Saving Sally

Saving Sally (2016)

A typical teen film about love, monsters & gadgets

Marty is an aspiring comic-book artist who is secretly in love with his best friend, Sally, the gadget inventor. Like every love story, there are complications: Sally has monsters for parents and a literal dick for a boyfriend, while Marty has the innate ability to do nothing about everything despite his vivid fantasies of defending the love of his life from the big bad world.

Date of release
2016-12-25
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Director
Avid Liongoren

Casting

Interesting facts

Saving Sally is a 2016 Philippine film directed by Avid Liongoren in his directorial debut. Combining live action and animation, the film revolves around Marty, an amateur comic book artist who falls for Sally, a gadget inventor, and has since become her loyal protector and hero from the "monsters": her abusive parents, and her obnoxious boyfriend Nick.

Production

Saving Sally was a concept by Charlene Sawit, a fine arts graduate from the University of the Philippines Diliman. Its conception dates back in 2000 when Sawit and Saving Sally director Avid Liongoren were in college, with the two having discussed the concept back then. Initially titled as Monster Town, Sawit spent two-and-a-half years writing Saving Sally as a novel.

Liongoren has stated that the original intent in making the film was not to submit an entry at a film festival but to post a film in the internet where the anyone can watch Saving Sally at no cost. Sawit states this, as the reason why the film is largely in English. Liongoren has stated that the film was not inspired from Scott Pilgrim vs.

Sawit describes Saving Sally as a "fun and straightforward love story, with good laughs and visual gags" on face value which makes references to both Philippine and Western pop culture but adds that it also tackles darker themes such as escapism and physical abuse.

The film's setting was largely inspired from Quezon City. The filmmakers stated that Marty's house is in Quezon City while Sally's is in Antipolo, Rizal. The park named "Sandara Park" where the two main characters frequent are set in Marikina. The park itself was inspired from the University of the Philippines, Antipolo and Marikina.

Sally's house situated on top of a cliff reflected the turmoil of her character and was patterned after a church to symbolize her parents' puritanical characterization. The view from Sally's house was based on a view of the Quezon City skyline from the small condominium building in Teacher's Village which director Liongoren used to stay.

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