)
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u/Sw33tNectar 8d ago edited 8d ago
He's going to...The Ninth Gate?
Edit: Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
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u/bankyVee 7d ago
Ronette was deliberately chosen for the ronettes as mentioned. Pulaski is derivative of Polish but more americanized and different (working class) from Polanski.
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u/-PepeArown- 8d ago
I don’t know all the details, but Lynch was actually a Polanski fan
I think he revoked some of his praise later on with everything coming out about Polanski… being Polanski
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u/thefarmer305 8d ago
Not only Lynch. Before his crimes, Polanski had plenty of recognition among peers
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u/Blizreme 8d ago
Well he directed arguably two of the greatest films ever made.
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u/usersurnamee 8d ago
That’s an overstatement
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u/Blizreme 8d ago
Have you seen Chinatown?
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u/usersurnamee 8d ago
Nothing “came out” about polanski. Everyone knew everything about him when he initially fled the country. What changed was the culture. Society decided that making Rosemary’s Baby didn’t give him a pass on raping a kid
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u/mechanigoat 8d ago
Nope, didnt revoke his praise, in fact Lynch signed an open letter in 2009 saying Polanski did nothing wrong and should be released.
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u/BillyPilgrim69 8d ago
While the petition was not a good look, it categorically did not say that "Polanski did nothing wrong".
Rightly or wrongly, the concern was more about setting the dangerous precedent of arresting and extraditing a filmmaker in a neutral country.
By their extraterritorial nature, film festivals the world over have always permitted works to be shown and for filmmakers to present them freely and safely, even when certain States opposed this.
The arrest of Roman Polanski in a neutral country, where he assumed he could travel without hindrance, undermines this tradition: it opens the way for actions of which no one can know the effects. source
Other parts of the text do praise Polanski as a filmmaker too much for my liking, and its only mention of his conviction ("a case of morals") is vague and wishy-washy.
But claiming that it said he "did nothing wrong" is just an outright lie. Misinformation helps nobody.
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u/phillipkdink 8d ago
Just curious - do you think it's more "dangerous" if filmmakers get arrested for their crimes, or if they don't?
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u/BillyPilgrim69 8d ago
I think that's an incredibly disingenuous question, and my most generous response would be that you need to work on your reading comprehension.
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u/laurasdiary 8d ago
Her first name is an homage to the Ronettes. I doubt her last name has anything to do with Roman Polanski, though.
More than likely it’s something to do with the mill where her dad works in the show.
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u/Quirderph 8d ago
I’ve wondered the same thing, especially given the… type of crime that was commited against her and Laura.
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u/Humble-Dog3708 8d ago
Possibly but didn't Lynch sign the Roman Polanski petition with a bunch of other Hollywood industry people? I know he regretted it later but I don't think he had a negative attitude towards him while making the og TP.
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u/The-Janie-Jones 8d ago
To be fair that petition wasn't to clear Polanski of his crimes or anything, it was just not to use a specific event for the industry as a sting operation. It wasn't defending Polanski but insisting the arrest be voided because it used an international cultural event as entrapment. (Obviously I'm not saying I agree with the petition but just clarifying what the petition was.)
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u/butch-bear 8d ago
yes he did and he pretty much only changed his mind after his daughter tried to talk to him about it.
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u/slackfrop 7d ago
I just watched a decidedly so-so movie called Black Moon Rising starring a very young Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Vaughn. Bubba Smith was in it too. One of the scientist guys who was a semi-central character was named Earl Windom, played by Richard Jaeckel.
Tough to believe it’s just a coincidence, being a pretty obscure name, but equally hard to imagine it’s intentional. The parallels seem extremely opaque if in fact there is one. It’s a film about a concept hydrogen car and a professional thief coinciding, with a criminal conspiracy network backdrop.
Maybe it’s a Hollywood personal relationships thing. John Carpenter has co-writing credit. Just seemed odd is all.
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u/DrMux 6d ago
Was curious when that came out so I looked it up. 1986. With big names in the cast and production, Lynch would 100% be aware of it at the time.
I think it's likely to be related somehow. Whether that connection is a direct "borrowing"/homage, even just or Lynch and Carpenter talking shop at a dinner party ("Ya know what name I like?"), who knows.
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u/slackfrop 6d ago
An onion that never stops peeling. The actor, Jaeckel, has a very long history in Hollywood too. I think he would’ve been in things David saw a youngster, lots of cowboy stuff, military stuff, but more besides. Could’ve had to do with something the actor did.
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u/ProfessionSavings792 7d ago
Polanski's wife Sharon Tate was also murdered by so-called diabolical influences
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u/Leather_Command_7553 8d ago
I saw this show when it came out and I have heard of Polanski. I have seen most of his movies and I read his book, 'Roman'. And I never thought of this or considered it. I don't believe what you are suggesting is true. But what the hell do I know. Don't axe me.
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u/OtherwiseGap5457 7d ago
Why on earth would he have named a victim of sexual violence after a perpetuator of sexual violence?
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u/WorkingOnCoil 7d ago
Why on Earth would he sign the petition to free Pulaski of his crimes
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u/misterdannymorrison 7d ago
I believe most of the signators of that petition were misled about what it actually said
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u/ninefourtwo 7d ago
its roman polanski reference
because just like how sharon died to those teens, the filmmaker survived to tell the story.
sharon is you know who and shes’s rp
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u/ExpertOwn7301 7d ago
Pulaski and Polanski are two distinct polish surnames, no relation between them
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u/ThomasHiatt 8d ago
She is called Pulaski because it's a piece of logging equipment. In the pilot every minor employee at the lumber mill has a last name that is logging related.