Brady Corbett and Adrien Brody.
(Michael Lossisano/Getty Images)The Brutalist director Brady Corbett championing the use of AI for change Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones‘ Hungarian accents in his acclaimed film.
“Adrienne and Felicity’s performances are completely their own,” Corbett, 36, said in statement to Diversity on Monday, January 20. “They worked for months with a dialect teacher Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents. The innovative Respeecher technology is used only in Hungarian dialogue editing, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy. No English language changed.’
The director 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 another language, not replace or alter them, and to do so with the utmost respect for the craft.
The Brutalist stars Brody, 51, as Laszlo Toth, a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who immigrated to America after World War II. Jones, 41, plays Toth’s wife.
The dispute arose after News from RedSharkwhich covers technologies, published an interview with the film editor, David Ianchoon January 11. In that interview, Jancsó said that tools from Respeecher, a Ukrainian software company, were used to make Brody and Jones’ Hungarian speech more authentic.
“We trained them and they did a great job, but we also wanted to perfect it so that even locals wouldn’t notice any difference,” the Hungarian editor told the publication, explaining that he recorded his voice in the AI ​​program, as well as both waters.
“Most of their Hungarian dialogue has a part of me speaking in there,” Yancho admitted. “We were very careful to preserve their performance. It’s mainly just swapping letters here and there.
Jancsó say News from RedShark that generative AI is included at the end of the film, which shows architectural drawings from Brody’s character. However, Corbett explained in a statement on Monday: “(Production Designer) Judy Becker and her team did not use AI to create or render any of the buildings. All images are hand drawn by artists.’
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At the Golden Globe Awards earlier this month, The Brutalist won three major trophies: Best Picture — Drama, Best Director for Corbett, and Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Brody Drama. (The honor came 23 years after he won the Oscar for The pianist aged 29.)
“I am very grateful,” Brody said Us Weekly and other reporters in Beverly Hilton’s 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 have 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 faced.”
