The Brutalist The director responds to backlash in opposition to the movie's use of AI to melt its stars' Hungarian accents and create architectural designs.
By Deadline, The Brutalist director Brady Corbet issued a response to the backlash:
Adrien and Felicity's performances are utterly their very own. They labored for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to good their accents. The revolutionary Respeecher expertise was solely utilized in modifying dialogue within the Hungarian language, particularly to refine sure vowels and letters for better accuracy. No English language has been modified. This was a handbook course of, executed by our sound workforce and Respeecher in post-production. The purpose was to protect the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity's performances in one other language, not change or alter them, and all executed with the utmost respect for the craft.
Judy Becker and her workforce didn't use AI to create or render any of the buildings. All photos had been hand-drawn by artists. To make clear, within the memorial video featured within the background of a scene, our editorial workforce created photos deliberately designed to appear to be low-quality digital representations circa 1980.
The Brutalist is a movie about human complexity, and each facet of its creation was pushed by human effort, creativity and collaboration. We're extraordinarily pleased with our workforce and what they've achieved right here.
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