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Filming took place on location in Washington, DC and New York City between March and June 2009. Jolie was taken to the hospital after suffering a head injury on set but was released the same day where filming resumed. The film opened in North America on July 23, 2010.
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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Adorkable]]: Mike.
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* [[Expy]]: Angelina Jolie {{spoiler|[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith|as a sleeper agent assassin who Turns Against Her Masters because she fell in love with her cover husband.]]}}
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Your milage may very, as its Angelina Jolie, at the beginning the movie, Salt, looking dangerously skinny from starvation, being tortured in her underwear.
* [[Foot Focus]]: After the aforementioned shedding of the high heels. Even [[Roger Ebert]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110917152327/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|The Russian President}}. Also, does anyone really think {{spoiler|Liev Schrieber's character}} ''won't'' be back for the sequel?
* [[Foreshadowing]]: The list of Salt's special abilities that Peabody receives on his phone, which includes skydiving, hand-to-hand combat and many other skills Salt proves that she posesses through the film.
* [[Gender Flip]]: The part of Salt was originally written for a man, "Edwin Salt", and [[Tom Cruise]] was considered, but thought the character was too similar to Ethan Hunt in ''[[Mission: Impossible]]''. The part was eventually changed to a female character and very few changes were made, although there was originally a different sequence in which {{spoiler|[[
* {{spoiler|[[Good Is Not Nice]]}}
* [[Gratuitous Russian]]: To the point that one piece of the score has [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Russian Chanting]].
* [[Handy Cuffs]]: A spectacularly silly example, as {{spoiler|Salt had previously just beaten the piss out of several cops and Secret Service agents with her bare hands. Not that it matters. When they cuff her hands behind her back at the end, she still manages to kill Winters.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: It is unclear when, but somewhere down the line, {{spoiler|Salt stopped being a Russian agent, though it most probably happened when [[Love Redeems|she fell in love with Mike]].}}
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]]: Pistol whips are abound in this movie.
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* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Averted - just as it looks as though Ted is going get away with everything, Salt strangles him to death.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: After {{spoiler|Ted mows down everyone in the bunker, while Ted is talking with the president}}, one woman pops her head out, behind a chair, to have a look around. She is promptly shot in the face, because we weren't sure how evil he was after we laughed at the National Security Advisor joke.
* [[Life Imitates Art]]: The real-life cases of sleeper agents implanted in the US was recently brought to light with a prisoner exchange between Russia and the US, some of the prisoners being undercover spies. The [[wikipedia:Illegals Program|plots]] and [http://theblemish.com/2010/10/anna-chapman-is-in-maxim-russia/: skills]{{Dead link}} of the real sleeper agents were less impressive than the ones in the film.
* [[Lzherusskie]]: As usual, Russian characters are played, with the exception of extras, by non-Russian actors.
* [[MacGyvering]]: Salt improvises a cannon of sorts from several cleaning chemicals, the hollow plastic leg of a table and a fire extinguisher.
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* [[Plot Armor]]: If pulling off nigh-impossible stunts for most of the movie (including falling from a bridge inside a car, with no seatbelt and back to the panel) and leaving without so much as a scuffed knee doesn't qualify, walking away unscathed after being shot by a rifle (wearing only a light vest) surely does.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: For the bulk of the film, Jolie's rather serious mass/strength disadvantages are ignored in her fight scenes....until she goes up against Schreiber's character.
* [[
* [[Renegade Russian]]: {{spoiler|Orlov represents a group of Communist hardliners that somehow outlived the Cold War and are opposed to the Russian government.}}
* [[Rule of Cool]]: For all we know, Evelyn Salt is [[Wonder Woman]]'s sister, taking into consideration all the crazy stuff she is able to pull off in the film.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|The FBI chief frees Salt, on the promise she'll hunt the rest of the [[Deep-Cover Agent|KAs.]]}} Absent from both [[
** That scene is present in the Director's Cut, in addition to the [[Sequel Hook|further implication]] that {{spoiler|1=one of the KAs is now the new American President}}.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: When Ted {{spoiler|reveals his [[True Colors]] by shooting down most of the President's Cabinet in the bunker}}, the National Security Advisor is gunned down after stating his position in a futile attempt to be spared. This is a reference to ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]'', in which Russian operatives also killed the National Security Advisor during an attempted coup on the titular plane.
** Also several shoutouts to the Bond films, including the whole North Korean sequence from ''[[Die Another Day]]'' and Orlov's switchblade shoe from ''[[From Russia with Love]]''. Both are entirely factual, but likely to have been shout outs.
** The way Salt dyes her hair and employs various disguises is reminiscent of the ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission Impossible]]'' films and the TV show ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''.
** She also refers to herself as a "patsy" at one point--possibly a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, mentioned in the beginning of the film, who referred to himself as such in relation to JFK's assassination.
* [[Stun Guns]]: Salt uses a Taser to knock out and then "puppeteer" a police car driver.
* [[Tagline]]: "Who is Salt?"
** Which is immediately answered lower in the poster with "Angelina Jolie".
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Ted Winter. He's actually another sleeper agent.}}
* [[Twist Ending]]
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[[Category:Films of the 2010s]]
[[Category:Salt]]▼
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Films With Recuts]]
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