Exclusive: After the news that the film won the Golden Globe Award 3 times Brutal The post used artificial intelligence to smooth out the Hungarian accents of its stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones as well as the cast, and the pic's director, Brady Corbett, issued a response.
“Adrian and Felicity's performances are entirely their own. They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents. The innovative Respeecher technology was used in editing Hungarian language dialogue only, specifically to enhance certain vowels and consonants for accuracy. The English language was not altered. This was a manual process, done by our audio team and the dispatcher in post-production. The goal was to preserve the authenticity of Adrian and Felicity's performance in another language, not replace or replace them Change them, with the utmost respect for the craft.
Additional use of AI to evoke a series of architectural plans and prefabricated buildings is also used in the film's closing sequence, with Corbett saying: “Judy Becker and her team did not use AI to create or render any of the buildings. All images were hand-drawn by artists. For clarification, in the video Memorial that appears in the background of the shot, our editorial team created images intentionally designed to look like shoddy digital renders circa 1980.
“Brutal It is a film about human complexity, and every aspect of its creation was driven by human effort, creativity, and collaboration. “We are very proud of our team and what they have accomplished here,” Corbett adds.
Deadline has also reached out to SAG-AFTRA on the issue of the use of AI brutal, Especially since Brody is nominated for Best Drama Actor at the SAG Awards. Some sources tell us that the practice of cleaning up sound in post is a common practice in all films.
Brutal It was shot in Hungary. A24 acquired the independently financed drama for less than $10 million after its Venice Film Festival premiere. The film was a surprise win at the Golden Globe Awards, taking home not only Best Motion Picture – Drama, but also Best Feature Drama Actor for Brody and Best Director for Corbett. Corbet was also nominated for Best Director at the DGA Awards, while the film was nominated for the Daryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Producer at the PGAs.
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How did you do all this fuss with Brutal Come to be? The image's editor, David Jancso, who is also a native Hungarian speaker, revealed in a January 11 interview with online video technology publication RedShark News that the 18-month post-production process included the use of Ukrainian AI-based speech. Speaker synthesis software.
Initially, the production opted for ADR – with Brody and Jones, as well as other actors – to enhance the accuracy of the delivery, but this process ultimately did not work, paving the way for Respeecher, who recorded the actors' voices to produce a soundtrack. Hungarian dialect generated by artificial intelligence. Yanxo added that he fed his voice into the AI model to improve the accent. The editor told RedShark News that Brody and Jones “did an amazing job” pronouncing the “difficult” and “very unique” language, and that the goal was perfection, “so that even the locals wouldn't notice any difference.” Brody was specifically chosen by Corbett for the lead role because he is of Hungarian descent (his mother coming to the United States as a refugee from Hungary).
“Most of their Hungarian dialogue contains a portion of me talking there,” the editor told the outlet. “We were very careful about preserving their performance. It's basically just replacing letters here and there. You can do it in ProTools yourself, but we did so much dialogue in Hungarian that we really needed to speed up the process otherwise we would still be stuck in post.”
“It's controversial in the industry to talk about artificial intelligence, but it shouldn't be,” Janso said. “We should have a very open discussion about the tools that AI can give us. There's nothing in the film that uses AI that hasn't been done before. It makes the process a lot faster. We're using AI to create these little details that we didn't have the money for.” Or time to photograph it.
Corbett shot the film on VistaVision 35mm film format.
Brutal The film follows Hungarian Jewish architect Laszlo Toth (Brody), who immigrates to the United States after surviving the Holocaust, where he looks to rebuild his life, career, and marriage. Once settled in unfamiliar Pennsylvania and awaiting the arrival of his wife Erzsébet (Jones), the visionary is spotted by a wealthy industrialist (Guy Pearce). The sprawling narrative — also co-written by Mona Fastvold, Corbett's wife and actress and director — spans 215 minutes and three decades of postwar America, and includes a 15-minute intermission.
