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Even in films about the unwavering artistic spirit of architects building monuments capable of resisting the erosion of free speech, art falls short of the siren song that we have no to do his job.
Favorite awards The Brutalist used generative AI to clean up the film’s many Hungarian accents and some of Laszló Tóth’s lauded diegetically designs. In an interview with RedShark Newsthe film’s editor, Dávid Jancsó, admitted to feeding his voice into Ukrainian AI software Respecer to clean up the actors’ Hungarian accents. “Most of their Hungarian dialogue involves a part of me,” said Jancsó, a native Hungarian speaker. He states that they “made sure to keep [the actors’] performances,” which doesn’t include lyrics, we think, by “mainly just replacing letters here and there.” He says anyone can do this in ProTools, but there was “so much dialogue in Hungarian that we had to speed up the process.” Again, it’s a bit ironic that a three-and-a-half-hour film about the intransigent architect unwilling to take shortcuts needed a shortcut for its two Oscar hopefuls.
“I am a native Hungarian speaker and I know it is one of the most difficult languages to learn to pronounce,” he said. “Even with Adrien’s Hungarian origins – (Brody’s mother is a Hungarian refugee who emigrated to the United States in 1956) – it’s not that simple. It is an extremely unique language. We coached [Brody and Felicity Jones]and they did a fabulous job, but we also wanted to perfect it so that even the locals wouldn’t see any difference.
It’s phrases like “we coached our award-winning actors, but they just couldn’t get it right” that could hurt Brody and Jones’s awards chances. But it could also detract from other aspects of the production that were embellished by AI, such as the film’s Venice Biennale epilogue, which “evokes a series of architectural drawings and finished buildings in the style of the fictional architect,” writes RedNews. Maybe that’s why even critics who like the film were destabilized by the endwhich Slate Dana Stevens describes it as an “opaque departure from every character, idea and theme he spent three and a half hours meticulously establishing.” Janscó doesn’t think this should be controversial. “We should have a very open discussion about the tools that AI can give us,” he says. “There’s nothing in the film that uses AI that hasn’t already been done. It just makes the process much faster. We use AI to create these little details that we didn’t have the money or time to film.
Janscó is not wrong, and he is right to disclose the use of this software, but it nevertheless takes away some of the luster of the film. The Brutalist talks about the struggle for art, in which any compromise is a dagger in the stomach of Lászlo Tóth. The fact that his brutalist creations are not the result of a design team collaborating to build a body of credible, lifelong work, but rather an amalgamation spat out by a meme generator, takes away some power from Brady Corbet’s vision . This opens the door to the question of where his vision ends and ChatGPT begins: we know he didn’t use GPT, but for the general public it’s the same, what if he didn’t want to We asked him that, maybe he should have used just a little more creativity than the film champions.
