us phenomenon. Red and Blue states can't get enough. People who haven't read one printed page in years are ripping through the books back to back to back. Sensing that the saturation point was a bottomless pit the Swedes wisely cranked out screen adaptations of the trilogy. It was perfect timing. On my flash drive memoirs, filed under the entry 'We Like to Watch' is this: 2010. The summer we became shameless 'ho's' to Lisbeth Salander and Evelyn Salt, as they kicked ass all over the celluloid screen.1. Noomi Rapace.
Can't see anyone else as Lisbeth Salander, no matter how hard I try. Rapace's performance is edgy. She is the embodiment of Salander, the genius hacker. Rapace says she trained for 7 months, building muscle, learning to
ride a 'bike' and getting piercings. 'Point of No Return' was the Hollywood version of Luc Besson's, 'La femme Nikita.' It was a dumbed down version of the original. Just marginally good. Uh, so all eyes will be on Rooney Mara who was named yesterday for the role of the Salander character in the USA version (why oh why?). Feel the pressure, Rooney. Lock yourself in a dark room and watch Rapace over and over again. Good luck in getting the vibe right.2. Evelyn Salt. Like music to my ears. As good or better (I guess it depends on your point of view) than those Bond or Bourne boys. Finally there is life after Emma Peel! Geezuz. So, parkour..the art of physically, gracefully, flying over, through, or around objects... The first time I saw it was in a French film, District B13. The next time parkour surfaced was in the first Daniel Craig 007 installment, Casino Royale. Over the years, it's made various action movie appearances, but always
predominantly practiced by males, traceurs, until Angelina's, Salt. Not sure if all the parkour was done by Angie, but whether it was or not, the attempt at parkour by a woman, traceuses, in a high profile Hollywood action film gets kudos from me. Salt is Angie, and gave every girl out there a new action hero. Sequel soon to follow.3. Tip of the jockey cap to Marion Cotillard and Ellen Page making the most out of pitifully gratuitous roles in Inception.
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