EXCLUSIVE: Following news that the three-time Golden Globe-winning film The Brutalist used AI in post to smooth out the Hungarian accents of stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones and the rest of the cast. The film’s director, Brady Corbett, has issued a response.
“Adrien and Felicity’s performance is completely their own. They spent months perfecting their accents with dialect coach Tanela Marshall. It was used only for dialogue editing, specifically to precisely adjust certain vowels and letters. This was a manual process and was done by the sound team and Respeecher in post-production. The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrian and Felicity’s performance in another language, not to replace or change it, but with the utmost respect for its craft. I got it.”
Additional generative AI usage is also utilized to conjure up a series of architectural blueprints and completed buildings in the film’s final sequence, with Corbett saying: “Judy Becker and her team did not use AI to create or render the building. All images were hand-drawn by artists. For clarity, a commemorative video featured in the background of the shot , our editorial team created a photo that was intentionally designed to look like a poor digital rendering from circa 1980.”
“‘The Brutalist’ is a film about human complexity, and every aspect of its production was driven by human effort, creativity and collaboration. We are extremely proud of the team and what they have accomplished here. I’m very proud of that,” Corbett added.
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Deadline also reached out to SAG-AFTRA about the issue of AI being used in The Brutalist, especially since Brody is up for the SAG Award for Best Actor in a Drama.
According to some sources, cleaning up the audio in post is a common practice in all movies.
Also, how does this cleanup process in The Brutalist compare to the post-production audio process for, say, Rami Malek’s role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, or even Angelina Jolie? Are they different? Or even more serious aesthetic and ethical questions arise. With Maria on Netflix. Although he won an Oscar for Best Actor for the 2018 film, Malek did not sing 100% of the time in the film. According to Rolling Stone, much of the music for Bohemian Rhapsody relied on vocals from Queen’s master tapes or new recordings by Marc Martel, a Canadian Christian rock singer similar to Mercury. Malek’s portrayal of Mercury is reportedly a combination of several voices. Jolie’s singing performance in “Maria” is a mix of Oscar-winning actress and opera singer Maria Callas.
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There are also reports that Netflix’s award-winning title Emilia Perez also used respeaker technology to enhance the range of Carla Sofia Gascón’s songs. The actress’ songs were blended with music by Emilia Perez and songs by songwriter Camille.
We understand that the use of AI in The Brutalist did not eliminate jobs, but rather created them. Corbet is a champion of analog filmmaking, most notably shooting The Brutalist in the 35MM VistaVision format.
Brutalists were shot dead in Hungary. A24 featured independently-financed dramas under $10 million following their Venice Film Festival premieres. The film was a surprise winner at the Golden Globe Awards, winning not only Best Picture Drama, but also Best Drama Feature for Brody and Best Director for Corbett. Corbett was also nominated for a DGA Award for Best Director, and the film was nominated for the highest PGA Award, the Darryl F. Zanuck Best Producer Award.
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How did this fracas with the Brutalists come about? Photography editor and native Hungarian speaker David Janso wrote in a January 11 edition of the online video technology publication Red Shark News: In an interview, he revealed that the 18-month post-production process included the use of voices from Ukrainian artificial intelligence. Synthesis software “Respeaker”.
Initially, the production opted for ADR with Brody, Jones, and other actors to improve delivery accuracy, but that process ultimately didn’t work and they decided to make the film by recording the actors’ voices. The path to becoming a respeaker has been opened. AI-generated Hungarian accent. Jancsó added that he fed his voice into an AI model to understand dialects more accurately. The editor told Red Shark News that Brody and Jones “did a great job” in pronouncing the “difficult” and “very unique” language, perfecting it “so that even locals wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.” He said he was aiming for Brody was specifically cast in the lead role by Corbett because he is of Hungarian descent (his mother came to the United States as a refugee from Hungary).
“Most of their Hungarian dialogue includes parts of me speaking,” the editor told the outlet. “We paid a lot of attention to maintaining their performance, mainly just replacing characters here and there. You can do this yourself in ProTools, but the dialogue in Hungarian is very We had to speed up the process or it would remain in the post.”
“Talking about AI in the industry is controversial, but it shouldn’t be,” Janso said. “We need to have a very open discussion about what tools AI can provide. There’s nothing in this movie that uses AI that hasn’t been done before. It’s a process that’s a lot faster. We use AI to create these little details that we didn’t have the money or time to photograph.
The Brutalist follows László Tóth (Brody), a Hungarian-Jewish architect who emigrates to the United States after surviving the Holocaust, as he attempts to rebuild his life, career, and marriage. A visionary settles in unfamiliar Pennsylvania, awaiting the arrival of his wife Elizabeth (Jones), when he is discovered by a wealthy businessman (Guy Pearce). The sprawling story, co-written by Corbett’s wife, actress/filmmaker Mona Fastvold, spans 215 minutes with a 15-minute intermission, depicting America during the 30 years following the war.
