Hi, I'm here via LJ search, having just seen and enjoyed Salt myself and really enjoyed it - you encapsulated much of why: I hope, hope, hope they make a sequel. I hope they do a Bourne trilogy type thing because dammit, we deserve a female action superhero agent like him and Jolie is briliant in the role.
I always suspected Winters too but I'm pretty sure I partly because Liev Schreiber has been type-cast - I understand that he was cast late in the day. I think your point about the tactical error is interesting. I mean, it is, and to think that because she hadn't immediately reacted, Salt/Chenkov was fine with it was stupid, but it was also typical of his arrognce and assumption that she was still brain-washed. But they were underestimating her by making her play the role of the patsy. So yes, a tactical error, but one that was informed by character. In hindsight, the cast that Michael wasn't blindfolded was a big giveaway that they alwasy meant to kill him.
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I always suspected Winters too but I'm pretty sure I partly because Liev Schreiber has been type-cast - I understand that he was cast late in the day. I think your point about the tactical error is interesting. I mean, it is, and to think that because she hadn't immediately reacted, Salt/Chenkov was fine with it was stupid, but it was also typical of his arrognce and assumption that she was still brain-washed. But they were underestimating her by making her play the role of the patsy. So yes, a tactical error, but one that was informed by character. In hindsight, the cast that Michael wasn't blindfolded was a big giveaway that they alwasy meant to kill him.
Out of curiosity, have you seen Alias?