Brutalist director Brady Corbett defends using AI to change dialogue

Brutalist director Brady Corbett advocates using AI to make a difference Adrien Brody and Felicity JonesHungarian accents in his acclaimed film.

“Adrienne and Felicity's performances are their own,” Corbett, 36, told a notification to Diversity on Monday, January 20. “They worked with a dialect coach for several months Tanner Marshall to perfect your accents. The innovative Respeecher technology was used exclusively in Hungarian dialogue editing, specifically to clarify certain vowels and letters for accuracy. English was not changed.

The filmmaker added, “It was a manual process done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production. The goal was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity's performances in a different language, not to replace or alter them, and this was done with the utmost respect for the craft.

Brutalist Brody, 51, plays László Toth, a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who emigrated to America after World War II. Jones, 41, plays Toth's wife.

Controversy broke out after that RedShark newscovering technology, published an interview with a film editor, David Janchoon January 11. In that interview, Janczo said that tools from the Ukrainian software company Respeecher were used to make Brody and Jones' Hungarian speech more authentic.

“We trained (them) and they did a wonderful job, but we also wanted to perfect it so that even local people wouldn't notice any difference,” the Hungarian editor told the publication, explaining that he recorded his voice in the AI ​​program. two wires.

“Most of their Hungarian dialogue is part of me speaking there,” Yancho admitted. “We were very careful to preserve their performances. It's mostly just replacing letters here and there.

Jancho tell me RedShark news that generative AI was included at the end of the film, which featured architectural drawings of Brody's character. However, Corbett explained in a statement on Monday: “(Producer designer) Judy Becker and her team did not use AI to create or render any of the buildings. All pictures are hand drawn by artists.

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at the Golden Globe Awards earlier this month Brutalist won three major trophies: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director for Corbett, and Best Picture Performance by a male actor in a motion picture – drama for Brody. (The recognition came 23 years after he won an Academy Award Pianist at the age of 29.)

“I am very grateful,” Brody said Us Weekly and other reporters in the Beverly Hilton press room after his victory. “I've had a very blessed career, but as you can see, it's still a challenge to find work as meaningful as this.”

“To be able to triumph in your life again is incredibly healing and rewarding,” Brody added, noting that the film “talks about my family's struggles and the struggles they've faced.”