jedibuttercup

That's it exactly—that they didn't change the role to pander to male audiences. I read an io9 interview (http://io9.com/5589284/how-angelina-jolie-fought-to-keep-salt-from-becoming-pretty) about how Salt was a BAMF who happened to be a woman.

I think I remember seeing a sex scene in the trailer, and am glad they cut it; perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but I think including that scene would have made the character into more of an object than a ... well, a force of nature, I guess is how I would describe her?